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I think he's very naive then. You can look across the sports landscape of this country and see a multitude of way worse shit and guys continuing to get jobs if their good. At the end of the day most fanbases and orginizations want to win, many at the cost of some moral high ground.

I mean, someone is going to hire these guys within the next couple years.

This is really light in my opinion. The money is a joke but I think the fine amount is capped off. 1st and 2nd round picks for 2 years when you have an all star team is nothing. Hinch and Luhnow should have been BANNED from baseball, period. I don't think this is that much of a deterence for an orginization. This is like getting probation on an armed robbery conviction.

There is literally no players left aside from Castellanos/Ozuna they could use. They have no bullpen, no RF, 2nd base is a question with Hoerner, rotation aside from Yu and Hendricks is poo. They are shot and did literally nothing outside of minor league depth. Even if they did this weird trade with COL they wouldn't really improve by much at all.

I think they tried offering him an extension last year. Not sure what the differences were obviously but it didn't get signed. Either he's getting lowballed or he wants to go to FA imo.

So, just about the Berrios thing. That 375k turns into millions of dollars over the arb process since they build off each other. I get the sentiment I guess but it's not really 375k.

Disappointed in 1917. I thought the movie was produced well and the story was good BUT Howww do you make a movie about WWI and have next to 0 trench warfare? WWI was absolutely gruesome and gets no love in the movies. I have no idea where the Saving Private Ryan comparissons were coming from.

I'm 31. Good guys wear black and the kids can play are the only ones I remember and I don't know what years those were.

For me Backyard Baseball and MLB The Show are the best. I played others in the late 90's early 2ks but I don't remember if it was RBI or what. Does anybody remember the game where you could literally take steroids? I never played it but I remembet reading about it in Tips n Tricks magazine when I was a kid.

This doesn't have anything to do with anything and I was never a Catcher but I think of it as shooting a moving target by leading it. Catcher sets glove to where the pitch WILL be around earlier so it looks like a strike. This probably doesn't make sense and I'm phrasing this poorly but this is how I think of it.

Literally how though? Even without EE Collins is a secondary/tertiary piece filling in at 1B/DH/C to spell Abreu/McCann/Grandal. Mazara is the starting RF.

Assuming the Sox are done with major off-season aquisitions I'd like to see grades for each individual move. Abreu extension: C- I don't hate Jose Abreu but I thought the QO was exactly what he should have got and ended with. I'm not a fan of essentially giving him a 3 year deal which will include his age 34 and 35 seasons in the heart of contention. With Vaughn likely up in 2021, Abreu's extension locks him in as our DH as he ages, instead of leaving some roster flexibility for a more impactful bat. Grandal signing: A I liked the idea of Grandal as a target but I thought the FO would look at him as a luxury and not a need. This is a great signing in every way and the aggressiveness the Sox attacked him with was fantastic. Grandal breaks up the handedness and adds great OBP and decent power to the lineup. Defensively he should be extremely impactful to our young staff. Mazara trade: D Thanks, I hate it. I've argued this up and down multiple times on here and this move is still ass. If being 24 was a skillset I might feel more neutral than negative but it's not. I don't care that they traded Walker. I don't care if anybody in the minors after Vaughn is traded as long as it is for impact. Mazara, unfortunately, has not done much of anything impactful. He's a shitty fielder and will be reduced to a platoon role. This is not a win now move in any way, shape, or form. This is a move you make when you are a rebuilding team as Mazara has been replacement level his 4 year career and was a legitimate non-tender candidate for the Rangers. There were multiple other OF's available that would have added a lot more to the table than Mazara. Using the excuse that he'll be our #8 hitter or he's an upgrade from last year is not valid. He has been at best a 4th OF on a winning team in his career. Keuchel signing: C Keuchel does some nice...or different things for our rotation. Soft tossing lefty that lives low and has the pedigree and mentality to be a nice addition. I didn't want anything to do with Keuchel before FA started as his peripheral numbers have been declining as he has aged. I was also thinking we would strike a deal with a pitcher with more upside and #2 potential. Unfortunately that didn't happen and now our bearded friend will likely be our #2, for now. He gives you innings if nothing else and shouldn't be a bad signing as he is still effective enough to give you 2-2.5 WAR. At the time he was signed I wanted him more than Ryu as Keuchel can stay on the field. Don't mistake it though, one of Kopech/Cease/Lopez now HAS to really ramp it up with a rotation spot locked up for the next 3-4 years. Gio G signing: B+ I like this signing and think it's ALMOST perfect assuming he's a placeholder and insurance. Gio still has some in the tank I think and should be good for what he'll be asked to do as Kopech gets back. EE signing: B+ This guy fucks still at the plate even in his twilight years and has an ingrained hatred for Twins pitching. On it's face the move is win now and he should add 30+ bombs to a club that was power starved last year. My gripe with this is that I would have prefered to use the DH spot with a combination of Abreu/Grandal/Collins/McCann to keep their bats in the lineup while staying fresh and to add more position versatility to bench. Luis Robert extension: A++++ Easily my favorite move of the offseason. Not a lot to say about this if you have been paying attention. Lineup wise we will be nearly full strength OD by extending our most electric prospect. Cishek signing: B I'm a fan of this move in every way. Cishek was a work horse for the Cubs the last 2 years. Unfortunately he got stung in the second half last year because Joe Maddon leans on guys TOO hard sometimes. Cishek should help shorten the game and be a strong 7th inning guy. He does a good job at inducing soft contact which is why he outperforms FIP nearly every year. Not a big strikeout guy but hopefully will be very effective with a more "reduced role" with us. I would have given this an A if he was a secondary piece to a more high leverage arm. Overall: B to B- I think the FO deserves a lot of credit for how this offseason turned out and some of the money was actually spent. I think the Robert extension and locking up Grandal were the 2 most important things they did. Unfortunately Keuchel doesn't move the needle too much either way I don't think, the Abreu extension is highly questionable from a roster construction standpoint going forward, and Mazara could be another waste in RF and was not really an actual upgrade vs the league. I think the secondary moves with EE, Cishek, Gio will prove to be pretty impactful this year. I'd love to be more optimistic but for THIS year I don't think they did enough to surpass the Twins, which means we likely won't be a WC with the A's and Rays just being better teams right now. I do think we will be playing meaningful baseball in August and September though for the first time in a long time which will at least keep us relevant. Nice job Rick and Kenny. Exciting times for Sox fans.

Probably Tim. Since nobody else remotely profiles as a leadoff guy. Moncada is trash when he leads off iirc.

Hopefully EE tells Eloy to pull the damn ball a little more as well as get it more in the air. After he figured out the slider a little I feel like he got bullied by the high FB a bit. I don't have any data for this but he fouled off a ton of center cut high FB's last year. Hopefully he starts turning on those.

Schilling accumulated 79 WAR over his career. Borderline guys are around 66. He is a no doubter but unfortunately he hurt the poor baseball writers feefees with his politics, which have nothing to do with Baseball.

I would have not been happy about this.

You might not like it, but this is what quintessential Boomerposting looks like.

This has to be a flip or it doesn't make sense for StL. Also Carlson isn't going anywhere even for NA.

This actually doesn't make any sense. They most likely would be looking for MLB ready talent, considering the contracts and players they have. EDIT: If they weren't going to just retool with MLB ready talent literally ever veteran on their roster should be available. That's not the case because that's not what they are doing.

He has out performed his FIP almost his whole career because he's a weak contact pitcher. I like the signing a lot, I did want them to get a K guy in addition to Cishek though. Hopefully we can get something like that out of the minors or some bounceback signing.

I can't believe there are this many Ricky apologists in here. He is a trash manager you can keep around when your team sucks because he's cheap. Lineup construction, bunting, "old school" outlook on the game, pen management, rarely steals, stubborn as shit, and on and on. The good is he speaks Spanish and the players like him. We will see if he stops being bad at obvious things this year with an actual MLB roster to manage.

The Twins have a good farm but don't have a lot of MLB ready talent outside of Brent Rooker and Graterol. By MLB ready I mean could be starting OD 2020. I would think the Cubs would be trying to get players back that could play this year. If not then there is a lot to pick from that will be ready in a year or 2 from Minnie.

It was under the article where Tommy John is only good for 3-5 years.

This.

I really like this deal and wanted Cishek. A lot of people underrating the guy. He was excellent for the Cubs until Joe Maddon did his Joe Maddon thing to the pen.