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I just really cannot believe the mlb owners are like "yeah manfred is great for our sport and watches out for us"

very striking overlap of posters who never want Clevinger to pitch in MLB again and also want Eric Bienemy to be force fed a head coaching job.

What happens if you give Sirianni Mahomes instead of...the very different quarterback he rebuilt his offense around to the effect of becoming top 5 in the league, a super bowl appearance only to then say "actually we are just going to run KC's offense".

Siriannis offense outgained and out scored bienamys offense.

Why?

That’s gotta suck for Sirianni. Lose Super Bowl, and can’t even rest for a bit since you have to jump right to hiring and then get them up to speed for draft.

Caulfield, thank you.

I get like...fit and body and all that. But Brown Jr just seemed to completely neutralize Sweat, while I saw McGlinchey get owned a few times in a game where they ran the ball like 100 times.

And goes without saying, mahomes is incredible. Mahomes and Reid are unstoppable together. The guy who is one of the best off script qbs in the league also has an offense where 80% of the time he has a receiver he know will be schemed wide open immediately that he can throw it out to. And when it all breaks down he can then scramble and throw for a 60 yard pass. Crazy good team.

Reid has always made things work on offense. What I’m blown away by is in year 10 of their constant competitive tenure, their offensive and defensive line is still this good and has this many impactful players.

Correct. What we know will instead happen is Tim anderson will leave in FA and leave our 76 win team. But he will not be traded prior.

He’s not 16. He’s 22 and pitched 41 innings of pro ball over 3 years. I don’t really know if he’s “good” but I’d say that definitely indicates he’s a reliever. I definitely don’t care to use the intl budget for that profile. Great profile for the minor league rule 5

Like the yogurt signing, love paying mlb prices for minor league relievers

I forgot Sal Perez’s contract is bigger than benintendis.

Can’t imagine why they canceled Sox fest with stuff like this. Such a pathetic franchise. They can only compare themselves to themselves and are so impressed by what good boys they are. Bring up that we can see the twins sign an actual premiere free agent, that the tigers can sign an actual top free agent, and that the guardians can re sign one of the best players in the game while you were too timid to send a QO to a pitcher that went on to guarantee over $200 million dollars the next two years because you were too scared he’d accept… well that would pierce their Truman show.

Last years 81 wins was a huge success for hahn. His second best win total in 9 years!

You guys need to embrace that in Rick hahns tenth year his teams once again settling into his 75-78 win comfort zone is objectively hilarious.

wait but did cbs sports get it wrong or was he wrong about what cbs sports said @Kyyle23 ?

Also got a new rep after about 3 months of one. Also don't know anyone who had seat plans last year who renewed. Looking appropriately rough. But it's really hard to have anything but antipathy toward that ownership/front office group.

They really should contract the bulls.

I'm pointing you to the 2nd baseman on the list named Marcus Semien who was inconsistent at 2b and written off by the sox only to become one of the better defensive infielders under ron washington. TA's numbers indicate a player who can get to anything but has lacked growth in technique. The sox failing to convert that is on them. His range may have provided the same emptiness in the outfield, while also providing only 10 HR power which is much better to eat at short.

what an exhilarating list. Feels like finally there is some validation on this boards positivity toward that collection of middle infielders. And exciting to see Ryan Burrowes was included in that top 20, which, hard to see anything from those beautiful DSL box scores. Exciting now for him to be stateside.

I feel like someone mentioned it was weird ramos didn't make his top 100 after being in his just missed, he acknowledged that Ramos was in his "just missed the just missed" group as a head not to that. I really feel like the reports of Ramos power plus his very positive make-up/work ethic reports means we have a real chance with him.

It really is astonishing with reinsdorf teams. You always end up back on this road to irrelevance. And maybe it's predetermined. Starting to get to the point where I think I would be ok if the mlb and nba decided to contract the bulls and white sox so long as when they did it they didn't reimburse reinsdorf, just evaporated that wealth.

I still don't know if it's bad though. I still look a guy like Pratto who looked completely overmatched and then turns it on in AA. Maybe this was what he needed, maybe it weeds out a few who would have made it if not for confidence. But looking back great falls did seem to be too marginal a jump from AZ and didn't prepare many for A ball.