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Great. Now we're going to have PRC Unification terrorists?

I've seen an argument that scouting tech is so much better today and that college ball quality is better so that bad misses are supposedly less frequent. Then again, what constitutes a 'miss'? Injuries are always a wild card. If Mize washes out because of arm trouble, that doesn't mean he didn't have the talent to be a successful major leaguer, he's already demonstrated that. Adley Rutschman and Tork both look to be on track, Mize made the majors, Royce Lewis is now up with the Twins, Danby Swanson is a plus player, Mickey Moniak is in the majors but not looking line much right now, so assuming Tork straightens out that's 6 of 7 recent 1/1s without a confirmed bust.

No, Rays haven't hit a ton, but good starts from McClanahan and Rasmussen.

Schoop has hit in 8 of his last 10 games but even that is a bare minimum 8/32. Could be evidence he's coming around, or it could just be evidence that he's gonna plateau at <700 OPS.

a lot more on Russian manpower situation in this podcast https://warontherocks.com/2022/05/counter-attacks-and-can-kicking-in-the-russo-ukrainian-war/ an interesting point Kofman details is that unlike the US Military, that trains inductees at dedicated training bases, the Russian army is structured to largely do their training inside their active divisional forces, but that means when their forces are under pressure, suffering losses, having to be reconstituted etc., the training function is pretty much 1st to be thrown overboard.

if you look back at the complete list of #1 picks the painful thing is the number of busts in taken in the top 10. That they haven't had a bust in a top 10 since Jacob Turner is actually a big improvement over the previous 40 yrs. But of course while you can't call any of them busts now, the jury is out on Tork, Greene and Jobe and even Manning for that matter and one of them could flame out.

Luka is easy to like, but can't root for Cuban so tough call. 🙄

Maybe that. Since I don't think Yzerman is a ditherer, can only surmise that whoever he is pursuing is either still playing or playing hard to get.

Stellan Skarsgard. Under-rated.

I don't think he was going to have a detailed diagnosis until today. Generically a 'broken finger' is about a month

2nd set because I don't see him being less than a month. I also should have added Kreidler. Of course that need depends a lot on whether Candelario starts earning his keep more consistently. Greene could surprise and be here by the 2nd week in June.... EDIT: Candelario is 754OPS since May 1, so I guess he is coming back some, but the glove??

need back list in order 1st set: Manning, Meadows, Reyes 2nd set: Greene, Pineda. Can only hope or matter less set: Mize, Alexander, Cisnero, Funk

Just read that the parishioners in the Laguna church overpowered the shooter. And they did it without needing a gun of their own. Which only goes to illustrate that what matters is the level of offensive firepower brought to the scene. Buffalo vs Laguna show that without turning every street corner into a military base, the 'good guy with a gun' scenario is *always* subject to negation by a determined perp with more firepower and initiative. Sane people need to understand how foolish their belief is in that scenario as a mode of public safety - if any sane people still believe it.

The Ukrainians seem to be banking on exactly that, planning to keep grinding up Russian units until the Russian army reaches a point of rapid collapse.

I have to wonder if the term "athletic" has reached a point of misuse in the NBA.

definitely. Last season we had parked East of Woodward at a game - probably the Ford Field lot, and decided to go down Beaubien to Jefferson to pick up the Lodge and the area past the casino was pretty much a zoo.

Not sure if he is a bad guy or just lacks filters, which doesn't necessarily matter practically once what's said is said. He can also be pretty funny.

you figure in a game like that Calgary would eventually get caught overcommitted and give up a winning odd-man rush, but Dallas was completely inept.

well, that may have been about as alone as a goalie has had to play since Hasek's days in Buffalo....

Dallas defense seemed to waver some after the 15 min mark but Calgary couldn't score. OT. Nutty game.

if he does need it he needs to have it soon to be back in '24. Can't screw around until this off season. That said the report was out there that the imaging didn't support that surgery was needed, for now that's all we got.

you need enough pitching to survive exactly what they are going through now, but I agree, collecting pitching with the idea of trading it doesn't work well because you can neither showcase nor sit on starting pitchers, they have to be in your rotation or not - there is no way to platoon them until you make a deal, and you can't be sure of a AAA pitcher's value until he pitches in the majors if you trade the major leaguers in front of him. It's not really a squarable circle. What you can do is fill in with guys like Pineda who you can move at the deadline (assuming they stay healthy) to make room for your guys as they come up and recover some assets that way.

the only ignorance here is on the part of those who lack any understanding of tactical realties when bullets start flying in civilian spaces.

Losing Pineda is going to stress everything because he was going eat a lot of innings - more than Mize probably. Manning looks like he's back after one more pass through the rotation. Alexander - who knows if he could have held down his spot if he had stayed healthy. I don't really expect Brieske to hang on but either he or Faedo is going to have to. Still seems the logical thing to do is stretch out Peralta - or you have to give Elvin Rodriguez a shot maybe? Really long shot would be to work Fulmer back into starting if Vest, Soto and Chafin are holding down the backend, but that just doesn't seem to me like a move they would make.

I also would guess they thought Mayer was(is) going to end up at 3rd and if they took him 1st it had to be to stay at SS. They also made big SS signings with Santana and Osorio. In fact as you note, you have to count internationals. TBF, they've gone after a lot of position players internationally (as above), and considering that's where something like 30% of players are coming from, it's incomplete to just look at the domestic draft and say they are necessarily overly pitcher centric. Pitchers are half the roster in today's game, in the long run that equates to half the picks.