Bertz
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The "we'd love to have Wade Miley back" talk felt like platitudes but this combined with a lot of comments from both sides the last two months seems pretty real. I wonder if they'd do something like 2/$14M rather than 1/$10M. Smyly gets significantly more guaranteed money, the Cubs lower the cap hit and ensure they will still have an adult in the room in '24 (Hendricks and Stroman both have options rather than guarantees for '24).
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Always love these from Bryan, even he does tend to have a few things that are silly (Adrian Sampson is not going to be in the horsefeathering bullpen). It does a great job of visualizing the depth (or lack thereof) in the org. I think specific to this thread rather than the minor league forum is how horsefeathering loaded the outfields and rotations are for both Iowa and Tenn. If you're looking at areas with surplus to trade from, you've got them. They're also places to keep in mind with Jed's remarks about moves that make sense for 2023 but maybe less so beyond. For example, it's pretty obvious that CFer is going to be on a 1 or 2 year deal rather than someone like Brandon Nimmo.
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That's interesting. He also pretty implicitly called out adding a shortstop with this remark He said something similar when he was in the booth that last weekend of the season, and combined with the power remarks it really does seem like he wants one of the star shortstops. I wonder if the thought is getting Correa/Turner to take something more like 7/250 instead of 10/300, or if he's got his sites set more on Swanson/Bogaerts, who inherently are looking at sub $200M contracts.
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The Bears currently project to pick 7th in next year's draft so a 1st is a complete non-starter
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https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/10/mlb-projected-arbitration-salaries-2023.html
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It sure seems like DH is where you could add a significant amount of power with a shorter term deal. Jose Abreu. J.D. Martinez. Add one of the shortstops. Trade for Danny Jansen. Slowly fold Mervis and Davis in. Big influx of power, even subtracting Contreras. Yeah I think a full time or semi-full time 1B/DH looks a lot more likely to me than it did this morning. We could also revisit the Bellinger or Gallo idea that was thrown around on here a little while back, though both guys were quite bad this year at the plate. I'd think despite the perfect positional fit either would have to be bat #3, e.g. after Correa and Jansen. There's also some obvious dot connecting you could do there with retaining Willson too, but Jed also said this: I think that non SS bat(s) of substance will be on a short term deals, so I don't think Willson returns unless it's on the QO contract.
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Didn't watch, just going from Brett's writeup, I think these stood out: I had been assuming that on offense it was going to be a shortstop and then complimentary pieces. This makes me think a second hitter of substance will be added to the lineup. Also interesting to see the effusiveness about the power>hit philosophy. Would not be looking to buy real estate in Chicago this winter if I was Nick Madrigal. Sounds like quantity over quality on the pitching staff, as he *really* trusts Breslow and Hottovy. I'd expect two guys in the Heaney/Eflin/Manaea tier of FA rather than one guy in the Rodon/deGrom/Verlander tier. Feels like a near certainty Nico's getting extended, to the point they might already be close.
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Yeah I think it's mostly adrenaline. His spin's up in line with the amount his velo is up
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Mets down 2-0 early Man if they blow this god only knows what Steve Cohen does this offseason but it'll be fun from the outside
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Looks like ESPN's QBR gave Fields a 76.8 today. That's a really high mark. For reference Lamar Jackson, Pat Mahomes, and Josh Allen are all between 79 and 81 YTD. Curious to see where PFF comes out.
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Yeah hard not to feel good about this one. Fields was good, maybe very good depending on who's fault that early missed TD to Mooney was. The non-Mustipher parts of the O-line were good. The defense, particularly the secondary, was apocalyptically bad in the first half but got their horsefeathers together and rebounded really well. Kyler Gordon was finally looking like a guy the last ~third of the game. There's also the soft stuff. The team coming back like they did says great things about them. Once again the halftime adjustments were noticeable and impactful. With Fields playing well Eberfluss and Getsy started showing some stones. Etc Just really encouraging stuff pretty much all around.
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Good half from Kyler Gordon. Hopefully this is the turning point game for him
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I think generally the decision making has been good today (maybe not on that two point attempt....). I know the accuracy has left a lot to be desired, but I'm not nearly as worried about that long term as I am about the between the ears stuff.
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Oh that's beautiful. You know the Cards fans started to believe after the Molina single.
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It feels almost inevitable that the Mets are going to blow this tonight
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Even if they don't come back to win this game, this might be huge for the Mariners to burn Romano today. The Jays pen outside of him is not very intimidating
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Fields looking pretty bust-y now doesn't mean we have to apply revisionist history back to his draft. That was viewed as an exceptionally strong QB draft, and as recently as April general consensus was that Fields would have been QB1 this year and gone in the top 2-3 picks.
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I'd love to see Mervis' L/R splits from like August 1st onwards
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Guardians-Yankees might be really fun. Youngest team in MLB vs. a Yankees team who I don't know where they rank age-wise but are definitely very veteran-heavy