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Burdi has not been good as he has recovered from TJ. He is nearly 2 years removed, and has a 6.5 ERA in AA. Where he used to have an absolutely insane k%, it's now fairly ordinary. Add to that his command is more wild than it used to be and...well tough to trust that for a contending teams closer.

Man trae young being so bad in Summer League last year to being so good in the season has certainly made it less interesting to follow White a bit hah.

They docked Jimenez because they said they viewed him as almost certainly to be a DH and his ongoing injuries with his body type. They docked madrigal after an inperson and a belief his power wouldn't play up as much as they hoped. I'm guessing the others was all injury based. Burdi basically lost his slider since TJS, which was the pitch that caused them to rank him so highly in the first place I believe.

Right, while nearly all posters can blend the many factors that go into our opinions on what the team should do to be a consistent contender moving forward (age, control, position, productivity, future outlook, etc), greg can only handle one, so he assume all of us are only focused on a single input as well. And despite pointing this out, he will not be able to grow or change, because this has been pointed out to him roughly 1000x to him during the last 10 years at least and nothing.

Yeah I don't think mine has changed much, this looks right though I think deep down I still believe in adolfo more than walker or Rutherford, but it's a matter of figuring out how to apply the risk of him. But I think I'd have Dalquist above sheets still. I'm really happy he has found some success but I just don't know what to make of a 1b prospect that is still just kinda average offensively. He should be a pretty decent trade piece for MR or rotation depth.

my only philosophy on baseball (as a young person) is that old players like colome are useless (as are saves, since I am a statnik) and should be force retired. If that's not possible, flipping them is an okay consolation prize. White sox should seek to ensure their roster is as young player as possible, as the old players may rub off on them and turn them old.

Listen watching the futures game and just asking every at bat why the Sox didn’t draft that player is boring and nobody cares.

Yeah they treated this game as they would a celebrity softball game on All Star week

Comas was 3-5 with a 3b and a 2b and 5 RBI. He started a little slowly but had two monster games recently. Increasing his power output too.

Eloy! Nova! Jose! 4-letter names!

The biggest reason I didn’t care to follow him was Sox showed so little confidence in him. But now that he’s in AAA it’s the last real year they can try out these guys.

Feels like Eloy has 40 homers in the last month honestly

I feel like that is mostly going to be an offseason activity though anyway. I’m excited to see Madrigal up but I don’t know if there is a bad decision they can make. I don’t think keeping him in Bham is bad, I don’t think promoting him is bad. They have more data than us so I’ll leave them to it and hope they get it right.

I think there was a fegan article saying they should get a few innings in AZL.

That’s awesome. Krogman sounds like he has an arm on him too.

Wow unexpected. Exciting!

dannnng you guys slept on Ronaldo Guzman’s line. 5 IP, 7 Ks, 1 BB, 2 H, 1 R.

Ha! Congrats to you

If you trade porter your starting wing is chandler Hutchinson. Lavine is ball dominant too, while surrounding him with carter, Porter, sato is a bunch of players who move the ball and theoretically will spread the floor. it would maximize the Westbrook roster.

A playoff push promotion with Madrigal would be nice for Charlotte who has mainly been at the poor end of those decisions and also always bad. congrats to Robert! What a freakin year!

Agree completely, though if they seek a trade hopefully it’s around Lavine with supplementary salary in felicio and Dunn. But he’s one of the weakest stars to acquire due to age, mileage, and playing style. But if you can get him without giving up your last three first rounders I guess it’s not terrible. I wouldn’t really go all out for Westbrook though.

I mean sure, but if he really had qualms about the lakers he could have just signed with the other teams without demanding they mortgage a half decade of picks and a young promising player for Paul George.

According to woj though, Clips pulled the trigger because they were convinced he was going to Lakers otherwise (much worse for them than going to Toronto)

I’m not sure the behavioral economics is main driver here, since there was not that much equity built up in Tatis pre trade. The main issue is it was terrible process. It’s easier to live with Matt Davidson not living up to the hope because it was good process. The Sox trading out a young trade chip just one month before apparently deciding to start a rebuild, and when it was clear the team was not viable at time of trade, was poor. Chisoxfn made this case at the time. Now, is this the 99th percentile outcome? Absolutely, but it hurts worse because it was such a pointless trade. It was not Hanley for Beckett.

From what it sounds like he was very close to going to the other LA.