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HeisenBaez said:
Like I said the Reds are prime to fade away.
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Not with all that young talent. De La Cruz, McClain, Steer, Encarnacion-Strand, Benson, Etc….they’re loaded in terms of young position players with offensive upside and there’s some talented young pitching as well. They’ll be very good in the coming years, much like Baltimore.
 
I’m fascinated by this group of players the Cubs have assembled, it’s a very dangerous lineup when you really step back and look at it in totality.

Maybe not a true superstar or anyone putting up MVP caliber #s, but a crazy amount of depth. We’re talking 10 guys(now with the acquisition of Candelario) that have roughly around 40-55RBI and double digits in both 2B and HR, and very strong on base %s. Solid OPS, nobody under .720. Most right around .800. No easy outs.

And as of this very moment they’re scorching.
 
SimpleJack said:
Not with all that young talent. De La Cruz, McClain, Steer, Encarnacion-Strand, Benson, Etc….they’re loaded in terms of young position players with offensive upside and there’s some talented young pitching as well. They’ll be very good in the coming years, much like Baltimore.
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Defensively and pitching they suck ass. No fear of the Reds.

This year they'll fade but in the coming years get their pitching and defense figure, they will be scary.
 
HeisenBaez said:
Defensively and pitching they suck ass. No fear of the Reds.

This year they'll fade but in the coming years get their pitching and defense figure, they will be scary.
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The Reds for me are firmly in the "I'll believe it when I see it" side of baseball teams. They've had good talent before and never seem to pay them or keep them, etc. Or develop them.

The Reds this year sound like last year's Seattle - the latest "they're loaded with young talent and this is the start of something". Nope, like I said I'll believe it when I see it.
 
belfour30 said:
That's 1.5M each year through 2033.
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Yeah the money is a wash. Just depends on if Jerry wants to push some of those payments to the next owner after he passes (going out on a limb that he wont be alive 11 more years).

If I'm the Sox, I probably pick up his option. It's doing Liam a solid and they can use him for some positive PR next year, which this team desperately needs
 
Sarava said:
Yeah the money is a wash. Just depends on if Jerry wants to push some of those payments to the next owner after he passes (going out on a limb that he wont be alive 11 more years).

If I'm the Sox, I probably pick up his option. It's doing Liam a solid and they can use him for some positive PR next year, which this team desperately needs
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Awful idea and definitely won't happen. They need the 40 man spot.
 
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Been an interesting morning for those who have been following this, but sure sounds like we're not far off from adding Oregon and Washington to the Big Ten.
 
Big Twelve's all but dead now. All that's left to find out which join the Big Ten (Stanford and Cal), which join the Big 12 (ASU and Utah), and which are stuck up shit creek (OSU and WSU).
 
OhCaptainMyCaptain said:
Been an interesting morning for those who have been following this, but sure sounds like we're not far off from adding Oregon and Washington to the Big Ten.
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They’ll have what then, 18 teams? 20? Once they get past the non-conference opponents, they’ll play an in-conference team an average of once every three years?
 
Pretty soon there will be like 3 conferences - great traditional rivalries will be pretty much dead and you'll play a conf opponent once every 3/4 years?

Pretty soon it will be like everyone is independent.
 
OhCaptainMyCaptain said:
Cubs!

Tough series coming up. Let’s stay hot!
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Narrator: They are not going to stay hot.

hawksrule said:
They’ll have what then, 18 teams? 20? Once they get past the non-conference opponents, they’ll play an in-conference team an average of once every three years?
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They will have 18 teams starting next year. Yeah, probably something like that. I am assuming they will keep some protected games.
southsideIrish said:
Pretty soon there will be like 3 conferences - great traditional rivalries will be pretty much dead and you'll play a conf opponent once every 3/4 years?

Pretty soon it will be like everyone is independent.
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When they put out the schedule for next year a few months ago (which they now have to re-do), most teams kept at least one protected game, with some having up to three. I assume this won't go away.

I'm not sure if they will split back into divisions again. Maybe pods if they get big enough? Not sure, but I suspect there will be some teams that play each other every year. For example, I don't think Ohio State-Michigan will ever go away.
 
With four schools joining the Big Ten next year, that means that the conference will be going from fourteen to (at least) eighteen, rather than sixteen.

Which means my advocated for “B16 Ten” branding won‘t happen. Guess “B18 Ten” also kind of works, but we’ll see if that happens as I’m now expecting Cal and Stanford to join in ‘24 as well.
 
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