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The thing with a Youkilis comp and Vaughn though - that's actually a very good complementary player for this offense. If he can get walks to 12%, have <15% strikeout rate while providing an iso around 160 and greater on peak years, that's replacing a bat like Edwin who was just famine and no feast.

The 70k comes from the 3 closest states, though. If Trump wins AZ, GA, and Wisconsin (all within 25k or less), that puts it at a 269-269 tie and the way the house votes on the president made it extremely likely that Trump would have the votes to swing it his way in the house. This is partially why the AZ call on election night was such a big deal. Even though it turned out closer than expected, by 2-3am it was pretty clear Wisconsin/Michigan were going to end up for biden and NV as well. Then it was just waiting and a close enough margin that it seemed like a nailbiter.

That ones fine, I hate player comps and don't think they add anything. If you would have said "I think he's closer to a 160 ISO than 200 I would have agreed, but when a guy whose basically around 110 ISO? I know people will cry about it being park driven, but I think Brandon Belt is also possible. But his approach being so good may mean he gets pitches he wants more and can drive them out even if his power isn't prodigious.

Probably hurts not to have a playoff of any sort. But, you are right. 59 sox had much less lore in the city than the 63 hawks, for instance. My family were from baltimore and moved here when I was a kid, so I had no built-in sox knowledge, and I still don't get pre-80s sox players right in terms of matching them to their eras.

If that's your comp, for most of his career he's a big upgrade over Rosario, and it makes little sense to add Rosario if you think he needs to either be a DH or LF.

Casey Kotchman was a 10 home guy, so you aren't sure he's a 30 homer guy, so he must be a 10 homer guy.

Move Eloy to DH to make room for an equally bad defensive LFer who is a worse hitter, while likely keeping a better hitter in the minors for a year. Sign me up.

This wouldn't surprise me, would be a very successful offseason if just gio and vaughn get us an extra year or two.

The lesson of the 2000s white sox is also that you can't stop drafting and being a player in INTL and sustain success.

Would you rather be the Indians or the Twins? Because the Indians have made many more "all-in" moves. The same year that Chapman was traded, the Indians traded for Miller and gave up an outfielder that would have certainly helped their anemic offense (esp in outfield) the last few years. He was instrumental in getting them to a WS. Would you rather at least make it to a World Series or lose in the first round every year? People can obssess over the Chapman/Q trades all they want, but to me the reason the cubs are where they are is because they drafted for shit after 2014, and got zero production from INTL after their incredible 2013. There's also just luck, who knows what is different if Cubs get Shohei for that paltry amount. I'd argue he gets them out of that wild card game against the Rox and who knows what changes. Maybe they still don't hit in the playoffs, but every year can be different. Hendricks / Lester / Hamels would have been pretty good and that was a better bullpen than 17. If you take a lesson from the cubs, it's that we can't stop acquiring talent even though our big league roster is full of long-term talent. Having a Verdugo and Lux in your pocket is incredibly helpful in navigating a bad free agency period or supplementing suddenly underperforming players.

I mean we gave 8 mil per year to an injured Herrera 2 years ago so I’d still consider this a discount.

Had I would have known Ozuna could be had for a 1 year deal I’d have been ok with it. But I think you see the long term issues we were worried about, as he is now pretty firmly in a JD Martinez esque right fielder

God Rogers is so fucking dumb

I was the one that started complaining about Duncan getting the role. I was merely pointing out that even though you searched for mlb analytics coordinator, what you were pulling from was a director of analytics role, which is why it required all that. The sox would have a similar posting for a role like that.

That's a director of analytics role. This is not that, and it is common for these to go to former players. Pretty sure this was Gabe Kapler's role once, and is Sam Fuld's role with phillies (who was mentioned as a possible white sox manager). This is a teaching role for someone who can process the information and communicate it to the players effectively, and also communicate needs from the players to the analytics group.

There are only 32 of these jobs. The cap space is basically a one year issue. I'm sure things won't be great next year but it's terrible now anyway.

don't forget about debt load.

Glad to see him off twins, but, lots of options in bullpen for them to recover. Notice: Mets signed someone with no GM.

And they finished in 3rd place in their division.

He was a minor league manager and that actually is good experience for teaching analytics since the PD team is more hands on then. My worry is he was the manager at AZ when La Russa was there, then he leaves for the Blue Jays where he didn't have a connection and is dismissed mid season. Fegan mentioned his brother was really sick that year and eventually passed away, and it could have been due to that unfortunate circumstance.

Like he asked nicely?

You can absolutely be worse than nothing.

I really worry about projects like that when we have no room for error. I think about the Reds in a "competitive" year going with Akiyama as their leadoff hitter and he was terrible.

Sounds like Duncan did great in a similar role!

hooray nepotism