CheezWizHed

Consummate team player! 😬

Now go get all of the Cubs team!

Nice to join late to a 6-0 lead!

Personally, I think of it as a win-win. Bauers accepts the QO: Woody comes off the books and Bauers takes that money. Pair him with Luke Adams (if they guy can stay healthy) and trade Vaughn (which frees up $8M). Bauers declines the QO: We get a draft pick, Vaughn stays for his last year of arbitration, and you pair him with Blake Burke. Might still have Adams at 3B and you have the $18M ($23M minus the $5M raise to Vaughn) to spend somewhere else.

Harrison had a great off day yesterday...

Two things: Those four players mentioned... ALL of them were good acquisitions. No, Khris for Kuz was a bad player trade off, but the trade did much more for getting the Bucks under the second apron so they had the ability to make other moves. Herro and Turner are valuable assets...just not in the Buck's team-rebuild window. LeVert looks like a useful player that we got in a salary dump for table scraps. So if these are your examples of how Horst is a bad GM, you have bad examples. Trying to bring in talent and make trades with Giannis on the team is much harder than people remember. Not only does he consume a huge part of the cap with his salary, he did as much damage with trying to keep him happy (signing his brothers, getting the bad coach he wanted...twice, constantly trying to stretch his playoff window...). I think there is a reason why LeBron keeps changing teams... the superstars suck the resources of a team dry and then when they can't build around them anymore, they move on. Interesting to note that LeBron only won two championships while with the heat. And that took him leaving in FA, forming a super trio and won in back-to-back years. Something that could've easily happened with the Bucks (or even 3 years) if it wasn't for health reasons with Giannis-Mids-Holiday trio. Of course Lebron left for Cleveland for a single championship and then had to leave for LA for a single championship. I think we are going to find out that Horst is a better GM than we give him credit for...

Lara has slumped pretty hard in the last month.. I'd send him down to AAA to get regular ABs. See if Sal can regain some of his 2025 magic for a few weeks. Then reconsider the best roster for the playoffs.

I think there is a huge potential for mid-season trades here. I'm higher on Turner than you.... I think he didn't mesh with Giannis very well (which we saw a few times unfortunately...). Give them a few months to play well with the youngsters and flip them. With the ability to take on bad contracts (shorter ones), you could really refill the draft coffers. Then in 2027 you clear Herro's ($33M), Turner ($27M), Kuz ($20M) and LeVert($15M) and the slate is pretty clean to build on.

The way Miz and Harrison have trended in this second half of the season is concerning...

That is why we like him there....

In order to come up at all, he would need to be on the 40-man roster. That would switch his service time from MiLB to MLB. If next year has a lock out, they'd lose a year of service with him.

Now, that is the one I really think is a long shot... unless he suddenly signs a 10-year contract. I'd be willing to lose a year of Adams if there is a lockout next year, but it would hurt to lose a year of Made if he doesn't sign a long contract right away.

Nashville Sounds place 3B Luke Adams on the 7-day injured list. And there is the main problem with Luke - staying healthy. Terrible timing for him too. Both he and Jett are injured right at the time they could be useful...

Sounds like a little of both. Belton not being consistent and Monk improving. Honestly, I would've put money down that Monk wasn't going to make the team this year and he is challenging for a starting spot. Pretty surprising after 2 years of nothing. I'd still bet on Belton being the starter.... I'm guessing they are lighting a fire under his butt and making sure he knows they aren't just giving him the job.