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Post by jmei on May 9, 2023 16:19:09 GMT -5
Feels too early to be penciling in 53-man rosters. Injuries and transactions have a way of clearing up any perceived logjams.
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Post by jmei on May 8, 2023 19:12:07 GMT -5
The fact that they’ve been hit so hard with injuries in the middle infield but have still not called him up (even though he’s on the 40-man, has options, adds value as a baserunner, etc.) says a lot to me.
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Post by jmei on May 8, 2023 10:14:59 GMT -5
Downs was ranked in the middle of the BA top 100 (49) when he was first acquired by the Red Sox but dropped off the list once he started playing in games again in 2021. Dalbec has one ranking at the end of the BA top 100 in 2021 (90) but that's it. Neither of them was a can't-miss prospect that would have gotten then a lot of value back on the trade market and they both came up at a time when the Red Sox were largely in rebuilding mode.
Yes, it would be great if the front office knew exactly when each player and prospect was at the peak of their perceived value and traded them for a fortune. No, that is not a realistic expectation for any front office. The Rays do well on trades in part because they have a good front office but also in large party because they are usually trading veterans for prospects and those trades almost always do well from a $/WAR perspective in the long run. They don't really do prospect-for-prospect or prospect-for-veteran trades much, so not sure where the "they know who's worth keeping" narrative is coming from (there are exactly zero examples cited in this thread).
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Post by jmei on May 7, 2023 20:33:07 GMT -5
Let’s move on from the ref stuff. Thanks.
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Post by jmei on May 7, 2023 15:46:18 GMT -5
They’re still somehow very much in this game and need to come out of the second half playing like it.
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Post by jmei on May 7, 2023 15:44:58 GMT -5
None of those guys had any real value (as evidenced by their lack of national top 100 rankings). Plus, the trade market is less liquid than you think. You’re not going to get much back when you shop around a couple fringy prospects.
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Post by jmei on May 7, 2023 15:12:55 GMT -5
They were getting decent shots and missing them and then started throwing their offense out of the window.
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Post by jmei on May 7, 2023 15:12:16 GMT -5
Why the **** is Marcus Smart trying to iso Joel Embiid at the end of the quarter?
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Post by jmei on May 7, 2023 13:34:13 GMT -5
Not a lot of hard hit balls but not a lot of swings and misses either.
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Post by jmei on May 6, 2023 13:46:29 GMT -5
If he can even be a fringe-average defensive outfielder, it gives him much better odds of being a multi-year MLB bench player.
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Post by jmei on May 6, 2023 12:51:21 GMT -5
Grant is annoying as **** sometimes but that dude is tough as hell. He gets curb stomped by a 300-lb man, only misses a minute of game time, comes back in and pretty much shuts him down the rest of the game. I think they found something with him guarding Embiid. He can't shut Embiid down, but no one can, and Grant makes him work for every bucket.
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Post by jmei on May 5, 2023 21:14:55 GMT -5
Love the shot of the home fans headed home early during a playoff game.
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Post by jmei on May 5, 2023 12:34:57 GMT -5
Yeah but he was placed on the 15 day on April 1.
The 15-day IL just means that a player has to spend a minimum of 15 days on it, but there's no maximum.
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Post by jmei on May 5, 2023 12:29:13 GMT -5
Cut it out and move on. Thanks.
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Post by jmei on May 2, 2023 20:49:35 GMT -5
That was fun.
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Post by jmei on May 1, 2023 20:57:58 GMT -5
ALEX
MOTHEREFFING
VERDUGO
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Post by jmei on May 1, 2023 20:53:11 GMT -5
One game and I'm thoroughly sick of this team already.
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Post by jmei on May 1, 2023 20:49:07 GMT -5
Can't blame Horford on that one. Sometimes they make shots.
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Post by jmei on May 1, 2023 20:47:16 GMT -5
15 turnovers tonight is the difference in the game.
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Post by jmei on May 1, 2023 20:45:53 GMT -5
That was the worst possession I think I have ever seen.
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Post by jmei on May 1, 2023 20:43:53 GMT -5
I'm not sure why Derrick White is not in this game. Been bad tonight, I get it They're picking on Brogdon on defense. They can switch everything if White is out there.
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Post by jmei on May 1, 2023 20:43:09 GMT -5
How tf is that a block? Officiating trash Eh looked like the right call to me. Have to be in position before the offensive player leaves his feet. Can't slide in there after they've gone up. Whole situation could have been avoided had Tatum gotten back on defense.
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Post by jmei on May 1, 2023 20:39:07 GMT -5
Tatum flopping around complaining about no-calls has resulted in at least four or five buckets for the Sixers now.
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Post by jmei on May 1, 2023 20:36:46 GMT -5
This is going to be a flopfest of a series. Sigh.
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Post by jmei on May 1, 2023 20:33:59 GMT -5
I'm not sure why Derrick White is not in this game.
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