Bob Sacamano

Would that make you happy?

Because you have your guy with the highest OBP at the leadoff spot. and in 2018, that guy was Jon Jay. If Anderson and Moncada both start off hot, then yes, I would put those two at the top as I acknowledged in my mock lineup. Jay at the top is just how I start it. It could easily change to Anderson/Moncada or Moncada/Anderson 1-2.

Jay CF Moncada 2B Machado 3B Abreu 1B/DH Alonso DH/1B *Eloy LF Palka RF Castillo C Anderson SS *start him off 6th anyway and if he kills it, move him up a spot or two. The the top 2 and number 9 spots can change depending on how those 3 are doing.

Doesn't hurt for them to check in and even meet with him.

3rd. I'd probably start the year off with Jay, Moncada, Machado 1-3

So Manny is waiting on Bryce and Bryce is likely waiting on Manny...dammit. One of these guys just needs to shit or get off the pot.

Easily the Merkin article.

I agree. But definitely work on expanding the league first to 16 teams in each league so they can make a more balanced schedule before cutting off say 2 weeks of the season.

Well no shit. Players suspended for PEDs during the season are ineligible for the playoff roster in the first place.

My friends were literally saying this yesterday lol

I don't have an answer for you but am curious. When you work one week a month from home, does that mean one full week at a time or is 5 days to use any time of the month?

I'm saying late-Feb/early March.

Ha I was thinking along the lines of a movie reference and how the every day is the same.

Well it's Groundhog day...and I'm just disappointed the thread title doesn't reflect it.

Oh how the tables have turned.

Been busy all day at work today. Any news before I decide to scroll back and look?

Nope.

Well the number of jobs would be the same. There would just be one more player on the NL teams getting paid more to DH as opposed to a backup utility player making near league minimum.

I'm sure they are still interested. Nothing new here. Everyone is just waiting on Machado.

I wasn't making a point of them having too much depth. We're on the same page. Plus Muncy and Taylor both play IF and OF. With the current way the team is constructed, they could even platoon Muncy and Taylor at 2B or just have Muncy off of the bench. I do expect one of Verdugo and Joc moved, but it isn't like it needs to happen. Dealing Kemp and Puig unclogged the overcrowded OF.

Hey, don't forget about Russell Nathan Coltrane Jeanson Martin Jr.!

There OF isn't too crowded. If they didn't deal Verdugo or Pederson, it would be: Pederson/Hernandez platoon in LF, Pollock CF, Verdugo RF. Toles isn't much of an MLB player, Taylor is likely the starting 2B, and I think most would expect Muncy to regress really hard next year so he's likely mostly a bench bat as well (meaning Bellinger is at 1B). They could deal one of Joc and Verdugo and I guess it would get Muncy in the lineup somewhere every day, but like I said, it depends on what they expect from him. And knowing Pollock's injury history, keeping everyone could be an option.

I can't take another 4 weeks of this, ha.

I agree.

https://www.mlb.com/orioles/news/manny-machado-hits-3-homers-in-first-3-innings/c-194191814 If anyone wants to watch him hitting bombs at the G-Rate.