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  1. Oxy
    Yeah, there are quite a few top 150 type '24 recruits UW is targeting who seem to be fairly high on UW. Only need a couple of them to commit to have a nice class.
  2. Oxy
    Do you mean Jon Scheyer?
  3. Oxy
    We've been tagging on to last years thread for awhile, but it's clearly time for a fresh new post-Johnny iteration of UW basketball. A solid core of Chucky, Wahl and Crowl should keep the floor relatively high for this crew. Essegian and Klesmit seem like they could really step into an outside gunner type of role, which this team really needs. Hodges or Ilver or Gilmore need to step up to at least be defensively competent and not turnover machines in order to give Crowl a little rest and protect him from foul trouble. It should be fun as always. I'd be more surprised if they missed the Tournament than if they won the conference, but there are way too many unknowns on both this team and throughout the B1G to really say anything with any sort of confidence. I found it odd that The Athletic picked them 9th in the league, but also were the only team with 2 guys picked on the 2 deep preseason all-conference team (Chucky and Wahl). Of course neither were on the 1st team, but still. They were picked 10th last year and finished 1st in a theoretically MUCH tougher league. Let the games begin.
  4. Oxy
    Wong and Box are really the only interesting cases. The others should be compared to the FA market. Box should be nearly a no-brainer to retain at $3M. He's been nails. Wong is probably gone...too many errors for a defense first 2B....just very little upside there, even if the downside is relatively high as well...it's just not high enough after what I've seen with his glove this year. Wrong side of 32 for Wong next year.
  5. Oxy
    Wong and Box are really the only interesting cases. The others should be compared to the FA market. Box should be nearly a no-brainer to retain at $3M. He's been nails. Wong is probably gone...too many errors for a defense first 2B....just very little upside there, even if the downside is relatively high as well...it's just not high enough after what I've seen with his glove this year. Wrong side of 32 for Wong next year.
  6. Oxy
    If lockdown, absolute historically great stud relievers aren't worth very much, then I'd hope Stearns could trade for guys like Seranthony Dominguez, Emmanuel Clase, Jonathan Hernandez and Camilo Doval rather than Matt Bush and Trevor Rosenthal.
  7. Oxy
    LOL. I actually like Melvin too (more than most in BF past, anyway), but Stearns is light-years better than old Dougie. As others have stated, why is "the deadline" important? Stearns has proven to make great deals and signings throughout the year. Adames, Urias, Lauer, Renfroe, Yelich, Tellez, Narvaez, Caratini....pretty much the entire team is here because of his moves, and this team should make the playoffs for the 5th straight year.
  8. Oxy
    I still think DFAing Suter should have been the move. Lamet might still have a future while Suter is purely a scrub/mop-up guy about to turn 33. He's likeable though, and a great clubhouse guy. Which might make him a great bullpen coach or clubhouse advisor or something.
  9. Oxy
    All I can figure is that the bullpen IS more flexible now. Hader's demanding to only be used in the 9th in save situations was pretty annoying...especially when he has 2-5 games where he completely blows up. We can't afford that in October.
  10. Oxy
    If it was only about Ruiz and Gasser, it seems like this move could have been made in the offseason and we could have kept Hader for the rest of this season's run. Oh well. Hopefully Rogers is a stud.
  11. Oxy
    No, it's the 40 man. However, McCalvy cleared it up with the service time explanation.
  12. Oxy
    I don't understand. We value Jonathan Davis, Trevor Kelley, Jason Alexander and Peter Strzelecki on the 40 man more than Dinelson Lamet? Heck, Perdomo, Milner and Suter seem vulnerable too...
  13. Oxy
    I was never a big fan of Luke Pat
  14. Oxy
    good point?
  15. Oxy
    Ugh. Watson is fine, but I don't like the trade one bit. Vikes will prolly take Pierce or Pickens who might be better than Watson anyway AND get another starting caliber guy.
  16. Oxy
    #53 Pickens/Watson/Tolbert/Mafe/Ojabo #59 Kinnard/Salyer/Jurgens/D Jackson/Nik Bonitto #93 Jelani Woods #132 Tyquon Thornton/Velus Jones/Bo Melton
  17. Oxy
    Gutekunst/Packers have almost always "reached" for guys...and then been proven to be pretty dang good drafters (other than the BIG ONE-Love). Good luck to all you prognosticators. I'll just watch the games
  18. Oxy
    Granato is a better recruiter than Eaves but Eaves was probably the better coach. It sounds like the basketball team and the hockey team need to adopt the strength of each other....
  19. Oxy
    They signed Moose and Grandal before the season, and had young pitching coming up. It's easier to accumulate lots of cheap arms and cycle through them than it is cheap bats and "cycle" through them. I think it is a sound sustainable strategy for the 4 and 5 spots in the rotation, but you need 3 reliable starters anyway. Woodruff's injury really put a crimp on the staff though.
  20. Oxy
    Faria and Pomeranz have the capability to start as well--although they aren't likely to turn into guys who will consistently give you 7 strong innings. Neither is Lyles. But when you add them together along with Houser, Burnes, Peralta, Chacin and Gio (not to mention Woody, Davies and Anderson), you have a LOT of guys with the capability to give you 3-5 strong innings to cycle through and to see who steps up during the stretch run and the playoffs. The competition to make the playoffs as well as the playoff roster will be fierce and hopefully bring out the best in a few of these guys. We don't need all of them, but we do need some of them to really get hot at the right time. The fact that none of them are big name/big salary guys means that we aren't tied down to anybody in particular. We don't have to stick with a guy who is fatigued or slightly injured or falling apart at the wrong time.
  21. Oxy
    Odd that SF kept Smith and Bumgarner but cleaned out the rest of their bullpen. They must be working on extensions with those two (still coulda traded them though).
  22. Oxy
    Sure you can! I did!
  23. Oxy
    Make a commitment to get all the way through season 1 of GoT. Takes a bit to get all the families and characters straight. I watched my first episode about a month ago. It's EXACTLY how I thought it would be, and that's not a compliment. I kept watching til the middle of season 3 because I wanted more of the characters (except for the Stark kids) to die, but they never did. Soulless fantasy porn devoid of any redeeming qualities. The sheer hollowness of substance in GoT is rivaled only by outer space and the bookshelves of 20th century philosophers. I've met strains of streptococcus that have more heart than any character in that show.
  24. Oxy
    Since nobody has mentioned the OA, I'll mention the OA. A quirky mix of sci-fi meta-storytelling and social para-psychology with some multi-dimensional and/or new age malarkey thrown in. If you like M Night Shyamalan's stuff, you'll probably like The OA. Brit Marling has a very strange intelligent crazy cat-lady vibe to all her that is both enchanting and revolting. She's made a bunch of interesting indie movies over the last 10 years (along with Zat Batmanglij and Mike Cahill; The Sound of My Voice, Another Earth, The East, I, Origins) and many of the themes from those movies come together in the OA. It's one of those things that might be over-the-top pretentious, but I can't stop watching. The last episode in season 1 has the most ridiculous climax of a show I've ever seen. Season 2 gets weirder, but also actually explains a lot of the crazy loose ends that you are sifting around throughout all of season 1.
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