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  1. Transmogrified Tiger
    Yes exactly. Montgomery has been a bit overrated this offseason and now his lack of season prep compounds the issue. I would rather not be tying significant dollars up in a multi year deal with him. And on a one year deal, you’re probably better off using resources at the deadline since Montgomery vs the incumbents in the first half is a very tight decision.
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    Berhalter was 1000% not getting fired if they lost, especially in that way. I swear 90% of devoted online soccer fans just pretend reality is whatever they feel like
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    The Reds won 82 games last year and that will probably be the high water mark for this wave of young players. They have no truly elite talents to raise their ceiling/hedge against regression, have not nearly enough pitching certainty or depth, and will not spend to increase their floor on either side of the ball. They’re significantly more likely to finish last than 1st in the division.
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    Starting to think there has never been a Brennen Davis.
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    Trice's K% was never that high. By season it was 23% and 24% as a Fresh/Soph at Old Dominion, and then 25% as a junior at NC State: https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=trice-000car
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    If you turn the phone to landscape it should show up again, in portrait it cuts down the options to fit seemingly without another way to expose them.
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    Assad hasn't gone more than 2 IP and hasn't pitched in a game since the 6th, feels like he has to be a long shot to take a start in the first turn of the rotation. Given that reporting and Wesneski getting a multi-inning relief appearance his last time out, I have to assume it'll be Smyly at least the first time around.
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    I'm pretty sure I had mentally combined Carico and Trice into one person in my description. I'd go with Carico too.
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    Hitters Sleeper: Josh Rivera - Took a bit to adjust to pro ball(.176/.246/.314 first 14 pro games), but he turned it on(.346/.404/.577 final 14 games) and was playing like he needed to be in AA. SS defense keeps the floor low enough to be a reachable bar for prospect legitimacy Keeper: Carter Trice - They slow played his post-draft path by not putting him with an affiliate, but he can really hit, and if he can take to catching at all he's gonna be well worth hanging on to Weeper: James Triantos - AA is where you start paying the price for a bad approach/swing decisions, and it's also where we may find out he's a LF/DH prospect defensively. Pitchers Sleeper: Brandon Birdsell - Look at the K%-BB% leaders among Cubs SP prospects, and it's mostly names you know(Wicks, Horton, Ferris, Brown) and Birdsell right there with them. The velo + control is a really good foundation to work with since through pitch dev or gameplanning they can likely minimize some other imperfections(HR tendencies), or at a minimum be a leverage RP prospect. Keeper: Jaxon Wiggins - probably a cop out pick, but I think there's a real chance of a near-Horton like breakout now that he's healthy Weeper: Michael Arias - Kinda insane prospect helium(45+ grade on Fangraphs, 14th on Pipeline) for a guy who can barely keep his BB% below 15 against A-ball hitters
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    the Liverpool/Leverkeusen Europa League final days after Alonso agrees to go to Liverpool is gonna be something to see
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    Yes. Said another way I don't think Sosa not being welcomed by the club is a Ricketts-led conspiracy, the extent that he does or doesn't agree with the people who wouldn't welcome Sosa back isn't affecting the way that situation has developed.
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    Apologizing or reconciling with the team/ownership is just a proxy for a decent percentage of the fanbase. I really doubt Ricketts has strong feelings about stuff that happened years before they owned the team. Anything surrounding Sammy being recognized/honored is PR, and the motivation to trot out Sammy without some type of (probably contrived) reconciliation likely leads to a big chunk of the audience booing him. And that's probably not PR worth doing? I dunno the whole saga is like HOF stuff to me, in that most people seem to care way more deeply about it than I do.
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    A lot of this comes down to what the org thinks of Wisdom. On one hand, they've held on to him when they didn't really have to on a couple different occasions, he played 60 games at 3B last year, and he's as good an option as any to add RHH thump off the bench. On the other hand, there isn't a whole lot of difference between him and a Cooper(or a JD Davis for that matter), and Counsell saying he's gonna work at 1B feels like maybe they feel his meaningful 3B days are in the past. Regardless though this is not going to be a *tidy* bench, and we know from the Luis Torrens era that Jed is not above going off the board at the end of the roster at the start of a season. So there's very few permutations that would outright surprise me.
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    Marmol got extended. They didn't want him to be a lame duck the full year, but still, funny.
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    Madrigal is not going to make the opening day roster and Happ might need a few extra days too. After that point you likely have other players having minor injuries or considerations(e.g. prospects look ready) where this is more of an academic exercise. But to answer the spirit of your question, I probably wouldn't keep both Madrigal and Mastrobuoni on the roster if I have Morel taking the lions share of 3B time, I'd prefer keeping Wisdom and one of the NRIs to start with.
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    Stay healthy, hit left handed, and have option years remaining. But I agree that getting rid of Madrigal and Wisdom is unlikely. Madrigal isn't healthy at the moment anyway right, he's gonna start on the 10 day so the more substantial decision gets punted down the road til later in April.
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    I would still vote for Germany over England for any prospect that young(or really in general), and honestly Dortmund is still a good option among those. Good developmental track record, lots of games to be able to break in, proven they'll sell on, and no worries about being stuck playing negative soccer or battling relegation.
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    I suspect there will be enough at bats to go around at 1B/DH or even LF without needing to move Nico/Dansby. But I can squint and see a world where DH playing time isn't so wide open, and one of those guys is so undeniable with the bat that you move Nico to 3B for the last 12-18 months of his deal. Maybe I'm just leaning into the mystery box angle with prospects, but this feels more likely with Shaw, both for timeline reasons(I don't see this happening in 2024) and because he hasn't completely shut the door on being baby Bregman with the bat while Morel probably can't cut down on whiff enough to consistently challenge a 130 wRC+.
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    Things also start to look sunnier if you consider even with some meaningful regression Bellinger is also in the 120s, but yeah there's no monster you can bank on to be tippy top of the offensive leaderboards.
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    What is fun or "fun" depending on your perspective is that especially if you take any interest in MLS, it really doesn't. European club soccer generally follows the school year, with breaks to allow for small doses of international play. International tournaments (mostly) happen in the summer as a result. In the US, partially due to weather and partially due to the sports landscape and where soccer sits in it, MLS plays roughly overlapping with when baseball games are happening(season starts in Feb/March and runs to Oct/Nov). So there are like 2 weekends a year there's not some level of high level soccer you can follow. If you want advice, I've found the easiest way is to have a rooting interest you can follow on a weekly basis. Whether it's picking an Premier League team, or the MLS team that's closest to you(Nashville or Atlanta), I only really was interested in the national team(which plays a handful of times a year) until I forced myself to follow a club team and pull for them through their season. Helpfully, all the MLS games are free this weekend through Apple TV(normally 1 or 2 are free while the rest require the MLB.tv-esque subscription), so it's maybe worth checking one out that looks interesting.
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    Start the countdown to AJ Preller typing "reverse mortgage MLB how to" into Google
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    Oh maybe? IMB's post loads perfectly for me.
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