WestEddy

Or force a trade like with Davitt.

Yeah, I'm underwhelmed, but not angry, or anything. It would be nice to acquire another SP and move Hays. Castillo and Doyle are fixer-uppers, Brazoban is a definite upgrade, as is Bart. All that for Mason Adams and Boston Smith. Works for me.

Some would argue that we should have traded for him after the 2023 season.

Schroedinger Detmers

Nobody in the top 100. #3, #17, & #25 in top 30.

nvm

Why? Because we're trading all of Grichek, Pereira, Hays and Perez?

Jose Canseco and Manny.

You and Ian doing a show tonight?

Maybe the Rutschman/Rogers trade fell through.

My comment was that I'd rather have Madrigal than Kimbrel, not Meidroth. Madrigal's time has passed. At least with the White Sox. Explosion of talent? I think Getz finally got to set up Development like he knew would work.

I don't believe any of this is about competition. It's all about making the game more marketable. Pitch clocks and all were about speeding it up to make it more consumable. And reining in the Dodgers is about making the postseason seem more attainable to more teams, thus increasing fan interest. The Dodgers could win the next 20 World Series and they wouldn't care. They just want to be able to walk around their own ballparks safely without being booed.

I'd rather have Madrigal back.

Everybody, including Everson Pereira himself, is "wait and see". Nobody's declaring him the best in the game just yet, but he does have prospect pedigree, and when healthy, he's established a good run of offense and defense.

But Chris Getz was the one who had no idea what he was doing. LOL.

For all of the "Oh, this guy is in a slump, can we end this experiment already?" BS, I would really like Everson Pereira to become something on the White Sox. He certainly has the pedigree to be a power hitting, good-defense OF.

Nice to see Everson break out.

The most recent piece of common wisdom I've come to embrace is "If the wording of your solution starts with, 'if everybody would just...', you don't have a solution."

1) Oh, has Seattle been looking for Dominguez? Like, they've been watching him walk batters in high leverage and blurted out, "I gotta get me some of dat!!"? 2) Nolan Jones is not a prospect. He was a top 50 prospect 5 years ago who has not been able to duplicate his success from 3 years ago. As a matter of fact, he moved from Columbus to Charlotte, a renowned launching pad, and saw his OPS drop 100 points. 3) Boston Smith is a fast riser. There are concerns about his contact rate and his ability to stick at a position he's recently taken up. He is a nice player to have in your minor league system. Because then you can trade him to supplement your major league staff and not touch the real prospects. I love me some Boston Smith just fine. I wish they didn't trade him. But his bat has so outpaced his catching, they might have to stick him in LF so he's not hitting .400 in AAA for two years while he learns to catch. And that is if higher level pitchers don't pick apart the gaping holes in his offensive game.

You are the person who referred to a "savior owner". The business of sports talk is to keep all sports fans enraged. Then they tune in, or click and like, or whatever. Once Jesus Ishbia takes over, we'll all swoon. "Look!! He dropped the price of the new ice cream drink!! I love this guy!!" But he will say something. Anything. And everyone will turn on him. You will have JR all over again. He might even come in and spend a bunch on free agents that everyone wants. But then it'll stop. Because Buddah Baseball Owner doesn't buy a team to make you happy. They're like vampires who not only suck your blood, but the air and the sun. They buy a team to ... get this... make money.

Okay, the joke is that the team we're playing today is being untruthful and asking us to play the lesser players on our roster (so they can win), under the guise of scouting them for a major trade. I really don't think the Rays would want to give us their best pitcher for Pereira and Romo.

And replace them with what? People don't become billionaires by leaning into their altruism, or succumbing to the urge to pour their last penny into a slot machine. They suck every single dollar out of everything around them. If you put $4 on the table and told any generic billionaire they could have that $4, but that child over there will die, that money will be in their pocket in the blink of an eye. I'm not sure how we've made up this fairy tale of "savior owners" who have screwed over everybody they've ever met just to give you a baseball team that makes you feel better about yourself. It wouldn't surprise me to find out that all 30 MLB owners have focus grouped player line dancing between innings to wring more money out of this thing sticking out of their portfolio.

Maybe the Rays' GM was like, "We're so ready to trade you our best pitcher, and we'll take a package centered around Pereira and Romo. Could you get them a start today so we can make sure they're the guys we want?"