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Sure, do whatever you want. It seemed to help the Cubs today.

Then what would you do with Engel and Jimenez? I’m assuming you are DFAing Harrison here as well?

Mullins was an MVP level guy last year so hard to determine fair value. Reynolds is going to cost much more than Jimenez...Pirates would steer away on salary and control alone. Trammel has too much swing and miss. He's like a 2022 offense version of Cameron. Padres have no pressure yet to move on from Grisham with overall offense coming around and questionable defenders on both sides just like Robert. They are looking to add another corner bat. Or put Tatis back out there instead of benching Kim.

Seems more sad and embarrassing than anything that it's come to that. Just one in a long line of notable debacles in franchise history.

Why? He's not dead money for LA...unless you're arguing he pitched like dead money last year? So then there's Pollock this year and next with replacement player value at $10 million essentially. That doesn't even feel all that terrible any more compared to some of the other ones already referenced.

Yay inflation?

They need Wiseman and Kuminga to step up next season.

He's still more handsome than Bojan Marjanovic or whatever his name is...

A bit premature on Grandal and/or Jimenez. Moncada was declared dead less than a week ago...and Lynn in his first outing back. Interesting no Leury mentions.

35-8 run by Warriors... Crazy.

Pretty sure no MLB player has ever had the name Arxy. Possible promotional tie in with Arby's?

Pretty close to the same age as Leury, although Garcia has been playing seemingly forever, since the last massive stock market crash.

Yeah, Burger has the unique power threat whereas Leury and Harrison overlap too much and Leury can play SS in a pinch. That would be playing Pollock everyday in LF, Vaughn in RF and Burger at DH.

Mendick and Engel have their hot streaks, then longer cold ones. We shall see how sustainable it is this time after almost entirely being written off like Engel and Leury so many times.

Minnesota at +9, Guardians at +5 and rapidly closing with the easiest June schedule. Sox at -1 before a really tough week, then Baltimore. CLE with best overall player, Minny with two stars and a deeper lineup when healthy, Guardians with better rotation of the two (Civale the biggest weak link) and clearly the best closer. Guardians with a lot more valuable trade pieces in their system and theoretical financial flexibility compared to having Correa on the books. Arguably the best manager in the division who consistently gets the most out of his underdog/cinderella teams. Both swept Sox early, and Naylor game has to be in their heads a bit…not to mention how tough the Guardians played the Sox for the last decade, but 2020-21 as well.

Chisholm was very solid last year as well...fantasy owners at least know about him. He's 24, under control through 2026 and on pace for a 5.5 fWAR as long as he can stay healthy. If he played a full season last year would have been 2.5-2.75 fWAR and he has the best speed power combination of any young 2B in baseball. Not even close. Plus we all know with Vaughn how difficult debuting was last year after missing most of 2020. I would take him over CJ Abrams for sure because he has more pop.

The same ones who have Trammell and Moore playing nearly everyday in SEA.

He just kept producing huge numbers in the minors and never stopped...definitely under the radar as a prospect because he didn't receive that huge signing bonus. I remember watching him in the SAL and everyone was talking about Andrew Jones, Guerrero Sr., Dye, Ruben Rivera, Sexson and Jaret Wright at that time.

For an MVP candidate who's arguably better than TA because of his power? They would laugh at that offer.

Paying Eduardo Rodriguez and certainly Javy Baez and Miggy Cabrera. Also have lost a boatland of pitchers to injury, not to mention Riley Greene.

Sheffield was a much better base runner and SS coming up though...before eventually moving over to third. Certainly much better agility. Second half of career maybe the comps are more apt for where Vaughn is now.

What a mess the Cubs are right now. Not exactly unexpected, of course. The big surprise was that they were so competitive until about ten days ago.

That bat waggle and approach is so different...maybe in the sense that he's a better pure hitter than a true power hitter?

Had a feeling Ray wasn’t going to work out that great…has been okay, but not a consistent Cy Young contender. Always had elevated pitch counts, lots of K’s and walks, struggled to reach the 6th for most of his career, not unlike Cease.

Looks like the Twins are not going to cooperate. Up 4-0 late in Seattle. Would have been nice to creep a bit closer before this upcoming week’s games against Houston and TOR. Pilkington trying to hold serve for the Guardians in Colorado.