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Insult? I made a one line post directed at nobody. Get a grip, pal.

67 wins would be around 21 fWAR, but the range would really be between about 19 fWAR and 23 fWAR is reasonable for 67 wins. I have this pitching staff around 8 fWAR and the offense around 13 fWAR.

There's no regression occurring YoY with a differnet collection of people. That's not how statistics work. The Pythagorean model in baseball also isnt some advanced model. It's a basic model that calculates expected wins based on run differential. It's not meant to be a true barometer of performance. Being optimistic in sports has absolutely nothing to do with how you treat people and others. Youre not a good person just because youre optimistically delusional. The fact that you think your positivity om soxtalk is nurturing these players is bordering on crazy talk. 67 wins feels about right.

Yeah, I am a believer in Acuna the CF'er. That said, I'm not sure i believe he's Luis Robert good out there, yet. So still probably pretty close but the ceiling with those games played is so much higher.

Acuna replaces Robert, so it's basically a wash there.

The Marlins position group last year was 18th and their pitching 25th. It would be a very large leap forward for the White Sox position player group to get up into that area this year. The real issue is the White Sox weren't just worse offensively, but they were much worse defensively and on the bases. So say they make up the 8-10 points in wRC+ with full season of some better production in April/May, they'd also need to make a large jump forward defensively and on the bases. I wouldn't say it's impossible, but it's why that 79 win barometer feels pretty out of reach with the current roster.

1. James Fegan works with the White Sox, and his career literally benefits from team interest. Not saying he's lying, but he's certainly bias as he swims through the White Sox sea of shitty propaganda. 2. No idea what that means. 3. Is that what you're doing here? Instilling confidence in young players by speaking nice about them on an internet message board? Interesting concept. Fathom should be ashamed of himself for all that negativity he's voodoo'ed into players heads with his posts! 4. I'm not limiting anything. Sox have a bottom 4 projection in baseball, and probably a 1% chance or less of being .500.

To be clear, the Sox did hate Sosa for all intents and purposes. I agree though, kelenic is washed and shouldn't be taking anything from anyone. I would also take Baldwin over him, but Baldwin needs to get a good bit better out there before I call him an actual outfieldee

Spring training outcomes making people crazy.

109.5 MPH is 1.4 MPH harder than any ball Meidroth has hit as a pro. Pretty crazy. I was just being a dick but figured it was possible. Had to check.

Antonacci just showed more power in one swing than Meidroth has ever!

I mean, I know it's a streaming site but it has MLB in the url so how wrong are we for using it??? https://mlbwebcast.com/

Teel is much better than Quero in my opinion. There are only 4 guys in baseball with a slower bat than Quero, and while some of those guys are good (Kwan!), they are also unicorns. Ironically, Meidroth is one of the guys that has a slower bat, and it's a big reason I don't have much faith in either of those guys. At least Quero understands his bat speed and EV's will prevent him from being an impact bat and is working on it, but I'm skeptical of the add potential there given his approach.

Their schedule says otherwise, although they at least have quite a few out of conference games against tough opponents. The point being that the general numbers produced this year should be huge, as his level of competition is lesser than that of the players in the three conferences that are better.

Me neither. More money in the conference today than in the past for baseball, but it's still not the ACC or SEC or even the Big 12.

Has a big 10 player ever been selected #1? Question i had today.

Interesting as ive heard this expressed from the other side. This was leaked to the PA by the other side. I tend to believe what im hearing makes more sense. PA would have replaced Clark long ago

Their residents tax dollars.

Now that the Bears sound like they're officially going to Hammond, while I never thought entertainment districts around a football stadium made much sense, it makes even less sense in Hammond.

Coming to you live from beautiful Hammond Indiana, we're here for the Chicago Bears vs the Green Bay Packers... Building an "entertainment district" in Hammond is honestly hilarious.

His stuff is also just in the gutter. It was his second TJ which has a lower rate of return too. Bad luck for him. He was a top 3 pitcher in baseball in 2021. Fulmer vs Buehler looks clear in hindsight as the two Vandy guys, but i did think it epitomized the production vs projection challenge the Sox had in the draft forever.

Im excited for baseball to start. Will be fun following a few guys, but the optimism certainly not there for me. Im jealous and envious of all of your approaches and mindsets here. Between 1977-2016 the White Sox lost 95+ games once. They're projected to lose that this year. Here's to hoping for a good outcome and some exciting progress so next year, we're truly staring down some semblance of competitiveness. Ill add i dont think they'll be embarrassingly bad, and unlike the past two years i do plan on attending some games and taking the little dudes to their first games.

Buehler signs for less than Fedde. Buehler is also washed, but found that really interesting.

Yeah, that hitch in his initial load is not a pretty thing.

I still think there's untapped consistently higher velo in there too, once he gets to a point of lower bottle stability and repeatability in his delivery.