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He absolutely seems to be spearheading the stadium project if you are paying attention and reading between the lines. All of the sudden he's the one making moves.

There is zero places where a guy makes a commitment on a 2 billion dollars with zero say on the present situation of the company. They have to say stuff like this because of the tax implications of turning over control prematurely, but don't suffer from the delusion that he's not involved at all. That's not how this works in reality.

I mean he doesn't reminisce about the Brooklyn Dodgers or David Eckstein, so not much obviously.

Why is this thread randomly back again?

Is it really "depth" if the team is so afraid of using it that they sign a guy off of the street so they don't have to play them?

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You big dummy

The runway from draft to drafting team contributer is such a long period of time when compared to other sports. Basketball and Football players instanting join the active roster. A sizeable number of hockey players do. Zero baseball players do. Well maybe once in a generation. It is a big deal if a player joins the MLB in the same SEASON they are drafted. 3-5 years is a normal progression.

Of all of the made up things to get mad about... this is one.

There seems to be a common theme that it's the guys who are developed in other organizations have the most success here.

BUT HAVE YOU SEEN HIM EAT A LOADED HOT DOG?!?!?!? Jerry, instructing his butler to throw a bottle of scotch at the screen:

This for sure.

Yes. Bullpen pitchers collect WAY more on the open market at the deadline than a bat first, non-defender type. We have seen this over and over again. Give me the prospects, all day, every day. And the real prospects, not the former top 50 guy who flopped in his first year in MLB after being exposed.

Walking into the greatest NBA player of all time was the thing ever to happen to the long term health of the Bulls and the White Sox.

When he is yours, he is a "gamer" and a "grinder" and has a high baseball IQ.

Obviously getting guys like that into the system is step 1, but step 2 is getting them to be successful major leaguers. I believe step 4 is profit, so Jerry is probably not happy about that order.

If we end up on the downside of these guys, heads should roll. They won't, but they should, because this rebuild just got kneecapped. Taylor ended up in the pen already is a bullet in the foot.

Their pitching is all about what the big 3 starters are doing at AAA. I said it before, but their AAA rotation is probably better than their MLB one. I fully expect at least one of those guys, possibly all three, to be part of the rotation by September call ups. If it's not, we are fucked.

Eh, don't ready too much into one game. They will be better this year. If they are worse, a LOT of things went really wrong, and my 2030 prediction might actually be in trouble.

Or that pro sports operate on a different plane than the lines of business he was in. After almost 50 years of this, you think he would have caught on, but dude is still here trying to recreate the Brooklyn Dodgers.

I don't think anyone WANTS it, but also, welcome to reality.

I love dark mode. It is so much better than light.

For PCA. Heywood was a full FA contract. They are structured very differently The front years will be a million or two. Half the deal will be the last two years.

Based on the years they bought out, you are probably only talking about at most 2 to 3 expensive years.