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the problem is there's no scenario where the offense improves outside of trades/FA acquisitions that's ok if everyone matches their 2018 production, but if Bryant and Contreras don't bounce back you really HAVE to have Baez maintain his numbers because you can't count on Zobrist to play a full season at the same level. All of a sudden a top-5 ish offense becomes a top 10-ish offense. We good defensed (and good Hamelsed) our way into a solid rotation, but Lester was lucky all year and Hamels is just as likely to be a 4.50 ERA guy as he is to do what he did last year. With Darvish a total question mark and Quintana unreliable, it's reasonable to expect the rotation to be a real mess. You want to project Lester to be better this year than last year? Good luck to you. Hendricks is one of the best Cubs pitchers of my lifetime but we have always been waiting on the other shoe to drop with him. Any loss of movement or control and who knows what he looks like. And he's the only one in the rotation we can remotely count on! The bullpen is Carl (last seen looking like 50 Cent throwing the opening pitch,) Stop (who has outlived the use by date of 99.9 percent of middle relievers,) Monty (might have to be in the rotation) and ????? Any reliever who can get an out without dying is going to be out of gas by June. there are scenarios where everyone is healthy and unbroken and we win our division There are many more scenarios where some combination of unhealth and regression happens and the results are really ugly. Knowing what we know about our roster given the age and regression and injury history of the keystone guys, are we more likely to be first-half cubs, or second-half cubs (OPS below .700 in Aug/Sept)

by yards per play Old Miss was 7th in the nation OU (highest of all time) Bama Clemson Memphis (sure i guess) Georgia West Virginia Old Miss UCF Ohio Utah State pretty solid group they're a part of (yes i did the old miss thing on purpose because it used to make OMC so mad)

Yeah.... Schwarber likely won't be as plus a defender, i dont know wtf is going on in CF but if you have confidence in Almora/Happ that's your burden. Heyward is obviously washed. Rizzo is out of the prime phase. Zobrist is 45. Javy likely won't be a 5-WAR guy ever again. Bryant is an unknown. Contreras can't catch and lost the ability to hit. lester regressed, Hendricks seems like a guy who will just go to horsefeathers out of nowhere so youre kinda always waiting on other shoe to drop. quintana is trash. Darvish might have to pitch left handed. Hamels is probably a 4.50 era guy this year. Yeah should be great

lol "signals a breakout" is a pretty optimistic take on his almost unplayable 2018

We don’t have money for Harper are you crazy *goves $:1 million to Hamels and Britton*

it's crazy to me that in a span of like 4 years i went from - screw the players over in FA so ownership has more money to spend on other players and can pass savings on to fans to - screw the billionaire owners the players are the product, if revenue is that high the players deserve the money to - no one deserves to be rich and i dont care how many dongs someone hits you shouldn't pay anyone $40 million a year to do anything while people are starving and living in poverty im probably like 2 years from not watching sports anymore

Yeah that’s my guess or the Nats and it sounds like he’s getting more than Darvish and maybe close to Lester money. lmao billy bob never gets anything right

oh horsefeathers its the nats

going with phillies

people here are acting like it's a sure W if Hurts starts, which is incredibly bold given that OU hasn't stopped a mobile quarterback in a decade. I can squint and see a path for OU - georgia's defense was pretty good last year and OU's offense went wild against them (and OU's offense this year is like half a yard per play better than last year's. Seriously, they average almost 9 yards per play, it's insane.) But as bad as the defense is there's no room for confidence against (checks notes) the best team in college football history

Where do you get the idea that he's verified? Welp, I swear when I looked at this link on my phone that he had a checkmark. My bad. Only I am verified

i did a story earlier this year about a state official who'd beaten his wife and got away with it and it was covered up, and when I asked the attorney who'd handled the divorce FOR THE WIFE, his quote to me is "what really is domestic violence?" and then he kind of trailed off into "all these allegations, who knows?" kind of stuff.

umm if you build a roster that doesnt fit your coach, you get rid of the coach 100 percent of the time. No, they've got the roster more set up for him now. They HIRED him with a roster that wasn't a fit at all. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

umm if you build a roster that doesnt fit your coach, you get rid of the coach 100 percent of the time.

I'm the sexiest shut-in ever, and I am throwing all of the shade on people who dare to show themselves in public. And also on the people who think rich people know how to dress themselves. What's always out of fashion? Bootlicking. post a picture of what you're wearing right now

mojo, the shut-in who feels he should be in charge of the clothes and hairstyles of millionaires.

the crazy thing about hair is that it just grows right back

i know this is cliche but of the non playoff non new years 6 games i counted 2 interesting matchups

the mets acting like a small market team (by not spending money in FA or signing FAs is really annoying) I mean, I get that they've made a lot of bad signings (wait a sec) so the resources are tied up in terrible contracts (that they spent in free agency) but still ... spend some freaking money in free agency (or maybe don't ... since you have been and it didnt work out like at all) also they just took on like 60 million in the cano trade

oh it definitely favors the mariners

ditch almora sign billy hamilton

they picked him up in case they could trade russell. they couldnt. so russell got a contract and a nice pr push

what tyreek hill did is 1000000 times worse than what kareem hunt did but there's no video

Cause STONE COLD said so

it may have actually been your confidence in him that led him astray