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If the pitchers don't like Grandal's game calling I have zero sympathy in 2023 where a certain rule change happened.

Nice to see Sean Burke back (perhaps he was already) after that shoulder shut down

The o in kopech I made a zero because just capitalizing the K wouldn't have been that clever.

You could hang these last two kopech starts in a museum. Perfect team wins.

pitchers man.

guys, it's a noon game.

wish I hadn't sold my romy stock considering I was the only one who owned any.

trying to imagine seeing this lineup in 2018 I would have been so psyched

Unfortunately, none of those were the fatal mistakes. The single fatal mistake of the sox org can be encapsulated by the idea that they aim to be good enough not good as possible. Good enough gets you faster attrition as other teams pass you by. It makes injuries more impactful. It makes windows shorter.

and this year their payroll is just comp balance tax of $88 million whereas in 2020 hahn had payroll up to $178 million (people forget we had a weirdly high lux tax number with the extensions) and $128mill. They have a competitive team just with their farm, margin scouting and player dev. Soon they'll get to add.

I don’t know why but I’m my head Wilfred Veras is a hulk but he’s only 6’2 180. What you like to see is he’s cut his K rate as he moved up to A+, but the walk rate hasn’t moved. The Sox have to figure out how to work on this.

high quality video from dash

And last chance for me to give a s%*# about a jerry reinsdorf franchise just washed away.

Yeah... By results and how unprepared they are I'd say fire the pitching coach. Sox treat FO/management personnel as stronger commitments than marriage. Katz was good for his first few years wrangling the stuffy but uncommandy arms Hahn had collected. It's not working now. Find someone else. But, also don't fire him and just let them continue to be dumb together, what does it matter.

OK everyone only gets one spin. Post where the bulls drafted on tankathon. Here I go: ...12th

This was really entertaining.

There is only one thing I want the bulls to try to add and it's 3 pt shooting. Could care less about rim protection until they address that

Successful season for Michael Turner so far. Maybe others have been following. He was our 9th round senior signing for 35 k out of Arkansas. Old for level at 24, but bats left and walks a bunch. Also Ks a bunch. But yeah go Winston-Salem. Crushing that damn league.

yeahhhh Also not gonna lie the very poor play of sosa/romy made the other MI guys that are similar profiles less interesting. Basically please get back colson and ramos.

lol

turn the arrow upside down please guaranteed rate pllleeaaaassseee *wails*

eh, this is silly. He was above average last year offensively. He's above average this year. It's just average for a first baseman. He's 14th out of 31 qualified 1st baseman in wRC+.

While 2 thursdays after sundays is rough, I do feel like having a young team should help, esp because it offers those "mini byes". Bears got a lot out of their post-washington mini-bye last year.

I'll say this for Vaughn. If we didn't have him, we'd have a cycle of 36-37 y.o. free agent 1B that were good 4 years ago and are on their way to retire. He is definitely outperforming that hypothetical with 0 WAR and at only a few million. So it took the 3rd overall pick, but it's saving Hahn a bunch of edwin encarnacions. Like I'd bet Carlos Santana would be our 1b without Vaughn. And uh, woops ok so he has a higher WAR due to DH but we are getting a nice 20% more offense and a cool $6 million back in JR's bank. Huge W for Jerry.

Need to change this to “Resign Hahn!”