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This story is the same as the long and awesome globe article that went deep on the trade in 2018. Since then it has felt like the story has changed so that the Sox “wanted” any of the players that are best at the moment, but this just reaffirms the original story that at the point before the trade was consummated Moncada and Kopech were agreed upon and the Sox were pushing for Devers as Thor’s piece.

I would bet he makes more ($) as a reliever than as a starter.

https://www.mlb.com/news/drew-pomeranz-could-be-next-relief-ace https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-pomeranaissance/ I would admit that I kinda missed this revelation on Pomeranz. I knew he had converted to a reliever but not his dominance. His upside could be the perfect bet for Sox position. We’ve been connected to Betances so far, so it would seem we are targeting some higher potential RPs. Update: signed to padres per Rosenthal

The recent article is on the related signs from the dugout, less catchers right? Makes sense they’d focus on that pre playoffs. Really hard to believe that the coppy could get banned for fudging player costs, but this will just be a fine. If they get anything on lihnow knowing or directing, I think he’s out.

I think Yelich benefitted from the juiced ball...but just in terms of his gaudy Hr totals. Still am Mvp level jump

https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-offseason-potential-scenarios heres a bad article that has Betts to White Sox. The Texas for Bryant deal is terrible.

And you think they would make less if they played the field? Because the player that made the most in total guaranteed money on that list signed still playing the field. How much does Giancarlo Stanton make? Congrats though on getting to make a list of players.

FYI updated for abreu/osich/goins/smith

EEs contract was quite low. He turned down 4/80 from the blue jays only to get 3/60 on the market. And JDM still played RF. great examples.

They could just trade him in year 4.

Man Hunter passed the eye test, that's a bit surprising to me. White has probably had some easier assignments than him.

JR has entered a rebuild and traded with the cubs several times while owner. Hahn's checklist gimmick is idiotic. If he believes those checklist items align with winning then he needs to explain why they hadn't done them before. If he thinks they aren't, then why should we care? It's meatball theatre.

Except aligns 100% with 30 years of public declarations and actions that JR hates long term deals with pitchers.

all of fegan's pieces the last week and a half have been excellent.

Since this is the Coby White thread...this kid has a motor on offense even without the ball. It's so helpful for that second unit.

Astroball had an entire chapter on this, about Beltran catching his “tip”. I 100% think it’s bullshit now.

This is great analysis on Castellanos, who...actually had a worse year in 2019 than 2018. His improvement largely coincided with moving to the cubs, where he moved out of a power suppressing stadium and his numbers shot up. That aligns with his own and others beliefs that he may be a better offensive player outside detroit. But his home run numbers weren't much different than his career last year, he just had a ton of doubles.

Man has there ever been a time recently where there hasn't been the obvious SP trade candidate?

That's good.

Is Jose allowed to talk to other teams while he decides or is that tampering?

Yeah. I think we often put ourselves in management's shoes as we constantly want to stay competitive. But Jose has been a damn champ. I think his GW Grand Slam against the rays in 14 was one of my fav white sox memories.

As we mull how productive he can be in the future just want to state that I love Jose and I really hope he gets a playoff game as a white sox.

This assumes a full season from every starter which is a terrible assumption. You are ensuring you do not have a dropoff of a 2 WAR pitcher to a -2WAR pitcher because there is no depth behind Lopez. There is a reason why analytics liked teams like the Mets last year, they had a ton of depth to prevent any massive fall-off despite not a lot of high-end talent. The white sox would finally have a lot of pitching depth if they brought in two 4 WAR pitchers. It's a big help to making the playoffs regardless of the playoff winning formula.

smart move by him. Hope it pays off for him, players gotta get the idiotic QO system out next time.