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This is awesome! Good for him securing a rich future and good for us securing a long-term star defensive CF. Kinda cancels out our reason to keep Perkins around as a defensive sub. Hard to see Frelick leaving so shortly after, especially with Lockridge still out. But I won't hold my breath for him next season.

I'm never much for trading prospects, but I could see a need to trade prospect depth for other prospects. I'd go for trading Jett for a catching prospect like Briceno or a SP prospect.

Says a lot about our coaches, too. Maybe it's a specific type of player they're better able to tweak, but they've been very good for a lot of years at improving performance. 4/$58 is my guess at his next contract if it's with somebody else. Nice plus a guy who can play two positions. I assume his LF defense gets better with more reps.

Oh, you're right:) Me fail English? That's unpossible!

Isn't there another week to go before Super 2 status kicks in? Certainly a team with budget constraints is going to make sure to squeeze out that extra year of arbitration out of a player. I just wish Yelich could play 1b to make Bauers in LF a little more common. We give up a decent amount of defense with Chourio in CF, but the lack of offense is getting to be a real problem. Really no reason we should be losing 1-0 games against a middling SP. Maybe at some point you have to say that at the worst you'll get the same offense out of Lara (or Pratt or Jett) than you're getting right now out of Frelick/Perkins/Rengifo/Ortiz that it becomes something of a no-loss situation to call them up.

Dude what a terrific article! I've been as anxious as everybody else to see our big-time prospects and have been wondering just how close they are. It almost sounds like they're pressing a little bit knowing they're a step away.

I still like it from the Browns perspective, particularly with the possibility they get in a bidding war with the Jets to get the #1 next year.

People gonna get rekt on the SpaceX IPO which I hear is on the 12th. I guess there's not much early-investor money that has a lockup period at all. Plus I'm kinda expecting a lot of money will move into that and the rest of the market will have a pretty rough day.

Sure, but on the flip side the NBA can better ensure the Knicks get to draft Patrick Ewing and not some low-ratings team.

Yuck! That would of course put them in the exact same position they're in now. Actually worse, since you wouldn't be getting proportional talent back. Maybe their ambitions changed, since I'd read that when Cleveland called, the Bucks asked for Mobley and all their available picks. I guess I'll root for Orlando since Jonathan Isaac is my favorite non-Buck (Middleton doesn't count).

Oh man it's feeling a lot like December 15th. So close but you gotta have just a little more patience!

That's a clever thought. Though that's a lot of bench time for Ortiz/Hamilton, particularly when neither can be much relied on as a pinch hitter. Sure a lot thinner in the OF than they like, but maybe give Bauers near full-time status in the corner which would also reduce Mitchell/Frelick ABs with them sharing time at CF. Both would be fine with me.

I don't really understand how all the prospects would fit defensively. Isn't Pratt a little too big for SS and then it would be Made's to lose going forward? Do you pencil in Pratt-Made-Pena-Fischer at 3b-SS-2b-1b and Jett is kinda the super-util guy? To me it seems in infield is actually too deep prospect-wise and it all lines itself up nicely for a prospect-prospect trade of something like Pena+Gasser for a higher-end SP prospect to fill in those areas we're kind of thin at.

A lady in my brother's family is a retired fund manager and she got out of the market entirely a couple days ago. But of course everyone takes their guesses, granted she's made millions guessing correctly. Though at least maybe selling some tech stuff and buying more eggs and breakfast cereal could be a good hedge against a turn.

Well, and certainly players around the League pay attention to that sorta stuff, too. It's not like players are super eager to play in the cold of Green Bay, so especially when it comes to upcoming camp-cut FAs, here's an organization which'll pay you your million-dollar bonus even if it was pretty sure you wouldn't make the team.