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The Napoli and Carter contracts today make that Trumbo deal look even worse

Schwarber looks horsefeathering jacked [tweet] [/tweet]

Why not just wait until the day/week of games to make sure he's there and/or playing? I'm sure some of those 10 games he won't be playing/promoted. Save on spending for 10 games you probably won't all want to go to and maybe get nicer tickets for the fewer times you go would be my advice.

If Heyward returns to form he's probably opting out one of the 2 years he has opt out options in

That was some pitiful play calling and time management by the Falcons on the last drive they had up 8

Almora, Hatch, Caritini and Grimm for Doolittle? No thanks. Anyways I will predict the following - The rotation and offense rank inside the top 5-7 in most meaningful categories - The rotation stays as healthy as last year. Arrieta has a huge year (we get more god mode Jake than just really good Jake), Lester and Arrieta both finish at over 5 WAR. - Lackey and Hendricks have ERA's over 3 but under 3.6 - Montgomery sucks in the rotation but moves back to being effective in the bullpen. Anderson, when healthy, is very solid in the rotation - Anderson and Butler combine for 20+ quality starts, we also have 4+ turns through the rotation of using 6 starters - The bullpen is one of the best in MLB again. One of Davis or Rondon completely blow out and we get very little from them all year. CJ is the best RP all year - Defense is historically great again - Contreras leads MLB catchers in WAR - Javy remains a complete mess vs RHP and overall stays under 5% BB rate and at a ~25% K rate. Defense is still transcendent but he remains a platoon/defensive replacement at best - Jay and Almora combine for a higher WAR than Fowler, Almora rates as one of the best defensive OF in MLB - Schwarber, although making it look awkward at times, does fine defensively in LF. Can make an argument he's our best hitter by middle of the year - Bryant gets over 8 WAR again, finishes inside top 3 in MLB, and hits over 40 HR - Russell hits over 30 HR and finishes top 5 in MLB for SS WAR - Rizzo repeats what he's done the last 3 years - Zobrist, though playing only around 130-140 games to stay fresh, remains his normal solid self - Heyward produces around what he did in 2013, .250/.350/.430 with mid-teens HR - We win the division pretty easily again and win 103 games - Eloy is a consensus top 10 prospect by end of the year, Happ also has a solid year and becomes a top 30 prospect - All of Cease, Albertos, De La Cruz and Clifton continue to make progress and we, gasp, have legit pitching prospects - Paredes looks like he could become a monster and is the biggest riser - Jeimer continues to be solid and is traded at the deadline - Zagunis taps into a little more power and continues to be an on-base machine, looks like he could be a bench bat for 2018 and a platoon option in LF/RF with Schwarber and Heyward

Chris Coghlan "utility man" LOL

Chris Coghlan "utility man" LOL

Didn't we sign some version of Federowicz already for a AAAA catcher?

Like the move a lot

I think they tweaked service time rules when the new CBA begins? But it's nothing groundbreaking, i.e. It won't be "The Kris Bryant Rule."

It would be far more equitable if they had to send us Dexter back and pay his salary

The 49ers hired John Lynch, to a 6 year contact, as their GM. LOL

Probably because of the he was traded for Aroldis Chapman and the Cubs won the WS, OMG, then he did well in the AFL. Not that I agree with that at all but he seems pretty inflated because of the narrative surrounding him getting him to the Yankees. And of course because Yankees.

Cleveland is getting the 2019 ASG, aren't there AL teams/stadiums that haven't had it (not counting Tampa) since Cleveland last had one?

Anderson passed his physical so he's officially signed

In Javy's mind all streets are named "Javy Baez Way"

Edwards has the potential to be a top ~10 relief pitcher in MLB, if he's healthy there's no way he isn't on the OD roster. There's always the Rollins, Floro's, Duensings, etc of the world available during the year for next to nothing, none of those guys are worth holding on to and keeping CJ down in Iowa. Assuming health, if they really want to keep one of the replaceable bullpen arms to start the year I think it's more likely Szczur or LaStella (does he still have options?) are the odd men out for the OD 25-man.

Obviously seems like a guy we should be all over if they feel he has a chance of starting given our spending limitations in IFA right now and lack of pitching in the system/next years FA.

Here's the write up on Happ I'd be plenty happy if Happ turns into a version of Jason Kipnis if that is what Law sees as his offensive potential.

If Anderson shows he's healthy in ST I'm fine with him being the 5th starter and Monty starting the year in the pen

Law is starting his top 100 today, did 100-81. Cease was the only Cub so far at 86, here's the write up....

whats wrong with the falcons (besides their horsefeathers uniforms) Yeah and it should be a fun game with scoring, I think it will be a exciting game to watch and should be relatively close. It shouldn't be like last year where basically there were two outcomes, either the Panthers kept the offense going and we got to see the corpse of Manning unsuccessfully try and keep up to score and throw the ball more than 10 yards or the Broncos defense dominate the game and we get some ugly football.

Pitchers suck, relief pitchers suck even more and anything involving the Hall of Fame is the suckiest bunch of sucks of who ever sucked

This is rather hyperbolic, of course it's ridiculous to expect that out of the 6-10 starters. But it's not ridiculous to expect to have 1-3 guys who could be replacement level-ish for ~5 starts if needed and we currently don't have that and our 5th starter might not even be that.