Laika

The tip is to just not do it. At your age, no part of your retirement plan should involve gambling on sports cards or other types of cards. If you were to get into Pokemon cards you would probably be buying the top. It's pretty overheated. You can't even get cards at retail. I think sports cards are sort of doing the same thing, to a lesser extent, although the market is a bit more complex. And Topps is jacking retail prices so the new sets aren't flying off the shelf. Ripping packs is strictly negative. Trying to pick rookies and pre-stars and speculate on price increases is gambling, obviously. It can be fun as a hobby and if you think about it as collecting with the side benefit that sometimes the cards appreciate in value or hold their value. But it's not going to make you money unless you get lucky. It's going to be a money pit more likely. And liquidity is a massive problem. Your options to sell are EBay and you lose the EBay rake and deal with shipping issues, or sell at a show for 80% of market value, or sell at a card shop for 60% of market value. So the only reasonable way to do it is to just budget a bit of money a year as gambling money, essentially, and take your shots. If you do that, buy single cards rather than rip packs. Maybe rip one box of packs a year to scratch the itch and have fun - if your idea of fun is spending $80 to pull one holographic Davis Schneider parallel. What platform are you using for fractional commercial real estate investing? Can be a good idea I guess if it is closer to a REIT ETF but if you are talking about some weirdo app saying 20% annual returns and microfractional ownership, you are also just gambling and it might be a scam. Just do the boring thing man. 1) debt free 2) max out your 401k and other tax beneficial retirement investment s*** you can do 3) buy broad ETFs and be patient 4) if you ever see headlines about Bitcoin being "dead" again, load up on some Do you need to try to make multiples for any reason? Shouldn't your investment goal from here on just be to make sure you never go broke and can afford a good retirement home / vacations?

I think you keep your playoff SP mostly on turn. Bieber, Gausman, Scherzer. Bassitt Berrios and Lauer get some non-traditional use from here on. Whether that is shorter outings, long relief, piggy backing, I'm not sure. But these guys may be tiring and they aren't starting a playoff game anyway, ideally, other than maybe one game in a 7 game series. Bassitt has been pretty bad in like 3 of his last 4 starts.

Okay this is a tough one. Same keys as usual, to victory: 1. Berrios needs to stay in it. Solo homers only. 2. Stay close and destroy their relievers

They have obvious 40 man moves if they don't want to DFA Nance for Bieber (Yimi 60, Pina DFA) but the 26 man move is less obvious. Maybe option Fluharty for a bit.

Budget isn't going to go down after a first place season They can buy a bat

Could be an option but not the #1 option after his lost season

Literally the playoffs will be easy to make

Biebs and George also dominated in AAA. Springer back tomorrow. Huge boost.

Top 5. There have been a lot!

Holy s*** Jeff Hoffman

Why? Because feelings? Projected ERAs in the pen. This is FGDC ROS: 1 Jeff Hoffman TOR 1 1 7 16 0 16.0 11.44 3.00 1.07 .280 76.4% 3.20 3.24 0.4 2 Louis Varland TOR 1 1 0 15 0 15.0 8.57 2.33 0.98 .282 74.9% 3.31 3.51 0.1 3 Trey Yesavage TOR 0 0 0 2 0 2.0 10.89 3.30 1.01 .285 76.1% 3.33 3.36 0.0 4 Brendon Little TOR 1 1 0 14 0 14.0 9.72 4.60 0.67 .297 75.8% 3.34 3.57 0.1 5 Seranthony Domínguez TOR 1 1 1 16 0 16.0 10.65 4.11 1.02 .276 75.6% 3.50 3.69 0.2 6 Yimi García TOR 1 0 0 8 0 8.0 10.05 3.21 1.08 .287 73.7% 3.65 3.67 0.0 7 Braydon Fisher TOR 1 1 0 15 0 15.0 9.97 4.18 1.03 .290 74.2% 3.84 3.92 0.1 8 Tommy Nance TOR 1 1 0 13 0 13.0 8.46 3.08 0.97 .302 72.0% 3.91 3.82 0.0 9 Robinson Piña TOR 1 1 0 9 0 11.0 6.96 2.85 1.20 .278 73.1% 3.97 4.42 0.0 10 Yariel Rodríguez TOR 1 1 0 14 0 14.0 9.39 3.84 1.09 .288 72.4% 4.02 4.05 0.0 11 Nick Sandlin TOR 0 0 0 4 0 4.0 9.45 4.03 1.21 .278 73.0% 4.07 4.31 0.0 12 Mason Fluharty TOR 1 1 0 12 0 12.0 8.85 3.49 1.18 .291 72.9% 4.08 4.17 0.0 He's an okay reliever but his present use is appropriate. There are better RP in there now because the pen is good. He has a 4.22 FIP on the year. And declining velo/stuff. He can hang out with Nance in low leverage.

He was over his skis earlier this year

69 wRC+ against LHP. I wonder if this will be PCA's career season. Probably. The stick has issues. He is sort of a Varsho clone!

His K rate is a slight problem .343 xwOBA is solid 113 maxEV is good. Barrel rate is better than good. Walk rate is good. Defense is good. yeah I dunno. somehow the sum of the parts is not a superstar, yet. is it just the strikeouts that are holding him back? Evan Carter even more disappointing

For those wondering about removing the COL series from that sample... 130 wRC+ July 18th to August 3rd (2nd in baseball) 84 wRC+ since leaving Colorado (19th) with an uncharacteristic 25.9% K rate Really, you can argue that Toronto's offense has been neutralized during the last four non-Colorado series. Baltimore and KC largely held the bats in check before they went to Denver, and so did LA and Chicago afterwards. 45 runs in those 13 games, 3.46 per game. Not great. Offense is scuffling. Need George back. Need Barger and Kirk to get going again.

Ty France can't do this!

Vlad with "the big hit" today. He also had "a big hit" yesterday and has been elite recently. My $500M man. wRC+ by month: Mar/Apr - 116 May - 143 Jun - 151 Jul - 166 Aug - 197 (before today) First half 130, second half 213

wtf are you talking about

kind of a banana route though

Win today and it will have been 3-3 against the Dodgers and Cubs. Not a disaster at all if that happens.

3rd percentile range 29th percentile arm 22nd percentile running Is Bo Bichette.... a DH? Vlad is better at every measurement and has 3B experience so he's probably a better 3B option lmao.

They never even wanted Roki. It was a deft feint by Boss Atkins.

okay have fun

Probably everyone except the Rockies. Maybe not the Nats. The more current advancement is the Trajekt trailer that drives on the road with the team. I am sure the richer teams have that already.

Bo is now at -8 OAA and -10 DRS and -2.2 BsR. His defense and athleticism are tanking as the season goes on. Kind of funny that his offense has picked up and solidified while the other parts of his game went down the tubes. I don't think offense alone gets him the Adames contract. If his offensive profile was different sure but his swing tendencies could age like Javy Baez. I guess Marcus Semien signed as a 2B so he is also a comp. Almost the same contract as Adames. Both of those guys could boast defense and baserunning as assets though. It will be interesting. Hardest big FA to predict in a while. Other comps might be Javy Baez himself (6/$140m) or Trevor Story. They had offensive questions and approach questions, whereas Bo has massive defense and athleticism questions. If teams see him as a pure 2B or 3B with a risky long-term profile does he even get $140m? Maybe he should go short term and just bet on himself?