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  1. CR7 over Salah is farcical
  2. when he finds out about it
  3. maybe they're bringing back Addison Russell
  4. sad to admit it, but Willson & Hendricks are on the block now right
  5. bonkers stat, what a legend https://twitter.com/PFF_Anthony/status/1464884890273517570
  6. but, we will lead the league in nimble
  7. it's already pretty funny he's going to turn a UDFA into DPOY
  8. Belichick evil laughter (yardage ranking here is pretty misleading ofc)
  9. Mooney/Sharma casting doubt on the "looking like they want to win" part also floats Didi Gregorius as an "intriguing" option; would at least be novel to have a whole team one day with arthritic shoulders/elbows
  10. i can't make heads or tails of Franklin; he recruits well, his offense gets so many easy, free yards and he randomly turns into Madden kid on 4th downs, but there's something missing there Harbaugh just runs antiquated and predictable schemes but teaches fundamentals well i guess
  11. good gracious, bat is bodacious
  12. Mooney inferring that we're likely not meaningfully spending this winter https://theathletic.com/2946459/2021/11/10/the-next-free-agent-to-sign-a-megadeal-with-the-cubs-is-to-be-determined/ Miley deal is probably the mold (best i can tell, we have a whole $7m earmarked for 2026 [bote]) some patented Jed gobbledygook
  13. https://theathletic.com/2947765/2021/11/10/how-jed-hoyer-can-stay-nimble-and-leverage-the-cubs-financial-flexibility-in-his-favor?source=user-shared-article
  14. Davies replacement
  15. it's nice in a way that the Lions are so futile i don't have to expend so much mental energy to imagine how they might be able to somehow become competitive
  16. nature is healing
  17. eh Cleveland isn't really one of the first teams i'd want to poach FO talent from, especially considering their most notable recent standout successes likely just stemmed from doctoring the ball
  18. the more you explained this, the less i understood it
  19. tbh i'm still annoyed Arriola lost all motor control from being tapped on the shoulder, with VAR they might've reversed the booking
  20. ..it is? teams that paid money for proven talent last winter seemed to somehow do pretty well generally, in spite of their lack of restraint [attachment=0]Capture.PNG[/attachment]
  21. when they openly aspire to specifically replicate the successes of the Rays or Giants, instead of Dodgers/Yankees for example, they are pretty explicitly suggesting that the budget will remain artificially restricted and we as fans can fairly realize that their recent total failure to build from within or actually hit on any budget FAs portends pretty certain doom for the next couple seasons, at the very least this team is currently so devoid of upper-levels talent that 'winning the offseason' is the bare minimum precursor for any kind of relevance in the near future
  22. This past year's market is not going to be a great comparison point for obvious reasons, but looking at the ESPN FA tracker, only 10 SP got more AAV in free agency than Arrieta. 2 were very good in a full season(Morton, Ray), 2 were very good in half a season(Bauer, Kluber), and of the remaining 6 the only one who exceeded 1 fWAR was Mike Minor and his 5.05 ERA. Trevor Williams had 1.2 fWAR in 91 IP. This is the point, the unspoken inference to 'if only they weren't so cheap' is that they'd have done better if they had just spent more money, when the guys further up the ladder are a pretty big minefield themselves.
  23. i guess he's made amends
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