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KW is very jerry angeloey and maybe we look back too fondly because he screwed that team over so badly by not investing in it. But the draft rules were made so much more favorably under Hahn. Same with INTL. And at LEAST for KW you can point to their Major League scouting and org Strength Development and Health as components of the org that were legitimately league leading. But also the guy let go of Jim Thome for Mark Kotsay, and went after Manny Ramirez and killed that 2010 team (the most fun non-sox playoff team of all time). Thank you for reading my re-hashing of Kenny Williams.

interesting. I wouldn't doubt it.

My struggle with this is I don't want Hahn making decisions right now. This is gonna be like Stan Bowman trading for Seth Jones.

JR should see the silver lining here. He felt terrible for firing TLR all those years ago, he gave him another shot at redemption, and actually it just validated JR's initial move that TLR sucks.

and that was literally why Ricky was fired. That he allowed the team to let off the gas at the end of 2020. Of course he had a SP collection running on fumes and no where near the bullpen TLR was granted.

just dfa them, it's fine. *i'd dfa mcguire if you are asking.

our starting pitchers can't go long because they have to strike every batter out to ensure they get an out. Why would you go for anything but perfection when any contact looks like this?

Just wanted to chime in "woof" but also Davis Martin ?

That's a nice swing. I forgot Chapelli was LH, that's a plus.

This stuff is so just objectively awesome. Space delivers man. On Earth, all the cool stuff is like splitting nano atoms and stuff that sounds impressive but doesn't look cool. But space? Awesome stuff. Nobody has a desktop background of the hydron collider images. Can't wait to uncover the easter eggs that let us know we are in a simulation.

Nice 2-hit day for Guillermo Rodriguez. He's Having a nice year just no power yet to speak of. Good SB numbers.

birmingham is our only decent coaching staff anyway.

Do we think sox score >4 runs in either game today? I say no.

Elijah Tatis showed his face again. And Quezada, man. 2 more Ks, but two more hits.

Don’t worry just saving the bullpen for the offseason

Loidell's line ended up even better. 3-4 with the homer, but also a walk and 0 Ks.

still some knock-on effects from the weird covid years. But the other is you have people like Neslony crushing AA, but sox clearly don't see him as actual org depth. I think the real answer is Ellis just isn't really anyone to concern ourselves with, but I'd prefer he be tried in AA vs. Neslony. And obviously, Colas needs space too.

This makes a lot of sense. So it seems like at best you can continue to use it to grab an extra 2nd/3rd here and there.

yeah there is zero chance, and if I was the Nats and the best offer were from the white sox I would just hold. I do think if the sox ever pay a monster contract it will be because they are re-signed, not on FA where they don't believe players are allowed to set their own value. But if I was the sox I would explore trading Giolito and packaging up the returns + Colson, Vera for Soto.

Arnold Prado hit a homer too. 17 Y.O. Hasn't played much so far but in just 11 ABs has had two XBH. That's power that matches his physique of 6'3 200lbs (obviously that is still string bean but for a 17 y.o. that's not bad). Remember power is pretty muted in DSL, so this will be interesting to watch.

bummer you beat me to it.

Disagree here. Market really is constrained for trades a bit. Who could use Juan Soto? Everyone. Who is in position to benefit from paying for him for the next 2 years? Fewer, the Royals / As are, for example, not likely to trade out for him. So you'd narrow it down a bit. The Orioles could trump everyone with with Henderson/Rodriguez...just really hard to believe. I'd say teams that would seriously check-in would be: Padres Rays Red Sox Yankees Cardinals Brewers Twins Tigers Mets Phillies Mariners Dodgers Giants Rangers Braves Jays Cubs Astros White Sox Of that list, I'd say teams that feel out there would be Cubs. Twins unlikely to lock him up (have buxton), Cubs too far from competition. Seems extremely unlikely Nats would trade within their division, so out go Mets/Braves/Phils/Marlins, among other reasons. Orioles could easily get Soto but it's really hard to imagine them doing that so I left them out. So That leaves us with: Padres Red Sox Yankees Cardinals Brewers Twins Tigers Mariners Dodgers Giants Jays Astros White Sox Now, this is where we say "no way padres can afford x". And it seems extremely true, but...they may also get most value out of soto during just his contract remainder, and maybe make that work. Also have a huge need for a Soto. So my top contender: Cardinals (6 in the top 100, budget to flex, division ready for the taking) Next group: Red Sox, Padres, Dodgers, Red sox use Marcelo Mayer/Bello. Padres can dangle Abrams/Hassel. Dodgers have seven effing top 100 guys. Giants Maybe luciano/harrison gets it done, and brings Giants the superstar they've lacked. Have the talent, questionable fit: Yankees Rays Tigers - obviously putting Greene forward gets you in the convo. Hard to believe though. I say no chance. Jays - having the top guy being a catcher hurts...also just why Not a lot of talent to offer, but would be interested White Sox, Astros, Mariners, Brewers so I'd put sox at like a decent top 8. Definitely need a 3rd team to make it work though.

See that isn't that impressive a return to me. Buying an entire first with it would have been a little more notable.

Rays have one of the best performing farms in terms of winning percentage, so I agree.

Can't beat a dead horse enough that if we can't effectively wield our additional budget room against our division, we have to find more ways to level the playing field in PD and talent acquisition. DET/MN/KC/CLE all get more draft picks/more intl budget than us. We need to look for things like this that allow us to trade out borderline 40 guys for potential higher upside picks / bigger room in the draft.