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I would move vaughn for reynolds, it's pretty clear we will not have a long window, so optimizing through 24 is a good idea.

Eh, vaughn+, but we aren't a great system to make deals like this. I don't think Cherington would want a player with his clock started. But he may very well like some of our young talent, or a vera, or a ramos more than industry.

Fun ranking would be comparing every organizations most dominant decade in the modern era. Sox I'd assume we'd choose the 50s just because they never had less than 81 wins the entire decade, though they can't claim the WS of the 00s. I think that beats anything from the Astros. Rangers are tough just because it rarely sustained across long periods, but two WS appearances in a decade is tough. I'm not sure cubs ever had a run like the sox in the 50s, but their 2010s gets weighed down by a horrible start, but not sure if you'd put that above sox 2000s who had 3 weak years (2001, 2002, 2007). Not sure where you'd put 80s mets with the 50s sox, but probably above. Not sure what you do with Miami but i'd put both top eras of sox above their 90s/00s runs unles we break them up into true 10 years no matter when they happen. Unsure but Nats probably above with their 2010s. Teams clearly below would have to be Seattle, Rays, Rox,...tigers, No brainer teams above sox would be Yanks, Reds, As, Red Sox, Dodgers, Cardinals, Orioles, Giants, Braves, Jays 90s, Phillies 00s, Pirates, Royals...definitely missing a biggie but t edits: Reds

this is so rad https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.breaking-las-vegas-to-host-formula-1-night-race-from-2023.69O9nKLwKraqAhR5rr8TQg.html (course looks kinda boring but the setting is amazing)

He does look really good.

And obviously while trading Kimbrel at the deadline could actually be the best case return for the sox, it's unlikely to help the 2022 roster. Also has a decent likelihood that Kimbrel is atrocious and we get a return similar to our Joakim Soria-type boys (all the older, limited, AAAA outfielders)

Before Jansen signed I would have said "well kimbrel's only 1 year, and they probably don't want another multi-year reliever" but now, yeah, I don't see how you get anything back for Kimbrel from a team that specifically didn't sign Jensen for a 1 year deal. But maybe maybe the rockies save us

It seemed at the time like the sox just thought kimbrel or kimbrel plus some small amount could fetch them more than $15 million in early free agency. But now it seems like they actually valued Kimbrel on this team for $16 million which is sillier when they signed two guys like Graveman/Kelly.

Could have had is poor choice of words, but I object to this phrasing going around that nobody wants Carlos at $22 million, because what the sox actually decided was they didn't want him at $18M (or $18.5 or whatever). The thought of him accepting was so scary that the luring of an additional $1m in the draft wasn't worth the small risk. It may be talking about two different things, but to me it sounds like rationalizing the sox were right to move on from Carlos because his final price tag was too high, when their initial price tag to they had to make a decision on was $4m and 1 year less.

We could have had Carlos for 18 per year, not sure why people throw around his SF giants number.

I agree with this. I think some of the twinge of doubt of how good he can be is how he way overperformed my expectations on what he could do post A+ Winston-Salem. Great makeup too.

I say let's all start a contact email bombardment demanding full time 6:10 pm start times full time or fire brooks boyer

The reason I mention it is I'd like to go after guys in the draft who don't have slot profiles, and instead go after the Alex Pierce's and David bell type people

6 pm start times are excellent.

One thing I've noticed on bears new receivers, they all have pretty good run blocking scores from PFF. One tossup in my head, I know pringle played a lot of slot, but I think it would be interesting to put someone like Cole Beasley in the slot for a year (he was released so no comp pick), since he is a bonafide strong slot receiver. Another connection to watch if we go after/avoid is our Oline coach would have been with trai turner last year.

If you are a free agent pitcher getting 1-2 year deals thrown at you, why on earth would you go anywhere but SF (or milwaukee I guess).

I hope they sign Trotter but I'm pessimistic it happens after lucas patrick being pretty loud that his position here will be center. Shouldn't be a reason you don't do it, but if they liked him better at center it may have them go after guards. Your draft is basically what mine circles around as well. Zach Tom's writeup in the PFF one says he's the most athletic IOL prospect, which makes him attractive. So I'll just do my top (6) FAs: Fisher - should be cheap, and if he truly is just a case of slow recovery, get him on a 1 year deal and hope he leaves and receive comp pick. Jarvis Landry - because he was released, not in comp pick formula G Oday Aboushi - capable guard but also okay to upgrade over S- Kareem Jackson - should play pretty decent in a cover 2 vs Fangios Cover 1 Edge - Arden Key - situational pass rusher CB - Jason Verrett - Injured a lot, but a legit outside corner that should come cheap and allow thomas graham to try out slot corner.

lol signing solomon thomas would be kinda funny

I mean none of these guys in the list above are entering the season with a position, not sure what makes Burger any different.

So, I've tried to be realistic with the constraints and place of the team and stuff blah blah. Immediately following the loss I actually felt good about running it back in general. That last game featured Sheets hitting a home run for our lone run, and the night before there was a beautiful double from Vaughn. Tepera was nails in the playoff. But running it back meant re-signing 'Los. And so they are just worse than last year. I do absolutely love Joe Kelly. The handling of the Rodon QO is terrible. I am not swayed at all by the health stuff. The worst case scenario is just a 1-year deal. The best case scenario is it's a 1-year deal where he again throws like an ace. The next best case scenario is he declines, signs elsewhere, and your extremely barren farm system that cannot produce enough bullpen arms and utility players gets another $1 million in budget for the next draft. Inexcusably bad. Kimbrel, just incredibly dumb. He seems miserable, I'm miserable because he seems like a whiney baby and hate watching him pitch, but I actually do think picking up his option could have worked out fine. I didn't even value the money, I actually thought, and still believe, that paying off $4-5 million of his contract (putting him at $12 mill) would bring back more value to the org than merely getting $15mill cash. But the worst thing instead happened in that they misread his value, and now are paying $32 million for two relievers (but $18 million for a starter? Oh my heavens but he could get hurt!!!) Then second base. Ooh how this hurt, especially being a leading proponent of trading madrigal because you can get by finding second baseman cheaply found its major flaw in that argument: That assumes you have a competent front office. The cheap second baseman were there, even if you didn't want $10 million tied up in escobar, Adam Frazier and Joey Wendle provided high contact 2b that hit well against RHP. Not incredible guys, but Madrigal wasn't incredible. He was a nice complement though in approaches, which these guys also found. Instead they now have 2 powerless RHH second baseman who aren't very good against RHP. And they are paying $10mill for the privelege. I don't even give an F for conforto. The rest of the F goes to how they are handling their scouting. This is the 500th time posting this, but the white sox are at a disadvantage in that they are the stupidest FA team among the non-competitive balance teams, but do NOT get extra picks and INTL budget. And our current Scouting Director and Marco Paddy have been running a strategy going after small volume of what they deem higher impact talents. The result is bringing in smaller classes. And it's such a wonder why they are 30th already? The depth is once again the issue. They cannot operate this way for the "sustained success". They aren't idiots, but they are worse than 28 other organizations at this. And yet the team looks pretty great still. Hell, the rockies made a world series in 2008 or something. It happens. Forgot to mention I gave an F grade.

We should start a DAO to buy the goose.

I don’t buy that but I think he could be a good reliever since his height can give him a weird look on hitters.

I think Romy is way more promising. Guy hit like 20+ HRs last year in Birmingham and plays all over field. Honestly not even sure if Sanchez is better than him at defense

Obviously Burger.

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