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Post by jmei on Dec 1, 2023 9:34:40 GMT -5
Easy to throw rocks with the power of hindsight. I don’t put a lot of weight in the “we had him high on our draft board” stuff that only comes out afterwards.
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Post by jmei on Nov 28, 2023 17:45:06 GMT -5
Wouldn’t have guessed that catcher would be their worst projected position.
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Post by jmei on Nov 28, 2023 12:30:25 GMT -5
I still think the Patriots are going to win a couple of these remaining games. Their defense and running game are decent enough and can’t get much worse at QB.
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Post by jmei on Nov 27, 2023 10:58:16 GMT -5
They’ll definitely bring in competition for next season. But for the rest of the season, might as well see what he can do.
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Post by jmei on Nov 26, 2023 22:04:23 GMT -5
I had assumed that Brisett and Svi would have been getting minutes in a game like this. But I like the outcome by a shorthanded team. I do kind of wish they could land on a backup wing or two to fit that spot in the rotation. That guy or guys is going to play a decent amount and they’ve been cycling through those two plus Banton.
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Post by jmei on Nov 26, 2023 15:55:12 GMT -5
Beautiful stuff there.
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Post by jmei on Nov 26, 2023 15:28:35 GMT -5
The defense really was terrible last year in a way that makes the pitching look a lot worse than it actually was.
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Post by jmei on Nov 26, 2023 15:27:06 GMT -5
To be clear, for all the grief, Mac is still better than Zappe.
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Post by jmei on Nov 26, 2023 14:48:37 GMT -5
Given how awful that first half performance was, feels like they need to give Zappe a chance here if nothing else to maintain some credibility with the rest of the team.
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Post by jmei on Nov 26, 2023 14:34:05 GMT -5
Mac is bad, but did Bill not naming the QB screw with his head even more than it already was? He's playing like a guy who is completely defeated and gave up. This is easily the worst game of his career. You'd almost think he was on team tank. If he didn’t have the mental toughness to deal with the last two weeks, he was never going to make it in this league regardless.
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Post by jmei on Nov 26, 2023 14:08:48 GMT -5
Well, at least we know for sure that Mac Jones is not an adequate starting QB now.
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Post by jmei on Nov 25, 2023 21:33:30 GMT -5
Zach Lowe had a great monologue about the Celtics on a recent podcast. I agree with his diagnosis—a big piece of the benefit of having so many good shooters should be an empty lane to drive against. Tatum has used it to his advantage at times, but he, Brown, Holiday and White all need to just drive it with an emphasis on scoring at the rim (or drawing fouls) rather than focus on drive and kick for catch and shoot threes.
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Post by jmei on Nov 25, 2023 13:31:16 GMT -5
Not that odd at all. He wasn’t in contention to start or be the first backup, they needed the roster spot and he likely reverts to the practice squad.
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Post by jmei on Nov 24, 2023 16:38:00 GMT -5
very mature, great contributions Just sick of you being a condescending, know it all asshole This is totally uncalled for. Please cut it out.
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Post by jmei on Nov 22, 2023 23:22:38 GMT -5
Celtics were up by nine with ninety seconds left and the Bucks made two back to back threes to kind of make it a game before the Celtics closed it out. I’m supposed to be upset about that?
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Post by jmei on Nov 22, 2023 22:38:39 GMT -5
Expectations are too high if you’re disappointed by a closer than it should have been win over your biggest rival.
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Post by jmei on Nov 21, 2023 8:51:10 GMT -5
Jaylen is still inconsistent but, at his peak, he’s better than anyone we could trade him for. That’s tough to give up.
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Post by jmei on Nov 20, 2023 10:43:57 GMT -5
There has been a fair amount of quantitative analysis on how much opt-out clauses are worth. The best public work I've seen is this Ben Clemons article which concludes (you have to read into the comments for it) that an opt out is worth roughly $0.9-$1.2 million/WAR, or roughly $40M for Machado and Arenado back in 2019. blogs.fangraphs.com/whats-an-opt-out-worth/
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Post by jmei on Nov 20, 2023 10:27:12 GMT -5
Please knock off the petty back and forth. Thanks.
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Post by jmei on Nov 19, 2023 23:23:34 GMT -5
I’m not saying to never include an opt out, but it’s something that is tremendously valuable to a player and so a team shouldn’t agree to it lightly.
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Post by jmei on Nov 19, 2023 21:15:15 GMT -5
Opt-outs or player options are always bad for the team. If the player opts out and signs for more money in free agency, it means that you could have traded him for value at that point even if you didn’t want to keep him for the last part of his contract.
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Post by jmei on Nov 19, 2023 16:02:15 GMT -5
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Post by jmei on Nov 19, 2023 11:13:09 GMT -5
I’ll take the under on 2 WAR next year on Urias, and I’ll bet that every public projection system will too.
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Post by jmei on Nov 18, 2023 22:02:07 GMT -5
While in general regressing to the mean is a worthy projection method, in cases where (whether due to injury or mechanical issues or something else) a player’s profile fundamentally changes, it can be misleading. Not sure which bucket Urias falls into, but I believe his quality of contact has been way down (even after his joining the Red Sox) and so they presumably think he’s got low odds of returning to the player he was a few years ago.
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Post by jmei on Nov 18, 2023 20:05:05 GMT -5
can you please not try to make every thread a referendum on Bloom? He’s fired, we’ve done that. This has nothing to do with 2024 free agency. For the record, I was merely replying to a post about Bloom. I didn’t introduce the topic. His previous decisions also have an outsized impact on “2024 Free Agency”. Do you disagree? I have no patience for this relentless need to revisit past front offices and past transactions. Even if you didn’t start it, don’t continue it.
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