(1) I think the Guardians should be signing more minor league free agents and gathering our minor leaguers not on the 40-man for some off-season work. I don't know how much money we are saving by this work stoppage but anything we are saving we should be putting back into getting our minor leaguers ready for the 2022 season. I think the team that does their minor league signings right now and works with their best minor leaguers right now under controlled conditions is the team that will get the biggest bump once the season starts.
As an example I saw a video of Daniel Espino, our stud pitching prospectd, working out this off-season in Puerto Rico. He was doing some really stupid-looking box jumps to a really high height. It looked like a season-ending leg injury waiting to happen. In looking at this I questioned why our best prospects were doing stupid crap at home when they could have been working out in Arizona under our best strength and conditioning personnel.
Get after it, Guardians! Use your time and resources wisely.
(2) Defectons at Ohio State football are becoming worrisome. You just can't over-recruit like the Buckeyes are. They have lost two stud quarterbacks. They have lost one of the best receivers in the country in Jameson Williams. A team with this many defensive problems should not be focusing one second on training other teams' stud players of the future. Craig Young and guys like him...I get it. But don't lose top prospects in the country after they come to your school because you over-recruit the position and guys don't think that have a legitimate path to become starters.
(Speaking Buckeyes football, doubt that Olave and Wilson will play in the bowl game. With what's going on at Ohio State right now I wonder how many other seniors or juniors who think they might go to the draft this year will opt out of this year's bowl game for the Buckeyes.
(4) Isn't it crazy that a young team like the Cavs can be doing this well without their best, coming in to this season, player? I think they would need Sexton to make a deep run in the playoffs but even without him they could still make the playoffs. Think they would get a low seed and get bounced early but getting there is the goal for this group in their first year together.
(5) Baker Mayfield is a mess. The Browns are a mess. Instead of worrying about how the rest of this season plays out we should be worrying about next season and locking up guys who we want here next year.
(6) You gotta love Cleveland State basketball but they have Oklahoma State and Duke, both away, the next two games. I am thinking they go into the Kent State game 6-4 and on a 2-game losing streak. -One other point about the Vikings and the Mid- Continent. Experts said at the beginning of the year that Wright State was their competition. A close look at the teams in their league shows that the team the Vikings should fear the most right now is Oakland. They have lots of good non-conference wins and close losses so far. I love watching the Vikings on ESPN+ but in a conference like theirs it only takes one conference tournament loss and, no matter how good your regular season, you could be sitting at home very easily. It looks like Oakland is the kind of team that do that to the Vikings. So beware!
(7) Don't bet against Chris Holtmann turning the OSU basketball team into a national contender this year. They looked very thin at the beginning of the year but they are looking deeper and deeper each game. They will have to find much more scoring behind Liddell but more guys are stepping forward who I think can do that. Holtmann always seems to take teams and get much more out of them then think he should. I think, barrring injuries, he should be able to do that this year, too.
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