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So they definitely found a closing group. White and Lavine together are electric. WCJ and Lauri were able to handle size, and I think dunn was out there. Lavine had a bad stretch but if they pull this out he was tremendous. Kobe was just nails. Just nails.

Sure. Just weird since he is not a 2020 acquisition.

I will say it just makes me so annoyed watching a team that largely just had much better lottery luck. WCJ seems like he just wants to be the backup center on an eastern conference team. JJJ meanwhile... White was good, yet Moran looked so athletic and a force. And add Clarke... So frustrating.

Woof. Bulls have a lot of work to do. Not sure any of these lineups are working. This first half just seems like Lauri and LaVine exchanging turnovers and terrible defense. And bricked threes.

It’s weird, Sox have such good oversight of scammers within their ranks.

They'll take the best players they can get.

Isn't that Orlando?

this is my "non-realistic offseason" thread place. SIGN: Cole $35 mill Matt Moore $2.5 mill (ervin santana deal) Jose Abreu $16 mill Logan Morrison - minor league signing TRADE: Cease, Walker, Stiever for Mookie Betts (to re-sign at $40 mill/yr) 2020 salary = 131.8 mill April Roster C - McCann, Collins 1B - Abreu 2B - Sanchez 3B - Moncada SS - Anderson LF - Eloy CF - Engel RF - Betts DH - Collins OR Mercedes OR Morrison Rotation: Cole / Giolito / Kopech / Moore / ReyLo May Roster C - McCann/Collins 1B - Abreu 2B - Madrigal 3B - Moncada SS - Anderson LF - Eloy CF - Robert RF - Betts DH - Mercedes/Collins/Morrison Rotation - Cole / Giolito / Kopech / Moore / ReyLo May Lineup Anderson Moncada Betts Eloy Abreu Robert McCann Collins Madrigal August Lineup

Rockets/Bucks was an awesomely entertaining game last night.

Yeah but I've seen them high as a fourth seed. The thing about Josh Richardson is they didn't add Jimmy on top of him, they replaced him. So while they may enter into the bottom of the playoffs churn, I would be surprised at much more than that.

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.