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So, it was less to do with him being a jerk. More to do with him just being incredibly obtuse and using stupid arguments. He was making me dumber.

Sports was criticizing the Braves on August 11, 1987 for not trading Doyle Alexander yet.

I blocked that troll, but if anybody wants to ask him when the trade deadline was moved to July 27 at the risk of being driven into a goalpost moving nonsensical debate, feel free.

This doesn't offset CBT numbers

The problem is if you don't make a trade, you still don't have Lorenzen and Rodriguez on next year's roster. And you definitely don't have a draft pick to fall back on for Rodriguez, and likely don't for Lorenzen.

Real life Roman Roy really getting on his moral high horse.

Speak for yourself.

Did the Target bomb threats in Jax make national news?

Beyond it, even

https://twitter.com/cmccosky/status/1683587618527690753?t=wdLaxjSZso0I8KZ-ah7COQ&s=19

Be weary of those "reverse splits." 77 PA against lhp this year isn't nearly enough to come to that conclusion. And it isn't backed up by previous seasons.

Did anybody notice BA's latest Tigers article was from Zach Buchanan?

Bud Light has always been my default light beer of choice when I'm out socially and not trying to get drunk. It's just funny how it's never in the cooler at parties now and I get looks when I order one at the bar.

People standing on escalators or not leaving room to the left for people to pass. People who vape in your face as if that's not a bunch of toxic chemicals. (Smokers who do the same, but that's an obvious one) On that topic, girls on the dating apps who vape who mark themselves as non-smokers.

No, it isn't, but the more people out there that resist piling on, the less backlash from the racists. Why not start small?

The more attention you give Jason Aldean, the more his career will take off like Morgan Wallen's did after a similar thing happened. Resist.

Player dev changes were near the end. Menzin and Sartori were promoted to AGM his final year. The performance science department was created 2020, I believe. (I remember being really excited about that hire only for it to be rendered moot by the cancelled season) But it is an undeniable fact that the analytics staff growth was mostly early in his stint if not steady throughout. There was no analytics department in 2015 (Menzin and Smith were both doing it part time). Sartori was hired in late 2015 as well as a few interns and part timers, and the staff grew to its current size roughly 2018 or so. Harris did expand things further his first offseason, and I expect the standard second offseason overhaul as more of "his guys" are available.

I don't think this is true. Yes, Littlefield and Chadd had too much say for much of his term; I will grant you that. But Menzin kept rising through the ranks, Sartori was hired and rose the ranks. Logue, etc... And the analytics staff grew from basically half a man year when he was hired to about 10-15 depending on if you include the software developers or player dev analysts among those ranks.

The point was more that the extension was signed 17 months before Avila took over.

IMO, it is pretty unserious.

Dingler is on the IL, and really hasn't even knocked the doors down in AA.

I also think pushing in and not cashing in on Michael Lorenzen at peak value would be regretted for years.

Fangraphs playoff odds as of this morning 3.0%... PECOTA doesn't update until later in the day, but 0.4% as of yesterday. I'm still selling.

Kinda... you lose the unsigned slot from your pool. Hypothetical to make the math easy. Let's say you have a 10M pool and you have signed all but a pick whose slot is 1M and plan on signing him to slot but he fails his physical. You are 500K over going in. If he signs, you are 500k over, no draft penalty. If he does not sign, your bonus pool is 9M, 500K over is 5.6% over and you lose your first rounder next year.