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Don’t get why it can’t be Nicky Lopez and lenyn and no Leury

I am pro Lopez but the reality is it doesn’t do much good to hit lefty when you produce worse than pretty much every right handed hitter vs RHP. But yes, I think we desperately need a whiz. While someone like a Yolbert could provide shitty offense and plus d, I’ve never heard it at the level of what lopez has shown over the last few years.

That would bother me more if they had shown an ability of accurately scouting their own talent.

Braden Smith

Gotta tell ya, there’s not much out there.

Really bad offensively but unlike Leury he is a truly great fielder and can play all three spots. But yeah this is why I wanted schoop who at least had a prayer of being good offensively.

I’m actually moving this into the “good move, if costs nothing” camp. He is a wonderful fielder and would love to have more assurances there.

Not a bad idea

I uh...think we should sign Wacha.

I know people are frustrated, but the CBA does a lot of things that are good in terms of protecting players, but sometimes protecting players in situations like these where we'd hope first order is to protect alleged victims and teams. I was among the first to be concerned about his signing for other reasons, but this is just hard for me to point to the sox just messing up due diligence. This would not have come up on a background check, players on other teams are probably not allowed to be contacted, and other coaches may not have been allowed to know/kept in the dark. Sox shouldn't have signed him for other reasons, but this to me is most likely to have just ended up as the team that has to deal with a players action.

um yes, we already have the dates. MLB began the investigation last June. But as balta posted, the CBA indicates the MLB is not allowed to provide that info until punishment is decided or criminal charges are filed. I'm guessing the MLB taking too long led to the other party going public.

I mean, preller with that info is really obnoxious.

while it was fun. Going to hide the sub, personal discussion going on. Feel free to discuss it on twitter.com or stuff.

I don't know, were you around for the CJ Abrams pre draft talk? Definitely had that vibe.

man I don't know, I don't think he was that undervalued. Before today, we knew he was on a pitch limit. He was -ok- in San Diego and was coming off a major injury. I really have a hard time believing this was known.

I think distance from that certain people put a soft filter of like "jeeze covid was crazy, guy just went out and people made a big deal about it" when it should have rang other alarm bells that "wow, a guy broke curfew and his entire team wanted his ass shipped out and not come back"

certain posts were edited, as is their right, but that's where a lot of the impressions that people were poking holes in the story were.

I do think it's unlikely sox knew about this, and it's probably just not something mlb can do where they let all teams know about investigations because that sure seems like it could be turned into collusion. But, I always thought it was way too suspicious that his CLE teammates dropped on him so publicly in 2020. SUre seemed like there was more to this guy and that, at the very least, he was not the kinda reliable teammate you should bring into this locker room. Obviously, this goes beyond any sort of being a bad teammate, but I do wonder what was the stuff that had people so ready to drop him while there.

Gonna throw out that letting the process play out and trying to discredit the known facts of the story are actually at odds.

Oi, yeah that makes sense

Dane Brugler's top 15 by position came out. I think most interesting is skowronski put into guard (as was cody mauch from north dakota state). He was higher on Jalin Hyatt than some I've seen. I don't know, I'm kinda luke warm on Brugler, just kinda nice how many writeups he does.

football commentary is the worst.

Something that stuck out a soxfest a few years (was probably 2020) was a fan asked TA how he like hung out with the guys or something to that effect and he pretty briskly said that when the games over or practices are over he leaves and if they need him for somethin they can always call. Which is like, you know a normal job but kinda sticks out in baseball considering I'm sure the fan wanted to hear a 2005 story like singing Journey at the bar.

Well, I just remember Jose doing the same thing, so I'm sure that's what Eloy is looking at and still holding out hope. Front office just needs a backbone though, they just need to imagine Eloy is a white sox fan so they can berate him for not being as smart as them.

Anyway if you are looking for a leader next year, it's obviously going to be Carlos Perez.