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it is this reason why I think sox try to do a grandal/perez swap

not too many catchers sitting around free agency coming off a 140 wRC+ season...no He would have led our team in wRC+ and slugging and like 3rd in home runs despite only playing 77 games.

It is but it is also why I do not particularly care for people using fangraphs defense stats for catchers while we are at the same time loathe to have grandal on roster. But the reason why I still like salvy is his arm is still strong and the pitchers still revere him and even as Yadi molina's defensive metrics fell off a cliff nobody really believed it.

Jeff Mcneil doesn't make very much thou. MLB Trade rumors estimates 6.3MM. Definitely less than the 10MM escobar makes. You know what's more likely all.

Correa to white sox.

uh, ok I think I talked myself into jansen. The post about carlos perez and how his caught stealing rate went from near 50% to 28% in AAA this year kinda freaked me out with how bad this pickoff rule stuff may affect our staff. Jansen was top 15 in Baseball Prospectus' Throwing metric for catchers (combining their all their AA metrics) and Top 10 in blocking. On the other hand, you might say that because white sox pitchers were SO bad at keeping runners close or bothering to speed up their delivery, that we have already dealt with the downsides of this rule and we will see the least drop off. Maybe danny jansen will suck after moving to pitchers who seem unaware that there are baserunners. But probably not. Anyway fun thing about Jansen is framing hates his numbers so Grandal rates above him.

trying to fit that hendriks will include toronto in no trade clause because it would put him back under the english monarchy

Martin did what he did because he had a velo increase. If it's still there next year there's no reason to call it a flash in the pan. Not particularly novel to see a pitcher make a sudden leap in stuff.

I wish, I mostly just get to follow @DirtySox on minor league nights while i get my kids ready for bed. Defensively I'm not sure I could evaluate a catcher either, mostly just notice when things go bad. However, I have tried to find this answer and it feels like getting defensive evaluations out of scout writers for catcher is like pulling teeth. I emailed BA after a prospect writeup with Perez where the only defensive mention was that the sox liked his defense asking for their own evaluation. They responded "the piece mentions the sox thinking his defense plays" and I responded that the sox said that about Zach Collins and they never responded. The early writeups on his defense when he was 17-18 all mentioned it as a strength, now it's hardly mentioned, which probably means its average but could be worse. As I mentioned earlier, there was some reports with Cueto down there that it dramatically improved Perez's game calling, which may mean it was bad and may be why he's passed over a lot in getting time up here. He was much better holding runners before AAA, routinely at 40% or above, now at just 28% in AAA. However, that may be a sign that the new pick-off rules may really pressure catchers. To be honest, this may be a reason sox freaked out and went after Murphy. If Michael kopech lets anyone on they will be on third base. Passed Balls look fine, but a lot of catchers that are bad at passed balls look fine if you only look at stats. So basically I have no idea what we'll get. Usually defense for catchers is mentioned when they are bad hitters or truly good at it or a top prospect. Perez is in that murky middle, and when we only have notes from the white sox, it's never good.

Yeah but this is like that doctor who thought he had a knack for identifying typhoid but was actually just sticking his typhoid-diseased hands into every patients mouth. Is russ the sign or the cause of sickness? I still say Wiz came out ahead, which is incredible. Because either they have russ, or they have walls cap stuck on their books. Either way it's bad. But OKC is really what makes me dread this blow-it up stuff. Even with chisoxfn's caveat that we use assets to grab more pieces quick...you never know the timing. They have drafted a lot of great players, SGA looks like a star...and they still are terrible. This all just sucks. And unfortunately, AKME deserve no benefit of doubt. To be honest...less than garpax. Vuc is a fine trade if he's your over the top piece. I think he'd actually be an excellent 3rd guy. Demar was brilliant. but they squandered what they inherited. In 2020, there were rumors bulls could trade up by trading WCJ. If they Did that and draft Lamelo Ball...this team is on a completely different trajectory. If they draft halliburton...this team is on a completely different trajectory. Instead, they draft pat williams. then they draft dalen terry who can barely play. They trade WCJ later, give away lauri. This is the player dev group and they didn't show any improvement with either. They failed. We lose. just like with every chicago team.

Hey, wizards got to shed John Wall for Russ, then traded him for a nice haul of players to the lakers.

Lol

I mean it really did seem like a different team with lonzo. Especially in transition. But he’s not coming back so gotta just move on.

Lol s%*#. Yes saw tweets and didn’t realize yoenis was even playing anymore. Guess it’s for wbc warm up. yoenis is hitting some bombs in winter league.

Cespedes has been hitting some bombs in winter league.

Astonished at all of this. But pretty much proved that I’d you group three of the third guys on a good team, you are just going to end up with a bad team and it doesn’t elevate them.

Game over! Bears are open for business! Hearing great things about will levis pls inquire!

Now mcsorley in. Can Denver manage to score more than the cards with their third string? At home? With their d?

I love Perez but his game calling is a wild card. Last year when Cueto was down there all the players were talking about what a huge impact it had on Perez. Seby…the pitchers have liked him since the jump. Hes an impressive guy. Overcome a lot. Go Seb. Go Perez.

Broncos v cards is our super bowl

Perfect game except for Jenkins.

Question for fields haters who actually watched todays game…what do you think it looks like if fields has aj brown, Davante smith and that like instead of Byron Pringle and Dante Pettis?

Not sure if it lasts but boy does the secondary look better with brisker, Gordon back

Whoever called Cairo santos as tank captain…boy you are correct. I kinda wonder if poles is secretly paying him for these XPTs lol

Don’t need to go there