Recent content by MikeTisdale

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...

Uhh the CFP only has 12/138 teams (8.7%). They're trying to shift that to 16 (11%) or 24 (17%).

Crooks should come up immediately. Fire Pozo into the sun if they really have to keep doing the "carry 3 catchers" thing on the MLB roster. Crooks gets 75% of the starts, Herrera 25% of the starts (with the other 75% at DH), and Pages is your backup. Crooks really doesn't have anything left to...

Man... not even close to a HOFer. The low bar for a DH guy is David Ortiz, and even if Schwarber plays another 7 seasons at a 3 fWAR pace (which would be a steroid era type aging curve), he'd be like 15 career fWAR short of Ortiz. And career fWAR isn't really why Ortiz is in, it was his 5 year...

Yea Tanner Franklin is a little too good (and old) to be in Peoria - I'd expect like 2-3 more starts there before moving to Springfield.

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