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baseballsavant has his slider become much more prominent in 2021, and he completely ditched his cutter. His slider gets great drop and break, so looks like a pretty sweet pitch. And like tepera, he used all 4 pitches pretty often.

Yes, sorry to say this is the going rate for relievers. And while teams are good at finding relievers each year, playoff teams do tend to pay for them because nobody wants to be the phillies. For example, check out Relievers in arb3. They aren't cheap.

I agree they need more relievers, I don't think they can afford Tepera.

just to clarify: I know Kimbrel is likely gone I don't think we sign Tepera knowing this move

I wonder if this is actually a Tepera replacement.

Graveman is sorta like a right handed bummer right? Lots of GBs?

I think that's a good deal, I do, it's just hilarious nonetheless. $38 million currently tied into 3 relievers. I think we can buy the Guardians roster with that.

bahahahahahahaha

his comps are fine. At 31, Robinson Cano got a 10 year deal for 240 million. Rendon as a 30 year old got a 7 year, 245 deal. Machado is signed through age 37, Lindor 36. This is not a strange starting point for him to be making.

sorry but there is very little comparison to a market like free agency with 30 competing buyers and few comparable resources and a 250k home in lisle

did we? How many years did we buy out? I thought we just got 1

I think we can all just congratulate Cali for proposing a nice trade last year

eh, it's a short week, I don't think it's that weird. I don't think this means it's "botched" except it leaking. Who cares? they now get that 3 week pre-end of season period to interview. Whether this week, next, it's not that different.

So this all goes to some guy on patch, which I didn't know still existed. However, waddle?silvy? somebody said it's a longtime chicago reporter, so who knows.

Have the White Sox yet made a map showing how close Glendale Arizona is to California? It's basically like playing there full time.

John Means for Vaughn huh ? would much rather keep vaughn and try and keep working on Lopez. This looks like a Quintana trade and we aren't the sox end.

While I'm fine discussing any player on this roster for access to some truly elite talent, what I'd hope does not happen is the sox deciding Vaughn is a trade chip and shop him as a centerpiece until they find the best deal. Though I think there is zero chance Pirates sell on Reynolds, he certainly fits the bill. But the things that may seem like big issues with the Sox (too right handed) can pale in comparison to issues that could arise (can't hit at all) and at this point there is no top 5 pick arriving to replace and no clear alternative in sight unless you are a big Burger believer. I really just don't think "too much" of something is an issue, and when you try to balance the cupboards too cutely, you can end up with not enough of either. Say we end up with this scenario: - Vaughn is crushing the ball but can't find at bats, while Eloy struggles. If we traded vaughn, what we'd have is just a weaker Eloy. - Eloy crushes it but Vaughn still just an avg bat. If we didn't trade vaughn, we may have lost on some added value, but have a great left fielder and we don't care. I'd much rather deal with #2. Let's just make sure the line in the sand we draw for Vaughn is for a type of player that is difficult to acquire, and not just one that will seem helpful to balancing us in 2022.

It’s little images of a heart, I think you all will survive

Ben “Jay” Cherington I assume lol edit sorry I didn’t pick up those were separate thoughts

And I’m optimistic there. I love the As/Reds options

LBJ should have absolutely got a game, but yeah M the pistons player should have gotten more. Im a little understanding in that James knows other people will stand up for him while Jackson(?) knows he just got punched in the face and everyone will just force him to eat shit on it. also, man this is gonna be a tough one. Good luck Coby! If you can turn this schedule loss into a win that would be nice!

I have this nagging feeling we are going to Nomar Mazara this and trade for Santander

I mean, yeah. I for one think we actually have a good pitching coach - and Yeah while getting a guy who has been more wild isn’t great - Katz helped make our other wild pitchers effective. And sinker, change, curve, slider is an interesting pitches I think Katz could work with. With the exception of Scherzer and Stroman, two pitchers I have low confidence we’d land, will be difficult to pay for strong, known productivity. So reasonable upside you can escape from seems like next best play.

Seems like Matz is best option

Rollin it back