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Gah, these things stress me out. Mostly post about baseball (#GOMS), rugby (#allezlesbleus #oToulouse), being a dad, & why we shouldn't be sh***y to marginalized people.
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Some might point out that Emerson's rankings stack up with Jones and approach Julio, but Jones/Julio became untouchable by performing in the high minors. They were >50% bets to be impact big-leaguers. Emerson still draws rave reviews but his low-minors results lag behind the scout plaudits.
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There exist such things as (virtually) untradeable prospects. The Ms have even had a few. Felix was one. Julio too. Griffey/Arod: untouchable even ignoring hindsight. Adam Jones (ugh)...probably wasn't quite at that level but he was close.
There's no (virtually) untradeable guy in the Ms system.
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I regularly say "honey" when arguing with my kids and recently caught myself doing it with a family elder who's in memory care (slipping into "arguing with a child" mode). I've had dozens of opportunities to make this mistake and haven't come close, but even so this just became my greatest fear.
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My best typo is inter-uterine device (won't mention the case). My assistant/proofreader knocked on my office door and asked me how I thought a uterus-to-uterus contraceptive would work. My face probably wasn't beet red for days but it felt like it.
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Also, and I can't believe I didn't lead with this, the same partner once signed off on an evening call when we were both at home with "love you," when he was clearly multitasking/seeing his wife out the door. He stammered something in response and I said "all good" and we never spoke of it again.
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This resonates with me. Back when my kids were infants (and I was a young associate) I'd always waive goodbye with a "child waive" (scrunching my hands). Caught myself doing it to a partner once and had to lock that down.
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Screw it. If the team must be run like a hedge fund, let's at least hire hedge fund people to run it instead of a former ballplayer who speaks conversational online MBA.
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Yeah, I was responding to "gotta expect he gets traded." The team's already used 7 starters this year, 9 if you include openers. One of their only SP who's stayed healthy (Woo) has the worst health record of the bunch. Now more than ever they're gonna need those taxi squad guys.
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The thing he's doing well is reliably getting into the 5th or 6th inning. In other words, he's the precise sort of serviceable back-end depth starter who's more valuable to the Ms than what they're likely to get in trade (maybe a relief prospect).
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I don't disagree, I just don't think Hancock's serviceable run has done much to build trade value. In those 5 starts you referenced + his start yesterday (which improved his numbers) he's got a 4.55 ERA and 5.85 FIP. He's still not striking guys out, walking too many, and giving up too many HR.
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I'm cautiously optimistic about Young but I'm skeptical that having him up this early will do his career (or the team) any favors. Less so about Williamson. He's needed a .350 BABIP to reach that 81 wRC+. I think this is about as good as he gets.
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Yeah I know 33 PA is nothing and that's not fair to Young but Dipoto's roster construction failure has forced the team to call him up after just one good AAA month that included 16 games in some of the most hitter-friendly parks in the minors (Vegas/El Paso/Albuquerque).
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It's cool though, Jerry's a wizard at drafting and development. Just wait until you see the next wave.
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Truly a mystery why anyone might possibly think Dipoto/Hollander deserve any blame for this situation.
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Trade value's still pretty low. Think low-level prospect without huge upside. Whether he breaks out or not, chances are he's more valuable to the Ms standing by in AAA than in trade. After a wild multi-year run of ridiculous luck we're finally getting reminded that SP get hurt. Like, pretty often.
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At his best he reminds me of peak Gil Meche where the best version of each of his pitches is No. 2 starter material but every once in awhile it doesn't do what he wants and he'll serve up a meatball.
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Had the same thought. Also, while I don't have a great sense of how SFG operates these days, eating $3m+ by DFAing him this early tells me they suspect he's nearly unfixable. Always liked him but feels like we already have enough 30+ y/o defensive zeroes with iffy bats.
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Nice little career he (Wade) had for a 9th rd pick out of a basketball school. Thought he was going to break through as a bona fide everyday guy a couple years back but regression's a cruel mistress.
Giants must think he's unfixable to eat his remaining ~$3.3m this year.
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Link?
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Just going to drop this right here to preserve it for posterity's sake before the FedSoc scrubs all record of his membership.
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Ordinarily the No. 1 pick might mitigate some of that, but there's a pretty universal sense that this draft is thin at the top and there's no standout top talent. Plus, the Nats are several years into a pretty alarming failure rate for their highly rated position player prospects.
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I think you can make a decent case that the White Sox have a better mid-term outlook than the Nats TBH. They're worse this year but they're starting to graduate productive prospects, hit on some trades, have a much stronger farm, and the AL Central is a much a smaller hill to climb than the NL East.
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Off to a good start there.
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Not if JP has anything to say about it.
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To be clear, I understand why they're taking flack here. They're not photogenic and they're certainly not elevated.
But it's basically just a burger where they skip the step of compressing the ground beef into patty form.
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I mean, it's seasoned. It's basically a deconstructed burger.
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This is the taste of my childhood summers in Iowa and it's fantastic.
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Kate Pierson’s voice sounds like happiness.
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Everyone's favorite cautionary tale in '21 and '23 (after Texas made the whole "we don't want to be like Texas" party line seem stupid by winning a WS) followed by "shut up shut up shut up" in '22, '24, and, it appears, this year.
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Not all my ear worm songs are great songs. In fact, some drive me mad. But for me, this is a top-5 song written this century.
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That said, just once I gave it a go for a research question relevant to my profession and hoooooboy was it worse than useless. I’d have lost my license if I’d relied on any part of the answer it generated.
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I’ve used it for two things effectively:
1) helping my kids with math homework,
2) teasing my kid/my friend’s kid by having ChatGPT write a poem in the style of [insert random poet] about whatever they’re complaining about whenever they get whiny about teen stuff.
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He checks absolutely every box. True SS, elite power, patience, and contact, and a switch-hitter to boot. Needs to keep this up but assuming he does and handles a likely mid-season promotion ok there's a decent chance people will be talking about him as the best prospect the game's seen in years.
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Chourio's 2022 made him a near-universal top-3 prospect. He reached AA and showed more power, but Made's (a) a couple months younger than Chourio was, (b) a shortstop, and (c) walking more and striking out less than Chourio did. Decent chance he's the No. 1 prospect in the game this time next year.
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God damnit the opportunity to say his search results "will likely put Will Likely's to shame" was RIGHT THERE.
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He could become Barry Bonds and his confusing search results (50/50 baseball and Christianity) would still put former MD cornerback Will Likely's to shame. It's tough out there for folks whose names are a deity followed by a past-tense verb.
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Probably a top-5 pro talent acquisition (i.e., non-draft or international amateur) in the Dipoto era. Which is a bit sad, but also Moore's awesome. One of the best utility guys in the league.
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plus expenses.
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I realized years later when reading those books to my kid that his first name's Leroy. He's Leroy Brown. What a life arc, from child detective in the sleepy coastal town of Idaville to South Chicago's baddest man in the whole damn town.
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Pretty wild that what feels like the least talented NYY team in years has a $290m payroll.
I'll always want the Ms to spend (wisely) & don't care about Steinbrenner bank accts, but that's some serious bloat. $93m for Stanton, Bellinger, LeMahieu, and Stroman, collectively worth sub-zero so far.