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I have more sympathy for Coby just because I feel like he's more naturally a shooting guard, is young, and point guard is really hard on young guards. I dont' think long-term he is the number one ball handler on a good team. I think the starting PG issue for one is he's not working as hard on finishing, seemsl ike when a layup will be too contested he's just distributing. Not bad for a PG to do, but he also needs to be better at finishing. WCJ came in doing a lot of little things right. He still does a lot of that stuff right, but he doesn't seem stronger, his shot hasn't gotten better, but he also hasn't learned anymore moves. I am looking forward to Sato getting back, he really did look better under this system. Williams is interesting. Sometimes he looks like he can't get by a SF on a drive, then sometiems he just explodes by someone. I think he is getting great experience, I'm hoping by end of year we really have a better idea of his skillset. For now I think he's getting used to speed/playing within team. Pretty freakin tough to not have any meaningful training camp or summer league.

Weird, why did I think Billy Beane stepped down this year? Didn't he make some deal with the red sox?

Yeah I think they make this trade. The judiciary is going to be such that I'm not sure large scale programs that regulate an industry a la Healthcare are going to be able to rely on the commerce clause again. The corporate rate is going to be firmly near where it is now. Regardless of whether biden is capable of rising it to 28%, they got it down to 20 without any tradeoffs. So they set traps that will make liberal wins excruciating to achieve, and in reality they probably enjoy being in the minority anyway where they can just complain about stuff without being responsible to fix it.

The noticeable thing last few weeks has been so many scorers in double digits. I obviously missed this game and was shocked when I saw teh score update. I went to bed with them down 20. Really glad they fought back because in those games vs. pacers/hawks they just crumbled. So far the season is going good. Hard not to believe they'll keep getting better as they find stuff that works. It truly is still a bizarre roster. But Markannen looked good, Coby is at least developing, and Williams is getting good chance to develop with strong challenges. It is still hard to look at the roster and not think they'll be outside looking in. But if they are playing competitively, witht he right guys playing well, it will be worth it. One guy I kinda wonder about is Bagley. Really rough start to his career, and seems to be getting caught in the perpetual unhappiness that sac creates. I wonder if there will be a buy low opportunity there. He was my least favorite in that draft class, and is playing like the reason why, yet he's still super talented.

I think that week went like: 1) Sox are going to sign Torii Hunter! 2) Angels sign Torii Hunter 3) White Sox sign Scott Linebrink to 4 year deal Soxtalk wasn't that happy. That 4 year 19 mill was a pretty shocking deal back then.

Not only David Robertson, let's not forget about the GOAT SCOTT LINEBRINK

It makes me feel good that Astros/Dodgers are going after him, personally.

It's absolutely this. Lopez would need to "find" stuff. But Cease has it. It could be as simple as he may be able to command his secondary pitches better and is not relying on locating his fastball to set himself up. But we don't really know. Cease is a hilarious interview. It certainly isn't lack of effort, he's putting in the work. Baseball is hard and non-sensical but you hope a guy like that can make it work. He's not a guy you'd say is squandering his talent.

I think this is counting the chickens before they hatch. If he maintains a 112 OPS it helps, but you are saying it’s pretty much guaranteed he’s a top ten 2b.

Well this is still true

What happens if you take out his best games though?

I’m fine with Madrigal, I think he’s easy to upgrade over but he’s better than say Brett Lawrie. I just enjoy the hyperventilating from the group that heard we drafted a short, heady second baseman who doesn’t strikeout and decided he’s Nellie fox.

It's good news for his next team.

No the big thing was accuracy. People were calling him kyle boller 2.0, with dumb nfl front offices falling in love with arm talent over clear accuracy issues. He only threw for 57%. I mean Wentz was looking good at that point so the small school stuff was not near as big of a hit. He also had a terrible game against Iowa to open up 2017 that was the first time draft twitter saw him, and so they were enraged when he was still linked as a first rounder.

It's just a time for accountants to get excited that people are actually going to discuss tax law.

I think it was just especially bad with Allen because there was the draft nerd consensus on accuracy, and anyone drafting Allen was proof of the nfl front office stupid vs. draft hive. Then that year happens and it's back to just "well we know absolutely nothing" on whether a qb will succeed, but also after jimmy G and tannehill we can't even figure out who will stay good or bad.

He should get credit for “not darnold”. Im not sure there is a draft that underscores how much I hate nfl media (but especially nfl draft Twitter) more than that one. Buffalo was just crushed for drafting Allen. Jets were thrilled to get Darnold.

That's the thing. Zaidi took over this aging, underperforming team in a huge market. Everyone expected them to tear it to the studs. And he just kinda doesn't? They just targeted players they thought their better coaching could turn around. Work on drafting and scouting better. Helps he probably has strong backing of owner, but it seems like they are just focused as a front office at learning how to do things well, and trusting that when they start really rolling they'll be able to keep finding these players they are good at maximizing the value on. I mean most exciting parts about Katz now isn't even Giolito, it's that he worked on that San Fran pitching coach staff.

Ok so last year was the outlier, not this year.

every league. Every. League.

Yes, suspense. Hitchcock was famed for his 8 hour long movies where the likely scenarios were given in the first scene and then he strung you along for 8 hours until you realized you didn't even give a shit anymore.

The outcome is no different. Does this feel like a materially different offseason than last year? Or the year before, or before. The White Sox play free agency more than most teams so it has been more interesting, but this is just ridiculous. And next year there are like 8 top ten short stops in free agency. How fun! Going to be great to have the entire market ice cold as we writers rationalize that we need them to sign for the rest to shake out.

It's no different than the last 3. Everything in baseball incentivizes being more excruciating in order to get an advantage.

Come on, basically the entire free agent class is still unsigned. There were some trades, but there are more teams than the white sox.

But snell is better than any of the free agent starters near Hendriks cost.