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Tough game to watch slip away. Ray was so good. After Vaughn homered I didn't expect the pen to hold that game within reach so I watched Castlevania on Netflix. Weird cartoon sex scene towards the end of season 3 and now my wife thinks I'm an even bigger nerd. Basically flipped from the baseball game straight into Hentai. Thanks, Netflix.

Let's not get carried away. It's nice that Smith is turning himself back into a future depth option but that's all he really is - a depth option. Smith has like a 40 hit tool at best. It's pretty likely that Panik is a better MLB hitter than Smith right now and Panik fits the roster better as a LHB. Smith is pushing Espinal on the depth chart, not Panik. Breyvic Valera and Cristian Colon are also hitting down there and if there are injuries those two might get a twirl before Smith.

They'd have to play like total garbage going forward. Can't really see it happening. Worst case scenario seems like a .500 team

At some point you just start to accept that he has a terrible batted ball profile. Very low true talent BABIP.

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Wtf Riley Adams is up???!!!

Yes. Seems like a bit of a problem at first glance but in the LoD this has proven to work itself out over the offseason/spring. The big IL hoarders just run into an inevitable roster crunch and have to drop a bunch of guys.

Not exactly. It will work the same as LoD. You won't have to cut long-term IL players to get down to 26.

No cut downs, ever. The only forced cuts are players in minor league slots who have too much MLB experience, and that only happens once per year at the time of the draft.

uh huh

What happened in the OHL? Taya Currie getting drafted? She said she wants to be treated like everyone else. If she's not good enough she won't make the team. She played AAA with the boys, maybe she's good enough to play a bit. I know lots of boys from my year who got drafted to the O for no real reason at all, other than personal connections and stuff. They had no realistic shot to play. Co-ed sports at the highest level are only inevitable in sports where there can be a woman physically talented enough to hang. Hard to imagine but there could be niche cases and there would nothing wrong with it. It would actually be v cool. If the basic idea turns you off then you're blatantly sexist.

You're overreacting. It's fine to not like .500 teams winning championships but if that makes you bloviate about women in sport and think about finding new interests, well.... 1) you might need new blood pressure pills 2) see ya!

I don't know what to think of the NHL anymore. They have changed the league structure and rules quite a bit. In the last seven years or so every finals matchup seems to feature one random/lucky team against one good/expected team. It certainly feels like the league is super random and the days of legitimately superior talent shining through in the form of dynasty teams are over... but if you look at the last 15 years or so as a whole, A LOT of the teams making the finals are exceptional. Boston has been there several times, Chicago when they were good, Pittsburgh like four times, Tampa Bay, the Kings were amazing when they won two, everyone expected Ovechkin to eventually get one... arguably the only super fluky winner in recent history was St Louis. Definitely a number of random finalists who ended up losing though. Baseball is just as bad for this. The playoffs are probably more of a crapshoot than hockey. This is why most people hate the idea of expanded MLB playoffs. If you want a sport where the best teams win more often, Basketball is your jam. Barring injuries, the cream rises in that league because the scoring is so granular, stars run the game and have massive impact, and they play long series.

No, Kikuchis contract sucks. Team has to decide at end of 2021 whether or not to pick up all four option years at 16.5. if they don't he gets a player option for 2022 for 13

Kikuchi's options are not small. He's interesting from a stuff perspective but I'm not really interested in paying him $16.5M per year through 2025!!! Gonzales, not really into it either. Throws 88 now.

DH - Stanton - fine, some injuries RF - Judge - good 3B - Urshela - 105 wRC+, probably what was expected reasonably speaking SS - Torres - 106 wRC+, they will want more power but he's at 1.4 fWAR and playing good D per the stats so not sure Yankees fans should get greedy on him 2B - DJLM - huge disappointment, hilarious, he is the Rockies version of himself again. K rate way up too. Hopefully this is the new old DJ. 1B - Voit - big injury loss so far. should be a big boost when back and healthy LF - Frazier - huge disappointment, looks like a replacement level player, the breakout in 2020 was a mirage? C - Sanchez/Higashioka - Yankees should count their blessings that Higashioka exists and Sanchez has been useful. Pretty obvious that Gary Sanchez is now a Rob Deer type catcher and nothing more. CF - Gardner/Hicks - this is just poor roster construction, right? Why are these old farts your CF tandem in 2021? In summary: Some bad luck but also some poor roster construction and, more than anything, an overreliance on your own genius and a series of breakout players. Regression to the mean is a powerful thing. Odds were that not all of Urshela, DJLM, Voit, and Frazier would sustain their breakouts. Probably should have traded Urshela and not committed to DJLM and instead moved to get younger and more athletic. Worst BsR in baseball!

but sErViCe TiMe MaNiPuLaTiOn is the only explanation!!!!

Fatty has hip flexor issues already. Not a good sign.

holy f***!

Kenyan Middleton readily available for a 2nd round pick. Might take a 3rd. Currently closing for Seattle. Throws hard, was always thought of as a future backend reliever.

He begged MLB to police it. They refused. He did it to prove a point and got rich in the process. He will win twice over if they now try to police it. Just a total Chad. A man among boys. The King.

People who laugh at Bauer in this spin saga have just completely lost the plot

Winker would cost way too much. He's home grown for them, hitting out of his kind, and under control for a couple more years. He also might not be a massive upgrade. If they are pushing chips in it will be for pitching