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  1. Irrelevant Dude
    If you want to really look at the schedule pessimistically, the Panthers could go 2-1 in their remaining games (with the most likely wins coming against Green Bay and Tampa), and the Patriots, Cardinals, and Commanders could all lose out. That would result in a tie for #3 between the Panthers and Commanders, and right now the Commanders hold a slight SOS advantage. In other words, it is still conceivable the Panthers pick could fall to #4, although it is much more likely to be 1 or 2.
  2. Irrelevant Dude
    SOS between the Panthers and Patriots is basically a coin flip right now, .521 for Carolina versus .523 for New England. Hopefully the Packers come out desperate next week and beat the Panthers and then hopefully Jacksonville takes care of business. Tampa worries me a bit in the last week, not knowing whether or not they will still be in the hunt for a playoff spot. We really need the Patriots to run into one more win and the Broncos certainly look beatable next week.
  3. Irrelevant Dude
    We have no reason to believe that is the case either.
  4. Irrelevant Dude
    I would obviously love to have #1 overall, but I'm not entirely sold on Williams being a better NFL QB than Maye, so I wouldn't be incredibly upset if the Panthers pick falls to #2. Now if it somehow drops to 3, that's an absolute disaster.
  5. Irrelevant Dude
    Welp, back to rooting for draft position.
  6. Irrelevant Dude
    Ha! Mooney had it in his hands.
  7. Irrelevant Dude
    Assuming you are referring to the early hit on the receiver, I don't think it was catchable in bounds.
  8. Irrelevant Dude
    A 3 point loss is exactly what I expected when the Bears passed up a potential 3 points on the field goal.
  9. Irrelevant Dude
    Building anything around an assumption of Madrigal being healthy would be extremely unwise.
  10. Irrelevant Dude
    Yeah, but just wait until that deal runs out... in 2039.
  11. Irrelevant Dude
    That sounds fun. I'll watch.
  12. Irrelevant Dude
    That is going to do wonders for their Pythagorean W/L.
  13. Irrelevant Dude
    I am confident the Cubs will address the pitching staff and almost certainly go into next season in much better bullpen shape than they have the past few seasons. Replacing Bellinger's production is going to be much easier said than done though. Even Bellinger himself is unlikely to approach his 2023 numbers.
  14. Irrelevant Dude
    Centerfield defense only goes so far though. While I do think it is unlikely PCA gets traded, he is going to have to hit and hasn't proven yet that he will be able to do that at the Major League level. If the front office has any doubt in PCA's future offensive ability, and the right opportunity comes along to obtain another controllable player, a trade shouldn't be completely off the table.
  15. Irrelevant Dude
    I don't think he is particularly good at identifying "margins-players". Just look at the guys he signed last year and the unnecessary dead money they created on the payroll. In general though, I think Jed is a really smart guy and would be a very good GM in a vacuum, but unfortunately for him the other MLB teams don't operate in a vacuum. In video game terms, he might dominate the single player mode, but he camps in a corner in multiplayer, afraid to make the wrong move and expose himself to enemy fire.
  16. Irrelevant Dude
    Lots of money deferred to 2047, lowering his luxury tax AAV to $4.2M.
  17. Irrelevant Dude
    Nope. Why would we be? His only real credentials are being Theo and Tom's guy.
  18. Irrelevant Dude
    Would a new owner be any better? There was a time where you could hope for a real baseball guy to buy the team with a primary goal of winning, but with franchise values what they are now I think virtually all of those guys have been weeded out. I'm not a fan of the Ricketts family ownership, but at least they have some level of connection to the Cubs and the city. Whoever buys the team in the future is likely doing so with the sole intention of making huge profits, with the baseball side of it being an afterthought. We could end up with the 21st century version of the Tribune Company. Maybe that isn't much worse than the current regime, but I'm just not sure anyone is out there who is going to buy the team and start throwing Steve Cohen money into payroll.
  19. Irrelevant Dude
    One of them rhymes with Pucker Yarnfart.
  20. Irrelevant Dude
    I guess I was a bit more of a lurker in my earlier years on the forum and not quite as active as now, but unfortunately I never really had any meaningful interactions with Fred that I can recall. I knew him as the game thread guy, but not much more than that. I wish I had been able to get to know him as many of you did, but the thing I do know is he left quite a legacy on this site ( and beyond that I'm sure).
  21. Irrelevant Dude
    There is no wiggling necessary. It won't go toward the tax at all.
  22. Irrelevant Dude
    If the Cubs didn't beat $46M AAV in real world money, shame on them. That said, it probably didn't matter. We will likely never know what they offered, but even if their offer was similar, I think he was always going to make this work with the Dodgers.
  23. Irrelevant Dude
    It's crazy to me that Hoyer is giving Happ-level players NTC's.
  24. Irrelevant Dude
    There were times when Bellinger tried to do TOO much at first base. For example, ranging really far to his right and turning what would have been a semi-routine play for Hoerner into a difficult play for Bellinger and the pitcher covering first. Those are plays he would probably learn to let go with more experience, but regardless, you aren't maximizing his value if you are using him at first base full-time.
  25. Irrelevant Dude
    It isn't absolutely necessary, but you don't take a guy from another position where he is a solid defender (even if that position is Left Field) and put him at 1B when he is right-handed and somewhat deficient in height, all on top of never having played the position before. Naylor is a guy who pretty much HAS to play 1B, because there is nowhere else he can go. That is not Happ's situation.
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