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Adding Shields is what broke the camels back, If you ask me. Less to do with Tatis than him.

Pretty sure his defensive penalty was actually not as bad as the positional adjustment of a DH this year. So him being a bad 1B provided a small amount of value over being a DH.

All I'm saying is that if anything is going to get in the White Sox way, it's the money he is actually given during the 2022 calendar year. The million he is given per year after that will be like 0.5% of the budget in those years. The money exists, but it really doesn't much matter.

They are worth zero as far as the 2022 budget is concerned though. Are we all that concerned about the mil that Konerko is getting next year?

Well....they would have trotted LaRoche out there again

All that might be true, but it's still Jerry's money and Hahn, or any GM in the world for that matter, doesn't get final say in what get's done with it.

He was praising it two pages back

Well they haven’t so

One is an elite defender at a premium position and one is the exact opposite.

I just can’t get worked up about a guy I generally want around being like a 1 win value deficit.

I don't expect Abreu's contribution to be literally 0 for what it's worth.

’I can’t believe Hahn has done this!’

Also, he's been set for life the second he signed with the Sox?

I don't like it, but it's realllllly not that big of a deal.

There is a 0% chance this was Hahn, or even Kenny's idea.

Better than last year probably

Abreu is totally gonna get his number retired isn't he?

I have been grinning like an idiot for six hours.

Just the Laurence Holmes Shoe

Throw on the podcast of the Holmes show.

It is when home runs are up dramatically league wide. No one is saying they should cement him in the rotation as a horse, but saying he doesn't have any value as a 5th starter is flat out wrong.

He was part of the Org though ?

Because his FIP, which is the biggest driver of fWAR, did not change much at all. Also, Idk if you've noticed all the inuries, but having a pitcher with a pulse stay healthy IS valuable. If you can't see the difference between a Lopez and a Despaigne/Santana/Covey etc, idk what to tell you

Yeah it's been problematic

If I'm Rick Hahn, and I sign Zack Wheeler, I approach the podium at SoxFest and plant my junk firmly atop it.