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I've spent time around medillin and in the center mountains but havent hit up the coast and Cartagena. What an awesome country and beautiful place. Coming up fast too... only south American country really on the rise now. Most beautiful country in the world for my money.

That's a pretty big decision. Chinese as his first language is interesting. Good luck to you. That's a pretty huge culture shock I imagine.

My wife is Colombian. Actually colombian - not the fake caulfield definition of it. She's been here for 8 years. I prefer jajaja to hahaha. I credit my wife for that.

This was actually proven to likely be nonsense. Most mechanical pitching beliefs in regards to injuries are unfounded by studies. There are trends and correlation but no causation has been proven. Pitching is bad for you no matter how you do it. Throwing harder is even worse. "Perfect motions" have led to career ending injuries and "dangerous motions" have led to long careers without many issues (see Sale for this.) I'd argue sales 3/4 release is actually best on the arm but that's just my opinion. There are muscle and ligament strengthening exercises that appear to have significant impact on health - shoulder centered. The Sox were actually pioneers with their shoulder program which kept their arms statistically healthier for over a decade. There are not deliveries that have a significant impact though.

Jajaja true. Caulfield, why do you live in China?

That was yesterday.

I'd take Cole but he seems risky.

Any team cares. If the Dodgers didnt care they wouldnt have tried so hard to get under it and reset their tax. Of course they care. Yes, I was wrong about San Diego. As were many others.

Calling someone a tard is now something we should be embarrassed about. My goodness.

I'm ok. You can take your absurd PC police campaign to guilt someone else though. Was a joke nickname made for his dreadful days here. If you want to get offended by it then so be it.

Manny machado is a US citizen. He has a US passport. He has a US education. He entered the MLb via the AMERICAN AMATEUR draft. He did not sign for international pool money. He was not an international prospect. He is not FROM Latin America. Therefore he is not a Latin American prospect and never was. Glad I could clear that up. That'll be it from me.

Yeah, and Ike Davis and Ian Kinsler are Israeli-Americans based on that absurd WBC logic... yet they have never even been there. And what's his name who played for team Italy. Was it cervelli? I guess he's Italian and not American too because he didnt play for USA.

A Latin American baseball player implies he's from LATIN AMERICA. Holy cow... are you just trolling me right now? Manny Machado is as AMERICAN as Eric Hosmer. You don't refer to Eric Hosmer as European American, do you? Enough with the ignorant racial nonsense. Manny Machado is American.

For the record, I have never heard a bad word about Machado from his former teammates - not a single one. Public perception does not equal private reality in sports.

Says the guy who keeps calling Manny Machado a Latin American baseball player. Difference is, I was joking. I will say this, I will never assume someone isn't juicing in baseball regardless of testing. Don't be naive fella's. It's not out of the game - it certainly wasn't when I was in college in 2005-2009.

It's a joke Balta - relax pal. I said it because I was pointing out earlier that holy shit... Tatis looked like a 5 year old in his signing photo. He's not huge now, but guy looked like an elementary student before... I guess most 16 year olds do though.

Agree with this. The Giants make no sense for a lot of reasons. Bumgarner is leaving and they have no pitching after him - Cueto is dead, and Samardzija is still Samartard. They have aging bats in the lineup with no real prospects coming up. They don't have great payroll flexibility after signing Bryce. The ballpark is a pain in the ass to hit in unless your name is Barry Bonds. The Dodgers don't make a lot of sense to me either - I don't think there's any chance they give him 10 years. They could certainly afford it, but they'd practically be paying Bryce 25-50% more than his salary with the tax involved. I could see the Giants just throwing 10 at 350 and a 4 year opt out at Bryce and he'd clearly accept because it'll be the best offer but it's an odd choice... what makes it even weirder is the GM wants nothing to do with him, and he's brand new and was brought in to turn around this dumpster fire that was started by taking on aging veteran contracts. If ownership goes over his head 6 months into the new job, I'd be pissed.

The 27th ranked international prospect has never made the big leagues since they started that ranking system. None of them have even cracked the top 100 prospects. Tatis was the first one to do so. It sucks because he is a talented kid, but he's probably just juicing.

I'm not defending it, but I'm also not blowing it up like most. The fact is, we gave the 30th ranked prospect twice as much money. We gave him that, and if we traded him tomorrow (he's still only 20 years old) no one would blink. Obviously he's played poorly, but still. We traded a guy that was a lottery ticket and the Padres hit the jackpot. Crediting Preller with some diabolical plan to get Tatis because of his super human scouting abilities is just laughable given the timeline I laid out. The trade sucked, but I'd be the greatest GM of all time if hindsight was allowed. 999 out of 1000 times, you trade a guy like Tatis at that time and you never hear of him again. That's a fact. The Sox caught the one time. Shit happens.

Story has never made sense anyway.... so the Padres owner got involved because the price was so low and then ended up paying expected market value from the start? Not buying it. Amazing how unlikable such a worthless franchise is to me now.

No. You said Latina American players. Manny machado is American. He was born and raised in the USA and went to US high school. Hes not a Latin American prospect no matter how Mmany times people want to continue to spew it. I have Irish in me. I was born in America. If the white Sox signed me, you wouldnt be talking about the white Sox Irish pipeline. My lord.

Manny Machado is from southern Florida.

My goodness - what are you rambling about? Preller didn't think Tatis was some superstar in the making - if he did, he would have signed him for 1 million or 900k. That's all it cost. It's not as if Preller was secretly scouting him during the practices and games that didn't take place. Yes, so Preller was at White Sox Dominican training facility scouting the White Sox signees. You can't make this shit up. . I've already asked you to point to all these Latin American stars that Preller has signed, but none of them exist so you were unable to do it. By the way; the Padres prospect rankings, and signing of guys like Urias, means absolutely nothing in this situation. You bring it up to prove your point that Preller must have known something when in fact, Preller had a chance to sign him for peanuts and didn't. Preller got lucky. EOS.

Caufield, please stop pushing this nonsensical BS when it comes to Tatis. I have corrected you on this 100 times, but you keep singing the praises of the genius that is AJ Preller which is just laughable. Here are the facts: Fernando Tatis Jr was signed by the Chicago White Sox on July 2nd, 2015. He was the 27! ranked IFA out of 30. The White Sox signed him for $825,000. The irony is, Paddy is credited with the signing. ANYONE could have had Tatis, including Preller. He passed on him and didn't want to offer him 1 million. On June 4th, of 2016, without Tatis playing a single professional game for the White Sox, he was traded to the Padres. He was a wild card ticket for the Padres. If they thought he was a top elite prospect they would have signed him 8 months earlier for 1 million dollars. There's nothing they could have possibly seen with him not playing... that would lean to them trading for him. The White Sox actually gave the 30 ranked player that year (Franklin Reyes) 1.5 million to sign with them. Tatis was TINY, I will say that.

I'm not worried because its uh... February. Jeeze Sox fans. Its baseball.