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  1. Danchat
    I don't get the Oliver move... the dude has been healthy for one full season and is not a receiving threat, and yet gets $7M a year and $10M guaranteed. That’s a bigger contract than LB TJ Edwards (3/19.5), C Ethan Pocic (3/18), and C Bradley Bozeman (3/18)!! They have so many needs to fill and blow too much on a blocking TE who has one nice year under his belt? Yikes. Maybe I’m missing something here. I guess they're ready to go 2 TE heavy sets, and our run blocking was quite bad last year so Oliver should help there. I just don't get why he commanded $7M a year when I would have guessed he'd get 1/$3M. They've got so many other holes to fix, and instead make a luxury signing. I’m getting some serious John Carlson deja vu…
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    Only the Twins were allowed to make him an offered because they paid the posting fee... unless you are saying they bid against nobody for that fee?
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    Moore is a #1 WR, he's just been held back by Carolina's terrible play. While Fields isn't going to solve that problem, it makes their offense harder to stop... now with Moore, Mooney, Claypool, and Kmet as weapons to throw to, the Bears offense could be pretty good if Fields can step forward as a better passer. I dunno, that's a fantastic return for the Bears. Moore is worth a 1st on his own, so they got 3 1sts and 2 2nds for moving down 8 spots. That's a heck of a move for them.
  4. Danchat
    Dantzler cut is surprising since he couldn’t fetch a late rounder, but I had Cam getting moved for a 6th in my offseason guide so I’m not shocked he’s gone. PFF likes him, but he fell into Zimmer and Ed’s doghouse and likely wasn’t going to fare any better with Flores. Folks, this isn’t a rebuild. These are typical moves for a new regime to make, I just thought they’d do more of this last year. They’re gearing up to spend $$$ on free agents and clearing out the old regime’s holdovers.
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    I thought Smith would take a pay cut, a release would be a surprise. With ZaDarius unlikely to be back, the defense is about as barren as it can get… seems like they’re preparing to make several FA moves. Looks like I need to update my avatar, seeing how both players are no longer on Minnesota teams.
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    There’s been zero talk of Cousins to the Jets… you’d think teams would want him if he’s as great as the Kirk stand say he is, but I don’t think the Jets think he is going to get them over the hump.
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    They had to pay the posting fee, which research shows was $12.85M.
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    That's a concern, as the NFLPA is giving him guidance and some think that they are part of the reason why he's asking for a 100% guaranteed deal, the players want the NFL to become more like the other leagues. The reports I read said that his knee just wasn't healing. It was a PCL sprain, which tend to be on the milder side of knee injuries, but sometimes it happens. I don't question his toughness. Reminds me of Sam Bradford... However, there was some scuttlebutt that other players on the team were frustrated with him, and I believe he didn't show up to their playoff game in January... lol, there's an article about Michael Vick calling him out for it. There seems to be more going on behind the scenes. That is true, though Mark Andrews is a stud. Their plan at WR last year was dumb, they need to go heavy on investing in WRs. Good thing it's a historically bad WR crop in free agency and a below-average WR crop in the draft...
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    Lamar Jackson can be whisked away for 2 1sts on the non-exclusive franchise tag. No team has reached out, as talk is that he wants a fully guaranteed deal like Watson’s, something like $250M. For a guy who has not been able to finish a season healthy since 2020, that’s a lot to ask. Some are crying collusion, but the Watson deal is not something other teams actually want to do. On Jones, the Giants should have played chicken and let him realize that his price tag would be lower after he hit the market. Its insane he’s now only a few mill a year under Mahomes and Allen now.
  10. Danchat
    Was the price for Castillo that much? I remember commenting in the Other Baseball thread saying that I thought the deal came relatively cheap, but I don't remember the details. I'll have to go back and take a look.
  11. Danchat
    He became a minor league free agent at the end of 2022 and sat around for a bit, until the Twins signed him. If other teams thought anything of him, he’d been signed in an instant.
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    Oof.
  13. Danchat
    It’s hard to believe they are down to pay Pagan $3.5M… and yet wouldn’t offer Fulmer $4M. And a couple years back they wouldn’t take Wisler for $1M.
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    Great to see Pagan in midseason form!
  15. Danchat
    I hope they have a plan to relieve Pagan and Megill... and when the injuries inevitably hit.
  16. Danchat
    O'Neill's cap hits could get up to $23M / $25M the next two seasons if you go for the max restructure... so I'd rather not push his salary back too far. The point of the plan was to differentiate from my past two years where I did just that - I traded away Kirk both times, so I feel like it would have been same-y to just do that again, so instead I tried a "all-in" plan. They traded for Hockenson with the intention to extend him, and good TEs can play into their 30s. I think Hock is a good one, so even in a nuclear reboot they should extend him. The alternative is to trade him for less draft capital than what you traded him for at the deadline last year, which doesn't make a lot of sense.
  17. Danchat
    Yup, Rojas was a 2.5 WAR player at SS for Miami last year despite a .605 OPS, and the previous three years combined he was a .732 OPS hitter. He is a fine replacement and Farmer is not an improvement... not to mention, we need him. Gordon is an outfielder who can handle himself at 2B, but is not going to be playing SS again in the majors.
  18. Danchat
    I wrote an extensive Offseason Guide on what the Vikings might do - you can find it here, but here's a preview:
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    I think we found our next Rand Ball Stu article!! 😜 I can see it now: Squirrel accused of the assault on Balazovic
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    I don't see them eating $2M after he spends a month with the team, the plan seems to be that he will be a bench bat.
  21. Danchat
    Analytics suggest bad/mediocre starters shouldn’t go more than 5. Just wait for when our starters start going deeper into games, folks here will claim “Rocco has turned a new leaf!”, but in reality it will be because he has a quality rotation of arms he can trust.
  22. Danchat
    Agreed, I've been high on Alcala but he was trash for a good portion of 2021, they never demoted him but he certainly deserved it. I'm also going to need to see more than just 18 good innings to declare him a good reliever.
  23. Danchat
    I said at the start of free agency that it feels like our FA money is always spent on hitters... and here we are, they've spent 100% of their FA money on hitters, only adding Lopez's salary via a trade. I'm not complaining, just pointing it out.
  24. Danchat
    This feels like a stopgap for Polanco potentially leaving... or not being healthy, I guess. It's hard to say what's up, but seeing as how he's played a lot of 2B and Farmer is more likely to back up 3B/SS, it seems like they are expecting someone in the starting lineup to be out. Yeah, there doesn't seem to be much faith in the prospects. Julien is close but clearly not close enough to prevent a signing like this, and neither is Austin Martin.
  25. Danchat
    I'm had some negative things to say about Twins players/prospects lately... but Rodriguez is a stud and I think he's still underrated. Dude's got a massive ceiling. Just stay healthy, please!
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