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Why don't you try reading the article where Houser said it himself, then go tell him he's wrong and that it was actually the White Sox.

His swing path metrics are incredibly promising and are in the elite category. It's pretty surprising to me. Usually when elite defensive short stops who have big power come into the league and show out, they aren't flying under the radar.

I was going to start a thread, but instead will just say it here and plant the seed. In my life of watching baseball, I've never seen a Rookie do what Colson Montgomery did last year, and be so disrespected/underrated coming into their second year. He is the most underrated player in MLB. Since his debut last year, he was the 7th (top 10 in multiple metrics) most valuable defensive player in all of baseball. He hit the 9th most homers, had the 18th most WAR and the 45th highest wRC+.

I posted about it last year. I was surprised he was cut because his stuff played up in spring even if the results weren't great. I still thought he stunk, so I don't want to pretend I was right there, but i had read about the overhaul after the Sox acquired him.

Imagine thinking it's unique and rare to find Mike Vasil's. This guy should get his Vasoline ready for Getzy.

No one likes deferring to "experts" and justifying ineptitude quite like you. What's incredible is youre always quick to give them credit for success (claiming they turned around Houser's career when in fact, Houser used private coaching in that offseason to make his changes), but always excuse the failures.

The league avg OPS+ for all DH AB's last year was 110. Benetendi was 6% worse than that. What I said was he was better than league average as a hitter, therefore not some black hole in the lineup. Given that DH really isn't an assigned position on most teams, if you look at guys with >100 AB's at the position last year, he would be about 23 out of 61 players. If you remove Shoehei from the sample, Benetendi is basically league average (2% worse).

Doesn't change anything I said. Being 24th of 31 almost further iterates my point.

Cleveland win O/U is 79.5. Twins is 72.5. White Sox are 67.5. Sox to win 70+ games is +200. I like the Cleveland over. Twins have some real nice pitching depth, but i just think they sell off so I'd lean under. I like the Detroit over because the division is bad. But it's more likely the division is beating up on us than the other way around.

I don't think he should be here anymore, but that's because over 3 years he's been worth .6 WAR total. It's time to move on. That said, guy had a 104 OPS+ last year. He was a slightly above league average hitter. People talk about him like he's some black hole in a lineup which isn't really true.

The league also just said Houser was worth 11 million a year for 2 years. To say the league didnt think he was worth anything is nonsense. I'm so tired of the excuses being made for bad returns.

If he's a DH, how would giving those AB's to Mead, who they felt was worth a gamble about 2 baseball months ago, not be a better usage of those ABs than giving them to bene.

Yes, my implication is this front office has no idea how to target talent they can maximize or find undervalued/utilized assets. Maybe there amateur scouting has improved, but their pro scouting is a continued disaster.

We can't see who voted for what and shame them. Booo this man.

How about this; stop trading with the Dodgers and Rays thinking you're going to tap into something with a player that they couldn't. Let's start with an organization like the Rockies and work our way up!

Mead actually showed a bit of power this spring between the WBC and Spring training, and power was always his only ++ tool. I didn't like the trade at the time, but I would have liked to give Mead some run this year to see if he could tap into the power he had pre-injury. edit: Keeping Bene and Hill over Mead is just not serious baseball. I know that Mead isn't an OF'er by trade, but get flexible with your org. Bene and Hill serve zero value or purpose to this org.

Not sure if it's a good thing that some see greatness there, but it's pretty concerning that he is the most polarizing prospect in MLB... and it's not close. Some models having him as under 2 WAR as his peak for a career, while others seem him being a + regular.

I'm surprised at this honestly. How do you not at least give Mead some run after you targeted him just a few baseball months ago? This move really shows the inability to scout and target the right guys for this org. To give up on the guy that quickly is pretty shocking.

One of those investments is a foundational investment in the advancement and development of all players in your organization for years to come... the other investment is in Reese McGuire. I don't think they are all that similar! I'm also incredibly skeptical of this portrayal of Reese McGuire, great manager of pitchers. In my experience, back-up catchers that are elite defensively and GREAT at managing a staff don't play for four teams in four years getting signed for just above league minimum at start of the season. I'd guess he's pretty mediocre there, but maybe Korey Lee was terrible... not that I'm one to give this crew the benefit of the doubt.

Tucker has played 89% of the games since he came into the league and only missed significant time one year (2024). I wouldn't call Tucker injury prone in the least bit. What's weird is you've always been critical of Tucker, you want to take a 24 year old with eight good weeks in his entire career over him, but yet you insist that you like Tucker. It's OK, we all have our guys we like and dislike.

Yeah, your dislike of Tucker has always been odd to me. He's a top 10 player in baseball since he came into the league and he's about as consistent a player as has existed in the game. PCA is a boom and bust player, and it's not even like his boom is higher. Tucker was on pace to be worth 8.5 WAR in 2024 before his injury. Tucker was banged up all of last year, played through it, and he was still a 5 WAR level player.

The kid is uber talented, and an elite of elite defensive center fielder, but he had a 72 wRC+ in the 2nd half last year. From June 1st through year end, 100 games, he was worth 2.5 WAR which almost all came from his glove. He basically was a 4 WAR player after the hot start, and 95% (3.8) of that WAR was defensive. From July 1st (around the Colson call up date) on, Colson was nearly twice as valuable a player (PCA 1.5/Colson 2.7) and PCA played like a slightly less than 3 WAR player.

I'll take Tucker over the next 5 years over PCA 10 times out of 10.

Yeah, I'm certainly not mourning at Korey Lee's white sox gravestone. I just truly can't understand paying reese for 4 weeks to also be bad. But he's probably less bad, which honestly starts to make sense since that's the moto for this year. "We stink, but we're probably less bad!" The high fiving over his signing comment is ranking up there with the turnstiles breaking from fan overload when the Sox called up Elko.

Still not understanding how 1.2 million for 4 weeks isn't a lot to a cheap ass organization. My guy, no one is high fiving anyone over a Reese McGuire signing. My goodness you have some crazy takes.