Jose Abreu

It's two awful teams (who are both playing well lately as bmags noted) but this game has been the most entertaining of the season for me.

Yes, it's Atlanta, but my god, the Zach/Lauri/Otto core has been so good.

So the defense of Sexton is that he plays on a horrible team, but Markkanen isn't good because, to quote you exactly, "accumulating big numbers on a bad team just doesn't prove anything"? Isn't it worrisome that Sexton can't put up numbers on such a bad team then?

I think that's an overstatement. He's not a good defender but he's also not Enes Kanter out there.

*calls people who watch the Bulls and see "even a little talent" delusional* *calls Markkanen "overmatched every night" and "soft"*

I know it's pretty much a foregone conclusion, but I hate that Yolmer is gonna be the everyday 2B. We already know what we have in him. I'd rather give someone like Jose Rondon reps.

I love how the Phillies, who haven't had a winning season since 2011, are viewed as this big winning club, while the Padres, who haven't had a winning season since 2010, are viewed in the opposite way. Sure, the Phillies are better set up to win in 2019, but over the next decade or so, especially given how the NL East is shaping up, I think the teams will both be pretty good.

That's even worse when you consider that inflation alone should cause that number to increase dramatically over such a span.

Eh, I like both players but Markkanen is way better than Moncada is right now.

They also just killed the Porter trade.

Yes they are, and they're absolutely right. These quotes are insulting to the fanbase's intelligence.

KW and the NBC Sports Chicago crew*

Let’s give Kenny credit, he is GREAT at uniting the fanbase... against him

Sorry, I started a thread for this before checking this one.

No, this isn't a joke:

It wasn't. Scott Boras is the last agent who would ever tell a team with the means to spend hundreds of millions of dollars that he's not interested.

The whole organization (NBC Sports Chicago) has been such garbage ever since they changed their model to reflect the clickbait nature of the internet. It's like state sponsored news now, with clickbait articles to boot.

Nice to see the NBC Sports Chicago guys have turned back to the typical propaganda

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never forget

That's exactly what the FO wants you to be thinking right now. We already knew Eloy was going to rake. The whole point was to add a hitter right next to him in the lineup that rakes as well.

For all the talk the FO gave about wanting to destroy stigmas and create new narratives, they actually proved all the narratives to be true.

How are New York Yankees 3B Manny Machado, New York Yankees SP Patrick Corbin, and Philadelphia Phillies SP Patrick Corbin doing?

The fact that they got into the Harper sweepstakes in the first place knowing that the asking price was 300+ (given what he turned down) is puzzling to begin with