Look at Ray Ray Run

Ding ding ding. Billionaires hate actually losing money but love losing money on paper. They dont own things from the former.

Pal, I'm waiting for your receipts. I never said anything of the sorts. I said it was a league average system with a last place team.

This would make sense if the other guys were going to be on the next decent team.

He's running a 73 OPS+ in the big leagues. He needs to imrpove a LOT to be an everday guy out there. Bader is a MLB quality player. Really no reason not to add an actual outfielder to the group of zero outfielders.

Interesting. Id almost argue the opposite. Usually in zone issues are related to swing path which is harder to overhaul than discipline itself which can improve with reps. Always like to read a different perspective. Id say teams will move on from guys that have contact issues and need complete swing overhauls more quickly than someone who has recognition issues. Recognition issues can sometimes be resolved by just putting someone in front of a machine and forcing them to watch and engage at 100000 pitches in a certain area.

He's the most intriguing guy they've picked up this off-season (beside Murakami I guess), but that K Rate is scary which is probably why he got so little run. It was crazy high in the minors and then basically became unplayable in the big leagues. Him and Murakami could strike out 500 times between them if they got enough run.

Honestly thought the limits were still tiny for these so I dont really count them (last I checked they were $50 for me) but I looked now and I see a 7k+ limit so line is pretty reasonable at this point. Sox have second lowest projected win total ahead of only the Rockies so me calling them the 3rd worst team was actually complimentary. Of all win projections released, sportbook o/u are by far the most predictive. Eddy doesnt appear to understand market dynamics.

I did?

Win totals have not been released anywhere. Their projected WAR is bottom 3. Id say remind me in 1 month when win total o/u's are released, but youll just pretend it never happened.

Where/when have I ever done that?

Sir, this is a Soxtalk.

Have you ever watched another professional sport in your entire life?

This isn't life and death, it's entertainment. You don't need to be a blind sheep and pretend it's actually innate positivity and optimism.

The White Sox are still projected to be the 3rd worst team in baseball after the signing. Objectively, he thinks it's good news for a franchise to be projected to lose 100 games for the fourth year in a row? Objectively, he thinks it's good to invest less money into the franchise than they did 20 years ago?

Not investing in players and your product is actually harming the game, it's sustainability and it's popularity. Those teams area actually even bad for his career and it's sustainability. Saying that teams should be able to go for broke, collect profit sharing of other teams trying to win and make money is a horrible business model.

The writers for the game should be embarrassed for praising any team that is spending less than 100 million dollars.

If he was worth a top 100 and more, he would have gotten paid much more than 10 million a year. I don't see a 31 year old changing their league perceived value by that much in 3 months. He's ALWAYS had elite stuff too, and command is volatile. I agree pitching value increases, but history shows that's typically greater for for elite level arms. It's just not a viable or reasonable strategy imo.

I'm going to look through this over the weekend because I just don't see it happening and probably for a few reasons. It's not good to sign players with the intent to trade them. These are human beings after all, and guys don't like to sign to be moved, so from that perspective it's probably not a great PR strategy. Additionally, bad teams don't invest in bullpens because there is a premium attached to those signings based on the increased rate a good team will pay to gain small margins. Bullpens are like icing, in that you shouldn't be spending much time applying it if you don't have a cake first. So outside of fans dreaming these scenarios up, there just aren't many examples of a guy signing a RP contract and being worth substantially more 3 months later. Sox would be better off trying to showcase Taylor as the closer to maximize his value given his control and value in my opinion.

Luis Robert, according to the market, was worth 22 million + Acuna and another player (let's call it 27 million) this week. All 30 teams just had a chance to sign Dominguez, and he got 10 million annually. It's certainly less likely that the market views Dominguez as being worth more than Robert in 6 months because the market just said he was clearly worth less today. That said, it doesn't mean he CAN'T be, but it's obviously not highly likely.

Can you give me an example of this happening? Not saying it hasn't happened, but I just didn't see one when scanning. Bad team signs closer to 10+ million annual contract, trades them at deadline for big return. I'll even take a big name reliever being signed and traded a few months later as an example as I think that still counts.

Yeah, great chance for them to only spend 5 million of the dollars. I said it last year and the year before. Signing a player with the idea to flip them has never made sense to me and so far, it's basically never worked. It's something fans of rebuilding teams dream up, but doesn't have a lot of history of success or consistency. While relievers see value spikes at deadline, it requires a guy to be elite or truly change who they were before you signed them for their value to exceed their contract they just signed by enough to cash in.

Pal, please stop. There are so many receipts out there. You change your mind based on one thing and one thing only.. Getz! More excited to watch luisangel acuna play than luis robert lol

Bob always gets his guy! Happy for you! Ive retired from being happy about a 100 loss team investing in their bullpen over and over. The idea they'll flip these guys basically never works. He's a quality mlb arm and we know they need more of those though.

Guy had a .203 BABIP against in 2024. A righty reliever who doesn't miss bats and doesn't generate ground balls usually doesn't have a lot of staying power. He's basically been awful but for that period of good luck. Still a fine free add obviously.

The scary thing is if you assume Benetendi is a DH, Melendez and Kelenic could be arguably your 2nd and 3rd best major league outfielders as negative players. While I agree that they should be AAA fodder, if he comes in they'll be releasing articles about swing changes, have a "welcome back to Chicago, MJ" giveaway night, and seeking out banners of former players who are dead for him and Kelenic to walk in front of.