Bertz
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We are going to lose it anyway. Yeah. Unfortunately, I think the 2020 COVID playoffs were a preview of things to come. Luckily pretty much every one on both sides have rightfully poo poo'd that. I think the expectation should be this idea that was floated a few years ago https://nypost.com/2020/02/10/mlb-plotting-playoff-expansion-with-reality-tv-twist/ I think the players will try to keep it to 12 teams, but this is what the owners want. So if even they're wanting to cap it at 14 I think we're safe from last year's nonsense coming back.
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It's not an exhaustive list, but if the Bears truly only have one guy, and he graduated in 2015 (though granted, from horsefeathering MIT) that's a big problem.
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I mean, haven't they been cagey about finances basically every offseason except 2014-2015? Like that's part of their deal. In the Hendry era he'd let Kaplan know where the line is, Jed (and Theo) sees that as a competitive disadvantage.
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NELLY!
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I love that they're doing a Statcast broadcast for this. Honestly I think more events should have more alternate broadcasts. Alternate languages (and not just radio over the English broadcast, but like full productions), Nickelodeon broadcasts, do it all.
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People are dunking on this, but Senzatella has been really good since the start of last year?
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There's a chance that our O-line is decent and we just had the misfortune of seeing Aaron Donald and Myles Garrett in two of the first three weeks?
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I think that's the most likely. That said, when they brought him back part of the states reason was that he worked with KB/Javy/etc. when he was minor league coordinator. I wonder if with them gone they want to go in another direction too? I believe Justin Stone was hired after Iapoce, so now might be the opportunity to bring in someone more closely aligned with him?
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I assume this means no one from South Bend made it into that league's list? It's not surprising, I could maybe see one Jensen, Velazquez, or Canario making the very back of a 20 but none of them are cracking a league top 10.
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There's definitely value beyond just the raw production from each role. This article does a food job trying to quantify it, with the tl;dr being somewhere between 0.5 and 1.0 WAR
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Things looking good but not great on the game 163 chaos front. Blue Jays and Red Sox are doing their part, while the Mariners are choking and the Yankees/Rays are tied
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If they overturn this I swear to horsefeathering god
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I bet the over, so I'm pretty okay with this Also we were gonna just run it straight up the middle every time if it stayed a 3 score game
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It looked like he threw it at the 5 and it was caught at the 50. Might have been the 10 though That's awesome. I wonder if Mitch managed any that far or if we have to go all the way back to Cutler to get a pass that long from a Bears QB.
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I still wanna see an answer in terms of air yards though
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That's gotta be the longest Bears pass in terms of air yards since like 2018, right? Wowza!
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I don't think it's just those three. They were the first but not the only. Last year they found Tepera and Adam, and this year doubled down on Tepera and added Chafin. Plus ancillary guys like Winkler and Brothers who were actually pretty successful in limited roles early in the year (before getting blown up when pushed into everyday duty). The Cubs pretty likely belong in the club of teams who can build a pen on the fly. Like hell, it's still been okay since the trade deadline. Now maybe that's less about the investments in technology and more about the change to a portfolio style "bring in a bunch of interesting guys and it'll eventually work out" approach? But I do believe it's both. It won't truly be proven though until we see the randos accentuated with some fireballers pumped out by the player development team. Reports from Iowa and Tenn make it sound like that's imminent, but we do need to see it.