poppysox

After all these turnarounds...this team is going to be very good.

There's not much point in being a fan if we think everything they do is bound to fail.

I prefer a zillionaire that doesn't need to organize a group. Someone who looks at the cap as something to be aware of but isn't paralyzed by it.

I am very optimistic about this kid. My kind of player.

Well sadly...it did not go right.

Take it up with the MLB evaluators. I haven't seen any of them play so obviously I don't have first hand knowledge.

It changes a fan's interest in watching a game occasionally. I presume the major league coaches are the best we have so I'm not buying the lack of development argument. Service time is an ongoing discussion that I see both sides of.

Hopefully, Quero, Montgomery, Schultz Smith, and Elder would all potentially make the 2025 roster. MLB thinks so.

I believe you can build for the future while entertaining in the present. Minor league teams mostly draw fans with no stars to draw the customers. This team can bring up two or more of their top-tier prospects. They can sign some affordable over-the-hill additions like Veeck did with the 1977 team. It's not me I'm worried about. It's the kids who will find something else to keep them busy. No fans...no game eventually.

If we don't see talent on the field very soon this board will be a ghost town. As I said in an earlier post...the Cubs survived being last place awful for years but they had stars like Banks, Williams, and Santo to keep young fans thinking a great team is just around the corner. Lots of hitting and homers. Today those types of players would be unattainable for this club wanting to run a 50 M payroll. Whatever method ownership wants to use going forward...it needs to put something entertaining on the field.

Correct... there is nothing guaranteed whichever plan people prefer. That's why I don't try to debate with people who disagree. I will get what the baseball professionals decide and try to see their reasoning.

Yes...a major disappointment. More or less why I stopped discussing him about two years ago.

He was graded by major league scouts as the most complete hitter in his year's draft class. Others claimed he was the player closest to major league-ready. Injuries and whatever have made it look like a bad pick that hasn't worked out. I think Moncada is a far bigger miss' All of this missing on draft picks is one of the reasons I would prefer our guys be major league-ready rather than 3 or 4 years away.

His lifetime batting average is .274...sounds pretty good from what I've been seeing.

I'm mostly tired of people who can't hit .220 with or without power.

I would build this deal on two really solid guys who are ready to play on opening day. Perhaps they are blocked because of the star players in front of them. We desperately need players who make the team watchable. Those big-name free agents get added when you are already good. Those future star guys won't put a single fanny in a seat.

Maybe...but he won't be one of Jerry's players.

Yeah...miracles will happen from time to time.

Jerry might sign a 30 mil per year player. I said might. He is not signing a 30 million dollar per year player for 10 years. Our best path is to spend the money on as many GOOD players as 200 million will allow. Sorry...I'm a realist.

We aren't going to pay for an established superstar. Our best chance is a potential superstar.

I want the team with the two best major league-ready position players. Two players who are currently great but blocked would be ideal. The Cubs seem to have that problem...who else?

Jerry-type organizations have both the wherewithal and the obligation to spend in the second tier of ownership. By that, I mean 200+ million. That payroll range all but eliminates "Soto-type deals" but puts a watchable team on the field.

Like Robert?

Finding an answer to the competitive imbalance of payrolls is imperative IMO. Very few teams have any realistic path to winning a WS.

I jerry-rigged a portable radio with its pull-out antenna to a string of coat hangers and aluminum foil to kind of hear a Sox radio broadcast. Good times.