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  1. What friggin world do you live in dude. You're completely out of touch.
  2. If you really buckle down you can shred that baby fat in just a few months. So I am told...
  3. They need to sign him and not trade Nico. This WPA talk feels directly related to what you actually gain by adding him and trading Nico. It doesn't feel like they are too concerned if he doesn't sign with them.
  4. Even though I don't follow hockey I still keep sports milestones on my periphery. Ovechkin is going to pass Gretzky pretty soon. It's pretty crazy how close their goals/games is. Gretzky 894 goals in 1487 GP Ovechkin 879 goals om 1464 GP Pretty sure he's not gonna get 16 goals in his next 22 games but still that's wild.
  5. Said it before but I could see him Chapman'ing into a longer deal as well. Hes a really good bet to provide long-term value, he just has some kinks pop up recently that he might need to iron-out before teams are ready to go all-in.
  6. I wouldn't trade anyone either. Realistically Nico is the only guy you would want to turn to if Dansby is injured, that's incredibly valuable and could very well happen multiple times for all we know. I would also start mixing him into CF in case PCA just bottoms out with the approach. You wouldn't want to stick Happ or Tucker there. I am definitely feeling like I have been wrong about the team's approach to Shaw and they would prefer to let him get more seasoning (even though a 20 year old just netted a nice pick for their chief divisional rival); I disagree but it is what it is. They can make it work if they take a measured approach.
  7. The thing is, do you think Soto needed him? Anyone could have gotten that contract for Soto. Snell I'm less sure about.
  8. I mean the truth is that this site is full of insiders without media credentials. Breaking news usually gets posted within minutes. Continually coming in and posting days-old topics is frankly hilarious but also annoying. I don't think I've seen him be the first to report a news break yet.
  9. Jimmy to the Warriors
  10. I did what this author did but he took it much further https://dynamicsofwriting.com/2025/02/05/fact-checking-a-flaming-fart-claim-how-digital-media-has-made-idiots-of-us-all/
  11. A C who averages a double double hitting 40% of his threes should be easy to move but they're saying we are pretty certainly not getting a 1st back. So is it worth it?
  12. Buzelis went 10/10 and was in his bag with some really impressive finishes and 4 3PM. He shows some promise.
  13. That doesn't math. 70 XBH will give a lot better than a 118 ISO. I'm assuming you mean .520 SLG, This line is absolutely nuts, you realize that right?
  14. The point is that if they're both good then I'd rather have Flaherty because he's shown a higher ceiling than Boyd has. The contracts are immaterial to me. For the construction of the roster and the talent on it, I would have preferred Flaherty.
  15. I haven't switched lanes. I wanted Jed to go big game hunting and he set out and brought a squirrel back from the bug zapper. I'm not gonna sit and bitch about this repeatedly but this move reminds me of Descalso. Again we are talking about a 33 year old with 900 career innings and an ERA barely under 5. He finally prevented runs at a good rate for what equates to about a month and some change and got 15M. i'd have much rather gone the Hoffman-SP convert route. When we signed him there were a lot of potential avenues that I liked more. I would have never given him that contract and I can easily see it turning into a ****** deal. For that money I expect him to pitch 100-120 innings and the odds of achieving that are not great.
  16. Realistically if they can't draft they're never going to be championship-level competetive. The greatest players rarely hit FA and they won't have assets to trade for superstars either.
  17. Neither pitcher was on my radar for 5 years, that's how long they went between effectiveness. But Boyd has never reached the ceiling that Flaherty has and Flaherty actully showed that he can get back to that ceiling across a meaningful sample of innings, whereas Boyd, for all intents and purposes, pitched the best baseball of his career (largely because of a career-low HR rate) across 50 (with postseason) IP. Boyd has a 4.6 career FIP and hasn't cracked 80 IP in 5 years. That's actually an incredibly risky gamble to give him a rotation spot and 15M, even considering Flaherty's injury history. It does appear that he is waiting out the Bregman market though and I'm a big Bregman fan so it's whatever.
  18. Jumping the market for Boyd just never made any sense to me and now I'm irritated.
  19. Jed isn't gonna pass up a chance to bring a 4 war player in on a short term deal. It feels like he wants insurance for Nico and Shaw. Maybe they want to make Shaw a supersub and hope to still get him 400 PAA or so but have strong options if he struggles. Say Nico is out for April then that would give Shaw a chance at 100 PA to prove what he's got. If he thrives he can spell every position on the IF and maybe DH some and play some LF. If he struggles you're not turning to Yoan Moncada.
  20. Ace-quality pitcher who has made at least 32 starts in 4 straight seasons averaging about 180 IP and making less than Kyle Tucker this year, That year is crazy valuable to a contender. He will get a highly-touted prospect of some sort if he moves him.
  21. I think to an extent the industry has spoken on our prospects and they might not hold the value we hope. All of them are widely seen as good-not-great. They're like just outside the top 20, and I think Shaw cracked the top 20 on one list. Even Mo's ARL performance is nearly completely ignored and people focus on the defense and body. Shaw for Cease probably isn't that outlandish; I just hope Jed doesn't go there. I fully don't believe he will.
  22. Wasn't Edman injured when the Cardinals traded him? Just saying...
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