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His OSU coach has actually specifically mentioned CF as a position where he’d do extremely well. Said that he was ready for MLB right now as a defensive replacement at 2B in the late innings. RF would be the biggest issue.....for him making that long throw across the field from RF to 3B...but how often does that happen every 10 games? Just a couple. Is there any way to look up that particular stat....how many throws to RFer’s have to make either cutting down triples, runners advancing from 2nd on a SAC FLY or runners trying to go 1st to 3rd? As it stands, it would probably be: 2B, SS, 3B, CF, LF in that order...with RF and 1B (for obvious reasons) being the least likely options.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/08/us/anthony-bourdain-obit/index.html

We also brought back Beckham, whatever his cost was...it was under $10 million for both, but I’m not sure I would describe it as insignificant to a mid-market team

https://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=6153&position=3B/SS Not exactly. 7.7 fWAR 2013 0.0 (only 179 at-bats) 2014 2.6 2015 1.9 2016 -0.2 2017 1.7 2018 1.7-1.8 (after today)...but heading for a 5ish season If we count the middle 4 years, 1.5 fWAR player. 11/6=1.83 for six years...hard to say he’s worth 0 or 5 (outliers), but this offseason should be valued at least as a 2-2.5 if not 3 player.

Witt, Jr. is pretty clearly the best high school player in the country (for the moment) and there’s nearly-universal scouting agreement on his possessing five tools... As far as our OSU studs go, let’s see how he does next year when you strip away a group of their 5 best juniors/seniors. Can he keep performing offensively at that same level, and continue to improve his defense? At any rate, having Madrigal on board, they’ll (seemingly) have the best insights of any organization on whether to draft one of his former teammates or not.

They need to keep Paciorek around to announce THAT crazy name...

https://www.c-span.org/video/?446461-1/dignitaries-gather-50th-anniversary-assassination-robert-kennedy 50th Anniversary of RFK’s death celebration (Clinton speech begins around 51 min mark) Bill Clinton at first glance seems awfully frail/wounded, almost a shadow of his former self at age 72....but, boy, can he still give a great speech. I keep trying to talk myself into Kennedy’s grandson having a shot at higher office, then you see their two speeches side by side and you realize how far this younger generation has to go in terms of being able to connect with people. Clinton just has that gift...to make people reminisce, to share a common experience (sorrow/pain or joy) and can connect like no other politician in my lifetime. The problem is that no CURRENT Democrat possesses anything resembling that same political gift...a few times, you even start wondering if Clinton’s lost it, his train of thought seems to be meandering off course, and then he ties it all back together, and manages to capture what RFK (especially the 1968 campaign) represented in a way none of the other speakers came close to approximating. We can do better, be better...we have to, it’s our obligation. It’s so jarring to listen to a speech like this and then turn around and be bombarded by the vitriolic/acidic attacks back and forth from both sides of the aisle at each other.

Eckstein or McEwing...

Rutherford’s going to be an interesting case study for the Getz-Ian development of “younger” talent, especially now that he’s come back down to earth from his early season high’s.

Surprised Fathom didn’t have a timely lamentation. It’s amazing how much lesser the Cubs’ Obsession has become now that they’ve won it all.

The quietest member of the Trump family over the last year has certainly been Ivanka, favorite child and a White House staffer. But today, Anthony Cormier, Jason Leopold, and Emma Loop of BuzzFeed have an interesting story about Ivanka Trump’s involvement in a potential deal with Russia that, while it may not suggest anything illegal, does offer a window into how the Trumps were operating long after Donald Trump decided to run for president:

John Cangelosi another shorter Sox player... https://amp.mlb.com/280112286-white-sox-draft-picks-boost-rebuild.amp.html Hostetler said Monday he believes Madrigal will be able to play at Class A Advanced Winston-Salem at some point this season. Madrigal will split his time between second base, shortstop and third base. Chicago rounded out Day 1 with outfielder Steele Walker out of Oklahoma in the second round (No. 46 overall). The White Sox view Walker as a center fielder, though he played mostly right field this year because Oklahoma quarterback, and No. 9 overall selection to the A's, Kyler Murray, played up the middle. Day 2 saw the White Sox select six more college players and two high schoolers. Their top Day 2 selection was Konnor Pilkington, a left-handed pitcher from Mississippi State. Pilkington ranked 60th overall on MLB Pipeline and is unusually young for a college Draft pick -- he doesn't turn 21 until September.

OMB Director Mick Mulvaney: "Mick Mulvaney. He's got two hats on now, right, Mick? You've got two hats, not just one. And you're doing great at both. But Office of Management and Budget has been good, and our budget this year will be -- there will be a lot of cutting, because we want to cut. You know, Mick is really more of a cutter than the other. But we had to get the military through. We got $700 billion approved for military. We needed that. And in order to get that done, we had to do some things for the Democrats that we would normally not do -- because we consider a lot of it waste and a horror show. But in order to get our military and $6 billion for opioid. So we got the -- which Melania is so heavily involved in -- and we got that taken care of. And very importantly, next year, $716 billion for military. So, Mick, great job. And this time, you can start cutting, OK? Because we have our military taken care of now, so you can start really cutting." (185 words) https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/06/politics/donald-trump-jeff-sessions/index.html

Thanks, reuniting teammates...

Baltimore will be TERRIBLE TERRIBLE TERRIBLE once they jettison Britton, Brach, Machado and Adam Jones. Texas should be there at the bottom...they have some interesting decisions to make in terms of eventual direction as an organization. Reds have tough competition in the same division as Cubs/Brewers/Cards (Reyes injury a killer)...that should keep them down. SF would have looked to be on this list, but they held in there so far without Bumgarner so who knows, maybe they're adding. A's would have LOOKED to be on this list but are also surprisingly "sort of contending" but are obviously more future-oriented with the Kyler Murray draft selection w/ the 9th pick.

The question is what would have happened had he gone to an expansion franchise and been asked to become THE GUY right off the bat...? Would he have still become a Top 50 All-Time player without the guiding presence of MJ?

Does anyone have the Top 5 from that BA mock? Taking yet another middle infielder in Witt, Jr., would be....BRILLIANT. If you have players capable of playing either SS/2B or CF all over the field, it's always a GOOD thing. As opposed to trying to shoehorn 1B/DH types into LF/RF/3B/C.

Craig Grebeck + Joey Cora All say hello... Or we can go with Roy Oswalt and Billy Wagner. Jason Frasor. Johnny Cueto. Tim Lincecum. Marcus Stroman. Former KC Royals' LHP Tim Collins is the same height as Madrigal and threw in the low to mid 90's before he got hurt.

Are we also pardoning the Unabomber, Timothy McVeigh (posthumously) and David Koresh (likewise)...?Surely the Ruby Ridge family as well. LOCK HER UP! LOCK HER UP! (Janet Reno)

Our Mississippi State kid's definitely going to start out rated higher...Pilkington.

The ONLY thing I can tell you about that Greg is that if you helped your parent/s invest their money wisely....there should be around $1-1.5 million to work with at this late/r point in their lives. They can't force that older person to sell their house...or it's a complicated process in many states to go after those assets before Medicaid will kick in. At any rate, if you have a pension/partial pension and some SS, the money generated there (let's say $2-3K per month) combined with a nest egg of $1 million would be creating another $50,000 (pre-tax), which is basically enough to meet assisted living care costs in most parts (not the coasts) without touching that principal of $1-1.5 million. Now I realize that's not possible for every family...but the fact of the matter is that it's not hard, you don't even have to have a combined household income of over $50,000 if you invest your money into the VFINX (Vanguard 500 Index) every month or year (or Berkshire Hathaway B Shares) and let compounding work in your favor. Of course, if we privatized Social Security and everyone started Medical Savings Accounts, I'm curious how many Americans would end up losing all their money or withdrawing it earlier for emergencies....the government programs basically exist to protect the greatest number of Americans from themselves (their poor decisions about finances/debt/spending.)

I LOVE Hostetler. It's Buddy Bell that I couldn't stand...well, I think that's a pretty universally-shared opinion of all but a few around here, at least the last 2-3 years he was hanging around.

Waiting for Hostetler to list a number of those low-risk/high-reward pitchers in the Rounds #11-15 range as all potentially having first round stuff/closer potential...

Yeah, pure hitters like Ichiro, Olerud, Boggs and Gwynn really stand out over the last couple of generations of players. Biggio is another good comparison. The first name that came to my mind was Tommy Herr, athough Madrigal's much faster. Mauer, too.

His OSU coach said the Reds were set to take him (over India) had the pick gone past the Sox...