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eh, these gm meetings are always a bust. The others are represented by Boras, who has been open to every microphone.

One quibble - no to weiters.

Not to make the playoffs. I also dislike approach of caring about total spend. We should worry more about fitting individual yearly budgets into place. Adding Ryu and Wheeler at that price is still a very affordable rotation, and both have potential for very high ceiling years (and also not playing).

This would be one of my preferred approaches. I definitely want them to get one of the top pitchers we could reasonably hope to play well the next 3-4 years. There are some good 1 year candidates, but next years SP class is rough. And trading for pitching can be expensive.

So it's one of those things where it's reasonable and is probably fine but there is something that has bugged me: - In 2018 draft it was rich in great high school pitching and weak on college pitching and ended up drafting mostly college pitchers - In 2019 draft it was weak on pitching in general and sox spent a lot to get high school pitchers (that I liked personally liked!) It seems like when there is a rich crop of something, sox instead go after the weaker scarcity and that list you have strikes me as that. It prioritizes making sure you don't get stuck with average players in the scarce positions rather than trying to get the strong players from the depth positions. And that offseason screams that to me.

Am I to take this as the full offseason?

I mean there are also a lot of Cubans in Miami, culturally he'd probably be able to live in a place a lot similar. I am not surprised that he would be interested, he probably lives there in the offseason anyway.

Considering how raw White looked in SL, he is still finishing at the rim better than I thought, and he is better at non-catch and shoot shots better than he was showing. It will take a while before he is strong enough around the rim but he is the right kind of aggressive and that has really helped a bench unit that had been full of terribly passive players - leaving open a window for antonio blakeney.

Yep, good point. Also they should give the white sox all the astros draft picks.

To be clear, I think it's serious too. I have been saying that we could expect a punishment as serious as Atlanta received. Frankly, it's hard to see how that would not serve as a precedent, because while serious in itself in that it may have seriously injured some other teams international pools - it's hard to believe that if they find Luhnow knew of this system (har har) that he wouldn't be in deep. I think it may be very likely he is forced out of baseball. That's a big deal.

Thanks, missed this.

No way, there is still an unknown. The quality of the pitch, the location, that they only get signs for one pitch. That's way different than a predetermined outcome.

I like this part of the draft lead up where I want every player and dislike the month prior where every player is flawed and terrible.

This is now a Coby White thread. in continuing with this up is down bulls season...Dunn has been good and seems to have meshed well and is happy playing with white.

Wait...are you saying this is worse than throwing a World Series?

There is also precedent for forcing the removal of front office employees remember. MLB has been pretty strict recently. STL got off a little light, but obviously Copollela did not.

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There really isn’t a year when good starting pitchers are cheap.

We never know, could be a tougher punishment. They dropped a pretty big hammer on the braves for stuff that “a lot of teams” were doing.

Would love to see the parade in LA to celebrate the World Series won after Houston vacates.

Dodgers AAA hitting coach. I would like to see an “offensive coordinator” hired like the marlins just poached from Yankees.

I already did this exercise. It’s not the predictor people think. And his spin rate increased along with velo this year. CC Sabathia had a very similar career, and while his 30s weren’t incredible they were productive.

He's awesome. Really glad he was hired.

What makes you think odorizzi will be 1 year (esp if he turns down qualifying offer), and Bumgarner is only 30 compared to Odorizzi's 29, this isn't like Hamels vs. Odorizzi.

People say this all the time and it's never that dramatic. His xFIP puts him at 4.3 (jake odorizzi's...4.3) His fastball velo went up last year, allowing him to bring back his 4 seamer more. He increased his k rate and decreased his walk rate. His HR rate already consumed the juiced ball surge which may very well see a decline as the mlb tries to solve the lack of consistency. He'd also be playing a very power starved division, excluding the twins. His cutter and fb combo is still evolving. I think he's only going to get better at using it. But I'll trust him to find productivity over jake odorizzi putting it together for a year and everyone thinking he can just replicate that.