EB

EB

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2x witness of puke on a NBA court.

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Disgusting hoops

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It doesn’t help matters that they’re starting LaVine and Hunter, neither of whom have ever had interest in secondary playmaking

The numbers on Yaxel were always pretty great and it's that jump in 3pt rate that really solidified him as a dude

Acuff is being asked to be the team’s volume shooter and has to settle for a lot of bad looks, which is the expected outcome. But they need to commit to an offensive system where he can develop his skills within that role, which is what Sabonis actions are supposed to be for. Frustrating

It doesn’t help matters that they’re starting LaVine and Hunter, neither of whom have ever had interest in secondary playmaking

Kings just won’t win many of these games where LaVine and Acuff combine to go 5/17 from deep

Acuff’s 3pt shooting continues to be my primary concern with him, and he looks quite a bit off early

I don’t know if the Giants could ever justify this to themselves, but JHL for Wacha can conceivably make sense for both sides as a mid contract swap

I also think the Royals are Extremely Weird about their trade asks for Wacha/Lugo considering how good they actually are, but

Lugo’s contract is untradeable, if he throws 163 innings next year he triggers a $20MM guaranteed option

Think about how many franchises would crater if they lost Craig Counsell and David Stearns

Well the rookie record for FGA is Wilt with 2311, which Acuff needs to average 28.2 FGA over 82 games to beat. So he probably won't get that. But the third rookie to put up 2000 FGA seems like it could very easily happen

17/12/7 first half against Clingan. That’ll play

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This is the impactful version of Sabonis that we haven’t seen since the Fox trade

LaVine somehow has 13 points. Think it says something that Sabonis’ impact is felt and LaVine’s… isn’t

I personally remember Trevor Megill for that time the Giants hit three or four nukes off him with the Cubs

This is the impactful version of Sabonis that we haven’t seen since the Fox trade

Logan Gilbert entering his last year of arbitration at $15.4MM estimated. He’s capped out at 3 fWAR but is a durable starter that gets strikeouts, so Freddy Peralta territory. Would Keyner Martinez and Gavin Kilen be enough?

Acuff is full on Cam Thomas mode this season, it’ll get them to 20+ wins, but I can’t take any of this seriously until Doug is gone

Kings simply need Acuff to get more looks from playing off ball. Maybe we’ll see that when Monk is able to play. But he wasn’t much of an iso scorer in college and did really well on catch and shoot opportunities.

Sabonis gets a casual double double with 4 minutes left in the second quarter. The rest of the team?

Not much of a fan of Sabonis being the only one to bring the ball up the court with pace so far

Yeah

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The Kuminga saga ends with the Warriors moving him for an expiring suffering a health condition that might spontaneously end his season at any moment Should’ve just taken Monk and the first, man

Paul George looked fantastic last season and it’s the least surprising thing ever that he’s meshing into the Boston system well

SF RP threw the most SI/4S in MLB in 2026 (0.2% more than CHW). So you'd expect their bullpen reinforcements to have a good fastball. FA LHRP who grade out well on Stuff+: Milner and Hill thx to funk, Morejon, Vesia, Alvarado, Minter, Burke, T. Alexander, J. Romero, Soto, Strahm

Say SF plan is: Kenley Jansen, Brock Burke, keep Hentges, sign Tim Hill to NRI. Does that satisfy bullpen needs? That's probably an ~$18MM plan, which would mean near to or above a $200MM payroll before addressing the two holes in the rotation.

Bader and Houser combined $24MM looms large here. Get off half of that and you effectively only need to add one starter signing to the payroll. Means an open 5th spot that should go to Birdsong in the 2nd half. Then again, a better manager would turn that spot into bullpen games.

Smith and Gaddis giving up bombs after being used a million times this month?

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Vogt has had so much success out of the gate that the chronic weirdness of his bullpen management hasn't gotten enough scrutiny

His 4-seam sat 96.5 MPH in his appearance tonight, t98.0. Only threw one slider at 83, but had a few changeups btwn 89-91

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Randy Rodríguez's first appearance since TJS:

Tampa Bay on the verge of their 3rd WS appearance in 19 years. Not bad for a small market team 🤷‍♂️