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Hell yeah! I was very disappointed to see that pipeline dropped him out of the top 30. He’s so young for his level. This is very encouraging, but not all too unexpected. Another dude to keep an eye on for that Wilmington team is Luke Young. Three of his four starts this season have been scoreless efforts. 22 year old ‘22 11th rounder out of JUCO.

You had mentioned the lack of tragedy porn in the broadcast in a different thread. I think the NFL has paid attention to the feedback and now pushes these reaction calls instead.

Heard an interview with Cavalli before the game today. Tomorrow is basically like the day hitters report to ST as far as his rehab goes. He has the green light to let it fly against live hitters. As he builds endurance, we could be looking at an early June return. Gray may be back by that time as well. With the way Williams has been pitching, he may become a trade chip - something I would have realistically thought was a possibility in March.

Thank you. Yes, doing a rough positional grouping. Looking to see who could be the 25 guys that make the roster as of today. From that group, who should drop out and whom should be added in?

Post draft, who are the best 25 players on defense? Not necessarily in order. Who would you add and take away? Allen Payne Armstrong Ferrell Fowler Obada Jean-Baptiste Ridgeway Newton Luvu Wagner J Davis Pittman MaGee Martin Chinn St Juste Forbes Forrest Reaves Sainristil Hampton Butler M Davis Igbinoghene This leaves off Mathis, Henry, Jones, and Holmes (draft picks on rookie deals).

It’s fun to get excited about this year’s picks under a new regime, but it’ll take time to see how they pan out. We can put a bow on Rivera’s four drafts: 2020 Young - fifth year option not picked up. Gibson - signed 2nd contract in FA ($5.3M guaranteed) Charles - signed 2nd contract in FA (1 year $250k guaranteed) Gandy-Golden - retired early Ismael - cut within four years, bounced around, currently guaranteed $25k in AZ Hudson - signed 2nd contract ($491,500 guaranteed) Curl - signed 2nd contract ($6M guaranteed) Smith-Williams - signed 2nd contract ($167k guaranteed) 2021 Davis - no fifth year option Cosmi - starting guard, potential building block St-Juste - 37 games played in 3 seasons Dyami Brown - 2024 bubble player/roster casualty John Bates - blocking TE, 508 yards in 3 years Darrick Forrest - still in the mix at S Cheeseman - LS couldn’t last 3 seasons. Bradley-King - on and off the roster now in NE with no guarantee money Toney - took a bet on himself, but is no longer on the team. Milne - on and off the roster. Currently outside the top 6 WR under contract. 2022* Dotson - needs a bounce back year 3 to get a fifth year option. Mathis - injury riddled two years, DT3 was drafted early in 2024. Cut candidate Robinson Jr. - starting RB Sam Howell - 1 year starter, traded away. Cole Turner - roster bubble Chris Paul - roster bubble Holmes - roster bubble * traded back to get extra picks, but passed on Chris Olave and Kyle Hamilton 2023 Forbes - couldn’t play at all in last year’s scheme. Maybe new coaches can salvage. Martin - chess piece for Whitt Jr Stromberg - team signed two centers and a guard this offseason Daniels - roster bubble Henry - roster bubble Rodriguez - back of the roster RB Jones - roster bubble. 33 selections for the Rivera era. I would expect only 9 to definitely make the 2024 roster, with an additional 9 maybes.

Pro Tip: Don’t go to Luis for movie recommendations.

Call? I’d rather have Millas and be able to play Adams and Ruiz at the same time.

No. We traded them 78 or whatever.

I’ve been out this week, so I may have missed some things. But I see that Travis Sykora is skipping the FCL and will pitch for Fredericksburg.

The thing from this that sticks out is that Charlotte is included in its limited, targeted release. North Carolina is definitely in play.

I saw video of him working out. Not too concerned about him.

White Todd is not endearing himself to this judge. ”There’s two systems of justice in this courtroom? That’s what you’re saying”

Shout out to @Cooked Crackfor the Adam Klasfeld recommendation. IMO, he has the best play by play.

Conroy: We are not yet seeking an incarceratory penalty.

They are at home helping Baron get ready for finals.

I mean, how entertaining was that fourth quarter? Wow.

Yeah, probably will not recover from that. Doubt he hits another.

I read where Ruiz has lost 18-20 lbs with the flu. After not going after Hoskins, I was hoping they’d carry a third catcher and have Ruiz DH and Adams play 1B some. Keep them from getting run ragged behind the plate.

Yeah, not the dumbest thing I’ve heard ever, but I have something similar with coworkers. This was on the eve of the Obama/Romney election. My colleague graduated from an Ivy and had a CPA. He wanted to debate “ideas” and not “personalities”- this was after the Romney remark about freeloaders not paying taxes. We were talking about the income tax structure. Reminder this is a CPA, he didn’t understand the progressive nature of our income tax system. When I asked him, all things equal, does someone at the low end of the 25% bracket take home less than the person at the top end of the 22% bracket. (Bracket % are made up, can’t remember what they were exactly at the time.) In other words, did he think one’s income is ALL taxed at the highest percentage. He swore up and down that it was. He had his sidekick join in and laugh at me. “I would love it if it was designed the way you describe.” I told them it was. Prove it. Look at the IRS webpage Fake news. Okay. Phone a friend. So he called his personal account and said that he was trying to clear up a debate. He got an answer he did not like and mopingly went back to perusing the Drudge Report.

Because it will be better for the organization to have control over him in his age 26 season instead of burning one of his six seasons floundering. He’s had under 100 PAs in AAA. Most of them were last year when he had a sub .800 OPS.

So what do you do with Holliday? Keep riding him out there, or do you send him back down? It’s unlikely that he can put up numbers to win ROY at this point. You can gain an extra year of control by sending down.

As I understand it, the jury has been seated. Do opening arguments start today?

Garcia, Winker, Williams, and the three Gray replacement starts have been an outstanding surprise to the young season.

Following him in the minors, he tended to give up lots of walks. Through two outings, he has zero which puts him on pace for…let me carry the one…yep, zero walks.