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  1. Bertz
    I think you leave one spot for those three to fight over, and fill the other two with vets. I hate what seems to be already crystalizing as the conventional wisdom that we need 3 vet SPs. I don't want to hear any more whining about not developing starters if we're not going to give any starters an actual opportunity to develop. Alzolay's dong problem is probably a fluke, while Steel (prior to yesterday) and Thompson haven't really looked like viable starters. I think you go into ST expecting Adbert in the rotation but keep an open mind.
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    I think we see the LT level get a pretty big bump in the new system, but regardless you're right that these teams are going to be feeling the pressure. They'll be wanting to make multiple moves and only have room for 1-2 (assuming everyone still treats the LT as a hard line). From the Mets specifically, I'd love to trade for Carlos Carrasco as our "other" SP addition. He had a bit of a disastrous season, but the velo was fine and the track record is long and fantastic. That's about as strong a bet for a bounce back candidate as you can get.
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    I can't find the article, but I believe I saw that the A's are pretty open for business as well
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    Might as well get this started
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    I don't root for injuries but I make an exception for self inflicted horsefeathers like this or anything related to sliding head first into first base
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    YES!
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    Brennen had 3 walks and a double today, now has 8 walks to 12 strikeouts at Iowa
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    Traditionally I believe the AZL and MWL were the hardest lists to get on simply for the logistics of how many teams there were. I know realignment is going to change that for the MWL but getting 3 guys in the top 10 for the ACL list is still big I'd think.
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    Honestly, I don't really have a problem with the last 12 months outside of the broadcast booth. My problems are with not investing more during the '18 -'19 offseason, and Theo not having the stones to begin dismantling during the '19 - '20 offseason (which may not have been necessary with more support the year prior). I think Jed's done mostly the right things since he took over. Even things that didn't work out, like essentially trading Schwarber for Joc, I think were good process with bad results.
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    I think to me, the most damning thing about Nagy is how little the offense has changed or improves based on who's under center. Over the last few years there was a lot of intimating that "Mitch is a dummy and if I just had a REAL QB we'd show you some cool horsefeathers." But then last year with Foles nothing changed Now this year with Dalton nothing changed Now this year with Fields nothing changed Like maybe the issue with Foles was how much the pandemic borked up training camp last year? Maybe Dalton will be fine when he's not facing the Rams? Maybe Fields it's purely inexperience? Each of those are reasonable on their own, but when you've failed all four of your QBs, like it's clearly on you. It's the old Raylan Givens line, but instead of horsefeathers people it's horsefeathers quarterbacks.
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    I'm curious what the FO's plan for Adrian Sampson is this offseason. He's not going to maintain his 2.87 ERA, but if you think he can maintain an ERA under 5, having a guy like him stashed at Iowa as like the #7 starter is kind of valuable. There are numerous guys like him floating around at any time, but very few of them have minor league options remaining. So once you call them up in-season, you've basically burned them. With Sampson, he'll have two more years of options left. So like, is that modest luxury worth the 40 man spot in an offseason where we could really use it? I'd lean yes but I don't think it's a slam dunk either way. I also wonder if it might serve as a tea leaf for whether the #5 starter spot is going to be handed to Alzolay et al or whether they're going to have to battle a vet for it.
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    I'm a big fan of Sahadev, but unfortunately he's not particularly connected for rumors and such. I think he and the coaches/Ross are close, so I'd trust him on the Hoerner bit, but unfortunately you pretty much have to go to Jesse Rogers or Patrick Mooney for Jed level stuff.
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    With them already having Fields and not having a 1st rounder, I'm at no point going to root for the team to lose this year. But I do hope they do just bad enough to get Nagy and Pace canned. Isn’t that basically rooting for them to lose? Sort of? But I think for this purpose 6-11 does the job, whereas when you're going for draft position that's no man's land.
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    With them already having Fields and not having a 1st rounder, I'm at no point going to root for the team to lose this year. But I do hope they do just bad enough to get Nagy and Pace canned.
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    Nagy is such a horsefeathering coward
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    I'd heard good things about Greg Olson in the booth but I think this is my first game that he's calling. I think I'm a big fan already.
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    Yeah for Caissie and Wicks, I like them more than the rest of the tier two guys, but it's admittedly mostly subjective. So I gave them their own mini-tier. But like I think having say Alcantara at #2 is totally reasonable. Nelly is definitely me stretching, but I liked him back in 2019 and LOVE what he did at AA. I'm buying in. Probably prematurely, but I'm buying in. Pinango's got the scary GB% but ARL on his side. If he comes out and cuts his GB% by a third he's a guy I'll latch onto pretty quick a la Nelly Velazquez, but right now I'm keeping him lower than a lot of the other OFers we have.
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    I think this is my Top 30. It ended up getting away from me and becoming a massive wall of text, so here's the list and then the list with a blurb on each guy in spoilers. Tier 1 1. Brennen Davis Tier 1.5 2. Jordan Wicks 3. Owen Caissie Tier 2 4. Cristian Hernandez 5. Reggie Preciado 6. Kevin Alcantara 7. Nelly Velazquez 8. Pete Crow-Armstrong 9. Miguel Amaya 10. Brailyn Marquez 11. James Triantos 12. DJ Herz Tier 3 13. Kevin Made 14. Caleb Kilian 15. Ryan Jensen 16. Ed Howard 17. Chris Morel 18. Alexander Canario 19. Kohl Franklin 20. Cole Roederer 21. Jordan Nwogu 22. Christian Franklin 23. Yohendrick Pinango Tier 4 24. Anderson Espinoza 25. Chase Strumpf 26. Max Bain 27. Alexander Vizcaino 28. Daniel Palencia 29. Bryce Ball 30. Riley Thompson I broke guys into tiers, and frankly within tiers I don't think there's much difference. I ordered them on my preference but like if you think Vizcaino should be ahead of Espinoza I'm not gonna fight you on it. Overall I'm really happy with the system. Ideally it would have 2-3 more top 100 guys, but the depth is just silly. I could have gone 45 deep. And there is top line talent, it's just far away, I'm not worried about having 4-5 guys on next year's Top 100, I'm just curious about which 4-5 it'll be.
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    Cubs are starting to look pretty locked in to #7. Miami is two and a half games "up" and the Twins are two games "back."
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    I still think we do something like the Blue Jays. One star and then a bunch of 1 or 2 year deals.
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    *Sigh* *SIGH*
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    *Sigh*
  25. Bertz
    Steele looks really good so far. Could use a nice signature outing if he really wants to start next year. Like I know a lot of the hopes I pinned on Alzolay last offseason we're like "but did you see his game against the White Sox?!"
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