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Well we know Schwarber made a significant contribution to the Cubs World Series win so that's plenty good if you hit in that situation. Almora is a very solid fielder and also not bad with the bat. I'd take him in a heartbeat right now in CF. Sox need some draftees and Robert to step up because at this time they all seem 3 years away except for a few like Jimenez , Zavala and Cease and what we get from that trio is unknown right now.

I know that makes a difference, The Astro's had 3 1-1's. They screwed it up one year by taking Aiken so ended up with the 2 and 5 pick the next year and took Bregman and Kyle Tucker. But if you look at the Cubs picks from the years I mentioned you can see they are quite similar to the position the Sox drafted in the last few years or some one like Springer was taken 11th in round one so also not a top 5. Altuve was signed for $15,000.

No one mentioned the cartoons from the 1960's like Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman or How the Grinch Stole Christmas All classics in my mind. Someone did mention a Charlie Brown Christmas . That is also a cartoon classic from the 60's. I suppose technically these are not movies but they are wonderful examples of the best things to watch at Xmas. Even kids of today can appreciate them. Hard to beleive most of those are already 50 years old.

I was specifically talking about players produced for the rebuild. Most of the players I mentioned were draft picks or international players signed by the Cubs and Astros that played on their world series winning teams I know they can produce a great player on the blind squirrel theory but I'm talking about year after year of making picks that produce at a high quality. If you look specifically at the draft from 2011-2015 both those teams picked phenomenal talent in the 1st round. If it takes 5 years in a row making great 1st round draft picks what year did that start for the White Sox ?

I'll make the argument that be it analytics or scouting they aren't doing it effectively. There's no way in hell the Sox get the same success from our 1st round draft picks that the Astros and Cubs got. When you hear things from Hostetler about they would've taken Collins 1 -1 it makes you really wonder. The Cubs got so much talent they could afford the loss of Jimenez, Cease and Gleyber Torres . But can anyone here realistically see the Sox system producing a Correa, Bregman, Altuve, Springer, Keuchel , McCullers, Bryant , Baez, Schwarber ,Almora, Happ ,Contreras . These are all home grown, none of them from trades.

I could see wanting AJ . He's good. But pairing him with Benetti just can't see it. We've all heard how brutal AJ can be with people. Ptatc doesn't like him much. Maybe he's matured or understands about being a professional broadcaster now but he's always reminded me of a bully and Jason reminds me of the bullied. I know its a strange take on the matter because I don't know either one but kind of have a hard time thinking putting the bully with the bullied would work.

Soria gets the win Aj in the booth Big Hurt on the post game. Sox are in the playoffs.

Moooooooose

Arcia does a fadeaway hook slide or headfirst towards the foul side of the base he's probably safe there.

Arcia looks safe but might be inconclusive,

Poor pitch selection on 0-2 to ARenado trying to go inside. With bases loaded don't wanna hit the batter so he the pitcher ended up leaving it out over the plate for the SF. Should've went down and away with the slider. Brewers lucky it's tied. Now the chance for some walk off drama.

9th inning bases loaded no outs 1 run in for the Rox. 2-1Brewers.

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I like the woman . She sounds informed to me.

Somehow I feel like this should be in the Pale Hose section since many times people don't look at Future Sox after the season ends and it's good news foe the franchise.

That's what happens when the opponent isn't considered the enemy.

Arenado maybe could've sold that more. Like try to break free of the hug forcefully and bitterly complain he was prevented from throwing.

Rockies can't keep giving the Cubs chances to walk it off. It's gonna happen .

So looks like we are posting on this game in 2 different threads ?

Strange take considering you can't play a ball you can't see or is stuck somewhere.

Those 1st 2 pitches to Story with a man on 3rd and 1 out were balls and called strikes. If not for the ump Rox could be up 2-0 . Just bad umpiring not a conspiracy.

Hey I get it hot takes are your thing but please let them make some sort of sense. He's a trainer they have a training staff. They have strength and conditioning coaches. I don't even see how you can blame a trainer if some gets hit by a pitch or slides into a base and breaks a hand or ankle. Some of these guys are unique physical specimens with extraordinary muscle mass much of the time built through weight training which might not take into account the true hereditary nature of what their body can tolerate. Pitching in and of itself is an unnatural motion for a human being. Its far more natural to throw underhanded. You can't prevent pitching injuries when just the act of pitching is against the natural flow of body movement. Maybe if you ever took the time to say which injuries you think that could have been prevented you might make some sense but you don't dare do that since ptatc might shoot you down. If you are not a medical professional throwing baseless accusations around is not just a hot take its an idiotic take.

Yep and I already broke down the Cubs and Astro's draft picks from 2011-2015 in the 99 losses or fewer goal thread.. Both teams produced a lot of good to great players from the draft in those years. Still to be determined but doesn't look we we will see the same type of results from the draft. I have no idea about talent from international youngsters but with Aldolfo and Roberts we'll have to see if they can stay healthy and start developing. Altuve came very cheaply to the Astro's that way. Even with the Aiken situation the Astro's turned that into Bregman so really they just traded themselves a #1 for a # 2 in the next draft and took another great position player. With Correa they passed on Buxton when Correa agreed to go under slot and then used the saved money to pick McCullers as a supplemental 1st rounder. Anyway that's all in this article about how they put together their WS winning team. https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/world-series-2017-how-the-al-champion-houston-astros-built-their-roster/

Have to agree with you here. Just wish he had done more like it. I expect a lot of trades and roster movement this winter.

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