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This is an article I found while researching something else about how MLB allowed non-affiliated minor league clubs to participate in the amateur draft. Only 4 teams did in about 25 years. The Next Pick Goes to … the Miami Miracle? Independent Minor League Teams in the Amateur Baseball Draft – Society for American Baseball Research

Gardening is tough, and the ladies at the retirement center had a couple of years on him.

The guy we traded Eloy for who then retired

Now the Cubs can trade Matt Shaw, they have his replacement

MLBTR does a huge story exploring where the Pirates can turn for a bat, and they don't even include a blurb on Luis Robert. Yellow journalism, I tell ya. Where Can The Pirates Turn For Another Bat? - MLB Trade Rumors Old friend blurb:

Luis Alvarado born on this date in 1949. Alvarado was part of the return (along with Mike Andrews) from the Red Sox in 1970 for Luis Aparicio. Luis Alvarado Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com

Is that more than Marco Paddy's last years?

Good SoxMachine article on Kelenic's set-up change: Jarred Kelenic comes to the White Sox with a swing adjustment already in the works - Sox Machine

Are the White Sox working directly with Pro Day? It's a company founded by 2014 15th round Sox draftee, Ben Brewster. Interesting. Here's How Tread Athletics Became a Leader in Baseball Training

"Yes, Luis Robert will defer $15M to facilitate that trade!"

We all seem to be ignoring what Nightengale said right in that clip. If Castellanos sits, he sulks, and it becomes a clubhouse issue. We. Don't. Need. Him.

Some lusted after this dude for the White Sox

UDFA out of Northeastern. (The massachusetts one.) Michael Gemma College & Amateur Leagues Statistics | Baseball-Reference.com

4 more weeks of this...

Wasn't Kevin Pillar a minor league contract with a NRI, and he was already penciled into the 2024 opening day roster?

Personally... Alexander Canario. Just sayin'.

I think they question his make-up since promotion.

Anything I've read about Shaw since Bregman's signing is that the Cubs see him as a super-utility dude. He's their top prospect. Of course the Cubs would want a s%*#-ton back in trade for him. What do you think the Sox would want for Colson Montgomery?

Kelenic seems immature, and maybe even a little on the spectrum, or at least inarticulate. Yes, I'm goofing on him for judging the Sox as a team that "knows how to win" when I can't imagine how he knows this, or what that even means. Otherwise, I hope he pulls it together and rakes here. I have no praise for Shaw.

Nobody has to like each other, but all things being equal, a calm clubhouse is better than a distracted clubhouse. Those late 70s Yankees teams went to the world series 4 years out of 6 and won 2. Makes you wonder what they could have achieved if Billy Martin wasn't a drunk and could manage the personalities better.

Culture > Talent

Maybe there's more to this signing than a body to rotate in the OF during the WBC.

Matt Thaiss was traded for Dru Baker, purely a depth OF, and Thaiss is a legitimate backup who could start for stretches. Seby Zavala was a throw-in for the Eugenio Suarez trade. If Robert and $10M gets you LuisAngel Acuña and a TJS pitching prospect, maybe Robert, Lee and $9.5M gets you the same package.