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not necessarily. Sometimes you do get an outlier contract that other owners won't match for a while. Didn't it take quite some some for anyone to match ARods Rangers contract? I wouldn't bet on my memory here but I thought ARod's Ranger deal had remained MLB's largest right up until the Yankees extension to him. the other 300M deals are Harper and Machado - those deals probably look better than Lindor's about now.

Had to go there?

I don't think any of these guys want not to pay shortstop. I suppose there is some dollar level to make them love 2b, but a team offering the 6 is likely going to have the edge.

It would be no surprise if the Yankees that set the top of the market, but once they are done, will anyone else follow? That last one or two guys may end up waiting it out till ST.

yeah but a floor a long way from Lindor. Semien was older but was arguably the most productive in 19 and 21

of course ARod was 24 at the time. Funny thing is that as reviled as that contract was at the time, ARod paid off on it for the whole 10 yrs it would have been in force (Technically it ended after 7 when the Yankees bought out the last 3 yrs with a new deal)

Marlin's ink Avisail Garcia for 4yrs. Congrats to next yrs NL east winner. ...and keep the women locked up.....

If Semien signed for under 200M that would seem a big nail in the coffin for any 300M contracts being offered.

Geez, it's too bad Stroud is not available. Impressive kid. I think he made maybe 2 bad throws yesterday even with all that pressure? And in pretty crappy conditions.

I wanted them to go after Simmons when he was available in the past. If the Tigers had never committed in public to the '22 SS sweepstakes and had gone to ST with Barnhardt, Rodrizquez, Simmons and another good arm, I'd have to say I thought they had had a good off season. But they've set their own bar higher than that so now they need to clear it! Simmons is actually the perfect guy if they really did have a prospect to try to break in. At 32+ he's probably going to be more successful not playing everyday.

Earlier this month Blashill said something to the effect of even under the best of circumstance they would run into the Olympics before he could be ready but even then he didn't say anything in particular about how Vrana was doing.

right. So it breaks nicely for UM to get to the title game if they beat Iowa as they won't have to face Georgia ( who the odds seem to be will handle Alabama) till then.

LOL - if they end up with Simmons, Kreidler better be an all-star by 2023.

that seems to be the meme in the US, celebrating incompetence and failure - look at Trump! OTOH, you could say the left has itself at least partially to blame for that particular excess on the part of the right, as it was the left that first started equating all success with exploitation.

read this site and you'd have your news two days sooner that "Media-Ite"

a break through there maybe....🤔

I'm just spitballing since you asked. I am the most casual of arm-chair GMs (). It's mostly that as I look more closely at the other guys I see less daylight between them and the conventional wisdom's take that Correa is better than the rest. Since FOs are looking a lot closer than I am, I guess I assume that if a casual closer look makes me trend in one direction, that trend could be holding even at the data levels where the team operate.

IDK - if the Yankees really want Seager maybe. Supposedly the Rangers are willing to break the piggy bank for Correa (echoes of the ARod signing?) so we'll see.

The longer this sweepstakes goes on and the finer the lens we start looking at all these guys with, the less I will be surprised if Correa does not get the biggest deal. I'd still give him the odds, but I think they are down form where they started.

OSU had had a good match all year with their O and D. Their pass D is much better than their run D, but since their O was good enough to get out to leads against other teams, they didn't face too much determined running all year. That's been their MO under Day for a while now. Michigan ended up the nightmare matchup for them exactly because the pass rush made it just hard enough for their passing game that they couldn't ever put M out of the run game. You might even think Harbaugh and MacDonald sat down and thought about how to build a team to beat them........ It was interesting to watch OSU's linebacker alignment. They started narrowing their sets and then at one point M gashed them for two consecutive outside runs, first one side (Corum's first touch I think) then they came right back to the other side and beat them around it as well. After that OSU generally kept the OLBs wider and just reigned themselves to trying to keep M running to the middle as the lesser evil.

Could be that - for pretty much the same reasons I would see him as the worst fit for Detroit because we all assume (because he talks about it all the time!) Al is looking for plus D for his young pitchers and even now Seager has a fairly average glove compared to the other 4. And since he would be such a good fit for NYY.....

I can see a team not wanting to change a scheme to draft one player. Even if he is a stud is he really going to bring enough to balance how much it might cost you in the performance of all your existing players who were picked for fit the current scheme? Now that is a general consideration. The Lions have so few players worth anything in the front 7 it would be perfectly reasonable to pick one great player when he's available and rebuild around the scheme that best fits him. Will Holmes/Campbell see Hutchinson (or Thibs) as that guy?

this. These are all very good ball players, all capable of putting up 5-6 WAR seasons. The last SSs we had that gave us a 6 WAR season were Trammell (6 times) Guillen (once) and we averaged 92 wins when they did.

I don't know if it was good or bad to see Harbaugh at his old weird self in that post game. He jumped up and walked out on the rest of the presser immediately after he said that BTW.

Yzerman has hit homeruns with Raymond and Seider and maybe with Edvinsson, but we're going to need to get more than one guy from those drafts...