WestEddy

At least one of Gilbert or Hudson have to be on the bubble. Neither has options left, and that's the most valuable thing about any of these guys.

yeah, Taylor going 3 is essentially throwing a bullpen game once every time through the rotation.

LHP Ryan Rolison claimed off waivers.

I would like to know what prospects the Mets wanted the Sox to pay down Robert's contract for. Any time is the right time to question the NYPost's reporting.

If the player goes through waivers unclaimed and the original team declines, they come off the 40-man. If the original team takes them back, they come off the 40-man.

Why is Seal Team Six waking me up on my billionaire's orbit of Earth flight to notify me of this?

the NYPost regularly trots out pro-[certain president] BS, so why are we assuming their sports coverage is beyond reproach? Imma gonna wait until they report on actual names and amounts before I pretend to get mad. The end.

Your need to reframe a process that all 30 teams participate in every year to pretend that the White Sox ate some other team's excrement in selecting a player in the Rule 5 draft. That confuses me.

I think that's what I came up with to Caulfield earlier - when all is said and done.

Oh stop. Then player development doesn't exist, because the players all had the talent, so the White Sox are exactly even with the rest of the league.

Yeah, you don't seem to be able to participate in this convo without playing games, so don't start it.

I said Zavala was an example of a guy who was a poor defensive catcher being developed into a good defensive catcher. I suppose you're saying that developing players is now a bad thing.

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Smith wasn't a castaway. I'm confused. Are you now claiming that identifying Shane Smith was a scouting failure? That's just dumb.

Can you define this scouting term "didn't think enough of them"? It feels like you want to say something else, but you know this phrasing will get more of a reaction.

Besides my face hurting from laughing at the supreme effort to turn a scouting and coaching victory into a negative, yeah, I'm fine.

So now, an All-Star assignment is a full-proof method of judging talent? LOL.

That's not right. Guys like Paez and Alberto were in organizations who probably figured they could be snuck past the Rule 5 because they were still in A-ball. So calling them "not good enough" is silly. Both were ranked prospects. I mean, twisting one's self into a pretzel to make arguments about why the team you root for sucks is reason enough to be embarrassed.

Brewers trying to get their mojo back by copying the team who's copying them.

The OP started with that. Yeah, it's sad that the Sox got in between, where all the starters flamed out at the same time, and there was literally nobody in the upper levels to step in. Sosa, Baldwin and Cannon really just got thrown to the dogs. Ramos. Ellard. Schultz and Monty were too far away to even dream on. Reminds me of starting pitching in the late 70s. Guys like Chris Knapp, Ross Baumgarten, Richard Wortham. Steve Trout was in there, Francisco Barrios. Right before Brit Burns, Dotson, Hoyt all started bubbling to the surface. That's what Shane Smith, Davis Martin, Sean Burke and Cannon feel like. Maybe Smith hangs in there with the coming deluge of elite pitching.

But then how embarrassing is it that the Twins' 41st best player was taken by the Tigers and started in CF and was 4th best on the team in bWAR? But while Tiger fans are running away and hiding for the shame, the Brewers just signed him to a major league contract. How embarrassing is it that the Brewers are guaranteeing a 26-man spot to a guy who was only another team's 41st best player, and then he wasn't even good enough for the team who picked him to keep him? Maybe the moral is that any sports fans who give a s%*# about what other people should be embarrassed about...should be embarrassed.

And there are people who don't realize just how embarrassing that is. It's like dumpster diving behind a restaurant that got shut down by the board of health, and coming away with a bloody, moldy rag for dinner.

You're supposed to feel deeply ashamed because the All-Star selection from a team that just lost 121 games wasn't one of the best players in the game with first round pedigree and home developed. I generally feel sad for people who feel the need to castigate others for not feeling properly embarrassed about nebulous things.

All-Star selections are weird. Nobody on the Sox really deserved to be selected. The vets were hum-drum, younger guys like Sosa and Vargas didn't particularly stick out as good enough, but each team gets a player on the team. Smith looked great for a couple of stretches. He also came from a very good pitching organization who had a true roster crunch. Good scouting, good coaching on picking him up and keeping him maintained. I don't find that embarrassing. Maybe I'm just built different.