Recent content by MikeTisdale

It's an insane deal. Frias is so far away and his range of outcomes is very wide, but his tools are potential super star tools (also could never make the majors, who knows, he's 18). Tearing up the complex league and then not completely falling on his face as an 18 year old in A ball is a good...

Counterpoint - yes you can expect to win the natty and the Illini are going to do just that.

This year, Cardinals are 6th in fWAR for RF (top 5th of the league), and 19th for LF - but that's mainly because Noot was hurt for the start of the season, they're 7th in LF fWAR since he came back. Those are not holes, those are strengths of the team. Catcher is not a weakness this year or...

Lol a package of those 3 players doesn't return anything better than just Nootbaar by himself.

Liberatore has no trade value and isn't making a bunch of money - he's not going anywhere. He's been relatively durable, just keep working with him over his next 3 arbitration years. They'll need innings next year anyway. Noot has been on pace for a 4 fWAR season (literally double league...

Judging by his absolutely 0 professional infield innings, no

JJ is 3rd in the NL in fwar, kinda crazy he’s not in

Always good to see a guy like BDW III overcome the odds and succeed.

The Bears moving to Hammond is like the best case scenario for Chicago/ Illinois. a) The state of Illinois doesn't get fleeced for tax concessions, which are objectively a bad deal (it's been studied for decades, I can't believe this is still a narrative). b) Chicago still gets basically all of...

I think his back is more cooked than they're letting on. Approaching 2 full seasons of PAs at well below league average batting line - he's definitely getting non-tendered this off season.

Hell yea, more home and homes, less neutral sites. [BANGS TABLE] MORE HOME AND HOMES

Nootbaar is the obvious upgrade - it was always going to be whoever wasn't playing well between Church or Scott to be jettisoned by Nootbaar. It should maybe be Saggese instead but he's the only plausible backup SS they have (Fermin can maybe stand there, JJ could stand there if they shuffled...

Oh it's definitely an illusion with a -3 run differential but 5 games over .500, but... those wins still count, so they could play like a 78 win team from here on out instead of a 94 win team they're on pace for and still finish .500, which would be a huge accomplishment for this squad. The...

Yea that was my first thought... how is Duke making TV deals if the ACC owns their broadcasting rights?

Yea not making any of the like 10 teams who actually have a chance to win the tournament have any tougher of a path is at least an OK result of tournament expansion. It sucks these games will just be full of sub .500 power conference teams, but mid majors are going to fall further and further...