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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

Victor Quezada had an Elijah tatis level hit tool

More of our players need to play with ouchies.

With Murphy so cheap I think he’d be 1A. Plus rays know these guys will DFA one. And Tampa has some equally good players internally.

I feel like the way Hahn trades is he knows what players he is willing to trade and works backward from there. My guess is Crochet is who Hahn wants to use, not Montgomery. So, what teams want a ticking LHR? Texas maybe. Boston. Tampa?

As the great scene in band of brothers once said “the only way you’ll get through this is to admit you’re already dead”

i unno man.

Yeah. I mean, obviously you have to spend money somewhere and he's good. But with WR money rising fast, and guard money rising fast...do I want $22 mill in a LB who has had some very inconsistent years and has held out twice in one contract? I unno.

now roquan holding out. Not gonna lie, I'm not sure I'd pay that guy.

I guess to be more clear, talent wise I don't have an issue trading Vaughn. But team construction wise, I feel like our offensive production doesn't improve as greatly as if we can stack multiple 130 wRC+ guys and a 150 wRC+ guy in Soto (Abreu, Vaughn, Robert). Needs a lot more heavy lifting. BUT, I also get it. Vaughn has no positional value. THis at least gives us a tolerable outfielder who absolute mashes RHP. Team construction is much better. But our budget will be maxed and farm cleaned out. With vaughn I just feel like we would have such a good offense with the following AND HEY IF YOU ARE SOMEONE READING STILL WHO IS GONNA SAY "THIS ISN"T HAPPENING" just leave this is good stuff here Lineup of SS Anderson (120 wRC+) CF Robert (126 wRC+) RF Soto (156 wRC+) 1B Abreu (147 wRC+) DH Vaughn (129 wRC+) C Grandal (like 10, not even looking it up) LF Jimenez (like 80 i think) 3B Yoan Moncada (76 ish) 2b JOSH HARRISON (93) so when you remove Vaughn you are bumping in Pollock, and after that en fuego first 4, you have a lot of bounce back candidates but still a pretty shit back half for 2022 so far anyway.

well, it was rejected. And, gotta tell ya, not on the players side on this. I hope they can take their earnings, go home, and exploit more kids with their own academies. Otherwise, not sure how they can justify how this. They already lost the moment they capped it. Just admit it and move on.

I woulda gone for "should we just go ahead and award the Oscar to..." and then you could have started with "the chicago white sox" Then by the 2nd paragraph it'd be clear you were discussing Oscar Colas. It's great posting.

And it's just funny because all of the indelible TA hits in my head are him just absolutely getting all of a ball pulling it out to LF (like his Brad Keller HR).