CentralChamps21

I turned on WGN news as soon as I saw this and there was no mention of this. That combined with the lack of cell phone video that generally accompanies such incidents leads me to believe this didn't happen.

Nate Silver

Agreed, but 2020 was such an unusual season I used 2019 stats since they're more meaningful.

Look at these guys' 2019 OPS: Moncada .915 Anderson .865 Jimenez .828 That's not "doomed from the start." Something happened after 2019 that ruined these guys. COVID may have part of the blame for Moncada, but I'll forever be convinced that TLR was the main reason.

That's very believable. Just like TLR was already lined up when Ricky was fired.

I wouldn't have gone yesterday if the Sox had the best record in baseball and Ohtani was playing. There are 81 home games, I'll go to ones where the temperature is below 90 degrees.

Not going to make excuses for these two--they're highly paid professionals who shouldn't need someone else to keep them in line. That said, they didn't become problems until TLR arrived and there weren't any rules because he was too drunk to enforce any. This is an organizational failure on so many levels. They knew these guys well enough when they were here under Ricky to know that they wouldn't mesh well with TLR. Nobody will ever convince me that it's a coincidence that so many position players' stats got so much worse shortly after TLR arrived. It also begs the question as to whether the Sox did their due diligence on these two before trading for them. Were there red flags that they ignored? Was there a reason the Red Sox and Cubs were so willing to give them up?

Fire everybody who went to Michigan.

I never understood why they only drafted one OL.

I'd think that letting the other 29 teams know you thought hiring TLR was a stupid idea would help

If Rick Hahn was really against the hiring of TLR, and JR wouldn't let him resign, then he should have told JR that he'd publicly bash TLR, make him look bad, and force JR to fire him.

In response to the TLR tweet.

This is so messed up. If you look at when the steep declines in production of Moncada, Jimenez, Grandal, Anderson, etc, started, I still think that TLR is to blame. Something changed in that clubhouse that led to those guys just not caring anymore, and now TLR is back and the new GM is internal?

Any chance of luring Kim Ng out of Florida?

They traded away six pitchers at the deadline. Losing since then is expected and not a factor in anything.

Turn Soldier Field into a baseball stadium.

If not having a robust analytics department that actually has influence on personnel was a KW/Hahn decision, then this is a positive sign. If it's a JR decision, then this won't change anything.

Wow! That's all I can say right now.

Still think it would be funny if everybody bought upper deck tickets and left the lower deck mostly empty.

Speaking of the Marlins, they just had a game rescheduled due to a hurricane. A road game. In Los Angeles.

That's why that stat is so all-encompassing--it describes both how bad the pitchers and hitters have been when it comes to commanding the strike zone.

I was coming here to post exactly this. I can't think of a single stat that sums up how bad a team is better than this. This is an organizational failure, both in acquiring players and developing them.

Is Canada's pit bull ban a thing that's widely known? I never knew it until reading this thread. If Buehrle did know about it and didn't negotiate a no-trade in his contract, then that's on him. If not, then that's unfortunate luck. I don't expect the Marlins to take a lesser deal just to accommodate dogs.

Fields threw three balls, all behind the line of scrimmage, and ended up with 129 yards and 2 TDs.

Depends on how far SW in Michigan. Berrien County is in the South Bend Market.