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This is actually a very tight finish between Pendleton and TheHurl. Both have: Smith Lowe Bellinger Betts Seager Arozarena Kershaw Glasnow Anderson Just Pendleton: Jansen Just Hurl: Buehler McGee It's going to come down to ERA and K/BB. Hurl trails in both categories by a hair. Or are the stats just completely out of date? Not sure how that Fantrax drama has played out.

I was messaged about this. What's the deal? You need one more owner and there will be a dispersal draft?

Really not enjoying this older, wiser version of Spanky who shows up tuned every night and then makes no fantasy baseball trades.

Highlight plays, I guess. His arm was on display this year and he made a bunch of diving catches.

not really!

Only if you have moved

Yes, you probably did quite well. You may rub your nipples if you want. Basically turned May into a few good assets of arguably slightly lower value. I think everybody would still take May over any one of those players.

Similar packages but I think Sixto has more in the bag. Better secondaries IMO. May seems too dependent on his horizontal moving FB.

Big gap between Sixto and Jhoan Duran, lol

Phew. I was worried I’d accidentally end up owning him

I don’t think that is exactly what happened! You must be misremembering both trades there. You got Corbin and Davis for May. Then I traded you Marsh and Duran for Corbin. Then I traded Corbin for Marco Luciano (in a bigger deal). Corbin got traded three times last offseason

Dustin May kind of sucks. I would be selling so hard if I owned him in any dynasty leagues. It’s the Aaron Sanchez problem

Spanky how are you doing tonight I sent you an actual fair trade in LoD. Now that you are sober you should take it

I don't think it's THAT doom and gloom. MiLB is shrinking but only by something like one affiliate per organization, at this point. Baseball is the type of sport that takes years to develop in. There isn't a chance the general structure of MiLB will change in any drastic way; there should at least be AAA/AA, A ball, short season, and rookie ball. Organizations need different levels and multiple affiliates for various systemic reasons. What has become obvious over the last few years is that MLB organizations and MLB generally are not capable or willing to provide adequate resources and compensation to all participants in their MiLB system. You can argue that it's actually ETHICAL to employ less MiLB players. If long-shot prospects want to pursue their MLB dreams, there has never been a better time to do that through Independent baseball leagues. This was true before the contraction of MiLB and it was based on technological advancements. Team can "scout" data-based factors like exit velocity, spin rate, pitch velocity no matter where a player is playing. We have seen players get signed from viral tweets of their bullpen sessions.

Sucks for Toronto but it seemed very likely once it became apparent that MiLB was shrinking. I'm just happy than Vancouver will still be an MLB affiliate.

Legit shocked that the Tampa Bay Rays of all teams would leave a SP in too long.

don't worry, beer. i'll never leave you.

Ah, I see the World Series schedule has 2 off days. It's the normal non-Covid format.

Just to double down on this... almost everyone who likes baseball enough to post here has played baseball or other sports, often at a pretty high level. Just because a lot of people here are smarter than you does not mean that you have some type of special insight into an athlete’s mindset. And you specifically said that Tampa has not done things to benefit players careers, which is demonstrably false. What players like is not strictly relevant... players can be stupid

Many, many of them go on to make many millions of dollars post-Tampa that they would never have made if the Rays did not inject their careers with relevance. And the lame nerd takes can eat my ******* with a spoon.

What was the deal with Bregman!?

Ahhh Reddick what are you sitting on

Same but we are never too f***ed up to trade my dude. Just click the buttons

This take is so f***ing tired. They boost the careers of multiple players every single year.

Hi. You didn’t respond to any of my trade offers.