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It sounds like Wisconsin committed to significantly upping their recruiting budget for next season - it sounds like they've been way behind and they believe it has strongly hampered Fickell's ability to recruit. In the pre-NIL era, they were ok recruiting wise, but not in the new era.

Maybe, but with the talent they lost to the draft, especially on the DL (where they haven't recruited as well (relatively) and LB , there were definitely questions of whether they would be as good as last year. As skeptical as I was about Patricia, he has drawn nothing but rave reviews from the players for how he has utilized their talents and worked around them compared to Knowles trying to force the players to play in his system. It's shocking to see how flexible Patricia has been and made the defense considerably better than last year, even if last year's was more talented (which I think it was)

Correction, the only portal is Jan 2-15. Still during the playoff which makes no sense to me.

Bichette is terrible at SS. If we are talking at 2nd or 3rd, maybe, but he is not a good SS. He also has really slow batspeed which historically has led to people falling off rapidly shortly after age 30. I don't see him as a super fit long term, nor do I think he would come here if Toronto makes him a competitive offer.

Yeah, I wanted him last year, but it doesn’t make near as much sense now.

The tiebreaker is very unlikely to come up with the Packers. Only way is if we have a tie.

I don’t see where his market is this year. Last year it was us and Boston, and I don’t see us in it for him this year. IIRC we were at 6 and 162-so 26/yr. I think the Boston deferrals actually got his AAV close to that. They gave the opt out after 1, we offered after 2. I personally don’t know if he will top that in present value (including last year) as I think his market has shrunk even more. Houston doesn’t have the $ now that to have Correa back. Maybe NYY? But they usually try and reset the luxury tax.

Can’t do that when the transfer portal is in December now.

His deal with the Red Sox had significant deferrals making it more like $30 mil/yr.

Maybe no one else was close to those years/$ and he wanted it done rather than drag on?

Rainey resigned to a minor league deal. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/11/tigers-re-sign-tanner-rainey-to-minor-league-contract.html

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From the Athletic, it sounds like Tatsuya Imai wants to carve out his own place apart from the Dodgers. “Of course, I’d enjoy playing alongside Ohtani, Yamamoto and Sasaki,” Imai told the former Boston Red Sox and New York Mets starter, “But winning against a team like that and becoming a World Champion would be the most valuable thing in my life. If anything, I’d rather take them down.” “If there were another Japanese player on the same team, I could just ask them about anything, right?” Imai said. “But that’s actually not what I’m looking for. In a way, I want to experience that sense of survival. When I come face-to-face with cultural differences, I want to see how I can overcome them on my own — that’s part of what I’m excited about.” Maybe Harris will make a push for him?

It was primarily Awosika that was the issue. He gave up 2 of the 3 sacks and a number of quick pressures. Hopefully Frazier is getting ready until Mahogany comes back.

And I am the complete nemesis of most on here as I grew up an Ohio State fan and still am, but am now more a ND fan. So last year was a lot of fun.

Welcome to the light 🤪. I was actually never a fan until my son went there.

I definitely think they need to make a push for a #2/3. I am hoping they don’t go for a guy with huge injury concerns for that.

No, just that there is likely a reason he went for so little when his profile is exactly what the Orioles are supposedly looking for.

Maybe not even quite that good. He did get Melton, Vest, and Hurter, and but he didn’t even average 2 players per draft who had multiple full mlb seasons.

In 2022, we could have had our SS if Avila would have listened to his scouts. TBF, when you add in Skubal, Carpenter, Kieth, Meadows, and a few other pitchers, he did ok in the later rounds, but other than the top 5 picks he struggled in the first, and 2022 is exceptionally rough when the scouts supposedly wanted Neto and Avila overrode them.

The Orioles are supposedly open to trading controllable OF bats for controllable pitching. Why would they trade Grayson for 1 yr of an OF if they didn’t have significant concerns about his health?

If the Orioles, who are desperate for controllable pitching were willing to make that trade, there must still be a lot of issues in his medicals.

I don’t think Avila was as bad as some do. I even think he wanted to get us on the right track as far as analytics, development, etc, but he clearly was over his head. Harris has completely revamped the development system which has allowed some of Al’s picks to make their impact. Meadows was stuck. At this time last year most wanted Tork gone. Same with Mize. And if you want to use Harris’ FA signings against him, who did Al get in FA? Zimmerman? Upton? Pelfrey?

I think it's much less likely if they want to give Keith and McGonigle consistent time, let alone Anderson.

Yeah, I don't get it at all from OSU and am very thankful UM and USC came against this.