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Simas is starting today, that's exciting. BOY I CANT WAIT FOR THIS CLASS TO MAKE ITS WAY TO AFFILIATE BALL I want Mario in ACL just crushing 500

Yeah sorry I'm out on Gallo, out on Conforto. Gallo can be fixed, I don't think it will be this season. Conforto, just no way I'm touching that guy. Will probably be short-sighted but just seems too dumb to get injured as a free agent.

Loidell is back in the lineup, at 2b.

Can't believe Turner made more than Mad Mario

It is a bummer. As we entered the offseason I think we all wanted the sox sights set on now beating the best teams in baseball. Now they've lowered to try and take the division by boostering depth. Balancing the sox weaknesses (LH power, power with positional versatility, starting pitching) is expensive, whereas the cheapest depth are cheap because they are all stuff the sox have (no power, low obp guys) It sucks the braves won, because they are the worst narrative for Hahn to follow. But it is true that tinkering around the margins may pay off if moncada, eloy, grandal, pollock start to match the performances of TA, Robert, Abreu, Vaughn. I still think the defensive limitations are an issue, and despite offensively providing little, Laureano could really help us break out of our outfield log jam and really define some roles. But you'd want to get rid of pollock.

I'm pretty sure Katz was saying similar things about Rodon last year. Not sure that is a strength of Katz (which is ok, should be coming from combo of sources)

Roquan put on PUP for some reason.

It is a year, so once again hahn will choose to chase depth at the trade deadline by trading out longer term depth.

I am very pro Soto. But you have to add him in a way that maximizes the team building. It would be a huge waste to negate his addition by shedding too much current team production. Robert does that. I am understanding of Vaughn at least because his lack of position has wrecked his output, but I also blame Grandal/sheets for that

I was pretty surprised he was not in BA 500.

I fell asleep right as Kelly was about to Kelly. Glad he didn’t kelly.

Rosenthal said Nats unlikely to muddle return by shedding salary, they already have low payroll slated for next year

Jim Bowden finally became reliable after confirming what I wanted to hear

people will say no, but I 100% believe yes. edit: my case would be the hype that swept up from estevan florial despite being a pretty mid-level prospect.

remember when they re-signed Schoop last year lol

I think people are right on it being Naquin/the other guy. But we are definitely getting a reliever, so I'd say Matt Moore. He was on my "trash signings 2021 for sox to make" list, and he was terrible last year. But I was onto something clearly.

I wonder if he is injured. He was DHing a few times recently then was pulled mid game. Now he's off. Ryan Burrowes with a nice year so far. Only a 17% K-rate, .150 ISO already, and a nice .850 ops. And today he had a 2b so may be higher.

yes, will never get old though pointing out how their "disciplined" FA/player acq strategy ends up wasting just as much if not more money (but over more players, joy)

if anyone wants to know why I always would rather max out for a star, it's because paying 1/2 the price for 1/3 the player sucks.

I think the economic benefits is a bit comical. Is funding a stadium a great investment for a city? No. People like sports teams. They are paying to encourage professional sports teams to be in their city. Obviously the economic growth arguments don't hold water, but the "people like to live in cities with sports teams" argument is pretty strong: "In 2003, Jerry Carlino and Ed Coulson used another method to measure the dollar value of the happiness that a team gives its city: how much people will pay to live there. Comparing 53 cities’ average rents in 1993 to those in 1999 and controlling for other variables, Carlino and Coulson found that the 24 Publicly Financed Stadiums cont. 25 presence of an NFL team raised annual rents 8 percent.22 Their cities included had an average monthly rent of $500, making that 8 percent premium worth about $480 per year in cities hosting NFL teams. Given that there are approximately 290,000 households in a typical city center, $480 translates to an “aggregate amenity value” of approximately $139 million per year. To put that into perspective, localities typically provide annual stadium subsidies in the range of $22-29 million, far less than the enjoyment it creates.23 By comparison, the annual value of one additional sunny day per person per year is estimated between $7 and $12.24 In the Twin Cities, with about 3 million people, the benefit of a new NFL stadium might well equal approximately 4-7 days of sunshine a year." The NFL will help pay for the bears stadium, the bears will get private funding. And they will get local and state funding. And it's fine. Because a whole bunch of us want to live near a city with a football team, and talk about it. Anyway, doesn't mean anyone has to be pumped about it since yes, they could pay for it. But sure doesn't seem like my friends in ST Louis enjoy having like $25 bucks a year in their pockes more than when they had an NFL team win the super bowl (they were screwed though).

If you look at last year, essentially the bears have moved from high play of Peters and smoothed out the worst play from mustipher: 2021 PFF grades LT Jason Peters | 77.9 LG Cody Whitehair | 66.0 C Sam Mustipher | 51.8 RG James Daniels | 71.8 RT Larry Borom | 61.4 None of their additions graded as high as Daniels, Peters, but now: LT Riley Reiff | 67.3 (but when LT he graded consistently in 70s, but this may be age decline) LG Cody Whitehair | 66.0 C Lucas Patrick | 57.8 RG Michael Schofield | 66.8 RT Larry Borom| 61.4 You'd hope Borom improves in Year 2. You'd hope the competition behind Schofield, Borom maybe bring a surprise.

Wow, I feel so much better about the O-line today. Bears sign Riley Reiff for a 1 year deal. What sticks out? - Reiff had only 1 penalty last year (77th most) - Schofield had only 3 penalties last year (44th most) James Daniel had 9 (tied for 9th most) Sam Mustipher had 5 (tied for 10th most) Ifedi had 4 Lucas Patrick cuts against this trend, but overall hopefully we are seeing a more disciplined bunch because last year was ridiculous

Crochet is obviously no longer a starter, and obviously the Sox most likely used trade chip.

Thank you!

Yes and he has a 50%+ k rate this year. But when he does hit it, it goes out so