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The problem is Adam's 2019, and if Adam's speed is starting to slow if his lower BABIPs are the norm. He's actually hitting the ball harder, but it may not be enough to compensate for a lower OBP.

LOL. His 2019 was his career year, 2020 was his second best in his career. He had a 146 wRC+ which puts him at 46% better than average. He could get 20% worse and still be better than Adam Eatons career best offensively )124 wRC+. Adam Eaton the last 4 years wRC+ went from 124 (23 games played), to 122 (95 games played), to 107 (155 games played), to 75 (44 games played). George Springer: 140, 118, 156, 146. Little different, but basically the same you are right.

Yes I don't think it's unlikely that pre-Grandal signing the sox could have given him an extension. And as someone who was supportive of it, I think key was the reason to extend him was his work with pitching staff not his offensive resurgence. I didn't expect that to keep up, but then it did. So that would have been cool.

He's going to need to have a big year, because we lose our extension on his rights. He's going to be rule 5 fodder very soon if he's middling.

No I do not mean Springer, the outfielder with two straight years of offensive output above his career averages.

I do find it strange that this board has so internalized power hitter switching leagues as a problem, but over 30 y.o. outfielder on decline people feel so comfortable just copy/pasting their preferred career year stats into the 2021 lineup.

Eaton's last 4 years he's missed more games than Alex Gordon... Whose literally retired

Still comforting.

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Uh pretty unconvincing threat. Mets going super bullpen route again? Worked great last time!!!

Lol

Maybe the worst post I’ve ever scanned

Piece of cake

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Other teams showing interest? count sox out!

Changed the title, seeing if it changes the dynamic of the negotiations.

I still think Whitlock is the only guy I'd be interested in. After a write-up by Baseball America, my main rooting interest is that we keep Kade McClure, who apparently added a bunch of velo and popped at instructs.

Absolutely. And he has some positional flexibility. BUT, depending on how things go we could also take a flyer on Adam Duvall. Though doesn't help our issue vs lefties he'd add good power and plays an ok outfield if he replicates the slugging he had last year.

He also has never played above A+. In general "oh no! We have a player mashing in AAA but already have this guy here" isn't really an issue for the white sox. It is probably a huge issue for Schwarber though!

That's fine but all we are advocating is if you gave us a $140 million dollar budget, let us use the $140 budget in anyway we see fit. I can make a $140 mill budget work. It's "you get $140 million, and don't set the market on any player".

I think it does, the reason why we like a guy like springer is we think the truly overwhelming offense at that point is so strong that it can carry forward a more balanced approach across the roster. I don't know how that compares to my household unless you are trying to measure your absolute happiness or something. But we've seen a lot of "spread the money around" offseasons where the affordable guys were affordable because they were about to fall off a cliff due to age. And that is the question, are we actually adding quality depth or just giving ourselves flexibility to add the next round of budget guys next year?

I actually liked grossman but one thing that is weird with him is he usually has pretty extreme splits but sometimes he's much better vs righties, others vs lefties. Obviously we'd prefer vs righties next year which was what he did in 2020. But he was also basically unplayable vs lefties, worse than even Joc last year. Switch hitters!

Are you a professional musician?

this conversation is making me tear up. Desperate yearning for my lunch places.

The thing with Keuchel is he is lo velocity but has great movement on his pitches. Q doesn't really, he's all command. He's a brilliant pitcher in that respect, but it's a concern that it gets to a point where its so diminished it's really doesn't work at all.