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not surprising. Nobody knows what AK is going to do but they may guess.

Yep, that's why I had the second pick around 23. Bulls could send them their second this year since they already have a pretty full roster.

Cahill moved to bullpen didn’t he?

140 people died in the last 24 hours from COVID in Illinois. Breathtaking.

I think my ideal draft would be trade down to 8 and get the knicks 23rd pick. Select Williams, Vassel or Halliburton at 8 and then Bolmaro, Anthony, Malochi Flynn (if wing picked at ? or would be really sweet if Pokusevski fell.

The player with the most brutal projection in this is actually McCann.

They may not be decision makers, but they certainly still have influence, get to hang out where they want, go to games, get all the hot goss, meet the players, get rings, get to celebrate... and they will make back their investment and then some. Seems pretty fun.

Today's mocks seem to indicate the top 3 is starting to establish itself with edwards -> wiseman -> ball without trades. And with that, writers seem to all be picking Deni for the bulls. I don't know, I think I'd like Patrick Williams. This draft kinda sucks, and maybe he's the Giannis of the 13 draft.

TBH I think in a relatively distributed ownership group a lower stakes person like Theo being brought on to make decisions could be attractive to getting more minority owners in who may feel they aren't at the whims of the biggest shareholders decisions and instead have the org in the hands of a "baseball guy". Or, a wealthy person whose interested may be very competitive, and see this as a way to have a leg-up where they have an owner well connected in league and with a lot of relationships.

I would hope so.

Madrigal 1.7 wins, Mendick 1.6

Trading draft picks also seems like a decent compromise on draft pick compensation from a players standpoint. If my team could grow or reduce my draft budget through trades, I'd be more willing to sign a player with a draft pick. For players, there may be two factors: they be less likely to get a QO since teams can change their draft in other ways, but also if they do decline they may see a better market.

I think the main argument for is it would be fun.

Some version of yes is destroying no. I find the "no trades" stance so weak. Not much going on so thought I'd put this here.

It started on the LA angels, and yeah, I don't follow west coast baseball that much either but picked up on it from salty cubs fans.

At he very least, unlike his first year, he is league average offensively. But last year he was great.

Well, he's been good recently but you are absolutely maxing out sox budget at that point and I don't think he adds enough value for that. I do think it's fair to say he'd be "good" just not worth the price at his contract.

I am pretty sure at this point Bulls are just getting their ducks in a row on value, but if they did that you'd have to assume it's for Wiseman.

Nor will Mazara, but it mostly re-reruns the roster of all guys with control (it still has encarnacion on the white sox despite him being unlikely to be there). So when we make an acquisition, if substantial, he'll sometimes write an artilce on it, otherwise you have to go to the players last team to see their 2021 zips.

lol same.

Yeah, honestly the WAR numbers specifically aren't as interesting to me as the projected numbers, since it factors in injuries and the like. Just by being the horse he's been, Anderson should clear 3 WAR easily. With Abreu, it's still projecting a 120 ops+. At his age, that's good, and I think he'll do better. For Eloy, they are projecting a 137 ops+, so it's not like offensively they see much regression. For abreu that's a .270/.330/500 slash. Can Abreu beat that? Of course! Is it nice to see the projection still be so high for him at age 33? Hell yeah. The stuff I don't like to see in zips is when it sees big regressions. Offensively, I feel good about everyone's numbers in here save Vaughn who is just gonna be low for age.

Theo gonna buy the As in a few years.

Kinda sucks getting these so early, but makes it fun to get each addition https://blogs.fangraphs.com/2021-zips-projections-chicago-white-sox/ 40 total fWAR, man, it has been ...forever? since we started with this high of a baseline. Encouraging stuff is it sees a bounce back for Moncada plus pretty strong hitting from everyone. Crushes Eloy for defense, crushes anderson for defense. Poor Vaughn projection, collins is bad. Probably the biggest suprise is the nice number for Cease. I wouldn't have guessed that. But as you can see, we have some real nice areas to improve in RF/SP/Bullpen. If you didn't know it, yeah we kinda have a good team here

Well I totally agree there.

And I realized I didn't even mention the KBO transfer.