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  1. Tim
    Wisconsin's starting lineup is signifcantly older than the Bulls.
  2. Tim
    Thanks for this - it was very welcome today.
  3. Tim

    Bulls '20-'21

    Tim replied to Brian's topic in Other Sports

    Coby was damn good last night.
  4. Tim
    I wonder if that came down to a conversation where the cubs wanted him to convert to reliever and he wanted a shot at being an SP somewhere.
  5. Tim
    If Graham picks his guy and then opens himself up as he's supposed to, he would be another option to convert and it's a super easy play. Plus, they had already converted one of the fourth downs on a pass earlier. Nobody seems to be complaining about that one. I understand Graham fouling his responsibility was a disaster for that play on many levels, but thats the issue: since he f'ed up, the play had ZERO second choices. On a 4th down play, it's not the type of play design I would look to utilize. 1st down, maybe. What did you want, a QB sneak? Tell me, what is the second option on that play?
  6. Tim
    If Graham picks his guy and then opens himself up as he's supposed to, he would be another option to convert and it's a super easy play. Plus, they had already converted one of the fourth downs on a pass earlier. Nobody seems to be complaining about that one.
  7. Tim
    That last 4th and inches call will put a damper on what was a fairly decent game plan. That was ugly as a call. Then things spiraled in minutes, mainly because they had no choice but to try and let Mitch win it. Moose seemed to imply that he thinks Graham blew his route and was supposed to pick Robinson's defender. Play call looks a lot better if that's the case.
  8. Tim
    Yeah i think DVOA has them at like 16th for the year but clearly trending downwards since the Saints put 52 on them the week after and the Lions 35 this week. Anyways but the other 3 teams (DET, HOU and JAX) came into the week as the 30th, 31st and 32nd best defenses per DVOA. Almost the easiest possible 4 game stretch an offense could possibly have. Bears took advantage which is a credit to them as I’ve seen even worse Bears offenses struggle against terrible defenses in the past, but it’s clear to me that this was a major reason for the offensive emergence. Yes, the meat of that schedule was against bad D's, but MN had held TB to 303 yards the week prior to the Bears and for fearer points. They weren't a nobody D when the Bears showed up. I don't know if they lost someone to injury against TB, however, and that could have certainly played a part Weren't they down their top two corners for that game?
  9. Tim
    Packers should just put 10 men in the box
  10. Tim
    How was that not a false start on the left tackle on the touchdown?
  11. Tim
    Is Brailyn's arm going to explode or will he just disappoint?
  12. Tim
    If I'm trading Happ, I want an Adam Eaton kind of deal. I feel I'm being realistic. :D
  13. Tim
    A top 20-50 prospect, some sort of MLB ready/current player (like a swing man/bullpen arm/platoon bat/guy making money), and probably some young lotto ticket like a Yu trade guy would be my guess. If we were trading for him as an example I’d say something like Amaya, 1 of Adbert, Nico or Bote and then a lotto ticket type guy in A ball. I still don’t mind the idea of something like Contreras and Kimbrel to the Phillies for Segura, Spencer Howard and some other stuff going either way. Phillies can 1 stop shop their catcher and closer need. We save some money on a yearly basis and get a competent major league IF for a few years (still have to field a MLB team and could flip him at some point), also get a young rotation piece and maybe something else. Now that Dombrowski is there it is open season on Phillies prospects.
  14. Tim
    To be fair, we got reasonably high-end teenage prospects in the first deal.
  15. Tim
    FWIW, that 2018 line is the Dominican Summer League, and 2019 is Rookie ball proper in the AZL. gotcha - thx for the correction. That's a little better.
  16. Tim
    1) We are reducing salary; likely by a significant amount 2) The prospects themselves are okay, they are just all really far away and high risk But this deal still sucks. It could turn out nicely a few years from now if 1-2 of these guys pan out. But we're taking on way too much risk while moving a pitcher who just finished a 2.01 ERA season.
  17. Tim
    fwiw - here's the fangraphs comparison of the current prospect rankings for the Cubs & Padres to see how they stack up: https://www.fangraphs.com/prospects/the-board/2020-in-season-prospect-list/summary?sort=-1,1&pg=0&team=sdp,chc This would put Santana at #6 for us at the moment. I'm not sure how influenced they are by his .427 babip, though. He's already carrying around a 20% strikeout rate in his second pass at rookie ball. He screams high-risk.
  18. Tim
    Considering only one of them has had pro at bats, that's a really tough question. Right around where Kevin Made is ranked, I guess.
  19. Tim
    It doesn't really make it okay, but between this trade, Ed Howard, and the last two IFA classes the Cubs now have a pretty absurd collection of teenagers. Like holy crap. But it's wild that this trade didn't have a better headliner. Like I'd have been pretty fine with Cronenworth or Morejon plus these four. But this is just so little near term value. This is not the "step back in 2021 to take two steps forward in 2022" deal that I was bracing for. Yeah, I was expecting prospects of around this quality, but much closer to contributing. I get going for as much upside as you can, but these guys all have a ton of risk.
  20. Tim
    I doubt it makes anyone feel any better, but Santana was in the FG 2020 top 10 Padres prospects (at #8): https://blogs.fangraphs.com/top-53-prospects-san-diego-padres/
  21. Tim
    damn...we are going *young* on the return 19, 18, 17 & 16 (almost 17) for those four guys.
  22. Tim
    I wish they'd just finalize it so I can begin the process of talking myself into being happy with the deal.
  23. Tim
    I wouldn't hate it. I wouldn't love Davies being part of the return as I still don't fully believe in him. But looking at the rest of the return as the delta in performance between Davies and Yu is pretty good, I think. I think getting Davies in the pitch lab would be super interesting. I'm not sure how much more the pitch lab can extract from Davies. I'd be much more interested in getting Morejon into the pitch lab.
  24. Tim
    He blew up when he repeated AAA, so he was more of a prove-it kind of guy, iirc.
  25. Tim
    I wouldn't hate it. I wouldn't love Davies being part of the return as I still don't fully believe in him. But looking at the rest of the return as the delta in performance between Davies and Yu is pretty good, I think.
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