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Eminor3rd

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  1. Have they named a closer yet? Assuming Kopech has the inside track.
  2. I don't either -- I think he was way more advanced than anyone else at that level, and probably 85% to where he needed to be to debut. And I think when he did debut, he was about 85% where he needed to be.
  3. I agree with the premise that Moncada and Eloy were nearly finished when they were acquired, but I don’t agree that they didn’t have improvements they needed to (and largely didn’t) make afterwards. And I can certainly see what you mean by making a distinction between what you’re calling “development” vs “refinement,” don’t you think those are both parts of the process that fall under the purview of player development?
  4. I can’t tell if you’re joking. Do you really believe player development ends in the lower minors? Even if you did, which is insane, what about the hundred or so players the Sox drafted into the system since 2017?
  5. One article said that he was moved to relief more because they needed bullpen arms than because he couldn’t start, and another said that he’s missed a lot of development time to injuries and pandemic, so he may have more command upside than his age would indicate
  6. After reading some more stuff this morning, I’m wondering if Getz might be planning to try to stretch Wilson out to start.
  7. Reading Keith Law’s write ups on these guys from the Padres list last month makes this return look a lot worse.
  8. C. I think it needed one more solid secondary piece if Thorpe was headliner. Swap Snelling for Thorpe or add one more guy in the Zavala range and I’d be happy.
  9. Yeah, I liked it when I thought Dillion Head was in it. Feels one guy light to me. That said... It does sound like Iriarte has helium, and may actually belong in the tier with the other three pitchers very soon.
  10. I mean it was already very dead before this trade.
  11. True, and given how many signs point to regression from him, it probably isn't the wisest gamble for a rebuilder anyway. Also the Cease move probably breaks the stalemate on the free agents a bit, meaning those prices may now rise again.
  12. Would love that, but I think telling Lorenzen he can just have Cease's salary and telling Jerry we're budget neutral will be too convenient.
  13. I'll be pretty surprised if we get more than one of the top 5. Just realistically, there are ton of great secondaries. I'll be satisfied with one of those pitchers and three real secondaries.
  14. Michael Lorenzen is the real winner
  15. Yeah, that's who I meant. I think I heard on a fantasy podcast that he has a good chance of being on the roster this year, so my guess is that if Preller is making a win-now move, he's going to want to keep Merrill to play him this year.
  16. I'm guessing Salas was untouchable, and Merrill looks like he might make the roster, so they kinda need him. I would think one of the top three pitchers HAS to be the headliner (Snelling, Thorpe, Lesko), and we could maybe dream that we got two of them.
  17. It's a good system. Assuming you can't get Salas or their other untouchable guy (I forget), I'm actually okay with a volume approach here. Part of the Sox failure has always been to fail to understand the VOLUME of talent you need in a system to actually sustain a competitive window. Maybe that's something Getz sees and want to finally change.
  18. I don't think anyone could have reasonably predicted that both Snell and Montgomery would stay on the market this long, but given that DID happen, it isn't surprising at all that a Cease trade didn't come together before now. Both Boras and the White Sox are trying to maximize their value, and the teams that need pitching have been waiting for one or the other to blink. The warts with the Boras guys' peripherals are obvious to even casual fans at this point, and Getz is demanding top dollar because he has so few pieces to spur this rebuild. I think Getz has been wise to hold, and I'm impressed with his poker so far. We'll see what the return is, of course, but giving in to a lowball because of the presence of Snell/Montgomery on the market would have been a bad move no matter what, even granting that holding for the deadline wasn't ideal. All that said, the return is likely not going to be what we've all been dreaming of lol.
  19. Swing reminds me of Gordon Beckham, weirdly?
  20. On on hand: 1. It IS a bad stadium. It had the unfortunate timing of being designed and built just a few years before the entire paradigm for ballparks shifted. I'm not sure how much blame I'm willing to lay on them for not being the visionaries that actually made the paradigm shift. Pre-1994 was very different than post-1994, as far as how the game was marketed to and consumed by fans. Given the precedents we observe around the league since it was built, I think you can make a compelling objective case that the White Sox are due for a new facility. However: 2. The fact that it is a bad stadium has next to NOTHING to do with how "competitive" the Sox have been or can be, both on the field or as a business in general. It is easily accessible for the overwhelming majority of anyone who would want to get to it. Every time the Sox have randomly stumbled into being successful, even for the fleetingly brief amounts of time they've managed it, their attendance and media coverage have grown quickly to the levels you would expect. If the honeymoon period after the 2005 Series didn't last as long as it should have, it was pretty clearly correlated with the swift slide back into their typical cycle failure, defined not just by a lack of direction but the stupefyingly frustrating process of shooting themselves in the foot in ways so obvious that every fan can see it coming like a slow-motion car accident. Jerry Reinsdorf and his all-time crew of clowns have reaped precisely what they have sown, and that is a record of incompetence so reliably consistent that it is not an exaggeration to suggest that a random number generator would have led to more success. It is both true that (1) any new ownership group would consider a new facility to be a crucial part of its strategy upon purchasing the team and that (2) the reason that a new facility would be so "necessary" has way more to do with the Reinsdorf's bumbling mismanagement of the franchise than it has to do with any of the stadium's weaknesses. In the counterfactual world where the White Sox were as successful as even an average team since 1992, GRF would probably not be named GRF, would have been renovated substantially more than it has to date, and could 30 years down the road to building a reputation as a beloved community landmark like, I don't know, Wrigley Field.
  21. Why does everyone seem to be pronouncing 'Caglianone' as if the first 'n' isn't there? Is that correct?
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