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I like the variety of pieces that Gard has to work with--particularly once Garlock comes back. Early in the year the optimism for playing 10-12 guys is usually ridiculous--but I actually think that will be the case for the non-con season this year. Then once the grind of the B1G season sets in by late January the rotation will be honed down to 8 or 9 guys just like it is every year. Who those guys are remains to be seen. I'd be surprised if this team doesn't end up in the top half of the conference--which should be plenty good for a Tourney bid. The team has been heavily dependent upon ball dominant All-American caliber perimeter players the last few years--I doubt that will be the case this year. Although I remember it took Boyd a month or two to find his groove last year, and Foxwell certainly looks solid. Just not THAT solid. If the defense can get back to being very good, the ceiling is fairly high for this team, but probably not Final Four high. Who knows though.

I ponied up the $13 for BIG+ for the month in order to see the first few games--and the broadcast has completely crapped out on my for the 2nd half. Anybody else have that issue? Thanks for the write-ups JFS. I had the same thoughts about guard/wing depth as you did. It's great that Carrington is back and all, but there might be some disgruntled guys at the end of the bench tween Autry, Jones, and Kinziger. Although I suppose that Kinziger will get all the backup PG minutes.

Tyler Black(listed)?

So if you assemble a team of athletic baseball players who can run, field, and wield the stick by putting the bat on the ball they can win baseball games against teams that assemble a "team" of 3TO softball players who play questionable defense? Good to know.

All we gotta do is bunt everything. Guaranteed W.

There are no weaknesses, only slightly lesser strengths than our greatest strengths.

One generation isn't THAT thin... I guess I'm not looking up the WBC by-laws and I might be conflating it with the Olympics, but doesn't one of your parents have to be citizens/first gen immigrants in order to play for a country? There is an innate proviniciality to athletics. At least in the traditional aspect of how most of America and Americans view team sports. Celebrating your roots through HEALTHY, social, communal competition is beautiful.

If it was their home opener I would kinda understand the postponement...but it's not. Radar looks like it will rain for maybe a half hour at what was the scheduled first pitch and then it looks okay after that. 71 degrees right now. I don't get it.

The guy might not even be a bench caliber MLB player--and we are already paying him likely at least a projected average FA SS wages in 2032 and 2033 and whatever the buyout would be for the option years. Sure, if the guy is an all-star it works out very good for MKE but the odds of that occurring are not very high. Again, he hasn't even succeeded at AA let alone the MLB level.

Initially I read this deal as $20M to buy out all his team control, then 2 $15M options. That would make more sense for MKE. Committing to two years of FA post team control to a guy who hasn't even succeeded at AA makes no sense to me, but I don't work in an MLB front office.

This seems at least a year too early for this. And if it's truly 8/$50M PLUS 2 $15M option years that's wild for a guy that young and unproven. I trust the FO though.

If you were REALLY good at developing 17-25 year old pitchers, would you rather work for an organization where you get to see those guys actually pitch in the majors for the team you work for or would you rather work for a team that signs Roki Sasaki and and Shohei Ohtani and trades away most of their 17-25 year old talent? I think that is one of the hidden benefits of having a quality developmental program--it's nice to see the guys you coach succeed at the MLB level for the organization that you work for. Obviously, the pay has to be "competitive".

I would take a career like this from Joey O- https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/v/vizquom01.shtml

Freddy, Wilken and Yoho for Colt Emerson? If he gets traded I think I'd want to shoot for the moon and give up some of our stacked mid-tier prospects and upgrade to a blue chipper who could be special. Nolan McLean? Bryce Eldredge? Andrew Painter?

I had a subscription through Amazon Prime. There were occasional glitches in the presentation in that the game wouldn't show up on the normal Fanduel Network subscription tab, but you could usually still find it through alternative menus or tabs.