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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!

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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.

Oh no, I'm still firmly against this signing. I just don't think we need to extrapolate LaRoche's politics onto Eaton to make him worse. I just think he isn't good enough to also have to worry about baggage. Notice how much less tolerated Puig is now that he sucks.

We were pretty comfortable with prime jenks and santos. After that, we had reason to be.

Robert nightengale really pushing Hendriks to sox ugh autocorrect is going to definitely make it look like we got Kyle Hendricks instead

Engel is awesome

Fun thing I learned about the chicago pizza puff is the place that originated it was a tamale place which is why it is wrapped in a tortilla. Was a rude awakening when I had a pizza puff in college that was just a calzone. Was wild when I realized that giardinara, pizza puffs and italian beef were regional. Obviously thought they were the entire world.

They are going to hate him because he isn't relying on strikeouts. But I am a believer in his ability to generate groundballs.

It's also just too much fun to have guys like that in the bullpen, and a potential bullpen for October of Hendriks, Bummer, Crochet would be so fun. And we deserve fun because I am now forced into watching Adam Eaton. But hey, maybe we get bubblegum-blowing-while-hitting-a-walkoff adam eaton.

I totally understand the Colome side. It is noteworthy to say that we are ultimately paying more just trying to ensure we can recreate what Colome did last year, he was fantastic. But I really worry about Colome's shoulder, and his ability to continue to keep it up. I don't think it was smoke and mirrors, but I do worry how any decline affects his ability. Hendriks, in my estimation, has more room for error to still be effective. But the side against him has the same concerns! He was used a lot, it could lead to steap decline as we see with relievers. I just don't see the decline in the stuff, and think he gives us a lot of flexibility to throw a bummer or hendriks earlier in the game to shut it down and get multiple innings. Could you do that with colome? We did largely use him for multiple innings and he was great. So this is a question about what we can expect the next few years, and that's just a difficult discussion with relievers. I will say though, I'm just not that concerned about if HEndriks underperforms our ability to trade him out. We may not get a good prospect back, but someone will bank on a recovery with a pitcher. Someone always does. Unless his arm falls off, but we should have insurance on that.

So Josh Byrnes declines Phillies job. Great job middleton.

sigh, he must be some reinsdorf secret agent. Just 15 minutes of caulfield posting and now I'm sympathetic to adam eaton.

The best part about successfully developing middle and set up relievers is splurging here before those guys go to arb.

Oh is that what’s happening

Ok but like a lot of the reason people think that here is stuff like this in other words, not just that sox couldn’t compete with what they had, but that Adam was a reason it couldn’t turn around. Now he just is a guy that keeps to himself I guess.

I don’t think it’s worth adding a middle tier talent that’s also got a rep for being a jerk. But I guess things can only be brought up as an issue if they can singularly be attributed for tanking the Sox. Will Eaton singlehandedly bring down the Sox? No. You win. I guess I just assumed the Sox would try to clear obstacles for this team, not add them.

When Sox traded Eaton didn’t you intimate it wasn’t just about the rebuild but to get problem guys off team? What changed

Their best players were the problem vs. the best players being the leaders. Makes a difference.

To be fair, they had a very veteran team. The opposite of ours.