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Are the Hawks back or what?

It is a 10 team league. In five years, I have only finished out of the money once. I'm one of the more consistent teams in my league.

I'm all in on Crochet or Howard. I'm leaning towards college pitching and then HS players in rounds to follow.

I don't think we can underestimate how big of a win that is last night for Illinois. To break the slumps at Wisconsin and Purdue is huge. 14-5 overall and 6-2 in the B1G. Keep it rollin boys.

I'll trade Madrigal ++ for Arenado and they eat a ton of cash.

Are the Hawks back?

Illinois begins a very tough 7 game stretch tonight @ Purdue. If they can go 3-4 during this stretch, I'll be more than happy.

You are 100% right lol. I am nervous about that, but if they stay on trajectory, it can be very good.

Going into my 6th year in my dynasty league. We do an auction draft where the draft and keepers are very valuable. We cannot add/drop any player during the season except a three round mid season draft where we take the best free agents. This is my team right now and I have $69 (#nice) to play with in the next draft. C 1B Freddie Freeman 2B SS Trevor Story and Tim Anderson 3B Yoan Moncada OF Bryce Harper OF Kris Bryant OF Victor Robles UTIL Austin Meadows SP Jack Flaherty SP Lucas Giolito SP Sonny Gray SP Eduardo Rodriguez SP Dallas Kuechel SP Michael Fulmer (Acquired as part of a bigger trade with bad contracts last season) So I need a C, 2B, and 2 RPs and a bench. Thoughts?

Who knows what happened with Jones. That kid has only hurt his college career. Illinois have over signed by one next season. Wouldn't be shocked if Jones is gone after the year.

I'm fine with Griffin coming off the bench still because he provides a spark. Him and Feliz are those two guys that can do that from the bench and relish in those roles right now.

Now that's a win! I-L-L

I don't see Medeiros getting DFA'd. When he went to the pen, he was pretty good. Zavala, Ruiz, Covey, Fulmer I see all go before him. My prediction is Zavala and Ruiz will be DFA'd for Encarnacion and Cishek.

Lol. I kind of hope the Bulls get the 8th seed and then get swept just to see how far they still really are. It would be comical because the Bulls are the definition of basketball hell.

The Joker-Nylander trade is an absolute disaster. Tony knows I'm a pretty optimistic Hawks fan and this was beyond awful. Injuries have hurt this team but in all honesty, if the Hawks even had average goaltending, they would be with Detroit at the bottom of the league. It is that bad.

If he were to sign an extension, I would guess it would be like Kingery or White's contract extensions from Mariners and Phillies.

I believe he had/has a very serious back injury.

FA Options: Craig Stammen, Daniel Hudson, Colin McHugh, Tony Cingrani, Steve Cishek, Will Harris, Nate Jones (I bet Sox sign him to MILB deal), Arodys Vizcaino Trade Options: Keone Kela, Michael Givens, Ian Kennedy, Ken Giles, Bryan Shaw, Jarlin Garcia,

I'm with you Fathom. I can see why Collins might not have a fit on the roster, but I still want him DHing against RHP even with Encarnacion. For Kela, I would not give up Collins. I'd give up an A ball player. I don't think Kela would require much in trade.

They're at 87 million before arbitration. Probably around 117 after it. Puig and a reliever will get you to 130-135

They'll have plenty of money and options if they sign Puig first. There is no issue here.

Would love to see the articles on this accusation

I enjoy his antics too. Between him and Anderson, teams would hate us haha.

I don't think this is true because he did change his stance in the 2nd half of last season. There was a video on MLBN with it too. He slugged 541 I believe in the 2nd half by quieting his hands, less movement in his stance.

One or two of Stammen/McHugh/Harris/Hudson and I'll be more than happy. Give me Puig too just because I want all the Cubans