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The contract negotiations surrounding these picks has also taken on a lot more importance in an effort to try to utilize cap space later in the draft. Don't discount that motivation when a team is deciding who to pick.

The fun part is here. Carlos Sanchez at age 21: .241/.293/.296/.589 in 479 PAs that generated 20 2B, 2 3B, and 0 HR at AAA. This year in a partial season, Nick put up .303/.353/.374/.701 in his first season in pro ball. He also generated 7 doubles in 173 PAs, or almost exactly on a 20 double pace if given the same amount of PAs as Yolmer at AAA.

No pitching in the top 6? That won't last.

Somebody previously mentioned Seattle as a good comp, where they had extra money to spend because of Wilson being cheap, and they took full advantage of it.

Of course, because it the game they are most likely to look bad in.

So they know that this person might be guilty of serious crimes, but if the GOP is willing to ignore it, so should the Dems? Explain to me how this situation is different than the investigation and subsequent questioning and impeachment of Bill Clinton.

Is this really going back to the draft picks for Mack? That the Bears won't be able to draft another quarterback in two years because of this? Is that what this means?

But at the same time, it is a crime that an investigation is taking place. Makes sense.

Again, if they have this ability to do this out of no where, why have they not weaponized this prior to now? Gorsuch would have been a more obvious target after the Garland fiasco.

I agree with this part of your post, though not for the reasons you want.

So what exactly are you ranting about here? What is this plan?

Bullshit. If the Democrats were so mighty and powerful as to be able to manufacture this stuff out of no where, how come they didn't do this to Gorsuch? This is a party that couldn't get its own nominee straight, yet we are supposed to believe they were able to coordinate this compaign? Pick a lane.

Co-signed Sox Fans.

Talking about Madrigal and walking... My gut feeling is that if you put Nick in front of Eloy, and Eloy is pushing triple crown numbers behind him like we all hope... his walks would go up. I really believe with his baseball IQ he would get that getting on base in front of Eloy would matter most, and he would do it.

Reading his numbers, he was a pretty effective minimum wage lefty who improved in pretty much every stat this year (walks down, K's up, HR rate down) except for one (H9), and was two full runs different between ERA and FIP, meaning his defense really hurt him badly. The numbers don't agree with your eye test.

The way they handled themselves couldn't be more different.

In Kavanaugh's case he showed me that he is absolutely going to look at everything through partisan lenses. I have seen a lot of Supreme Court nominations hearings, and this is quite literally the first one where I have said that.

And even if Madrigal flies through the system, we really have until 2020 at the earliest to worry about this. I can't see him blasting through A+/AA/AAA and into the majors in 2019. Really we are probably talking about starting at WS/A+ and then a possible midyear promotion to AA. Once 2020 rolls around starting at AA, and then again a mid season promotion into AAA, with a possible September call up. And that is insanely fast all by itself. That process could easily be A+->2019, AA->2020 and AAA/MLB->2021, without it being a bad thing. If all that comes together, THEN we can really talk about moving Moncada if Madrigal is looking like a guy who will push Moncada off of 2B in two years.

Jose Altuve didn't even make it to 10 HRs until his 5th season in the bigs.

The fact that the entire world viewed Madrigal as a near top of the draft pick in 2018 is more telling to me than any of this. There are plenty of evaluluators/teams/scouts out there who think Madrigal is going to be a very good major leaguer. To already be classifying him as a back up is crazy.

To be fair, that is about 16 less examples than normal.

This is complete and 100% BS. The rest I agree with, but the bolder portion is not accurate at all.