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In honor of the 26th man in 2020, I'm extending it one extra year. 1994 - Glenallen Hill, OF/PH 1995 - Scott Servais, C 1996 - Terry Adams, RP 1997 - Brian McRae, CF 1998 - Kerry Wood, SP5 1999 - Henry Rodriguez, LF 2000 - Eric Young, Sr, IF 2001 - Sammy Sosa, RF 2002 - Joe Borowski, RP 2003 - Mark Prior, SP2 2004 - Carlos Zambrano, SP3 2005 - Derrek Lee, 1B 2006 - Bob Howry, RP 2007 - Aramis Ramirez, 3B/DH 2008 - Ryan Dempster, SP4 2009 - Angel Guzman, RP 2010 - Carlos Marmol, CL 2011 - Sean Marshall, RP 2012 - Starlin Castro, SS 2013 - Carlos Villanueva, RP/SP6 2014 - Pedro Strop, RP 2015 - Jackie Arrieta, SP1 2016 - Kris Bryant, 3B/OF 2017 - Willson Contreras, C 2018 - Javy Baez, 2B/SS 2019 - Jason Heyward, OF Tried to keep relievers true to their role and not just dump good SP as relievers. ETA- Without re-starting the whole roster, changes I would make if; If it was All Star game rules (SP get to be RP) OUT: 2014 - Pedro Strop | 2013 - Carlos Villanueva | 2009- Angel Guzman | 2002 - Joe Borowski IN: 2014 - Jason Hammel | 2013 - Travis Wood | 2009- Ted Lilly | 2002 - Matt Clement Marshall, Marmol, and Adams survive mostly due to SP ineptitude those years. If I had to go "true" bench guys for fielders (and trying not to cheat with trade deadline guys who started most the games they were available) OUT: 2019 - Jason Heyward, OF | 2007 - Aramis Ramirez, 3B | 2000 - Eric Young, Sr, IF | 1995 - Scott Servais, C | 1994 - Glenallen Hill, OF/PH IN: 2019 - Ian Happ, UTL | 2007 - Daryle Ward, PH | 2000 - Roosevelt Brown, OF | 1995 - Jose Hernandez, MIF | 1994 - Mark Parent, C

Rofl

My favorite is Beltran’s niece. Jessica Mendoza And Trevor Bauer rounds out the top 3. Honorable mention to Carlos Beltran.

Didn't we used to put all these stupid horsefeathering signings into megathread for minor offseason moves.

Wtf are "the legs of a wnba player?"

This is....this is the greatest thing I've ever seen Seconded. There's a few references I clearly have to catch up on, but that was beautiful.

Da orange man has aged us all.

Too many cooks would be a concern if Mitch was a rookie. He’s had his chance and needs to answer to the damn sous chef of thats who they bring in. Three years in and his chiffonade is still sloppy. He frequently burns toast. But occasionally makes a perfect over medium egg.

I just checked the budget and the Ricketts unfortunately can't afford a song. They can only buy chords.

Jahns basically saying what I just speculated re Ragone:

My pea brain explanation is Ragone must design schemes well but either sucks at coaching the schemes or coaching up the QB traits, like footwork or whatever. DeFilippos is surprising. Has Philly hired a new OC yet? That seemed like a natural connection before.

Well this is good news (even though the Ragone thing is still a mystery)

I'd demand Maddon be fired for his role in it.

FTFY

warm, pleasant winters? Ricketts already are funneling all the money they can to the GOP to accelerate climate change. Don't give up Bryant for something already in the bag.

Bring college bribes back to the Gold Standard.

Seems kind of meh, but fine. This offensive staff collectively has a lot more experience than the last one, at least.

Eagles also seem like potential competition for Pat Shurmur. Shurmur has been hired as the Broncos OC. Apparently the bears made him an offer and were rejected. Shurmur had supposedly been high on Drew Lock before the Giants picked Jones and is looking forward to coaching him... Additionally, Nagy's control over play-calling and the offense in general vs being 100% the guy in Denver under Fangio are believed to have been important to him. Not a good sign for our search This shouldn't be too surprising. Nagy will be at a disadvantage in hiring experienced OC candidates, like any offensive head coach. While I know most are eager to see Nagy give up play calling, it might be better if he keeps doing it and either figures it out or fails and then they can move on.

They're not wrong.

Winning a playoff game on the road where your QB throws for less than 100 yards certainly is something. It's happened 13 times in the SB era (9 times on gross passing yds, an additional 4 times on net passing yds, which is how pfr classifies it) Link Doing it twice is REALLY something. The only other team to do it twice in a year was the 85 Patriots, who did it once on gross yards, once on net. Titans have done each on gross yards. A fun one from that list... 2000 Ravens vs Titans. Ravens had 85 net passing yards, but only 49 rushing yards. They added a blocked FG returns TD and a INT Return TD for a 24-10 victory against a 300+ yard effort from the Titans. Odd Stat line.

Cubs. Too much money.

Low hanging fruit but $1.5749 million too much IMO. Yes I'm suggesting that he be paid $100 for his services this year. He should have to pay the Cubs to play These little league registration fees are getting out of control.

Who was Anthony Davis's AAU coach. Make him GM.

https://www.bleachernation.com/bulls/2020/01/09/david-kaplan-has-heard-there-will-finally-be-massive-changes-coming-to-bulls-organization/ The Bulls are probably worlds away from a team like Houston as far as how they organize operations. If by chance they're thinking that large scale of a turnover... That's the type of hope I thought would be reliant on Jerry dying/new owners.