BackDoorBreach

I've been saying before the offseason that 16 AAV would be a fair deal for Nick based on his WAR and output. The options are definitely interesting though. The Reds didn't get a steal by any means but I would say it's market value with potential to provide some surplus value.

So, there was a random Reddit guy that was posting about this shortly after Fiers opened up about the Astros. He said Fiers was banging his underage girlfriend or friend or something and he had all the proof. That was obviously several months ago. I'm assuming he was maybe legit now lol.

??? The White Sox are now locked in to a guy that had a 117 wRC as the DH for 2021 and 2022. There are a number of players that are available that put up better numbers than Abreu for less or around the same amount of money. One of those players is in the title of the thread you are commenting in, and provides more flexibility to the roster. He is a good hitter, but he is not JDM or even the hated Castellanos at the plate. The signing was bad and nothing close to a necessity. "Protection" is also not a thing but I digress on that.

This is such a shitty argument that I keep seeing. How many players in baseball have we seen that never reached their potential? Castellanos has PROVEN production and PROVEN improvements. He has made actual improvements for 3 straight years while Mazara has made basically zero. Being 24 years old is not an attribute, skill, or tool. I guess we should throw Carson Fulmer in the rotation or trade for Lewis Brinson because they can still get better? It's the same shitty argument. Mazara is not a win now move, I'm sorry but no matter how you try to use gymnastics here that trade is nothing short of a gamble. A gamble that he might be a platoon bat with still shitty defense, not really much of a ceiling there. This is a move the Sox should have made last year, not when their window opens. I also know the Sox aren't signing Castellanos, that doesn't mean I still won't think this trade makes no sense.

Because you are projecting an awful defensive 1B to continue having a good bat for 3 years instead of going year to year, which is EXACTLY why the EE deal is good. They aren't locked in after 2020. He was also a more productive player than Abreu last year despite being injured. Age is always a concern, which is why the Abreu deal is bad and completely unecessary.

This is actually what your argument boils down to asisde from inserting your subjective opinions as factors. Abreu locks you in to a DH position in competing years as he ages in a spot that could be filled easily by players on this team right now. EE is a better 1B than Jose Abreu. He is not a true upgrade production wise over what we could get from EE next year or any number of DHs that are available on the market year to year. Castellanos is a true upgrade over Mazara and is a true upgrade over anything we can reasonably get in FA next year outside of Joc Pederson, who is still a platoon bat. Castellanos has legitimate MLB production and his peripheral stats tell you he has been getting increasingly better every year over the last 3 years. Mazara is the same player every year and there is literally nothing in any of his numbers that tell you he has made improvements when taking account for league averages, and he still is bad at defense. You get slightly worse corner Defense from Nick while his bat is a +. Mazara also has negative defensive value but his bat doesn't come close to making up for it. If the Sox are trying to win they should be actually upgrading the black holes they have and RF is still pretty fucking bad.

That's a real lot to say in a couple sentences. I would be FINE with Mazara as our 4th OF. Not as our everyday.

Does this mean Yo just ignores the bunt sign with men on this year? Instead of almost breaking his hand twice before hitting a double?

Edwin Encarnacion is on the team... The Abreu deal is awful.

I thought somewhere around 14-16 million a year was fair. Obviously we have no idea what the asking price is or was or the years but he's not getting what he wants clearly.

He put up 3 fWAR as a 26 year old in 2018 and 2.8 last year as a 27 year old and is 3rd in all of MLB over the last 3 years in XBHs, so yeah he was worth more than Kole Calhoun.

If Castellanos became Mazara on Defense he's a 3+ win player at our field. Small sample size but so is his time in the OF, his UZR/150 was better than Mazara when he played games in Wrigley and not an airport of a field. He also improved his DRS from -19 in 2018 (his first year playing OF) to -9 last year. Will he ever be a good defender? No, but he seems capable of being slightly below average and giving you around 3 WAR, which is a huge upgrade from what Mazara is.

Which is why this trade is hot shit. He doesn't do anything good.

Why are people not remembering Mazara is also a bad defender?

Pay this man and trade Mazara for RP.

They have like a million OFs.

That's actually not what happened, but it IS funny a bunch of journalists are trying to punish someone because of their free speech because their POV is different. Which has ZERO to do with baseball and his 79 fWAR. I guess he should have shilled for climate change, or kneeling for the flag, or abortion, or no person is illegal. He would have been a media darling.

Thats not even close to being true. You make the HoF in your 30's. Look at his fWAR, he had a couple of his best seasons during the end of his career. Again, 66 WAR is borderline HoF territory. The dude put up 79 and was still dominant late in his career.

??? what a terrible article. The comments section was actual A+, which is interesting from Yahoo.

Because Manfred doesn't have subpoena powers. The best they could do is "Tell us exactly what happened and I won't suspend you".

This came up in a White Sox thread and was derailing the topic. I am about to buy the $140 version and not sure if I'll regret it. I have a gaming PC but almost never play shooters on it since I exclusively play shooters on console because that's my comfort. I only play RPGs and strategy games on PC. Idk how I can't buy it though, the game looks fantastic and has a shit ton of elements I enjoy in PC games. The learning curve seems really high in EFT and the game is already pretty hardcore. My brother has been playing it since it launched in like 2017 and told me this better be the only game I play if I buy it lol. Goodbye heavy modded XCom 2 and TW:Warhammer 2.

I'm about to buy it like right now. I'm one of the nerds that watches people play games on Twitch (when I'm working) and I'm sold.

So the video game stuff/eSports is kind of funny to me. I'll give a quick online video game history lesson. I played competitively for $ at the very start of competitive console gaming on a website that used to be called SocomBattles.com around 2003/2004 when I was 14 or 15. The website was for the Playstation 2 game SOCOM 2 and had a very competitive ladder. Socombattles.com turned into Gamebattles.com which I played a ton of competitive games such as Socom 3, Socom 3: Combined Assault, then eventually the original CoD 4: Modern Warfare, RBSV 2, CoD Black OPS, CoD MW 2 et cetera. CoD4 onwards turned into Major League Gaming on the website and in turn exploded to what is now eSports. Around the same Counter Strike was the competitive game on PC IIRC. Fun times.

This is incredibly anecdotal but at least on my Facebook with my friends it's easily NFL, MLB, NCAA then a mixture of Hawks/Bulls depending if their good or not. I'm in my very early 30's. I don't think there is necessarily some down swing in MLB viewership in my age group. There are just a shit ton of Boomers.

If traded yeah those make sense and continue to be linked.