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QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Oct 19, 2017 -> 12:14 AM) Some guys tend to perform better when they are surrounded by better players. On bad teams stink spreads. See 2005 White Sox. That may be the case here, but even before the trade Robertson was having a very good year with a ridiculous K% and only a single BS. He was definitely a top 10 closer at that point. Based on how much dominant relievers have gone for the past few years, most thought he himself would command a T100 prospect in return. If Yanks or Dodgers is able to win this year with their great bullpen, we should only expect shut down reliever prices to go up in free agency and especially trade market.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Oct 18, 2017 -> 08:32 PM) With every Yankee win, I despise this trade more and more. I'm with you, I hated the trade and this postseason did not change that. It did not take much to see than Kahnle's turnaround wasn't a fluke. Robertson may not have been valuable on a rebuilding team, but definitely earns his salary and more on a playoff team.

This is a fun argument, which one of the our pitchers should be crowned the minor league pitcher of the year, in all of baseball..

This pushes Lauri to the starting role, maybe it's a blessing in disguise.

It's going to be so weird seeing Rose starting next to Lebron and Wade on opening night. And that starting 5 is going to score 120 and give up 118.

Padres kept 3 guys who barely played above rookie ball in the ML roster this season. They will continue to do that until they are ready to compete.

QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 4, 2017 -> 02:15 PM) I don't feel a need to protect Micker. I dont know, I feel like Padres will take a shot at him.

I would think he got some sort of commitment from PG that he's staying as well.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Sep 25, 2017 -> 10:28 PM) I'm sure plenty of people will disagree but I'm liking the Enzo stuff since he moved to 205 live. I think it's the best reality era stuff going on right now. I will also say I have no clue how I feel about this Shield reunion that's about to happen. They're one of my favorite acts ever but to bring them back to take down a trio that consists of Axel and Bo right now? I'll see how it plays out but I don't know. Yep, having the Shields reunite to face Miztourage or the rumored reuniting Wyatts (without Stroman) is a waste. I think they should just let it go instead of ruining their legacy. If they really wanna do it however, I wish they spend some quality time building up the feuds that puts them at a numbers disadvantage, Shield vs the world was what made them great in their first run. I'd like to see the culmination being a 3 on 5 survivor series match or something like that.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Sep 25, 2017 -> 12:07 PM) It was the right move now. The right move a year ago was to ignore him. He played the Bulls when he was a legit star free agent, and he played them for a payday again last year. He didn't play them last season. The bulls were just a f***up as an organization and put themselves in this position.

QUOTE (Brian @ Sep 24, 2017 -> 09:48 PM) Cena going away for awhile. Why would he go over? If Roman has learned and can take the next step, persona wise, it’ll be worth it. The "if" in that statement tells you a lot about Roman as a performer.

Very good match, Ambrose with the most unexpected kickout I remember in WWE in a long time.

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 24, 2017 -> 03:49 PM) After Thurs. I will be very disappointed if longer. I'm with you, we won today and Glennon did not play bad enough to lose his job. It will be a different story after we get trashed at Lambeau on Thursday.

When do we expect Trubisky to get the call?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 21, 2017 -> 01:25 PM) Cody Westerlund‏ @CodyWesterlund 5h5 hours ago John Paxson on Gar Forman: "Gar doesn't get enough credit. There's been a narrative, unfortunately, that we do everything wrong." I barely follow any Bulls news these days knowing how incompetent the front office is. I guess now I realize that's nowhere as frustrating as how delusional the management is from top to bottom. Ask anyone outside of this team what exactly has the Bulls done right that Gar deserves credit for. He literally has not done a single thing right since drafting Jimmy Butler, from handling of coaching staff, to training staff, to free agency, to trading, and lastly drafting.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Sep 15, 2017 -> 10:44 AM) What a well thought out response. 1) Cleveland traded a defensive liability in Kyrie himself. Significant downgrade in that department? No. 2) Role players like Crowder gets overlooked, but his +/- past 2 years look pretty good. 3) Player like Zizic may never play in there NBA. Well, you MAY very well be wrong 4) Nets is bad, at no worst top 5. 6) Need this forum to remind you how players who rely on athleticism come back from ACL injuries? 7) Markkanen at no worst is Niko 2.0, who has absolutely received no interest in this offseason. 8) Dunn is literally the second worst rookie in the league last season. He was old, and thought as a reach by most. 9) We gave up Jimmy Butler who is no doubt a borderline Top 10 player on the league. Unlike George he has at least 2 years left on his deal. THEN we had to give up our first rounder too? GMAB. Let's say Cavs ended up getting the 7th pick in 2018 draft, would you trade IT, Crowder, Zizic and he 16th pick for Lavine and Dunn? Not to mention Cavs will almost certainly get better than 7th pick, and Butler > Irving. The two trades are not even close.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Sep 15, 2017 -> 11:33 AM) They got a short, 28 or 29 year old PG "star" who can't play defense and who has legitimate hip problems on a one year deal. He's not even going to play a full season. They're going to have to decide whether to offer him a max deal, or near max deal, to be their franchise player once Lebron leaves. I wouldn't want the Bulls to be in that position a year from now. That's a hard, hard pass. They got a 27 year old Jae Crowder, an ok role player who can't shoot very well and has had his own problems with injuries (ankle) that Celtics fans will tell you limited his defense (the one reason you would want him) They got Ante Aizic, someone who will probably never play. And they got the Brooklyn pick, which may or may not be great. The Nets won't be good, but the east will be super s***ty and the Nets have no incentive to tank. The Bulls, Pacers, Hawks, Kings, Magic are going to be worse. Are the Lakers really going to win 25-30 games? It'll be a lottery pick, but not necessarily a top 7 pick. On the other hand, the Bulls got Zach Lavine, a 22 year old super-athlete who averaged 19, 3 and 3 last year and has consistently gotten better each year he's played. The ACL tear is worrisome but plenty of guys have come back from it. They also got a big, beefy PG prospect that had a bad rookie season playing under Thibs (not uncommon) but still has tons of potential, and the #7 pick in the draft who at worst will be Niko 2.0, i.e., an ok role player. I don't see how, in any way, this is a substantially worse deal than what the Celtics got. If there was as a misinformed and biased post, this would be it.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Sep 3, 2017 -> 03:56 PM) Adequate, commanded it nicely. The secondary offerings were on display today. Excellent. I've been impressed with his changeup and curveball his first two starts. He left too many fastballs up in his first start which led to long fly balls. If he could command his fastball well even in the low 90s, he could be an all star.

Missed the game today, how did Gio's fastball look?

QUOTE (Lillian @ Sep 3, 2017 -> 03:19 PM) The value of the BABIP stat is a little suspect. What is more significant is how the hitter is consistently "barreling up" the ball. If he is hitting lot's of line drives, rather than soft grounders and pop ups, his average simply reflects that. By contrast, if a hitter makes a lot of weak contact, it probably isn't simply bad luck that is causing his poor results. It appears that Avi is not trying to hit homers, and is not using an upper cut swing. His hits consistently have high exit velocity. If he continues that approach, it may not be unreasonable to expect him to have continued success. On the other hand, if he is to become more of a power hitter, he may have to alter his approach, which will significantly reduce his BABIP, and average. If you look at the numbers I posted earlier, he isn't hitting the ball significantly harder or hitting more line drives, yet his BABIP has increased signicantly, at a very unsustainable rate. He's bound to regress to somewhere around 1-2 WAR next year.

Avi batted ball stats between 2016 & 2017 2016 LD%/GB%/FB%: 21.7/55.0/23.3 Pull%/Cent%/Oppo%: 36.7%/37.0%/26.3% Soft%/Med%/Hard%: 18.3%/47.3%/34.3% BABIP: .309 2017 LD%/GB%/FB%: 21.5/52.0/26.5 Pull%/Cent%/Oppo%: 43.7%/32.6%/23.7% Soft%/Med%/Hard%: 16.0%/49.2%/34.8% BABIP: .395 The glaring change in his game seems to be slightly less GB% and increased in FB%, pulling the ball more instead of going up the middle or opposite field, and hitting the ball slightly harder than before. The biggest change obviously is going for a slightly unlucky BABIP to a league leading BABIP. I am in the camp of selling high on Avi, in case that some teams may think he's capable of a couple more all star caliber seasons. If you don't get a solid offer, I am not opposed to keeping him either, I think he's a capable hitter and seems to be passable in RF this year. I think long term projection hitting-wise is what Melky gave us the past two years, except as a right fielder.

Ugly offensive night for the farm. Only 11 hits and 1 run across the five games outside of the AZL game.

In case if anyone wonders if Gar does his homework before making a trade: https://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/24731...er-2nd-Practice

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 1, 2017 -> 11:02 AM) Even above that we are starting to see results from the previous classes. Micker Adolfo had a great year. A guy like Luis Martinez is pushing through the system. Carlos Perez improved a lot as the season went on. These guys are filling up the rosters in Arizona and Great Falls. The best way to sum it up is these kids are coming along VERY slowly. The last DSL graduates are Andre Rienzo and Carlos Sanchez, but we still got long ways to go to ripe the fruits of the current LatAM crop. (Don't think we need to mention the Widler scandal here.) The good Adolfo finally stayed healthy and shown developing power, but still got ways to go to become a top tier prospect. For comparison sake, his contemporary Jimenez is already one of the best hitting prospects and should knock on the door of big league debut next year. Luis Martinez was signed back in 2012, but have spent the past 3 years in Low A. Turning 23 in January, he was slaughtered in his High A debut before getting sent back to low A for rest of the season. Decent number in Low A, I think next year is a make or break year for him. I am as big a Carlos Perez fan as any, but he hasn't received consistent playing time to evaluate his development. His splits are very even throughout the 3 months of GF season. Jose Colina in his third season has actually played well when he got a chance to play, but still has another year to go before he hits full season ball. Other guys I'm keeping an eye on - Maiker Feliz seems to have good hit tool, but again, did not receive consistent playing time, which baffles me. Beltre finally broke through the DSL wall, but he does not seem to project to be more than a utility player. Felix Mercedes for the second year in a row played well in Rookie ball, but has sidelined since mid-July. I hope they would push him to A ball next season. The bad Amando Nunez and Jhoandro Alfaro maintained a decent walk rate, but have regressed in every other area. Franklin Reyes has gotten a few more hits, but posted a ugly BB/K ratio for the second year in a row. Solorzano was disastrous in his first full season of A ball, Johan Cruz, my 2017 breakout pick, has also regressed significantly. Ricky Mota has failed to stay healthy for the second year in a row. Antonio Rodriguez is on the verge of being done with baseball, while Hanleth Otano, Luis Castillo and Victor Done are actually done with baseball.

QUOTE (RudyLawRules @ Aug 31, 2017 -> 10:02 PM) INF Tiquan Forbes. Hope not. Lotto ticket or not, I do not like the 1/10 BB/K ratio type of prospects.