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OKC is really bad but bulls had a lot of good things tonight. Zach has really been putting in effort. Coby is just gonna have some games where he takes over. Williams looks great, and the screen action between the bigs is helping out Markannen. Carter Jr. still timid. And my take: fat euro players >>>> skinny tall euro players. aka Poku looks awful to me.

Cishek catching up on soxtalk

If the White Sox sign La Stella I 100% believe soxtalk caused it to happen. We also forced KW to sign Iguchi so there is precedent.

My bad, thanks Josh.

Would depend if Mariners kicked in cash on Kikuchi.

I have said it multiple times, but I believe if the sox pass on Colome it's because they didn't believe in his health moving forward.

ah, that's right. I drafted him in Fantasy that year. Dodgers - very good at scouting. But kinda bad at 2b scouting on other orgs. TP I feel like if we were co-gms we'd end up with an offseason of Springer, Yates, McGee, Kikuchi and Jose De Leon, a very confused fan base. That'd be a fun team though.

I agree, but this is my hope if we get health eaton. Likely diminishing production: - Anderson - Abreu That doesn't mean they won't be great, but they were MVP and MVP caliber last year. That doesn't happen every year for non-Trout people. But, the addition of Eaton and hopefully Vaughn specifically adds guys that are (in theory) lower strikeout, higher walk players. That replaces a low contact player in EE, a nothing player in Mazara. And then you hope for good Moncada. You hope it adds up into probably less power, but maybe better obp/sequencing to overcome it. But yes. La Stella seems like a great play to me! Becaue man, nobody mentions it, but if Tim or Yoan go down we have Tim Beckham.

That's definitely true, and this is all correlations. In looking at 2020: -Having a top anything got you into the playoffs but for a full season, if you can only have one, it seems like you definitely want Top offense. But I'm wondering if you could only pick 2 is the answer actually Top Offense/SP or Top Offense/Bullpen? The Braves did offense/sp, bullpen was pretty trash. It seems like it makes it a lot harder with bad rp though.

I don't know what to think about this, since a lot of bad teams purposely don't invest much in bullpen, but: 2020 10 of top 11 bullpens made playoffs. The mariners were last one out, easy to say a better bullpen puts them in perhaps. The Astros/Yanks/Cubs were at a huge disadvantage for much of year, and Astros would have never made it in in any other division. 2019 2019 - 8 top 10 made playoffs. The Braves and Nationals didn't really struggle to get in, and the Mets improbably tried to build a great bullpen and sucked at it. There is much more divergence in SP. But hitting? Top offenses made it in. I gotta tell ya. If I'm sox - I got a great offense. I have the makings of a great bullpen. Do I try to load up SP? I kinda think bullpen is attractive.

I don't want any lip about this, there's nothing to talk about right now. I mentioned a flyer on De Leon a while back. You may remember him, the Twins wanted more than him for that one second baseman I forget, and so the dodgers instead just traded him for that other second baseman I forget who was terrible. This was years back. Rays trade. Anyway he basically has been injured for four years. He got back to the Reds last year and pitched for a handful of innings, walking everyone. But there were some encouraging signs there in ye olde baseball savant website, as Cooper goes on to point out: Is he the solution to all lifes problems? no. But if I saw a "sox sign Jose De Leon to 1.5 Mill contract if he makes it out of ST will I be strangely pumped? You betcha, soxtalk.

10 biggest AAV pitching contracts all time: Gerrit Cole, $36 million Stephen Strasburg, $35 million Justin Verlander, $33 million Zack Greinke, $32.5 million David Price, $31 million Clayton Kershaw, $31 million Max Scherzer, $30 million Roger Clemens, $28 million Jacob deGrom, $27.5 million Jon Lester, $25.8 million That's a pretty good hit rate imo.

Maybe if we had them throw it at an earlier age we'd weed out the weak baby arms. I just want one of these

"would like to engage in talks" is so rockies.

This is an argument for not worrying about a 4 year contract!

Hector Santiago for life.

Yes. With the MLB on a 25 year run of relative CBA peace, it's hard to say its set up is worse than NFL and NBA or NHL that have had a lot more cba confrontations. However, the NBA/NFL % of revenue model specifically helped during the pandemic as there was no gap of trust in what was being made. But, yes in addition they had better revenue streams.

I think Hendriks is for real. But the funny part to me is essentially they are going to pay the guy the money that goes to players that can be multi-inning fireman, essentially so they can keep Bummer in a multi-inning fireman role.

WAR for relievers is so fickle. I'd happily lower his usage on the sox in a regular season, and we have the bullpen to do that. Just give me a low WHIP and no injuries. Coffee is for closers, WAR is for starters and position players (and bullpen as a whole)

Sure. Maybe the sox also shouldn't be so terrified of the last years in a players second contract, then routinely pay enormous sums for 1-2 year deals of player's 3rd or 4th contracts, get negative production, and act like they are financially prudent. There's a lot of improvement to be had.

I actualy want everyone to read these because I think it cuts across all of it. I'm in favor of signing Hendriks. I also think signing yates + lastella is great. Of the top 10 in saves last year: Hudson signed for a 2 year deal Rosenthal signed a 1 year deal Mark Melancon was traded 2 years into his 4-yr 64 million dollar deal after a disappointing start. The braves took all of it and sent decent prospects back (Tristan beck) Kintzler non roster invite Ryan Pressly signed a 2 year contract Brad Hand was on a 3 year contract Hendriks, Hader, Colome were on rookie deals Jensen is the most classic high salary guy, at 5 years. Didn't sort by saves to indicate quality, rather it's an easy snapshot into the playoff teams last year. There's a lot of ways to make a bullpen, including internally.

Here's my pro level scouting from reading paragraphs on human beings: Prep: upper 90s + mature build = bad lower 90s + projectable + athletic = good lower 90s + projectable + athletic + feel for spin = excellent Feel for changeup = i'm in Small RH = no College: Upper 90s + effort = bad Upper 90s + low effort + no secondaries = meh, maybe later! Upper 90s + low effort + promising slider = i'm listening "89-91 mph, no plus offering, can locate 4 pitches, friday night starter" = kill me. Short right hander + "upper 90s + low effort + promising slider" = I can deal in 2nd round or later "throws a screwball" = draft immediately

If the sox are winning and Hendriks is still a significant improvement over most relievers this won't matter. But also they could trade his salary.

Why would you have to sign a guy for 3 years

I'm not sure, I turned off all of your email ones, and I think it should be corrected for your messages.