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I'm an estimator by profession. That's close enough!

How many years does Mahle have left on his deal?

These threads should have an audio function for such occasions.

News should travel faster... ...or slower so that I don't know that I'm waiting for anything.

Would you like to borrow my torch or pitchfork?

My question would be "why?" Corner types are what this team has an abundance of. Bringing one back for a longer duration makes no sense.

Most, eh? I'll just grab my torch and pitchfork now then! I find it best to be prepared!

I like this quite a bit. Good cadre of players going back to Baltimore, but they didn't give up a lot of quality so they still have plenty of pieces to make more moves.

I've mentioned this before, but my pre-season take was that the youth of the organization would determine how far this team goes. That's still true. I don't think that they intended to be leading the division for most of the year to this point. I think they tried to keep the valley as shallow as possible and worked to set up a good run next year, but I don't think they planned on being as competitive as they have this season. The Correa signing was a win/win in any situation. They needed a SS, potentially for just one season. They signed him to a deal that I don't think anyone seriously sees playing out to completion. The Lewis injury complicates that considerably. But the way the staff was built does not scream WS title contender at all. Injuries have decimated that plan in my view, but it wasn't set up to do a lot of damage in the first place. Partly due to injury, partly due to ineffectiveness, I don't think the pitching evolved they way that had hoped. With all of that, you have this strange dichotomy of an absolutely brutal division that leads to a pretty average team leading the division for 4 months to this point. So they've put themselves in a situation where they find themselves on the doorstep of a divisional title, an IL full of trade chips and guys that they'd hoped to contribute now, and in serious need of pitching help. I'm not sure that they completely failed, I just don't think the season has played out in a way that they saw it unfolding. The injuries this team has suffered the last couple of seasons is astounding and has impacted organizational depth, but they haven't really had many, if any, minor league players jump up and fill a void when needed either.

This team, somehow, is sitting in first place of a division. It should do what it needs to do to at the very least stay there. I don't think I'm mortgaging the future unless something really blows me away, but I'm fighting for this year anyway. I didn't expect them to be in this position, and I didn't expect to be typing anything like this at this point, but I am. Gotta go for it even though I don't believe they'll go anywhere in the postseason. But you gotta get there even to do that, so...

At this point, DFA makes the most sense if a taker can't be found. Even with Kirilloff out, there are more productive pieces that shouldn't be taken out of the lineup for him. And he's not in the long term plans, so the time has probably come to go separate ways.

Oh, but the inexperience factor. I don't know...

It's been at least a fortnight since I've had one.

Also a plus.

A plus.

Ah, the joy of music festivals!

Too bad that paper cuts are far more rare in a digital format.

By the powers vested in me by nobody, I dub thee Confucius of the Game Thread!

In fairness, I'm guilty of that too. It's usually when I don't have time or only have my phone to find the answer. Not always ideal.

Fair clarification, but he has done it before.

Who's on stage at the moment?

Other than the 18 other times he's done it, never.

I haven't seen anything official, but I have to imagine that is the case. Edit: @Mike Sixel had the actual answer!

The trade rumors or Legs?