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he has to wait until game 4 at least

I'm surprised he doesn't remember Jerry Krause. He famously started off as a baseball scout before becoming the GM of the Chicago Bulls and leading them to 6 rings, with the help of MJ, Pippen and Phil Jackson of course. He was a decent basketball scout and was one of the key influences behind scouting and drafting Toni Kukoc. He then transitioned back to being a baseball scout after he was fired. Lol. Kyler Murray looked great in the Texas-Oklahoma game last week and I think he could go in the top 3 rounds of the NFL draft. They were discussing this in the latest UMP podcast on Fangraphs. I'm pretty sure he has a firm commitment to the A's, but I'd be really nervous every Saturday during college football season. the local media has been discussing this all week, but they capital-S SUCK, and have made little sense. But it's interesting to think about. He has a $5 million commitment from the A's. And if he takes that path he goes to A ball and is committed to riding buses for at least two years, making piss money. If he felt like he'd be drafted in the top 3 rounds, he'd get a signing bonus of about $900,000 and a four-year non-commited contract worth about $4 million (Mason Rudolph, 3rd round pick last year, got 920k and a 4-year $3.98 mil deal) baseball seems like the best bet. His odds of making a dent in the majors and getting a big contract are low, but so is the risk of injury and if he can hit at all, with his speed he'll linger for a long time. In the NFL, he also has a very very small chance of being a difference-maker because of his size. But he has the arm and can make the throws and he has athleticism that's elite even among the NFL elite. And even though injury risk is high in the NFL, they are doing all they can to legislate QB injuries out of the game. He basically has one hurdle to making big NFL money and playing at least semi-long term - his size. If he can overcome that, and no one in modern NFL history has played QB at his size, he's gonna make big money. There are many many more hurdles to him becoming a big baseball player.

why the horsefeathers was brad pitt in that movie lmao

lol what a nice way of saying "can't hit"

im not opposed to moving on from monty ahead of his inevitable turn into a pumpkin but hoisting up these three turds in his place is not exactly enticing So, I'm guessing you're figuring we just don't have the luck for a pitcher to come back from TJS? Or do actually think Smyly healthy, is far worse than Monty? im saying expecting anything out of the guy who last pitched in 2016, had a 4.5 FIP that season (his only season with anything resembling a full workload) and THEN had TJ is probably not wise.

maybe it slipped that Drew Smyly, Alec Mills, and Alzolay are next up im not opposed to moving on from monty ahead of his inevitable turn into a pumpkin but hoisting up these three turds in his place is not exactly enticing

i have nothing to add except that i love that the title is "realistic trade targets" and the first line is "greinke and goldschmidt are available."

it was a 45 year deal wow

are you suggesting he should be prevented from working because he's suing the organization that employs him for discrimination? I’m suggesting that he sucks for multiple reasons and shouldn’t be allowed to umpire important games ever it's good legally speaking from the MLB perspective to not only put him in high-profile games but then to watch him fail pathetically in them

jesus christ the "generation talent" horsefeathers is such a meaningless term anyway. who cares??? he's 26 and he's put up the 8th most offensive war since his debut and half of his career he's been the same age as a low minor leaguer. if someone wants to argue that he's not a once in a lifetime player or something, have fun. I just want the mother funker on my team given his religious nature and lack of children, can we truly say he's funked a mother? THIS GUY FUNKS

I don't deny that he came in with a splash and had a phenominal season at 22 years old, but to me a generational talent is someone who consistently puts up the kind of numbers that will be remembered by the next generation. Again, he's very capable of putting up those numbers in the future, but it's certainly not a sure thing looking at his track record. you keep ignoring his 2017 just because he missed some games jesus christ the "generation talent" horsefeathers is such a meaningless term anyway. who cares??? he's 26 and he's put up the 8th most offensive war since his debut and half of his career he's been the same age as a low minor leaguer. if someone wants to argue that he's not a once in a lifetime player or something, have fun. I just want the mother funker on my team

i have so far declined to watch the playoffs

Yeah, I'll be rooting for the AL regardless in the WS. My order is Astros Red Sox Yankees Dodgers Brewers I get the Astros hate but for some reason I don't really have it. They've been in the AL for 6 years and were mediocre at best their last 7 years in the NL (08 at 86-75 was their only solid year). And they generally go out there and hit a lot of dongs. Any Astros haters here are just jealous fat babies. Astros, Yankees, or Red Sox are fine. No Brewers, No Dodgers. No Atlanta because even though Acuna is cool I hate the stupid chant and their dumb new park

7th in the entire baseball world in wrc+ since 2013 even with those injury-plagued seasons

this is an extremely reductive line of thinking, but it’s the one i’m going with: given all we have constantly heard about how much the front office specifically loves schwarber and how good he is at all their weird brain tests and stuff, if they think it is time to trade him and aren’t scared about missing out on monster seasons, it is probably time to trade him and we shouldn’t be scared about missing out on monster seasons. part of me wonders if some of the over-the-top Schwarber love from the FA recently is as much about them knowing that he would ultimately be trade fodder if a Harper pursuit ever got real, so they needed to project this image of "oh we LOVE this guy. Would HATE to lose him" the entire time so it at least looked somewhat legitimate. Rather than it being December, us offering $400 million to Harper and then you suddenly have a bunch of "i guess we could move schwarber but the return would have to be ginormous because of his brain WAR"

Would the rangers move odor? They're going nowhere obviously, especially in that division. He was a good defender last year, suddenly had a 10 percent walk rate post July 1 and had a .816 OPS in that time frame.

man i had totally forgotten about the starlin allegations. that seems like a lifetime ago

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Matt Holiday And Carlos Gonzalez are staring in their OF, do they really have too many OF’ers?? They have Brendan Rodgers coming up within the next 1.5 years for the IF (him or Story will shift to 2B). But he could be an option there for a year too. Blackmon, Tapia, Dahl, even though they seem to hate tapia. Maybe we could get him back in the deal too, he'd be an interesting 4th or 5th guy if he can field at all.

if gray is actually on the market i gotta assume someone else would offer more than we would. i guess maybe happ+ gets you there? they have too many OF but if they think he could play second and replace DJ (can't spell his last name so he's just DJ)

I've bee reading people saying the Yankees were going to sign him since he was in high school, I refuse to let it happen. he even said it himself!* *when he was 16

god it's going to be amazing when he signs with the yankees and everyone here rushes out to inject mexican heroin into their foreheads

i imagine it's a show that absolutely aged in the worst possible way

I stopped after season 3. I asked friends to just give me the details on later seasons lol. I'm pretty sure I wasn't missing much. Season 4 was prob the best season. lmao this is what i was just going to say. look at us agreeing. i organically stopped watching after season 4 and i dont know a single person who enjoyed any of the other seasons in any kind of unironic way

2011 he had some shoulder thing and kept trying to play through it. Finally gave up and said he'd come back when he was 100 percent. Chipper Jones called him a baby so he came back and struggled all year. Bounced back the next year even though the swing was changed and then the next year the head shot happened. Got it. I still don’t remember anyone bringing it up (on here or in the media) during his FA year it was a concern but yeah. I just mostly remember the concern was “his swing needs a lot of maintenance” or something like that. we were all pretty happy because he'd been worth almost 6 war. If I remember right we all kind of thought that something in his swing must be fixed because he hit .293, so the idea was the cubs were going to add some loft to it to get him to more power, and then we'd have a .290 hitting elite defense RF with a .850 OPS