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Thought we were at the point where we could worry less about winning trades and more about winning games.

Grandal was the fourth highest paid catcher last year fwiw.

That can be provided under the table by having meet with *checks notes* every white Sox front office employee as a proof of concept.

The more we talk about this the more it’s obvious they should really just try to get Jose on a 1 year deal.

I wouldn’t put too much stock in one game in October.

It was oddly like a complete bizzaro world from preseason. White with 7 assists, Lauri super assertive.

Ah, well.

Was Kanny in sox colors?

I don't disagree, I just don't think keeping mccann comes at the cost of anyone except potentially the 26th man. Grandal will not be able to catch 110 games in all likelihood anymore, so the other ~70 going to a catcher you like is fine.

Lets see we got Santana, latos, holland...

I didn't say value of framing has gone down, just that the worst framing catcher of today is much better than the worst framing catcher of 2012, and the gap between them is not as large as it was prior. So while I'd prefer to have a great framer on staff, and support signing grandal, McCann is a fine catcher to have and keep around. If you ever need his money back you can trade him. Nice guy catchers find jobs, AJ Ellis was still catching last year.

WARP is good but it misses game calling and management and its clear that McCann was very good there. He also had very few PB despite catching white sox pitchers. Catchers are hard but overall I think the sequencing he would come up with for Giolito, especially, and the game planning disciplining he instilled with the pitchers is why you can value the numbers that take game calling into account. Ideally his framing would lineup, but there is greater concentration with framing among pitchers now anyway, as well as so much fewer SBAs that I think it's good to keep McCann around (in addition, he won't be that expensive)

We certainly could manage without McCann, but after the years they just spent putting below average catchers with our pitchers I'd rather they not roll the dice.

Martin Maldanado and his 76 wRC+ is on the astros. The staff loves him. It's not worth losing him.

he's joking about lebron's response about Morey.

I'm not sure I even remembered them signing players like Reddick and favors. Lonzo looked good but does some real dumb shots still, and I love the walker-alexander player. Raptors still looked good too. One team Im surprised how high everyone is on is the Heat. They've overperformed a lot and now have Jimmy, but I've seen that before.

No person that plays 98 games in CF could ever possibly be expected to play RF. It's impossible. It doesn't translate.

Yeah i'm sure it will be devastating.

obp/vet/cheap/surprisingly good defensive metrics.

Fair enough. I like that he doesn't strike out. But he doesn't have much room for offense to drop.

Yeah that's one that definitely gives me pause. It's a failure on a scheme and QB level, but when they can so easily trick the QB it's bad.

He’s turning 33, it doesn’t last in perpetuity

Woof.

The Pels lost but really do seem formidable. They are very deep now, and hope we get the Zion we all expected. Kawhi if he can stay healthy is just absolutely the best player in the league. He has that ability to just turn it on and off that lebron used to have. It's going to be an awesome season.

Nats are fun. Sox series vs them was by far the most entertaining games of the year. Just a bunch of stars.