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What does he really have in common with Mellody Hobson, though? Besides Chicago ties?

https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl-draft-winners-and-losers-no-excuses-as-bears-have-set-up-caleb-williams-to-be-good-right-away-043544081.html Apparently the Patriots and Vikings both were interested in trading for SD's Herbert...

Zobrist has/had a LOT more pop in his bat...based on what we have seen from Baldwin's collegiate and MiLB career. And it's a bit difficult to judge the level of competition for UNC-Asheville vs. a Power 5 conference.

odds to win AL Central Guardians +120 Tigers/Twins +325 Royals +340 White Sox +25,000 fewest wins White Sox +130 Rockies +175 A's +275 Nationals +1200 Marlins +1600 betonline.com https://theathletic.com/5439889/2024/04/25/mlb-season-disappointments-2024-white-sox/

Manager Odds Bud Black +900 Pedro Grifol +1,000 Aaron Boone +1,000 Derek Shelton +1,200

https://www.milb.com/player/brooks-baldwin-681460 Look at the bigger picture. His career MiLB ops is .791, and that's including his lightning-hot start this year. At best, that would translate to the .725-.750 range at the major league level, but most Sox minor league followers would be likelier to expect him to be somewhere down in the mid to high 600s. As a 3B, he would have to be close to 775-825 to be truly valuable (assuming an MLB "average" defensive ranking there). In his first full pro season, 2023, Baldwin blossomed. His hitting and power took nice jumps, and he saw almost as much time at shortstop as he did third base (also seeing time at second, first, center field and left). His wheels on the bases led to a solid 22 steals and more importantly a 80%+ steal rate. .... Baldwin definitely brings versatility beyond that of his pops, as not only a switch-hitter but a player who’s seen action in college at every position but pitcher and catcher. Strangely, despite never playing a game at third base for the Seahawks and just 10 over two seasons in the Cape Cod League, Baldwin is listed as a third baseman in the MLB draft tracker and by the drafting party — usually an indication that’s how the drafting team sees the player. https://www.southsidesox.com/2024/3/4/24090720/2024-south-side-sox-top-prospect-no-27-brooks-baldwin-university-of-north-carolina-wilmington

Critics seem to love the fact that they did the unexpected... Made the focus be firmly placed on all those individual characters, and the ultimate sacrifice the previous episode tipping the political tug of war to Toranaga's site with almost no blood being shed (the very opposite of the samurai/warlord mentality about honor coming from the battlefield). The cinematography alone was amazing. And leaving lots of little clues about our main character without even telling you whether he eventually ended up in England or stayed in Japan for the remainder of his life, very faithful to the spirit of the Clavel novel if not the actual execution.

Getting to be a massive mental block at this point. Just always seems to get off to such slow offensive starts and can never recover and bring up his numbers to decent levels.

How many years (from now) will it take for there to be a "hype" video like that for the White Sox? Seems like ages since Courtney Hawkins' first round flip (or flop?)

It's going to come down to his defensive skills and stolen base/PR ability...very rare are the guys like Zobrist or Chone Figgins that can legitimately play every position on the field and also hit/run pretty well. Jose Oquendo is more the traditional archetype.

But Leury Legend is still the all-time Sox utility guy, along with guys like Grebeck, Yolmer Sanchez and Pablo Ozuna.

Like Marcus Semien?

He can perform both jobs simultaneously and save money for JR by taking just ONE salary. Obviously Bears' salary quite a bit higher, we don't even need to ask. There's the reverse precedent of Paul DePodesta/Jonah Hill of Moneyball to the Cleveland Browns, too.

Yeah...especially at his relatively advanced age as well as injury history. Maybe they feel he can hold up on turf somehow.