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I'd say k rate but hello Micker. I do wish we'd seen a bit more progress on his krate. He's sub 30% now, and since july has kept it below 30%, but it's a lot. Wish they'd have moved him up though.

I’ve always hoped Vaughn could be a 12% BB guy and 16% K guy.

Vera 1 IP 0 H 0 BB 1 K

There is benefit to Dalton playing with his teammates since they only ran 7 plays last week.

I'm really bored of the "fields should start season" stuff and trying to turn it into this life or death argument. I think he probably should, but I don't really see it being a big deal if he doesn't, and that reps with ones matters but also not throwing him behind a shit o line before he has good understanding of offense can be counter productive.

Yeah, and I feel like TLR will like Hamilton on a playoff roster with 26 guys. So I still struggle to see him being DFAd. So to me it is a dogfight between burger, sheets, 3rd catcher in sept (and I would be shocked if 3 catchers weren't on roster to let Yaz stay in DH).

I mainly want to tell the owners to f off but it does feel like as a fan the salary cap has, as a fan, made other leagues easier to follow, and I think baseball orgs have been interesting in how they respond to constraints added to the sport (draft budgets, etc). Much more fun as a fan when you know there is just a straight up budget you are working with that is the same as everyone rather than if the owner will be charitable with a few more million. Now, the weird thing is baseball has shown that teams can be competitive on a variety of budgets, and that has also made it interesting. But the creativity the lower budget teams have found have clearly hurt the player pool. The other thing I struggle with - everytime there is a huff and a puff about tanking teams not signing guys that are available in like Feb, when you follow-up in august so many of those guys are having awful seasons. Teams really have been pretty good at knowing when players have declined to a point of being worse than a young player. Overall, I don't want the owners song and dance and them to "win", but I do think a structure of player control only being 4 years with a 5th year option for maybe 1st round picks or certain money amount INTL guys, with a salary floor and cap is probably a more fun game to follow. It certainly would be a more fun start to FA.

I just think there are others in the pecking order while sox would probably still want to nab HFA for playoffs. Hard to leap over Sheets (LH Power), Burger, Hamilton, Seby, Collins, and bullpen. The 40 man may depend anyway on showcasing Sheets/Burger for offseason moves or decisions to keep as much as anything. But we have no idea, they've made some pretty unexpected september callups and non callups recently and there are so few sept. spots now.

God damn

Sorry, crazy day, let's talk https://www.mlb.com/prospects/stats/affiliates?teamId=145&date=08/18/2021 https://www.milb.com/scores/chicago-white-sox/2021-08-18 Exciting prospect named Yasmani Grandal already has a double for the Knights.

If you take away all his games he has a 0.00 ERA

It was a huge risk at the time, amazingly the oline hasn't been awful in camp from what it sounds like even injured (or our dline is terrible but I doubt that) and they looked okay in pass last week. Hopefully peters is fine, or borom is a one-in-a-thousand gem that can be a good LT as a rookie from the fifth round.

Joe Musgrove: 23 GS 123 IP 10ks/9 3.11 ERA on pace for 4 WAR and a no hitter Reynaldo Lopez has thrown 25 innings mostly out of the bullpen. They are the same.

That is good, but I was still hoping it was somehow just a really bad cut and bruise. He's definitely out for the season on such a great year, it's terrible.

H-F alumn doing us a solid and destroying the padres from inside.

weird win, glad we got it but man, the As have now had two really bad injuries at sox park. That one new yankees prospects career went sideways after he hit that electric box, and now this. Just looking at rest of the league: - Wow did the NL east flip fast. Looks much more like we would have expected after an atrocious start by the braves. That team is too talented - Seems clear to me that from now on we are going to go into each year being underwhelmed by the brewers and giants offseasons only to see them be excellent (I should add As). That front office is too good at finding talent that especially eliminates really weak links on the roster - It is hilarious to me that the padres keep losing to the rockies. Feels like the padres have 500 starting pitchers yet everytime I look they are doing a bullpen game. - Entirely unsurprised by the red sox fall. You looked at the white sox and think "how are they doing this" and it was easy - they had insane starting pitching to start year. The red sox just had a handfull of super productive players and a lot of meh and now that bogaerts/martinez are cooling off there isn't much else there.

Yeah so I guess the big deal may just be with his curveball now being average he's got like 3 "50" pitches with his fastball velo probably giving him a plus pitch...so it's something that could work.

We can add him to th elist of these really really needed surprises at the right time that 2021 has given us. The one thing with lopez that I always struggle with is for all the reputation of his stuff, aside from velo his pitches grade really poorly for movement in in baseballsavant. Though this year, the improvement is basically that his stuff went from largely below average in movement to pretty much very slightly below average. I think because he's a short RH that throws hard it just tends to look more dramatic. So it's possible he has just become a much smarter pitcher, but it is weird because I don't often come across pitch profiles like his.

If anything I’d wish the Sox to align their intl and draft strategies better. They were both kinda doing the same thing going after more advanced players for a while, rather than taking moonshots with lots of 16 year olds in latam but going with advanced college players. Going cespedes/colas while going more high school recently makes some sense. But let’s be honest when comparing the Sox. For farm systems, they are at a disadvantage to the smaller market teams getting less draft and intl budget, and worse compmpicks. And then comparing them to yanks/Dodgers, who print money and have like 4 front offices worth of personnel. The Sox can and should do better, but going in waves is going to be likely.

Why is lamb a black hole?

good lord, Grandal was carrying the whole team after madrigal went down.

Thank you sir, it was the best. Went to glacier np with my young boys, and funny enough ran into frank thomas' wife and kids.

He was mentioned in Badler's review when he was signed and I think got the full 300 k we could offer (maybe that was year we could offer more) so that's noteworthy for intl signings. Guys like Jose Rodriguez and Bailey by comparison just showed up on the rosters so it at least lets you know there were some notable traits. Veras has the additional Tatis bloodlines and was said to have really good present power at a young age so this is all pretty exciting I think.

It was more he had an insanely bad year in AAA, he was striking out like 45% of the time, and he was woeful in 2020 in limited stints. Ignoring the 3 homer game, his defense was better than I thought, and he must have been dealing with an injury or something to start year in AAA, he has put together competitive at bats at least.

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