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It’s not the nfl or nfl where you have good players on free agency. In mlb now, it’s basically a couple top end guys, and then a bunch of 33 year olds that are just a shuffle the chair situation. Remember most mlb player don’t hit free agency until 30 at the earliest cause of how the system is set up (drafted at 21, few minor league seasons and then six years of team control) most are old or broken or both, so when critiquing we also have to look at what was available. Wasn’t like he signed these guys with with some 27 year old there willing to take a 1/13

Remember just cause you can do algebra doesn't mean your ready for AP calc

There are currently 24 lefties, both starters and relievers, in the majors whose fastball averages at least 95 mph

lol they can try doing it 365.

A) I am OK with trading most prospect. B)Chas is right on this one. No reason to make a trade just to make one and lots go in it so just blaming one person with no details or anything is a bit unfair. Maybe another team hates our prospect, nothing you can do. Maybe the player begged not to play there and his old team helped, nothing you can do. C) no guarantee a trade makes you better. If we beat the Yankees and go to the ALCS, its not gonan matter.

These are the high profile moves i hoped for. Bye Bye Skubal

Again, most articles this time of year way over estimate teh cost.

Yes rare, meaning in frequent, not never, which is why I said rare. But outside of that can you remember any 4 for 6 deadline swaps involving multiple big leaguers? Would you remember price if we weren’t involved? almost all deadline deals are 2 for 1 or 3 for 1 swaps where a major leaguer goes for prospects

Trades that complicated rarely happen at the deadline

At this point price is always speculated higher than it actually is. Remember last year one top 100 guy got moved.

Not a lot of good 26 year olds available

You only need to get to 2 to beat Skeens.

Not even close. These read like Monroe and inge for Pujols

No they dont. They did in 1995, not today. If your bad you dont care about filling those innings well. And 4a guys you have your own stable so no reasons to add someone else's. Everyone would rather have a lottery ticket and that's exactly what teams took last year at the deadline. Guys like Ennis, Jung have little value. They can be traded but it would be for like a blah bullpen arm.

Super pumped when I pulled a 10/10 purple refractor of a series 2 standard pack at target. Even better it was a tiger. It was Alex Cobb

Drafting one player you've never seen play over another play you've never seen play

I was in the right field ones

That's jsut silly. Everybody and thier mother would do that deal.

Portland - It seems like there is a BGH here and people have romanticized Portland as a baseball town, since baseball does have an appeal to more intellectual folks. But has minor league baseball ever thrived in Portland? Plus, the politics in Portland is a nightmare. Someone isn't up on their current events. The legislature just passed a bill for $800 million in bonds for the stadium

Cause it's a big overpay

Its Bowden, there is a reason he ain't a GM anymore

you are allowed to do it two years in a row

I imagine this draft will likely be pitching heavy.

It's boston they never have a payroll problem and there is about one expensive player available this offseason

In th nba over the last 20 years about 27 percent of lottery players have made an all star team. Where 55 percent of NFL players taken in top 10 have made a pro bowl. Now obviously its not an apple to apples comparison but gives you an idea of the difference. And nobody is saying you cant find talent in the later round, in fact i specifically said in my first post 'of course there are exceptions' so it wasn't just dismissed like you did. But the data is clear in a system designed to spread out talent, a draft, that the NBA does a poor job as a whole of identifying a top tier talent and developing it and its why teams get stuck in that 6-12 range of the draft for years. Where as in somewhere like teh NFL a good draft and the ability to add through FA (something the NBA lacks) can make a turnaround quicker. In my opinion its the biggest problem the NBA has, that teams that are bad remain bad for a lot of years because the league is so bad especially in picks 5-12 of creating stars to make a franchise better and you end up with a bunch of Ivys and Asurs that everybody here would trade for a half-way decent player.