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This would be firsthand, he’s saying Jerry told him this.

Bum is the perfect vet pitcher to add to a young team aspiring to go to playoffs. And more so than wheeler, seems like that pitcher that just can grind even when stuff fails. Id be thrilled with Bum, and holding my breath with Wheeler.

I’m still intrigued by Wacha, though his second half improvement largely coincided with the improvement in the cards D, but his control and velocity improved. I think he’d be a nice Nova replacement but he’s a depth guy that I think could slide into bullpen as our injured pitchers return.

Whether it keeps him healthy is one thing, but he was pretty effective when he was at 50% slider, in bullpen he’d be nails for 1-2 innings

Ah man. Can't freakin wait to have kopech back.

I'd be interested in Rodon when he converts to the bullpen.

Remember when Jerry was part of a collusion ring to artificially deflate player salaries then was a leading voice that led to canceling a season where his team was world series contenders just to ensure he wouldn't have to pay more money to labor. Me neither because he had the payroll befitting a major market team for a portion of his ownership.

I think Rendon is a guy the nats keep.

It's nick friedell come back to chicago! They...traded korver for nothing just to stay under the luxury tax if they matched asik. They didn't match him either. But yes, then they overpaid to get Kirk Hinrich. JR can't be cheap when he gives such charitable deals to marginal org favorites like Hinrich.

Listen, I love basketball. It's a lot more fun to have a decent team to watch. Satoransky and Thad young were the first signings I've liked by the bulls in a long time, coming off one of the first trades i've liked for the bulls in porter. It is great turning on a bulls game in winter and chilling out, but not when you are watching kris dunn holding the ball for 23 seconds only to shoot a 20 foot jumper off the side of the backboard.

They have one of the smallest front offices in the league. They didn't pay a fee to attend a predraft international scouting combine. They are still apparently traumatized from having to amnesty boozer and sold off a second round pick to get back in JRs good graces. They were scared to go over luxury tax with a contending team and sold off korver for nothing.

I don't understand why people let them off the hook with this stuff. THey should hope every player they actively signs performs as well as they can. Especially when they have not shown they can sign productive free agents consistently and will need to soon. The twins spent the same amount as us last offseason and got triple the production. the Rays spent less than half as much 18.5 and over doubled our production. We weren't looking to compete so we didn't spend more, but there's no reason we should be signing players that fail so often.

Have thought so little about the bulls. Am actually somewhat excited to have the competent vets this year.

I'm just glad he's going to be back. Kwit was fantastic but if you know it's him back there it's easier to game plan around exploiting hte middle of the field in passing. That said, glad pagano recognized his excellent blitzing ability and maybe takes advantage.

10 games, which is only down slightly considering they had an all-star catcher and their heir apparent catcher up for september call-ups (and is an actual platoon). Just don't act shocked when they bring him back.

Why not? They were playing him a lot in september. I wouldn't be surprised at all.

Re-sign welington castillo 1year/8mill

that was made when I was in 7th grade.

This is fine with me. I'd rather just not prioritize what's available this offseason to be our long-term solutions just because they are "just money" now. Now, the sox are obviously not going to try to sign Betts in any serious way. But I do think it is at least helpful that Trout very likely has set the ceiling market for probably a few years. Betts has a much easier framework to take to the market than Machado/Harper did, who with their age and production were unprecedented in the new CBA and league flush with tv money. Betts will enter able to point to trout and arenado to create this window of 270 mill to 450 mill that teams will need to play in to be considered. Sox won't be able to act like they can get a deal. However, they very much should have someone in their organization trying to convince everyone that there will be a player that rarely comes available on the market soon and the sox can make that work. Say we do just pay money for betts, a lineup that would consist of Anderson, Moncada, Jimenez, Betts, Robert, Vaughn and Madrigal is very promising and still largely cost controlled for several years.

Really want to change this title so no one accidentally starts referring to benetti this way.

Tbt to when balta was fine with spending $400 mill on machado but horrified at the thought of committing it now to a better player.

I do love that he wasn’t technically fired, bringing the tally of coaching and management positions who were fired after a lost decade to 0.

Oh I would take a front office overhaul over any player addition, but absence that I definitely still prefer going after elite talent sooner through trades/free agency. I worry about putting so much emphasis on 2025 if it means 2020-2021 are still only marginally contending years.

Philosophy hasn’t really changed so it won’t really matter. Ricky should have been allowed to bring his own staff though.

That's an AND trade. Cease AND dunning.