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Trying to think what the best injury I can hope for is. I wrote last week after Honeywell went down how I always forget that after the initial excitement Spring Training is mostly just waiting and hoping no UCLs burst. But man, I know Jimenez doesn't have a bad injury, but Adolfo and now Burger, our hitters are getting picked off one after another. edit: originally said collins and not burger.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Feb 26, 2018 -> 12:57 PM) that's like a split squad lineup. yikes. If you want to be scared, that's like 7/9ths of a sunday lineup this year.

QUOTE (knightni @ Feb 26, 2018 -> 09:43 AM) I tried to get into it, but shut it off with 10 minutes left in the first episode. You just need to skip three episodes and then ask a bunch of questions to my wife to catch up, then it's golden.

I think Eloy is going to be a bigger fan favorite, Yoan will probably be better.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Feb 26, 2018 -> 09:15 AM) Just finished it last night. The last 2 episodes are fantastic. Yeah I don't think I'll be far behind. I almost like it's all in subtitles because I can't multitask and lose my place. It's also just beautifully shot, incredible quality.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 26, 2018 -> 08:12 AM) Unless some team was already sold he was a top 5 or so guy, probably enough to where some team will get a steal. That was my guy. All he needs is a little more power. He size might make teams balk, but there are several little guys with a bit of pop that are doing quite well. I don't think it will affect his stock too much. He'll still get to play a bit and he has so much tape on him.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Feb 5, 2018 -> 10:39 AM) Wound up watching the 1st episode of Altered Carbon. It was a little tough to watch because of the script and acting. A bit cringe-inducing after watching 3 or 4 really well-acted shows recently and then jumping into this. I'll give it a little time before I jump back in. Also checked out the 1st episode of Babylon Berlin. Pretty intriguing so far. Babylon Berlin has me hooked. My wife started watching it and I was just sitting there around episode 4, and we basically finished season 1 and couldn't stop watching.

QUOTE (DirtySox @ Feb 23, 2018 -> 09:50 PM) Kendall Rogers @KendallRogers 6m6 minutes ago More .@BeaverBaseball All-American Nick Madrigal had an X-ray tonight following a left hand injury. #Beavs team doctor will meet with him tomorrow. Fear is that he could miss 4-6 weeks. More tomorrow. #MLBDraft Officially broken.

resigning myself to just watching gifs later.

dang, forgot i get blacked out on mlb games when i stream radio online

Mannnnnnnn

I am so freakin excited to see Robert not in a batting cage. Dude has been basically a myth up until today.

hellll yessssss Can't wait to trash a player after one at bat.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Feb 23, 2018 -> 09:36 AM) Royals finding market inefficiency in low-risk reclamations https://sports.yahoo.com/news/royals-findin...23694--mlb.html Similar concept...Chris Young, Blanton, Madson, Medlen (didn’t work out) etc. We have/had Kahnle (sold low?), Swarzak, Jennings, (Crain going further back) and now a TON of reclamation guys along with 10-12 legit young prospects (including Burdi/Cease/Lopez/Fulmer.) But that original KC pen was an absolute monster...Herrera, Hochevar, Collins, W.Davis and Holland. And the Twins actually did the same thing, two distinct cycles, from 2002-2010. Ok but I'm talking about drafted arms.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 23, 2018 -> 09:26 AM) I found something, and it's very weird. https://jaysjournal.com/2018/02/22/blue-jay...y-brett-lawrie/ Yeahhhh I can see why they DFA'd him.

I have to say, I really would have thought this is all more egrigious. My takeaways are if this is the money being transacted to top talent (granted maybe only one venue), then NCAA can afford to pay decent stipends of 15k a year or something to each revenue generating athletic program., and smaller stipends to less. But also with how often the NCAA has tried to illegally use criminal proceedings to act as fact finding and enforcing wings of the NCAA itself, that the FBI's purpose is basically just enforcing NCAA rules I find disappointing.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 23, 2018 -> 08:47 AM) Heyman did have an interesting White Sox note, whatever happened to Brett Lawrie? I know he wasn't the greatest, but he must really be messed up physically not to garner a spring invite from someone. I asked this in November in a catch all. Could only find some Toronto blogs asking to sign him. Nothing on the guy himself. I wonder if he's still recovering.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 23, 2018 -> 07:34 AM) You are way too optimistic about White Sox prospects. It's one of the reasons why the bullpen strategy is interesting though. Some articles have noted either Haber or Fabian talking about how with bullpens being so valuable, draft relief arms might be an inefficiency to exploit. And we don't really count up our bullpen prospects because it seems so risk-filled and we have less info on them. But there is a conscious collection of guys such as Burdi, Hamilton, Veiera, Burr, Henzman, T. Johnson that all have interesting arms, as well as the likelihood of some failed starters maybe being dynamite in relief. It's a bit counting your chickens before they hatch, but sox specifically tried to make the above happen so it's interesting to see if it either works in the majors or provides them with trade chips.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 23, 2018 -> 08:41 AM) He had back surgery. Hopes to be back by Opening Day. Oh ok. Noticed he hadn’t written in a while. Backs suck but glad it isn’t a more serious illness.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 23, 2018 -> 08:16 AM) Morosi, to me, is the most inaccurate guy who actually gets a lot of face time on MLB Network. I don't think it's even close. Heyman is a Boras mouthpiece. That is well known, but he throws a lot of his own opinions out there. Rosenthal, to me, is the king, and he's on the DL. What do you mean by Rosenthals on the DL?

That Heyman and Morosi are the main pushers of these narratives tells me all I need to know on whether to believe it.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Feb 23, 2018 -> 05:36 AM) I’m not really that worried about the payroll. For much of the previous decade we were consistently in the top 10 for payroll, and while I don’t think we’ll be a top 5 payroll again like we were in the past a few times, top 10ish should be reasonable, and at the very least we should be top half. The 15th highest payroll last year was $140 million (10th was $163 million), in 2019/2020 a $150 million payroll will probably be below average, and there’s no reason we couldn’t go that high. One thing I’d love is for the Sox, who clearly are trying for this, nail down a lockdown bullpen with mostly internal candidates. Bullpen help expensive and longer term deals now, avoiding this contracts make splurging on a position player or two easier to handle.

Nice, I may get to see an SEC tourney at least. hopefully we can turn win at least one more to guarantee the big dance.

I do think especially motivated people can kill people regardless, but when we discuss that in terms of terrorists we try to throw many obstacles in their way and have been fairly effective at that. Meanwhile for these mass shootings we've thrown very little into the way of preventing the shooters ability to increase lethality. Without any resistance in the supplies they can acquire, they have just ratcheted up tactics and strategy, and it has happened more frequently. The Parkland shooting was over in 5 minutes. The lethality of these weapons means a whole bunch of damage can be done by the time it takes an armed officer to run across a high school campus (my campus took 5 minutes to walk from one end to the other). So, for the love of god, can we stop curtailing the rights of literally everyone else, and try to make the high casualties of these events harder to accomplish? Forcing someone to make 100 sparkler bombs and plant them and light them successfully as the best way to perform massive casualties sounds a lot more favorable to reducing the amount/lethality of them than their current ability to buy a stockpile of weapons legally and go into a highly populated area prepared to die shooting. In the latter, if they were checked at their house as being suspicious nothing could be done. We need to acknowledge that the goal is to reduce the amount of shootings, but at very least, lower the amount of casualties, and it's okay if not every solution eliminates all violence forever. But while the rest of the country now has kindergartners performing drills for an active shooter, the small vocal percentage says "I cannot be restricted in any way, ever, no matter what"

I'm kind of excited to focus on making Leury and Sanchez as multipositional as possible.