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I took it as anyone who questions dave's sources is dense, especially if the reason they question it is because they dislike barstool. Its one thing to dislike a group or company or anything like that, and another to dismiss anyone associated with that entity even when that person has been right in the past.

I thought it was obvious from his post he didn't mean everyone here is dense but instead those who keep saying how WSD doesn't know anything and then has multiple people say otherwise. Being a part of this board doesn't make someone dense; arguing the same thing over and over again when the evidence proves it wrong makes someone dense.

IMO: 30-33 = early 30s 34-36 = mid 30s 37-39 = late 30

I'm less conspiratorial about it than others here. I remember hearing the cubs made a swing change with him and it allowed him to potentially have average power when he was projected to have much below average power. Combine that with his great performance in the AFL and suddenly he looks like a lot better prospect than initially thought.

Dude aggregating reports that are currently out there that we already don't know the validity of. Nothing that hasn't been reported, rumored, or speculated before.

I almost hope the Padres really are in it and do have a strong offer out there because then we can get some real negotiations going and hopefully wrap this up quickly when one team drops out and Lozano realizes he got the most he can get.

Or just buy in the city and hire whatever property tax appeals law firm your alderman / other elected official is connected to.

Illinois is higher in regressive taxes that matter less than the income tax when you are talking about the kind of money these contracts will be worth.

I guess that's why people wanted to be there; to see the riot and pitchforks come out going after Hahn.

I cannot wait. Knowing there are only a handful of possibilities at #3, it will be fun to track them and catch whatever games I can.

If he can stay healthy, hopefully Corey Zangari can do something close to the ridiculous pace he was on last year. He will basically be age appropriate for Kannapolis and if he stays hot he could potentially advance quickly with our lack of real 1B prospects.

Yeah, that would fit under not talking about offering contracts or not.

I'm pretty sure the only things they can't talk about are whether or not they offered someone a contract and what those contract figures are. That is why all the contract numbers have to be leaks and not Hahn just saying what we are offering on a conference call. The other parts of it like talking about players isn't the same as when they are under contract. When they have a contract with a team it could be considered tampering to talk about them, but when they are a free agent there is no team to tamper with, only market rates.

I mean I'm more likely to believe someone who creates a burner just to leak info than someone who is a wannabe reporter trying to get credit for their guessing skills.

So probably a good assumption we will try again next year.

Agreed, but so far he has a 30 on the most important ability: availability. In the last three years (which are really equivalent to the three college years US players would have), he has played in 165 games and that includes 53 in the Cuban League, 16 in the CanAm league, 28 in the DSL, and 5 in the AZL, all of which are probably below his talent level so they don't really give a good read on him or help him improve. So really he has only played 63 games against like competition in the last 3 years. That is scary not only for future projection of production, but also his development or lack thereof.

Dude, check the ratio. Obviously a wannabe. Also check out his most recently tweeted picture. Dude worked in insurance. Not exactly the person you would think has connections.

Regardless of the rest of your argument, statcast sprint speed isn't really useful. They measure it as the fast you are going at the fast moment during your sprint. It does not measure acceleration, average speed over the route or distance, route efficiency, or jump. While it is better to have a higher top end speed, if the other parts are not there then it doesn't matter.

So I got bored and made a platooned roster RHP LHP C - Castillo C - McCann 1B - Abreu 1B - Abreu 2B - Moncada 2B - Moncada 3B - Machado 3B - Machado SS - Anderson SS - Anderson LF- Eloy LF - Eloy CF - Pederson CF - Jon Jay RF - Palka RF - Valencia DH - Alonso DH - Castillo Bench - Jon Jay, McCann, Valencia, Yolmer Bench - Yolmer, Alonso, Palka, Pederson

Et tu, Danny?

And money, sooooo........Machado signing imminent?

Another completely non-baseball reason it won't happen: if we wait to bring him up then there will be a random game in April with increased attendance (potentially a sell out?) that would otherwise be pretty empty while the home opener will likely have a high attendance no matter what.

Hell, trade for Ben Zobrist. Report came out they are looking to trade him so they can have room for a middle reliever. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2019/01/cubs-have-considered-trading-ben-zobrist.html

While I think there might be something to them using a trade as a loophole for punishment, there is little chance the league offices would approve the trade if they know the punishment is coming soon. On top of that, I think the players involved really only seem to be the Cuban guys because I think what they were accused of was basically human trafficking as opposed to packaging players and circumventing the cap like the Braves did. There are a couple guys that fit the Cuban player timeline that they have already traded (Yusniel Diaz, Yordan Alvarez) but the only guys they have left that fit the description and are seemingly worth anything are Yadier Alvarez and Omar Estevez. Yeah, if he has an option left sending him to to work with our new analytics guys and the new AAA hitting coach might be better for any long term potential than just platooning him in the majors. It could also give him some experience at first so he can have some versatility instead of potentially being stuck as a DH only.