Look at Ray Ray Run

Taylor was the 2nd best CF'er in baseball last year on a rate basis. There is no excuse for this bs.

Not only that but Jankowski best position is RF and taylor has rarely played there in his career. These types of moves and decisions drive me nuts. It's spitting in the face of the data based on some stupid personal feeling/opinion.

Taylor has been worth 77 DRS in CF in his career in 7100 innings. Jankowski had been worth 8 DRS in 1600 innings. He's been almost twice as good. Just one Stat but the results are across the board.

He's not even close imo, which makes that odd. Also why does Sosa sit so much????

I've traveled a lot in my life, and I think colombia is the most beautiful place I've been. I want to check out the Norway/Nordic next which I hear competes, but it's tough to beat this place. Want to get to the Amazon one of these days. My signal weak but just saw sox blew the record. Classic!!!

We're in colombia for two weeks visiting the wife's family. A great start to parental leave AND a white sox mlb record to boot?!?!?

Lol they're with the MIL and aunt in the city. Parents night.

I'm outside manizalles. Technically "glamping" though since my wife wouldn't go all in on tent and hiking Colombia as safe as most any large US city - at least medillin and manizalles are. Some areas i won't go right now, but those are few and far between. Colombia still struggling from an old reputation from 30 years ago.

In the middle of a mountain in colombia camping out and tuning in to see shane 1 inning away from a NEW mlb record. Let's get him one more inning and call it a day. The high point of a season on April 1st!

While I agree with your thoughts in this thread generally speaking, society is so toxic about men showing emotion, this really doesn't bode well for Roki. There was already some concerns about his makeup given the pressure of a big market, and sports will eat you alive for this perceived weakness. Your own manager will lose trust in you if you can't manage the ups and downs. The last space perceived toxic masculinity is going to die out will be in sports clubhouses. Sometimes I'm envious of men who can express themselves emotionally, as I don't, but this isn't a space in which I'm envious because he has to overcome this to survive in MLB imo.

WAR correlates to team wins, and winning helps drive revenue. This is also free agency values, as teams aren't typically constructed of all free agents being paid market value, you're not actually paying 12/million per WAR on your roster.

Well, last year was his first year starting and he threw 150 innings. The team signing him certainly expects more than that going forward. Additionally, if he'd done this three years in a row this contract wouldn't be happening anyway.

WAR values don't scale normally. 1 war isn't worth 10 million but 5 war is worth 50 million due to scarcity of players at that level.

Crochet is/was worth about 6.5 war per 200 IP. That's worth roughly 70 million a year. If you want to get conservative, let's say 180 innings and 5.8. That's worth about 60 million. He does that 3 times and he has a 10 million dollar surplus.

I'm confused by that tweet. Wouldn't it be worse if they traded those players AND only had crochet for 2 years? @wegner, i actually don't think Crochet has much in additional risk comparatively to most other arms. The velocity is the risk, but his motion has him moving downhill so aggressively, one could probably argue that limits the stress on the arm a bit. Everyone is risky. In his mid 20s, wheeler was considered a big injury risk and in his late 20s and 30s he's been the most durable arm in the game. Injuries are so unpredictable.

The amazing thing is garrett only has to be healthy for about 3 years at his level of talent to be worth his contract. Meaning he could basically be out for 50% of the contract. I don't blame garrett for taking the money - he's been through a lot - and he'll be able to be a FA at 30 where he can get paid again.

If he stays healthy he's worth 300+ million easily.

Hope the mourning isn't too hard at Soxtalk for this loss.

Traded to pirates for cash

I was misled. They are now the 4th team to have done this. Meaning smith needs to do it tomorrow to set some records solo. They matched the record today but this team are record setters not matchers.

I still am not really sold on the bullpen so I'm hesitant to really change anything about my expectations. While I agree last year was a fluke - they led baseball in blown saves despite the fewest opps - this team is arguably worse on paper. Paper doesn't mean anything, but the fact you can argue that isn't a glowing endorsement for the group.

Lol Bannister isn't targeting Perez. He is who he is and isn't being "fixed."

Has nothing to do with the White Sox, but i like to put starts in perspective. Devers is 0-19 with 15 strike outs.

When we traded for Thorpe, the first guy i thought of was Paddack. Paddack throws harder, but he was a guy with an 80 grade change but limited secondaries and a flat fastball. I liked Paddack. I learned my evaluation lesson with him as it relates to elite change ups (unique too) but limited other offerings.

Agreed. I was shocked that a couple rough months with the pirates tanked his value so much. He was solid in SD and in a game desperate for arms he's serviceable, reliable. He'll get lit up plenty, but he's capable.