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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.

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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