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I'm gonna side with Crick then.

when the heck is the rule 5 draft happening?

did you guys see this

Fegan on Crick https://theathletic.com/3176953/2022/03/22/the-white-sox-helped-kyle-crick-with-some-delivery-fixes-and-now-he-wants-to-help-them-win/ He was legit incredible after signing with sox but I assumed when they released him it was either a) his attitude issues were real and he is annoying b) he was actually bad But then the sox re-signed him and now we have a guy who had at one point phenomenal stuff. What was the verdict on the clubhouse fight over music, was crick the baddy?

Yep. And convinced a generation of message boarders that drafting high schoolers was bad.

apologies to Emilio Vargas, he is only 25 which is pretty reasonable. Let's hope we hear good things, he was great in AA last year. Pretty sure he throws with a lot of spin too. Maybe he'll be a nice boy, our new Mike Wright.

I remember the Courtney Hawkins spring training when he was hitting walk offs and looked incredible.

Players you'd hope to have success are Carlos Perez (backup catcher), Romy and Colas+Cespedes. I don't have high hopes for colas, cespedes, but it sure does solve a lot if they out of nowhere explode onto the scene. pitching wise, boy it would be nice if emilio vargas's weird jump was like a junior guerra revelation. We are sitting here hoping a 28 year old journeyman, Brandon Finnegan, and Jimmy Lamberts bionic arm can be starting pitchers.

A few months ago in a trade with Dodgers I was hoping to snag what I believed was reasonable in full kimbrel salary + James Outman and Jacob Amaya. Both are MLB ready position player depth pieces. Scouting Report: Outman is a physical, athletic specimen more usually seen playing football. He is a plus runner at 6-foot-3, 215 pounds with quick initial burst and elite acceleration in center field. He ticks up to nearly plus-plus speed underway and runs down long flies to both gaps and at the wall. The Dodgers refined Outman’s lefthanded swing to get his upper and lower halves more in sync. He still has a hand hitch and has to cheat to get to velocity, but he sees pitches well and crushes fastballs when he connects. Outman bats left. With how rest of offseason trends I'd maybe go after Gavin Stone. But these were reasonable so hahn is probably holding out for some older, injury-ridden outfielder or pitcher who is a bigger name.

Very therapeutic night. First time they looked like the bulls in a long time.

That's weird, I'd say the opposite. I think it's much better navigating a sellout than when it's 15k people and they only staff 10%, so you get stuck in lines for 4 innings.

I think it's great for Colts. They got out of a crappy leader at QB, got more for him, now get an aging but solid QB - especially with talent around he should be strong. They ended up with more assets as a result. There were no good options to solve QB for them this year, but they are better off than before they just traded for Ryan. They can try to go all-in on that QB class next year.

I don't even know what this means but I disagree on the premise. The Dbacks signed greinke to a huge deal. And the pirates are better because they don't fool themselves into being confident that offering a deal way below what a marquee player desires makes them front runners.

The other thing that will always, and forever, drive me nuts, is the idea of "X team spent $400 million this offseason". It's team PR. Every team should have the assumption that they will have payroll over the next ten years. They will also have some revenue projections for each year. Some of the revenue will be fixed, like certain media deals. These contracts just become fixed portions of your future payroll. They didn't pay a player $250 million. They allocated portions of their future budgets just to that player. And they need to figure out the rest. Every thing about following this sports finances makes it seem like some lump some. For sure if they sign a whole bunch of future talent, that may feasibly raise the forecasts as they need a minimum number of players, etc etc. But they can also trade out these contracts. It's all very stupid. And it's the owners driving the stupidity because they want credit.

I think the Correa deal is illustrative for why the white sox will not sign conforto or any big free agent (esp. one with Boras). Reinsdorf does not believe players have any power or right to create their market value. Teams decide it, and if teams decide they are X, that is their value. So they ignored Machado's desire to be a $300M player. They would never entertain with Harper ways to get him to the largest deal ever. And with a Correa, I could never see the sox nudging a deal to a player's desire, like adding an additional $100k to make him highest paid infielder on an AAV basis. There is something that Conforto believes about himself and the deal he should get, and if the white sox are even interested, they will lecture Conforto about supply and demand or some shit. And another team will take it seriously and find a way to get the player what he wants, even narratively, that still makes the team comfortable. For the Phillies, Padres that was more years. For the Twins, it was less years. But the sox can only sign a free agent if that guy happens to be of the same mind of his value and the white sox value. Meanwhile, the white sox will be smugly and loudly declaring their interest so we get all of these leaks, but they will be false because the white sox are delusional and worse at judging the market than every...and I mean every... other participant in the market.

We do seem to be in the late paxson cycle of bad drafting and poor team design that they only seem to double down on. But maybe we’ll get lucky with some pitchers again and Adam Engel staying healthy. Who know

I disagree nobody is good for sports analysis, I think the spiegel and parkins show has become one of the best score shows for the last 20 years. Both very smart across pretty much every sport (will defer on hockey), and often can make me die laughing.

What a fun ass day of qualifying but holy crap is mclaren in deep doodoo right now

I don’t know, prior to last year they were having success patching together rotations.

Eh I feel like correas only going to get worse from here defensively. But Buxton kinda makes it all work.

Really incredible how the Sox faced head on what it would take to compete with the big boys and then signed the same shit, ignored a free draft pick, and played chicken and lost with Kimbrel. Inspiring stuff!

I’m not sure they ever stopped for flaherty, sadly.

I mean let's be clear too what we are talking about. If I'm building a fantasy team would I target conforto first if he's costing $20M and I have a $200M budget? No, he's not well rounded enough as a defender and seems like a brick as a person. But the sox have a contending team that also has clear vulnerabilities, we have few prospects to trade, and the seasons are important now...then what I want is for them to spend what they do have in money on the guy that's clearly the best fit. We made our perfect world choices in suffering for years to have long-term control over Moncada, Robert, Eloy, Vaughn, Giolito and Cease. Now we are making the imperfect world choices because we need to maximize that window now. (it would be easier if we drafted better than awful).

Oh shit did the new CBA eliminate the DH for all leagues?

Your batting average arguments however, these are impeccable.