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This may be the first thread I've responded to anything you've said since around July or earlier. I know you like your hot takes to go free of any commentary, but sometimes they're just too hot to ignore.

The funniest aspect of this thread was you implying Manny Machado would go under Jose Abreu's wing if he were acquired by the White Sox.

No where in the article does it say the Padres have any desire to move Machado and the entire excerpt was the author speculating on a path the Padres could consider taking if they chose not to continue pushing all in, despite ownership and Preller not showing any indication of wanting to do so. The author also goes on to state that being forced to move someone like Machado, if a reset was wanted, would likely be needed because they can't unload Meyers/Hosmer for anything of value. So outside the Padres being a massive failure for ignoring roster building (as the article implies) I'm not sure why it's hilarious or anything, given that it's not even something that is being speculated or implied as expected to occur.

LOL at you thinking Manny Machado would go "under the wing" of any player in MLB.

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So we're just pretending A Rod didn't hit 57 homers in a season as a SS now? And 345 at that position in his career?

How bout them Padres , Caufield lol

... but he sucked last year, which is what we were talking about? He had a 5.6 ERA. Probably found a new Chemist this year!

Yeah, I mean besides all the position players the Sox have developed over the past few years who have they actually developed!?!?

Oh, me too. If Robert was a better hitter than Frank Thomas in his career, given his base running and defense you'd likely be talking about one of the two-three best players ever to play the game. He'd be better than Trout since Frank was better offensively than Trout and Robert is better defensively than Trout. I just think the post was diminishing the greatness of Frank Thomas.

Frank Thomas is arguably the greatest right handed hitter the game has ever seen. Saying if Robert is healthy he'll surpass Frank's offensive numbers is quite the reach. Agree that from a complete player standpoint he has a chance to be the best to put on a Sox uniform, but him being better than Frank offensively for his career is probably about 1%.

Probably better off selling them here at face value; I'm sure there would be a lot of takers.

ReyLo gave up 7 runs to the Angels, and the Indians have the 20th ranked offense in MLB and he couldn't get through 4 innings against them in the last start. Oakland and Cincy are fine.

Or it means that he's faced poor teams, and that a lot of his appearances so far have been only seeing a lineup 1 time through. His numbers as a starter are significantly worse than his numbers as a reliever. Of his 202 batters faced, 136 of those have come on the first time through the order (nearly 70%). Meaning a majority of hitters are not seeing him twice.

The guy who got douchey at someone responding to them was you, not me pal. I didn't say anything demeaning to you or about your post. I merely commented on the context. I'm sorry that appeared to hurt your feelings and wish you the best in your future therapy sessions to overcome said Trauma.

yet he had that surgery before the AAA season started and got lit up like a pinata. The key to his success has mostly been driven by facing bad teams, having a low BABIP, and getting more swings on pitches out of the zone; I won't say he's not more competitive around the zone which has helped with that, but I don't find that to be very sustainable. His slider velocity increase is really the only thing I see on his profile that is really compelling; likely tighter spin and more difficult to pick up. He likely still sucks.

Sorry for presenting statistics to the discussion. We'll just go off your surface level thoughts instead!

But he's not throwing more strikes. His zone percentage is actually below where it was in 2019 and he's not really generating more swings and misses. He's had a cupcake schedule in terms of his match-ups and been put in a perfect position to perform a little better. His BABIP against is 213 which is really what is driving his success for the most part; that and the walk rate decline, but it doesn't seem that his walk rate improvement is sustainable. He's getting quite a few more swings outside the zone, but I'm not sure how long that will really last, and he's getting fewer swings on pitches in the zone. Rolling into next year with Reylo as your 5th starter would be a bad idea IMO; I think he can be depth for the rotation but he shouldn't be counted on.

These have been claimed. Thanks everyone!

I'm going to guess A LOT of fees attached to that.

I believe you'd buy game 2. Game 1 is a weekend game I'm hoping. My wife can't miss work if it's a weekday day game

it didn't look good when I was just buying with my early eligibility code.

Just locked in my tickets.

Actually it's completely different given that the city/park district own Soldier Field.

"Leasing" the land, which is really a stretch given the terms of the deal, to a private entity is BS. And sorry, but I don't put George Lucas Star Wars -- sorry, "Museum of Narrative Art" lol -- Museum in the category of educational Science and Industry and Field Museum class. George Lucas shouldn't have anymore of a right to lease land on the lakefront than any other resident of Chicago.