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Those people were dumb. If your analysis is 'He looked good/bad in Spring' it needs to be thrown out.

Wait... are you trying to argue spring training results do or don't signify anything? What the hell is going on.

Point me to the Spring Training game that has ever done that.

And who would that be?

Yeah, it's certainly a bit of damning with faint praise

I don't think I've ever pulled for a guy as hard as Anderson. I want him to succeed so bad. He strikes me as a sort of everyman living a dream, not really sure why.

Ah, yeah I forgot about that. But given burning an option and already having spent a good chunk of time in bham, it's not a stretch.

I wouldn't be shocked if we see Basabe in September

I don't believe it's my place to decide whether or not he gets a chance, but if he does I really, really, really hope it's not with the White Sox.

He was the 17th overall pick, not the first. Getting an everyday major leaguer at that spot is always a win.

God rest his soul

I think it's very dated tbh. The roundness of it is very 1970's

I want Melton to go but I don't think Ozzie is who I would be pining for

They're gonna blame it on porn

Well, I mean, we should stop letting the current FO draft people, among other things.

On second thought, keep targeting college guys

They were also 4th in baseball in Home Runs. If they were closer to the bottom of the league they aren't sniffing the playoffs. They also won 3 of 4 world series games with a ton of Home Runs and XBH. That team won in spite of its philosophy.

These ideas are basically mutually exclusive. And before you tell me they won a world series playing small ball... they didn't. But yes White Sox hitters strike out too much and don't walk enough and it's a problem.

How did anyone survive when we all thought Machado was an absolute pipe dream in August.

And still managed to be an okay contributor. A huge chunk of his strikeouts can be wiped out by very slight adjustments and less bad strike zone luck.

That's far too black and white at this point. 6 months from now the outlook could easily flip. Dooooon't feel confident it will though.

Then it's already failed

Not sure getting a decent everyday player out of the middle of the first round, and the middle of the top 100 is not panning out.

Correct me if I'm wrong but is Moncada currently running a BABIP of 1.000? Something tells me that's not great.