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Morton was great this postseason he just broke his leg. I don't know how anyone could have watched the sox in a 4 game series give up what, 6, 9, 5, 10 after a previous year where pitching also imploded in playoffs and say "yeah, pitching's good". Playoff pitching is an entirely different beast and I don't care what anyone says, it just is. The Braves can now go into every year knowing they have two bonafide postseason studs. The sox will go into next year not knowing if their starting pitchers will start walking 5 guys in the third.

I also was kinda checked out last year. What I read was that 1) very good draft class and 2) he had very, very poor measurables for a guard that made people question his athleticism. Not a great vertical, etc, but fast. Which was shocking to me, because seeing how good he is on defense, you can't easily stay on quick wings and guards like him without great athleticism. The eye test didn't match up at all. It's pretty awesome. I am not an Illini fan, by any means, but I hope for Chicago/Illinois, there are some promising players watching seeing the electric atmosphere Ayo gets because he went to U of I to UC, and want to be a part of that. You won't get that going to Duke and finding your way to Charlotte lol

I really have to stop myself to realize how freaking good DeRozan has been. If the bulls didn't sign him and stopped at Caruso, they would have been lauded for their offseason ... and would have been maybe .500 this year right now. He is so good right now, and him taking on that role of leading the bench is so clutch. Sometimes they got nothin for 5 minutes, then they go on a 20-2 run led by the rests ferocious defense. When Vuc gets going? Let's hope he gets going, but when he gets going this is gonna be sweet.

Getting to the point where if they are entering the fourth and are down 10 points or less you can just assume a victory, and if more than that, it's 50/50 still.

I will try to do the roster resource this weekend. I like it because I have trouble doing the money stuff easily, drives me crazy.

I hope so. Pitching is my #1 concern, and I honestly hope TLR tells JR to get his tom seaver.

I'm just so relieved that Fields had a near 300 yard pass game and was in complete control. 2 straight games where he was the best player on our offense (though...the bar is low there). I get people's points on Pace keeping his job (where they are taking the perspective of George M), but it still is so apparent the talent disparity, especially on offense. HOWEVER, in moments I'm charitable to him, I'll think to myself how Mike Davis looked awful on the bears, only to go to Carolina and play a convincing McCaffrey lite. Doing the exact things pace signed him for. Or how Cordarelle Patterson was this distracting gadget guy, and now is one of the best offensive players in the league in 2021 on the falcons. If Jenkins/Borom make the field together and show, that's interesting. But still. Dabearsblogs thread on solving this by kicking pace up to be the president of football ops and making Champ (forgot his last name) GM was interesting, if only because I have to remind myself before vomiting how many talented front office types have left the bears and been pretty good elsewhere. I suppose there are only so many football jobs, and a lotta these guys will take them where they can and be victims to their superior's success.

And also my fav thing about conforto...we still have Vaughn and Sheets! Sheets should just be a DH, Vaughn rotate into DH vs lefties and spell LF/RF, and in the offseason he can continue to work on 3b.

This is also my stance - that a bad 2021 was a good thing for the White Sox. It also helps that our corner outfields are very easy to play. Because, yeah, what do we think he'd get if he hit the market last year after a 160 wRC+ in the shortened season? (reminds me of the poster that claimed Conforto was closer to a 2 WAR player than a 4 WAR player - because they were including the 60 game season where he had 2 WAR)

Blown away by soxtalk comps every offseason. They always find the perfect sets of players...from the last 6 years of white sox baseball. He's Todd Frazier! No, no he's Melky Cabrera! He's Adam Dunn?

Is that what happened? I think the clock had only stopped because of an officials time out for the chains. If he didn’t take it, the clock would have restarted and Pitt could have left no time.

What prompted this?

Well that didn’t happen. Still a shot thou

Jakeenan grant gonna win this for sure

Seriously he has been so electric

Great trade

Not at all what I was talking about, good god.

I love the talent, but what if that’s the “big” move.

I don’t see Conforto as a white sox move, I see schwarber as a white sox move

If you believe the offense was limited by being too right handed, too many unproductive outs, and too many ground balls (as I do), the here is how conforto fits: - 120 wRC+ vs RHP even in his down year (and he was significantly better outside of an atrocious June where his hammy was injured) - his gb rate is nothing to write home about but better that the Sox average - Has never posted less than a 10% walk rate since rookie year Thats all an improvement, and at 29 with very recent, big success offensively there is upside to getting good power in our outfield. But a big part of this is compared to what? Few additions check off those boxes, and he doesn’t subtract Vaughn or Sheets.

the Conforto thread

This is this year's Smyly signing.

I like Castillo but I would not make that deal. The nice thing is Castillo had a down year, so that helps.

Helpful for sox, sucks for Cincy fans. Timing worked terrible for them

Will lock the mlb thread. We're in the offseason now