Jose Abreu

The Yankees might sign him, that wasn’t my point. My point is that this injury has no effect on whether or not they sign him.

Bob Nightengale, who “reported” in April that Machado will sign with the Yankees, is doubling down: A few months of Gregorious won’t impact the Yankees’ ~10 year offer to Machado, and it’s incredibly shortsighted to think otherwise. Not to mention Gleyber Torres is a shortstop.

For a reason. The time for them to draft a QB was probably the 2017 or 2018 drafts.

Difference there is LaVine is at least our best option to be starting at SG for the next 4 years. Portis was our 3rd best power forward last year (including Mirotic) and we just drafted Wendell to play center. I'm all for Bobby Portis playing 24 minutes a night off the bench for the next 5 years as our primary backup 4/5, but not at the price he'll likely require.

I guess I don't have as much evidence as I remembered but here is a recent article that supports my post. edit: not sure why all that is crossed out and it won't let me change it, but it's all in the link

Because they're better basketball players.

I was under the impression that Eloy isn't good enough defensively to stick in right as a starter. And even if he is, he's very likely a worse defender than Robert, Basabe, Adolfo, Gonzalez, and Rutherford, so we might as well put him in left from the start since that's where he figures to be for a while.

I personally believe Arenado will re-sign with Colorado and Rendon will either re-sign with Washington or retire, as he doesn't seem to like playing baseball at all. That's why it's crucial to me that we go hard after Machado.

Me too but if there was any offer worth trading him for, he would be long gone

I disagree with the bolded. Who is he taking ABs from in 2019? This is assuming Eloy is in left, Palka at DH.

Highly doubt it, unless it's something that happens in the offseason

The defense will be bad overall but having Dunn, who is an All-NBA defensive guy when he's at his peak, plus the defensive potential of Carter, certainly helps. I also don't think Markkanen or LaVine are that bad defensively. It's Parker and the majority of the bench that will be the big problem defensively, in my opinion

The vibe I get from pretty much every Fegan article that isn't about Nick Madrigal is "things are bad", to be honest

$8 million for Avi isn't really that much on a team whose payroll figures to be in the mid 60s without any big additions

Even if they had zero luxury tax concerns ever, there's really no excuse for teams like us or the Phillies to be outbid by them. If Machado takes less money to play for a bigger market team then that's one thing, but I doubt it.

Ruiz might be our best reliever prospect other than Hamilton, Johnson, and Burdi, which is actually saying a lot because those 3 are probably 3 of the best reliever prospects in all of baseball.

Where do those teams even come from? Only the Yankees would theoretically be able to afford one of those guys without having too many luxury tax concerns, but even then the odds are against them. I think this free agency is gonna be way different due to the new luxury tax rules. I think Machado/Harper will end up on the Phillies, Braves, White Sox, etc. Teams like that, and not the typical ones like the Yankees, Dodgers, etc.

Rewarding conspicuously unstable rapists? Who cares, our party WON!!!

Gotta love misleading maps to try to persuade you that counties with a few hundred people are just as important as counties with millions.

No, it would mean we choked, unless the first 4 games were a complete mirage. And for the record, if you asked me that before the season, I probably would've said no too. I *expected* 8 or 9 wins pre-Mack trade but would not have been happy with it, per se.

As a 19 year old college student, I prefer the night games so that I don't have to wake up before noon to watch the regular games

Nope, the Pats game is eligible to be flexed: http://www.nfl.com/flexible-schedules/ The random Bears highlight videos at the end of the Pats/Colts game just got me thinking. Some Twitter folks agreed that it was a weird hype video for a TNF game we weren't even playing in, so this is my theory.

Valid, but if JJ Watt didn't win it in 2014 (might be off by a year), I still don't like Mack's chances

Thinking they might flex the Bears/Pats game to SNF.