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If Hicks is going to be in. the pen then Sox pitching coaches have to get him throwing strikes at mimimum.

Bob being Boob again getting the money wrong.

Didnt Nightengale get the momey part wrong ? Saving $8M not $16M Bob thinking Boston paying $8M per year not the reported $4M per year.

Do you think its possible Sandlin goes on the 60 day DL or are we just talking about guys like Thorpe, Mason Adams, Berroa & Bush ?

Rumor is Sandlin didnt pass the medical portion of the trade according to @Baron sauce before but apparently has now since it's been completed ? Something is weird or sauce was partially right & wrong.

I think pitchers the Sox acquire who have under performed fits into a range of things the Sox feel they can work with.

Ok guesses has to how much Boston ate of the $25M ? Half sounds about right Maybe $10-12.5M.

Having 1:1 will change that dynamic. Won 't chart his game to game progress though. Maybe once a month when people get excited when he 's on a tear. I hardly ever ( never say never) kick prospects when they are down.

Colson and MM are potentially devastating power duo in the middle of the lineup. How they do is how the season will go. Outstanding performances provide the runway of opportunity to guys like Acuna and Baldwin . Just like last year they need to have a lot go right to keep inching their way to respectabilty with a disrespectful player payroll.

Agree thanks for sharing !!

White Sox Fever.. Catch It ! I feel some Tra La's approaching.

Oh I understand opinions vary. If the Sox lose 100 again that dominate the off sesson again . Letting all the kids have a runway sometime wont help tbem win so it bevomed well you wanted the kids to play. Even as good as the kids played last year adding vets in the OF and BP fosters more winning. You dont want the kids getting too discouraged .

Was there really a "crowd" ? Tauchman, Taylor, Slater last year plus Getz said he was looking for it.

"Austin Hays Signs with Sox" title perhaps? I know its pinned but it looks like just another speculation thread by the title. Thank you. I realize a shortened title gives an advantage for getting it out there 1st 🙂

Acuna can do that too or Meidroth on the Infield eventually . If we want to provide a runway for power and speed potential the OF is the place to do it . The INF is stacked and we haven't even seen Carlson or if Cholowski ends up being #1. Baldwin could end up in LF and be a decent OF with reps and Braden in RF eventually. Beginning of August with Vargas injured Brooks played a lot of 3B. With Robert injured in Sept. he played a lot of CF some RF & LF and he had an .828 OPS and .784 in July.

I just heard Getz talking up the CF guys. I don't know if the order he mentioned them means anything. However it was Acuna 1st, Hill, Peirara and then Baldwin. He also talked about being active in the FA OF market and trade talks. That was on CHSN with David Haugh ,Garfien and other guy. Edit again It wasnt in that podcast it was on Sox Machine yesterday at right around the 7:45 minute mark. I did get the order right that he mentioned them. Ill listen to it again maybe edit this post and put the youtube video in here.

Guessing more . Don't know if its been divulged yet in this thread . But not much more. Edit: About 3 minutes from the post I quoted to the salary terms post. No one will believe I didn't see it. 🤣

Taking on 2 contracts that's funny when just one of them (Hicks) take Getz past spending only the $20M he saved on Robert. That seems to be extent of the financial flexibility he's allowed.

Yes its very promising and for those who talk. about being ahead of the curve when it comes to analytics. It's worth keeping and eye on. We alwsy heard about Tef Williams having 20/10 vision so Im. allso a firm believer that there may also be more advanced ways to test eyesight and continue testing it yearly since as we age and enviromental factor such as UV rays degrade our sight . Also to use advancing tech to increase our ability to see clearly in different kinds of light like sunlight as oppposed to artificial light during night games. Innovations to improve eyesight should also be very important to teams.

The amount of variables involved to sustain dominance in baseball are incredibly high. This is why predicting the future is very difficult. Every level can expose a weakness and the need to adjust. Being a great athlete and posessing inate abilities means a lot more in basketball and football than baseball. In those sports you jump straight to the pros from college. Every one plays the same game. Baseball is way different. There are pitchers and hitters. It's like 2 separate games. It's why there are tiers to development. Pitching and hitting are incredibly complicated mechanically. Eyesight and the abilty to process what you see as quickly as possible and make a swing decision and being sound enough mechanically to impact your swing decisions and hit ball hard . As a hitter your levels of processing the info without pitchers findng a flaw to exploit is tested at every level. Who knows, maybe the next cutting edge for analytics will combine a hitters mental capabilities with physical . It's processing what you see in micro seconds and making a correct decision . No matter how good the pitchers get you can still punish mistakes but still being good when you see less and less mistakes will separate you. Then there's how you field and health... As fans we will always take our best guesses based on some data points but extremely limited for predictive abilities . Young players need helping hands along the way to show them that it's a game that can humble you quickly and you need to be adaptable and patient. That's why Colson Montgomery is such as interesting case study. How the White Sox approached getting him back on track when fans had written him off was quite unique. Those data points we used when we believed in him were swept away by his hitting getting worse and being unclear as to how injuries affected him. There was no guarantee that taking him out of game action and working on his process would get his mind right. But it did work. He listened, he adapted after around 2 years of declining stats. Of course he has to maintain it. Still no guarantees but it's so far a great example of player and coaches working together to implement change based on keen observation and analytics. It's also a great example of why we should show humility when throwing around can't miss or bust labels .

Or 30 HRs potentially with Sosa but the path to ABs may not be there as much as last year.

You just avoided my question . That right there tells me you had a motive . Everybody looks at other people profiles, they don't post the info to the rest of Soxtalk. Just like I said majority trying to silence the majority and playing the victim . I guess you left off the part of my profile that had my motivation for putting that info there. The part that said being on Soxtalk was like being with friends. But I see too many bullies here now and already posted about that . I like the underdogs. That helps being a Sox fan but it doesnt help those who chose to be with someone they no longer trust despite their obvious pain. I'm not in pain because I'm seeing an honest effort to get better under trying conditions . They all signed on knowing it would be challenging. They just do their jobs one day at a time trying to mske those young adults better at the things it takes to be a good player and teammate. The money part of team building is out of their hands. I support that.

Money probably bottom line. One less thing to do covering his missed time with a full time guy who costs less. They were probably looking for an out with him anyway and missing 25% of games was their out.

Research doesnt take long always.How often do you see other people posting whats on someone elses profile on here. What was your motivation in doing that ? It wasnt a friendly gesture . You were hoping to find something on my twitter to use against me most likely. You know it and I know it.

Me and Eddy are fighting an uphill battle amidst an onslaught of disgusted fans and tend to enjoy watching the young guys develop and find peace with that side of baseball. I already know that makes me an outcast among the majority of fans who are unwilling to see progress unless its reflected in the W-L record. I've had mods delete my posts and tell me to piss off. I'll get suspended if I show too much of a backbone so I try not to get into lengthy debates. I'm more hit and run now .They prefer to make fun of the meek posters who dont fight back a lot and are polite thats why the more positive people here don't post more. They get ganged up on. Yet it's the majority playing the victim. The Sox made me this way. I have every right to be pissy about it. They want their cake and to eat too , rule the school and be victims at the same time and silence the ones who push back. It's like a civil rights issue majority vs minority and they say majority rules. Right now the board is dominated by angry fans but its not that way everywhere . I see a lot of good things and so do others . I just hate the High school atmosphere of making fun of people because they dont fight back because youre a jock and they are nerds for being nice. I rule the school crap because I post the most and my opinions are in the majority and just want the rest of you to stfu. I respect Lip and we can disagree on fundamental levels without bickering . Now Lip is in the majority of frustrated fans but there was a time when his politeness made him a target too.