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Wow, everyone needs to relax a little. Allowing the Padres to worry you? My goodness.

He's not going to make everyone great. His work with Lopez, Quintana, and Sale was OK. He was pretty impressive with Kahnle and Swarzak. Cooper has more actual success stories (guys who sucked and then turned it around) than most any pitching coach.

Cooper still doing a good job.

Yes but his extension makes up for the spin rate. Spin rate merely decreases the drop of the baseball making it appear as if the ball rises or has no downward action - increasing the perceived velocity. His extension cancelled out that deficiency and still made his fastball appear harder than it was.

The white sox have allowed giolito to go back to his old comfortable delivery - last spring - and there were tons of positive feedback and results but once the season started he reverted. Giolito strikes me as being a mental midget sadly.

Velocity peaks in your early twenties - many prospects will never throw as hard as they do when they are 18-20. Its not mechanical, its aging and wear and tear on the arm. There are exceptions but giolito was at the point where diminishing velocity was certainly possible - especially if he was a young overthrower which many prospects are now. It is incredibly unlikely giolito ever averages even 94 mph on his fastball ever again.

No, his advanced data was very promising at one point. Giolito just lost his main pitch and it hurt everything else. https://www.mlb.com/news/nats-lucas-giolito-debuts-with-elite-fastball/c-186615010 Nothing fake about that guy.

No. His fastball was an 80 at one point - the highest grade of any pitch. He was said to have the best fastball in the minors. Him losing his curveball definitely hurt when paired with the fastball drop off but his fastball was his bread and butter.

His max last year was 96.7 with an average fastball at 92.6. That is standard difference between max and average. Lucas does not throw 97 mph anymore consistently - it's not his mechanics.

Moncada, sure. Giolito hasn't been trending upward for nearly 4 years now. His fastball was his best pitch and he's lost it. Mechanics arent pulling 5 mph off per pitch. I am not a giolito believer. I certainly hope I'm wrong but for as optimistic as I am about Lopez and his progress last year (which was huge the past two months) I am as pessimistic about giolito.

Illinois is one of the 3 highest taxed states in the country. Not just using income tax as my barometer.

Robert has more raw talent than anyone in the system. He has more raw talent than manny machado. Robert played as a 19 and 20 year old. He's young for his level and he impresses everyone who watches him. BP power matters when you're that young. He's younger than every top 10 prospect.

Wow. Using batting average to evaluate a player. Neat. It's like a cave man sighting.

Why would it take us out of the Harper sweepstakes? Jon Jay signed on at a 4th outfielder rate. Eloy is the only legit MLB outfielder that has to start on the roster right now. I would say it's nearly impossible that they sign both Harper and Machado, so them being out on Harper has more to do with them being the favorites for Machado, but I don't think Joc has any impact on it.

Dave is legit and has legit sources. I don't think anyone who has any inkling of involvement with the organization or the coverage of said organization would argue otherwise.

Dave isn't posting eyeballs for a Sergio Romo signing.

1 WAR does not equal 1 more team win - that's not how WAR works.

What? $ value is how trades are evaluated. It's not jibberish it's how modern baseball works. I have no idea how you derived "minor league depth is a bad thing" from that point.

To be fair, Semien graded out the same had with the Sox every year in Oakland until this past year. So it took Semien 3 years to improve with all that "coaching." Or, Semien just worked hard and bettered himself. Semien is one of the few players the Sox actually developed who turned into a decent MLB player - it seems hyper critical to attack their development of Semien.

Semien was a nothing prospect who they developed into the AA player of the year with the help of the White Sox.

One of the main points stated about Madrigal is that he was the closest person drafted to being big league ready. If he's not up until 2020 or 2021 then they evaluated him poorly as well. If neither guy sees AA this year, then this team has some big issues.

I'm not sure what this means; no one said it was easy. The point of a rebuild - this one in particular - wasn't to be competing in 2021, leaving 2-3 years of control over the majority of the marquee assets we acquired with our deals.

I mean, it's not as if Seattle has the best history in the world of developing catchers. Not sure they should be throwing stones in their glass house over there.

12 months; this means entering spring training next year, every one of those guys should be fighting for a spot.