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https://theathletic.com/realtime/qWMofkVRdHzn/?source=app_brief_share does this pave the way for the return of Mervis? Because every cubs conversation has to be centered around Mervis

Womens World Cup has begun. Uswnt plays ‘nam tonight

I’m not going to get this entirely correct. But, generally speaking you have 3 years to sign a guy after drafting him. Draft eligibility is all about birth year. Lots of times guys who are drafted go to college for a year or two then sign. Youth/junior hockey is extremely convoluted and weird and varies between usa and Canada. But only the top guys sign and play right away at 18.

Let’s here what the pcp users want

I mean, his teammates have completely fucked him over this game. Guess they don’t want him to leave

Why is Wisdom still employed? He’s awful and at the same time a perfect encampatuation of the lack of seriousness in the front officers attempting to be good.

This ****** team built on defense screws the pitcher with awful defense

Wisdom equals awful. Get rid of him

W % he’s at .289 with 99 PA past the halfway point. I assume he’ll struggle to get another 100 PA this season to add .200 points to that SLG. Also assume cubs play .500 rest of way to keep it in upper 490+ range.

Has anybody responded to this “hour younger than Mastro” comment? October 31, 1995 April 16, 1998

Please get all this Mervis talk out of my .500 thread

I assume they were anxious to get Adbert some work post asb?

From the tweet included in the nsbb draft profile: “His mother is a very successful TV writer.” the new market inefficiency is drafting players from affluent backgrounds whose parents’ means of income has recently dried up.

3. Fantilli 9. Jiricek 32. Mateychuk 43. Dumai

https://theathletic.com/4665381/2023/07/18/nhl-top-prospects-rankings-connor-bedard/?source=user_shared_article top 50 NHL prospects. Blackhawks lead with 5. 1. Bedard 17. Moore 22. Korchinski 29. Reichel 50. Nazar Reichel is a bit of a reach, as he’s lost rookie eligibility (but fits the writers’ specific rules and is only 21). and Nazar barely made the list, which would have tied them with Columbus with 4. At least two of these guys won’t qualify as prospects by the time they redo the list midseason and Korchinski hopefully won’t be eligible next year. But they also have guys that could enter that list by next summer, and will have multiple early draft picks to add back on.

No, that’s not how baseball works. Nico Hoerner has missed time with injury every year he’s been a pro. Ian Happ has 600 PA in exactly one season. You can’t excuse poor play by these guys not always being in the lineup together when history tells you these guys aren’t going to be in the lineup together. the bottom line is Jed guaranteed a lot of money and term to a lot of guys who aren’t playing well, and it’s not just this year. Whether or not it’s injury related does not matter. He thought black hole production at catcher was fine as long as the defense was there and a lack of pop elsewhere would also magically be covered up by defense. patrick wisdom and Eric hosmer are not major league caliber starters and they intentionally went into the season with these guys as starters, knowing full well that the actual good starters on the team weren’t very good. this season was a half hearted attempt to put a finger in the dyke of ticket sales and viewership. It’s blown up in their face. But that’s what happens when you intentionally get bad. It’s really hard to get good again. And Jed isn’t good enough at his job to take shortcuts. now they are hamstrung with a lot of guaranteed money owed to guys with not a lot of guaranteed production. it’s gonna take a while

Being able to do something isn’t the same as doing it. He’s like the 12th best player on a bad baseball team. There’s nothing there.

Why are we talking about batting average in the year of our lord twenty twenty three?

Only 25?

They don’t have a 1B in the system so why not keep him and play him there? Not to mention, PCA is no guarantee to hit at the major league level.

What? No I didn’t. I said it sucks and I hope it blows up in the face of every team that tries it. Blackhawks still haven’t accomplished anything on the ice. Also, not sure how preseason gambling odds on an individual award means anything. They are going to suck again next year.