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Collins has elite plate discipline, something you can never coach to a guy like Fletcher.

That trade makes no sense. Collins was in the conversation for ROTY until he slumped in September. Mears was better than Zerpa last year. What do the Brewers see in Zerpa that I don't?

Yeah but they managed to avoid having an elite pot 1/2 team in their group. They had to deal with England in 2022 and Portugal/Germany in 2014. With this being a home World Cup anything less than finishing 2nd in this group would be considered a major disappointment. Hell, not winning this group would be a disappointment for me.

This is far better than the groups they got in 2022 and 2014.

At least Carlson should be a better pick than Gonzalez.

Start thinking about 3rd base Colson, Roch is coming

LETS GOOOO

We're at least top 3

KC is not first

I swear to god if the Royals pull a Mavericks...

SF and KC moved up a lot Edit: Wow they're both top 6

Oh no, why is Rick Hahn there?

Benintendi for Scott + cash, who says no?

With ABS being a thing next year, the value of framing will be decreased (although definitely not eliminated). Quero's biggest weakness is his framing, it cost him about 1.5 wins of value last year. I say we wait and see how his power develops and how the new ABS rules affect his value defensively as a catcher before trading him.

The Bears are gonna need to give Roushar a raise to keep him this off-season.

Ozzy doing that against Parsons and Gary is incredibly impressive. He had a better game pass blocking than Wright.

Must be nice to still have money for other stuff when you're doing stuff like this.

It's not as big of a deal as it used to be. If he kicks that into the end zone, they get it at the 35. If you let them return it, they probably get it to the 30 anyhow. 5-10 yards can make a difference there, but they gave up a 50 yard TD instead, so whatever.

I have a feeling that had Virginia won the ACC championship and gotten in as the conference champion, Miami would have been left out for ND. There's a lot of politics going on behind the scenes. Leaving a P4 conference completely out of the playoffs while letting in 2 G5 schools who are probably gonna get blown out in the first round was probably never going to sit right with the ACC. There's a reason why they had ND ranked ahead of Miami for basically all the rankings up until the last one. I wouldn't say the selection process is completely rigged, but it's heavily favored towards the big programs like Alabama and the conferences that Disney/ESPN has media deals with. The SEC is always going to get favoritism and in this case and I think ESPN's media deal with the ACC probably affected putting in Miami over ND. ND definitely deserved to get in over Alabama because Alabama has been straight garbage for the last month and teams that limp to the finish definitely do not deserve to get into the CFP. But, ND should really just not lose to 2 of the 3 good teams on their schedule next time. Maybe this wouldn't be a problem if they just joined the ACC.

Aside from the final play, I think 2 other plays really changed the game yesterday. The first was Loveland's drop/fumble right after the interception. Caleb made a good throw, but Loveland could not complete the catch going to the ground. Nice play by the Packers' safety as well. If they convert that catch, they get the ball at the 20 after a big momentum swing on the INT. They get at least 3 points off it instead of punting the ball right back. It probably changes the entire tone of the first half. The 2nd was the 3rd and 2 on the Packers' 2nd to last drive, where the Bears had 4 guys surround Jacobs behind the LOS and let him go right through for 21 yards. Just piss poor tackling. I know Jacobs is hard to bring down, but come on. That should never ever happen in the NFL. If you tackle him for a loss there, they most likely kick a FG and it completely changes the way that the final drive is managed. That TD they gave up right before half was also a huge back breaker. You finally score points and hope to stop the Packers from scoring in the middle 8, and what happens? Your highest paid DB decides to not play his deep half and lets a deep crosser get right behind him for a TD. People want to blame Brisker for that play, but that's really not his responsibility. There is no way that the left side deep half is supposed to carry with a post like that. It also wouldn't have made any sense to have no real deep zone for the entire right side of the field. I know Jaylon Johnson needs time to get back up to speed, but his mistakes yesterday were purely mental.

They're setting up the ND vs. Miami narrative for the final spot. They realized that if Bama is between those 2 teams they can't have arguments about that in this final week. ESPN needs their sports drama for their talk shows.

You're forgetting that a G5 school will be #12. Realistically, the only argument is Notre Dame vs. Miami if BYU loses the Big 12 championship game because they have the same record, mostly played the same teams, and played each other. ESPN has been trying really hard to argue for Miami.

I don't think there's any scenario where Alabama is out if BYU loses the Big 12 championship.

Or change their schedule so that recruiting happens later in the year and coaches aren't forced to do this.

If the field is expanding to 16 next year, I think we'll see this argument less. But yeah, if Vandy somehow got in over Texas when they played nobody good in their non-conference play and got beat by Texas, then there's a great argument for never scheduling any elite teams in non-conference play for SEC or Big Ten teams.