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It seems like it's been slated to come out "next week" for the last 4 weeks. Kiley said "soon" today in the chat. Edit: he clarified it should come this week.

There is an inverse relationship to how often Heyman writes on a subject to how credibly close it is to occurring.

I've been mostly patient but last night really broke my back. I don't like in anything when managers or people in charge meddle just for the appearance of being productive. The suicide squeeze was to appear proactive when really it just placed the hitter in the box in a worse position. Just let your players play, stop distracting them in the box with low-success plays. Baseballs hard enough. How many suicide squeeze's have they successfully performed this year? 0?

Manny may have done teams a favor by proving he can't play SS anymore before heading to FA.

I know most would say Singer, but if Mize has something bad on his medicals I would probably cut Kelenic a deal at 4.

I read this, really liked it. Sometimes players stay up there long but don't get mocked to the sox, and you forget how exciting they are. Major bat.

If you want to feel good about Bohm for a reason not really related to Bohm himself, check out top 5 3bs drafted in the last 30 years.

I will remember the 2010s for how the white sox would end up in these positions where the only replacements they had for historically bad offensive players was somehow worse offensive players. Our success will be defined by when we need to replace a player for injury plugging in a decent player behind and not players that make 2011 Adam Dunn look decent.

Can't answer this question on stuff, but that could take a while to perform the switch. He was a converted catcher just 2 years ago.

I would be really happy with Bohm. I'm not sure I buy the certainty around position changes. Look at players like matt carpenter. When you need them to play third they'll play third, and use shifting to minimize the damage.

It’s also become a crutch decision that has not worked and has seemed to show he does not trust his players

Hi my names Ricky Renteria, and I want you to buy my management book about how to put your players in the worst position to succeed in their most pressure packed moments.

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Atta boy Yoan

I think I have more fingers on my hand than his wRC+

LOL. I came here just to moan about Engel batting (which was the wrong decision) and he draws a walk.

Still ended up with one of the best game scores of the decade. He’ll always have that.

I’d add Devers as a success too. He was nowhere near top 10 when he became popular. albies I’ll give half credit for since he was a top 20 prospect at time, so not that impressive. Dont forget with Peavy that Alan Hansen was a big one too. Looking back that trade was just a parade of bad prospects. Avi may legit have been best, Iglesias probably though.

Not sure why I’m putting this here except it’s often the same crowd: but as I watch Juan Soto belt a HR in his first mlb at bat, I have to say that while it has its misses (usually with mid tier catcher obsessions), soxtalk is pretty damn good at identifying big prospects early. Soxtalkers were all over Acuna and Soto early, and like a year later they are in bigs.

Not really.

With all of our discussion on "will the sox pony up for players?", a huge boost to that will be if we could somehow build a dominant in-house bullpen. Bullpen has become incredibly expensive. Having that be cheap again would allow us to allocate more resources to a position player or rotation member. edit: And I'm not sure how likely it is, but I do think it's fair to say this actually has been part of the white sox strategy.

B-I-N-G-O You realize as a whole they are giving a lot of 0 innings, but that's also because they are giving a LOT of innings, and the ones where runs are given up can be painful for a struggling offense. Good recovery at this point. They also seemed to do well at identifying the ones in a slump vs ones that needed to just go

It's not expecting Madrigal to be Altuve, it's just that 4-5 years ago when you'd have Madrigal the question would be "okay great player, but he's 5'7, what are the chances that guy pans out"? Then, you'd have Pedroia. Now, you have Albies and Altuve lighting up the world, and Pedroia. You just happen to have 3 2b, all small, as some of the best hitters in the game (or were). So it's not he WILL be Altuve, it's that the ceiling is not where we think it is just because of size. He may very well just be a high contact versatile infielder, but the other reason I like him is that sort of hit tool is needed on this team. The astros cut a lot of high-k players and their offense exploded. Ks in and of themselves aren't bad, but if no one is ever putting ball in play you miss some opportunities over the year that add up.

Yep, you have to go to Hi-A for a CFer above .610 ops.

I also would hope that, while I know we are trying to develop a specialty for positions, the sox used years like this to work on positional versatility for anderson and moncada the way they have for yolmer.