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Sounds like @Y2Jimmy0 has the goods on J2 tomorrow. Very pumped.

We view Pau as part of the core

Maybe they’ll get lucky

yeah not gonna lie, aside from trading Thad Young, I did not want pax to be the one re-defining everything.

I know I move probably 10% as fast as moncada, but always found it less frightening/mistake prone tracking against the walls then dealing with people running toward. Always felt like when we'd try to avoid we'd end up moving to same spot.

Him and TA. Love the feistiness but no reason to push it. Also very happy Moncada no longer has the flares that send him chasing into the RFer (like at 2b).

probably still punishing him for first two years / injury penalties. I do worry about how moncada will play through ailments.

Dang I guess praising his spirit didn't work.

wheres this? I only see cowley's bizarre embiid proposal

I like pecota/zips for when it thinks young players will do well or older players won't decline that much. But other than that it's helpful for OOTP.

I don't remember the time when a prospect of ours was predicted to be tops early, and I'm a bit surprised he'd be so much higher than moncada given the similar swing and miss. I'll take it!

I canceled my bp but here is some good news (though I’m partial to ZIPS)

Sox will crumble without madrigal

Cease and Madrigal is a better return. Sox could have also absorbed more salary than Dodgers. Verdugo is talented, he was also clouded by his piss poor attitude and professionalism. Now full time in Boston replacing Betts that could flare up. The best thing the Sox can do to increase payroll constraints is have a lot of success.

-New York Post I love some three-team action but who would we even target here...Jansen?

Didn't know Levine was a Preller disciple.

People think this is funny or absurd but for all offseason I heard that trading for betts would DESTROY OUR FARM SYSTEM FOR ONLY ONE YEAR and yet the trade happened, the consensus is not that the dodgers farm system is destroyed, the consensus is they kept all of their top prospects and made out fantastic and also oh wow we forgot that mookie was one of the best players in baseball wow. The white sox offseason featured searches to upgrade pitching and right fielders, names were brought up, sox made their choices, and two nights ago a bunch of pitchers and right fielders were traded but apparently that is not relevant at all to the sox and we just need to stick to #brockholttalk.com.

OTOH, is the question should we be more bearish on our hitters or more bullish on our pitchers?

what???

There are so many fake obstacles in here it’s ridiculous. Oh they’d have to beat the angels offer in a short amount of time?!?!?! They’d have to trade a player teams know they don’t need? Why that hasn’t happened since...the last time Mazara was traded. It can’t be done dammit! I’ll give shorthand to the last 13 pages: any move the Sox make is not only the best move, but the only move that could ever have been possible forever and ever amen.

I agree they should never let betts get away, but it's clear the luxury tax escalators are effective. The yankees have been scared off by them, the dodgers have, and the red sox have. That re-set is clearly legit.

If I'm a Boston fan I'm annoyed they are doing this, but let's be real. Would you rather be the crash-boom red sox of the 2010s or the Dodgers of the 2010s? Considering the resources, I'll take the Red sox approach of going for the jugular, as they have shown the ability to rebuild quickly. If the white sox were the red sox, last year would have been competitive because they could have spent stupidly without concern for long-term tie-ups. It's only the repeater taxes that kill them eventually.

What does this mean? Is his contract very incentive laden on IPs?

I agree. I still think that's a tough price to pay and there is a bit of "if you were shopping around this guy was this the best you could get?" but the twins proved a lot last year at getting darn near everyone to perform. So I'll give them benefit of doubt.

Mazara isn't good vs. LHP either. Joc Pederson is better than Mazara, he's basically what you'd hope Mazara to be except you know he already is that. He's better vs. RHP than Mazara is. Even with his poor splits he was nearly 30% better hitter than the rest of the league. Mazara was 6% worse. And yes, he's also better defensively. So Pederson is better offensively and defensively which is why people like him.