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Grandal was better than both of them last year, and while one or both might be better than him this year, not by a large enough margin to justify moving that plate discipline and OBP out of the 2 hole. Bury Grandal down in the bottom third of the order and most of his walks get wasted. You shouldn't even both signing a guy with Grandal's plate discipline if you aren't going to bat him in front of your best run producers.

Grandal sees a lot of pitches and gets on base a lot. He's exactly the kind of guy you want batting in front of Abreu and Eloy.

You think it's 3 and Colin Cowherd thinks it's 5. Given Cowherd's long history in sports media, I'm 100% certain that you're right.

Five first round picks????

Baseball needs to do something to shorten games. Banning the shift doesn't really do that. Limiting throws to first sounds like it might but if it leads to a huge increase in steal success then probably not. I've heard the idea of making the 3rd foul ball after 2 strikes a strikeout to cut down on long at bats but that may be too far outside the box. I do like the rule limiting pitching changes to between innings or after 3 batters.

The price would be steep, it would have to be an top-notch pitcher in return, but DH is a position of strength right now and I think the Sox need to at least find out how big a bounty they could get for Vaughn.

Sign Cespedes for DH, keep Yermin at AAA to be the backup plan, and trade Vaughn for a #2/3 type ST with 3+ years of control.

Why are we trying to get rid of Marshall? Do people really want more innings for Burdi and Cordero?

I know it's Spring Training, but how much longer until we start getting concerned about the hitting?

Why is this guy still getting innings?

Yeah, other than not being guaranteed a roster spot, not eating up millions of guaranteed dollars that could have gone somewhere else, and not being at a position where it would have been really easy to find a better option, it's exactly the same.

So is this going to be the bullpen to start the season: Hendriks Bummer Marshall Crochet Heuer Kopech Foster Lopez/Rodon

Leury is so bad batting lefty that he's essentially a RH hitter, but he is capable at 7 positions so you absolutely need a guy like him on the roster. At the same time, you need to have some depth in the minors so that he doesn't have to become an every day player when a starter goes down.

The 1919 team was probably the best team the Sox ever had.

Trubisky is mobile enough to avoid tons of sacks, but there was absolutely zero space for the running backs to gain yards, and Trubisky had to complete make a bunch of 4 yard throws because that's all the time he had.

The OL looked good against 4 shit teams when the Bears scored 30+ points. When they played the Packers and Saints they didn't look so good.

No, this is where he looks awesome and gets our hopes up before shitting all over himself in May.

I'd love to have Wilson but I'm having a hard time seeing how the Bears can acquire him, and still have the cap space and/or draft resources to get an offensive line that doens't get him killed.

Yeah, it seems like people are trying to shove 3-4 DHs on a 26 man roster and that's not gonna work.

There is no place to drink before/after the games. Have to get it all in during.

You are likely to run a fever or have other minor side effects in the 24-48 hours immediately after the vaccine--especially the 2nd dose. That's a sign that the vaccine is actually working. That's not a sign that the vaccine is bad for you.

https://twitter.com/whitesox/status/1367531953847730183?s=20

How is that not a Federal crime?

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/31002022/source-former-boston-red-sox-cf-jackie-bradley-jr-sign-2-year-24m-deal-milwaukee-brewers