Recent content by maurice93

You want to get the top 5 pick this year. It appears to be a good draft, and who knows about 2028. And you want to get assets in earlier. But it won't be a total disaster if they have to convey. Because now they will keep their 2028 pick, which has fairly high odds of being a top 5 pick...

Scherzer not slow playing it… first outing of spring and he already has ramped it up to 4 innings which is much more than a normal first spring start. (And 4 shoutout innings where he threw on average 94 with some up to 96) He has full intentions of being in the rotation on opening day.

He has been getting destroyed for that deal for about 4 months now, especially when the consequences became clear with this poor season. Today doesn't change it.

Really like the deal for the Leafs here. (Nick Roy for a First) But its also the Leafs admitting that building up assets in the future, is more important to the Leafs than the 2026-2027 season... and this is the philosophy the Leafs have to follow at this point. Roy at $3M was a good piece...

He was a pretty good lefty in 2021, 2022, 2024.... 2025 was a bad year and he had injuries. Teams on average go through about 30 pitchers in a season so you are going to have these guys under contract in spring. And Jays do depth lefties in the organization so Mantiply makes sense. Good...

You are comparing apples and oranges in the bolded comment. Football players that make the 12 team playoff do notdrop out .. just like players making the 68 team NCAA don't drop out.. But many NCAA basketall players will drop out of the NIT (which often forces their team to decline invites)...

Taking back Mangiapane will help the return. And being willing to retain on a guy with a contract beyond this year will help too. Will hurt the Leafs in 26/27 but I think asset accumulation is the most important thing, even if you can't get that HR draft asset until later. We chatted a bit...

Waiving only clears about $900K of cap space for a player. Leafs will need to take Mangiapane back (a problem for 26/27), and retain contracts possibly into 26/27, if they are moving multiple players to Edmonton.

The lesson that should be learned re Laughton and Carlo. It's not terrible trading a late first for those type of guys (often times not good either).... but that pick has to be in the upcoming draft so you know its 20+. You have to be really careful trading first round picks in future years...

You will get more value than that for McMann, Laughton, and OEL. Likely not firsts for the UFA's, but there would certainly be seconds involved. I could in theory see OEL get a late first, if you retain a bit / or take back a bad contract like a Mangiapane (this has been rumoured) Domi will...

Its great entertainment and a historical event (much less so than before for me as college basketball used to be my favourite sport). But with the endless conference re-alignment you can't say this is not corporate greed. Greed runs abundant in the NCAA now, including the player payment...

I think for Montreal, Hughes has done a good job managing things. But hitting on picks in the 60s is sometimes just lots of luck, that even incompetent teams could sometimes achieve. You just build up those lottery tickets for draft picks, or to package for young "middle" talent.

That total overhaul has to happen at some point (Matthews and Nylander). But it need not happen at this deadline, next summer or even next year, because as you note there are no first round picks in 26/27 or 27/28. You see what happens next year, re-tool with FA's, get a new coach, don't give...

You have trade your UFA's and try to get lucky on 2nd or 3rd rounders. The Habs for example got 3 current or future core pieces in the 60's in 2021-2023 that are contributing now.... Hutson, Kapanen, and Fowler. The Leafs system is bare and few 2nd and 3rd picks, might at least fill...

If there was any minimal doubt as to whether to sell these two games clear that up. get what you can