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It probably won't happen until Jimenez goes to Charlotte. I just don't see room to play a guy every day in the OF until that happens. They have to want Eloy, Fisher and Polo playing daily.

$10 million isn't anything to be sneezed at, especially when they aren't losing anything by keeping down the extra month anyway. This team isn't going to compete so why waste it?

You will have to change your log in information as the new board doesn't separate display name and log in name anymore, but there you go.

I believe you paste the link it and let it sit for a couple of seconds. Testing...

I just got a reply to a blog post that I wrote in 2005.

And to add to this, if "good" players were really that highly valued, teams would be sending MUCH higher draft picks for those players, but instead the deals that are made happen for mid to late round picks.

That doesn't really make sense with the other statistic. If 50% of second rounders are starting, but only 15% are "good" you are trying to tell me that 2/3 of people (15% being about 1/3 of 50%) who are starting aren't good... all without the article to reference what your "stat" actually came from and see if what you are saying here is actually valid. But yet they are able to spend 4 years starting, on the same team, without being replaced by someone else who comes in after them. It doesn't pass the eye test for me.

So you are talking about my "belief" while discarding an actual statistic in exchange for your made up definition... Sure. Ok. Keep ranting.

This sounds like a terrible idea for the Cubs. Starting out a deal for Machado with Addison Russell and then more. I'd love a deal like that if I am Baltimore. https://frsbaseball.com/mlb/cubs/heyman-do-cubs-make-sense-as-machado-trade-destination/

It is also way higher than the 15 we were just told earlier in this thread.

Is that based on their top prospects, or who they see teams picking?

And just so people know, keep the perspective... he WILL struggle. He swings really hard, which means he will slump at times. He will go long stretches without contact. It is not an IF, it is a WHEN. But when he gets hot....

Very nice to see Basabe getting to what we hoped for last year. I wonder if the injuries were more than was let on?

Also fair to rebump this for a much better read on the history of our deals with NK through the dictators.

Also fair.

I said it when Bill Clinton did it, and I will say it again. When Kim gets his bribes, all bets are off. There is zero chance the NK's abandon their weapons program. None. They never have, and they never will. They cheated through every single agreement made for the last 50 years and will continue to do so. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/09/diplomat-who-made-deal-with-north-korea-warns-trump-they-will-cheat.html

If he is called up for a double header, I don't believe the waiver rules apply.

I still think a top 5-ish pick is realistic. I still believe this will be a team that wins around 70 games. We still have a lot of kids on the roster, and a lot of borderline veterans who if they succeed are probably getting trade, and if they fail will contribute to the downfall anyway. As you can see from watching this team day to day the growth isn't linear. Kids will struggle one day and be awesome the next.

Bernie with the slow nod. https://theintercept.com/2018/04/26/steny-hoyer-audio-levi-tillemann/