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Is this the last week?

For anyone else interested, Howard is an INF from Mt Carmel, and Hernandez is an RHP across the street from guaranteed rate field at De La Salle Institute. That's pretty cool.

No I meant that the raiders were a mess. Anything new or is this just AB helmet/general grinderness

I feel like they actually made the playoffs recently with a terrible record

Is there anything in particular driving this comment?

Keep this crap out of minor league threads

He had a 6 WAR season just last year.

I really just don’t like free agents like wheeler. Maybe I’m wrong, but I see him as a Corbin-like deal and not a 4 for 60 type deal, so if he is cheaper I’d be game. I just feel like in baseball I’d much rather allocate more into guys with a high floor than a high ceiling. In the NFL you can course correct quickly, so paying for upside can pay off. In baseball you can’t, so in this thread we have people stating machado having his first year as a 3.5 WAR year as why his contract is bad but to me it’s why he’s good. Players that have established themselves in the top tier for a bit like bumgarner may not give you the high production you are paying for but they give you a higher likelihood of a high floor and a reputation for pitching that makes them always tradeable despite salary. Basically I think you should operate high/low in free agency. You don’t pay for odorizzi after he’s good, you have to operate by getting him before and do it yourself. Of course, this type of management should include spending heavy amounts of resources in PD and international to turn out as much cheap talent as you can, and we don’t have that. So we may need to pay for starters with higher variance and cross our fingers.

He has been inconsistent and oft-injured. Can believe in raw talent over an odorizzi but both are lemon candidates

He is wonderful, but you are signing him into his age 29/30 season and aging curves have been dramatic.

Age makes that unlikely to me.

I mean, will be even 27 when we sign them. When we have to upgrade the offense and need to send players for them we will have wished we could just send money.

What free agents this offseason present the high likelihood opportunity of maintaining a 3.5 WAR pace with higher upside through the next 5 years of their career?

I want at least one elite bat added next offseason. RF is most likely spot, but if one is added and Leury still maintains RF, not the worst thing.

His first ten years were too good. Every time I look at his prime numbers they are better than I remember.

I never noticed Eloy wears my dads new balances for baseball

Would love to go back and tell 2007 me that the firejoemorgan blogger would be a white Sox color analyst when we were in tail end of DJ/hawk

Man, we’ve been living with it for a while, but it’s crazy how a young baseball fan is going to remember pujols.

But that sweet sweet 2016 season

Benetti is showing how versatile he is going from Walton to schur.

Cease

Good job Lenny

I hope so. We don’t have a lot of experiences with a 16 year old pitching prospect worth a damn, I’m not sure what it even looks like.

Guzman is the best

The Sox should petition the league to have 9 DHs so soxtalk can finally be happy.