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Ew.

Fantastic thread title Ronald. Well done!

LaRoche did actually. It was much longer than that. He trimmed it just enough. And Kopech already acknowledged the rule on Twitter after he was traded a couple of years ago. Reinsdorf's rule is well known (not as strict as the Yankees but it's definitely a rule).

I thought that was Avisail Garcia's job?

Gonna be an interesting battle between both of them.

Well... good for Stras and his family.

7/245... Cole must be licking his lips.

Honestly I don't mind. Much prefer Joc even if a deal isn't as likely right now. Or even Castellanos cause of the bat (also may not be as likely cause of Boras but you get the point).

Same but I've always been higher on Dalquist personally.

Quick question Ray. Of those two personally, which one would you prefer the Sox get. Castellanos or Ozuna?

I already acknowledged the injury concerns. I think his main problem was all mental personally. Dude is/was just a mental midget IMO. I don't think he'll be as outstanding as his second half numbers either but he won't be as bad as his first half either, so somewhere in the middle. Darvish still has elite spin rate numbers, his velocity numbers are still there and his hard hit numbers are okay (you could argue he should probably use his four seamer more). This isn't even accounting for the Cubs potentially taking on some money (won't be much obviously) just to get rid of a contract and they need to get rid of quite a few. Again the injury concerns are justified, but you could certainly do worse. Btw, I'm not acknowledging that I want Darvish here FYI.

Look at his second half numbers... he definitely figured something out. Plus I think now he'll be even better with the Astros stuff coming out. You can tell that World Series was in his head for quite some time. Only thing that can stop Darvish potentially is injuries.

4-5 years ago? Absolutely. He's been injury prone ever since (usually it takes a while to have that label but when you are years in with injuries now... it's justified).

Yes he plays both middle IF positions, but his value last season was in CF. I just thought it was a weird post by you considering that has nothing to do with why the D-Backs wouldn't want Madrigal.

Marte plays CF....

Oh believe me I was on the "Bears aren't making the playoffs" wagon for weeks now. But I still wanted to see them give it a thrill with Minnesota who are notorious for choking.

Rams winning is terrible. Did not expect them to beat Seattle but it's looking likely at this point.

Markkanen was good again. LaVine... terrible. You can argue he's cost the Bulls these last 2 games with his dumb shit out there.

Cubs are broke apparently.. https://www.bleachernation.com/cubs/2019/12/08/cubs-reportedly-telling-agents-they-cant-negotiate-on-even-low-cost-free-agents-until-they-clear-salary/

I still hope Sox find someone better than Leury on the bench.. mostly because I'm tired of watching the idiotic crap he does out there. Gotta be one of the lowest baseball I.Q. players I've seen since De Aza.

I highly doubt the Sox would give him more than 3 years max anyways. But he is a young 29 and still very much in his prime.

It's not what it once was (although I've heard rumors his shoulder wasn't 100% the whole season) but I would still wager it's stronger than Eloys. First 10 seconds of the video shows him throwing a guy out at home.

Still would much rather have McCann as a backup and bring in another hitter for the DH spot (unless Sox do want Collins there) but I like it.