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Well first, he's only a RF in title. He should not be a RF. He's a DH. We already have one of those playing first base, left field and eventually catcher.

It does though. Nick Castellanos is not worth committing 4 years too. Not even close.

They'll probably be even more obnoxious now that every game ostensibly matters.

Mazara has about 5x more pedigree and alleged talent than Avi ever had. Avi was a fringe top 100 guy according to one publication and unranked by anyone else. Mazara was a universal top 20 guy and rated as high as #5.

Dan Clark reporting something is equivalent to no one reporting something.

Sox win the division and Ricky wins MOTY are pretty much mutually inclusive

It took him a .400 BABIP to do it. I’m really not going out on limb saying that’s not happening again

Deleted my post after realizing we were saying the same thing but... Yeah, the White Sox have a skin on the wall. The Twins have a decade of getting they're shit shoved in by the Yankees. Neither are particularly good. They won 100 games against the worst division of all time. Whoop dee doo.

Also, Homer Bailey playing in stadiums where it's impossible to hit home runs has really appeared to make people forget how god awful Homer Bailey is.

40 next year AND coming off major elbow surgery

I think it's less that they struggle with them than it is they should be met with at least some level of skepticism.

José Berríos Jake Odorizzi Michael Pineda (Out until May) Rich Hill (out until June with injury) Homer Bailey Randy Dobnak Devin Smeltzer I actually think I like the Sox staff more.

That 'The Twins have nothing to worry about' article is going to age so poorly.

What else is there to kill time with when sitting at work on New Year's Eve. Predicting is fun

I wouldn't think it's particularly likely he raises hes BB% back to that level, because I don't think it'd be a good idea. And that be a pretty huge spike in ISO. What you're saying isn't unreasonable, but I don't think I'd bet on it.

Yeah, I just think people need to realize a .338 projection for BABIP is huuuuuuuge. Judge is looking at .319 right now for example.

What I'm saying is he only has one year where he's carried a BABIP significantly higher than the one they're projecting. 231 of those ABs are at .325. 650 of them are at .344. Right now, last year is a major outlier. So just as a median projection, ~.340ish makes sense assuming Brooks isn't looking at exit velo when making their projections.

I think it’s premature to say Moncada always has high BABIPs

It’s so obviously a bald faced lie

As far as projections go, I think they're right in line. I definitely don't expect him to hit 300 again, but I would think he does better than a .330 BABIP.

Idk, yeah that Robert line would be asking a lot. But I don't think the Madrigal one is far off from what we should want to see.

I've jumped the shark

If they are near that cap, signing Machado would have been incredibly stupid so I wouldn't think they are.

Sky's the limit by I think 82-85 is a reasonable expectation.

It's a vesting option that becomes a team option if it doesn't vest.