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Amen

Ty cobb was actually fine, his biographer made up a bunch of shit not dissimilar to eight men out.

Is this the first time you’ve ever read up on prospects?

Yes

It’s pretty amazing to me when anyone can hold down multiple hours by themselves. But I am never a fan of solo shows.

I shouldn’t say the rest, parkins and Holmes know their stuff most of the time they are just a little more hot takey to me

As long as spiegel is back I’m good. He’s definitely their best baseball reporter but to me he’s the most versatile where he always sounds like he knows what he’s talking about. The rest just seem lost when not talking bears.

That was my point. He said sox don’t have a comparable package that doesn’t include Kopech/Vaughn. Then he makes one, but says it’s too much for Sox, even though it proves that we could make a similar package. The real problem for Sox is just that a package of Ramos, Rodriguez, Bailey and Bush would both clear out a generation(not sure this is right word) of positional prospects and also is weaker than the Padres offer in all likelihood.

This post is just ridiculous

Early in the offseason I thought the board was underrating Bauer’s personality issues, now I think it’s overrating them.

Rongey has been pretty good since he’s been back

Definitely better with their vets back. But feels like chances of winning depend on whether good Coby or bad Coby shows up.

I think a big part of it is the feeling that the top prospects of 2019 were just wrapped in bubble wrap and are the same now. Had there been baseball, the top 100 would have seen huge churn as always. These guys being 10-20 or something means less than if it happened last winter. We just have little idea.

Was the darvish trade that different from the hamels trade?

You have done nice work but I stopped caring when he was posting bWAR and comparing him to lopez for some reason.

Yeah, especially with cherington. Those would likely be the interest group, along with Our AZ position players like Ramos, Ramirez, bailey

In 2020, Musgrove threw his least dominant pitch (4 seam fastball) 10% less, and threw his unhittable curveball 10% more. It came at cost of a higher walk percentage, but much higher k rate, and better everything else. He has a great slider, a great curve, and a good sinker. I’d like to see a not pirates team play with him. Stiever can certainly grow but without his 2019 velo pop up, he’s much less interesting than the above with the weak stuff he showed.

I honestly have no idea how to value musgrove but am hoping it’s relatively depressed.

So at worst he’s a cost controlled pitcher that gets you what everyone is drooling over Quintana getting them, and then on other side he shows realistic chance at being much better than that while on Sox.

Soxtalk looking at underperforming pirates pitcher and decides that it’s probably the pitchers fault.

I just don’t don’t see what you see with Bradley. I don’t see why his curveball disappeared. I don’t think his fastball stands out. Pitchers are weird but so don’t see the piece that says it clicks. Fastball/change up isn’t my fav reliever profile.

Here's an example of a question from the test for those wondering: Place an x next to the correct sentence: ( ) The White Sox should sign Lyle Mouton ( ) We should sign Lyle Mouton (x) Lyle Mouton

Gotta say, the more I go through possible acquisitions the more I keep pointing back go Musgrove just on a pure expected production basis, not even control/cost.

It's true us real mods are known for our keen intellect and logical consistency. Tony failed his annual exams so we booted him.

Come on dude. 4 IP. He could be toast but that's the case with the middle reliever market. His contract this year shouldn't be near what we had to pay for a toast Kelvin Herrerra, and can be paired with a next tier closer. He wouldn't need to be overused on sox staff, and if he strikes out 41% of batters like he did in 2019 that's a big benefit. He's a hedge on a matt foster decline. Mcgee/YAtes are my MRP and Rosenthal my backup to Hendriks.