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lol jay above moncada

@TomPickle

just in time for independence day thanks everyone.

Another non-top 30 success is Ti'Quan Forbes, who has not hit for any power in Birmingham but has been an OBP machine. His contact is decent but he's 22 in birmingham, has handled the jump well, and maybe he taps into power but he may very well be a nice depth piece or the type of piece that could net a good MR at the deadline next year.

The ID was presented so fast, it created a gust of wind that knocked the officers brain into his skull and gave him a concussion.

I don't understand why in order to make your position seem more favorable you are trying to act like Machado and/or Harper would be coming at the cost of Anderson or Moncada, when they very much go together. Its because the sox had Anderson and Moncada and kopech and giolito and eloy and robert that using money to acquire additional talent made sense. But you cannot grasp that, so you try to make fun of a caricatured representation of why people wanted Harper/Machado. And if that's not enough you need to provide over the top critiques of how bad Machado and Harper are when they've actually been fine!

Also Harpers defense this year has been a net positive according to fangraphs and neutral according to baseball savant.

I wasn't trying to win the Jerry Reinsdorf Value Awards™ I was hoping the sox were trying to put together a roster that would destroy the AL central.

If I'm getting that undermarket production from multiple other places on the team (like we expected the white sox to do)? Yes. Tim is underpaid, allowing us to pay more elsewhere. That was the point.

That his terrible years still pumped out a .360 obp is why he appealed to me. He definitely has a consistency problem in staying elite with the bat, but he is repping an .800 ops.

The point of people advocating signing for Machado was to remove some of the luck required in the rebuild, however. And much of the criticism is of process, which doesn't mean the outcomes cannot be good. I am very happy with Moncada, Anderson, Eloy and Giolito. You can see my posts post-machado, there was always a way to contention but weirdly enough getting players whose down years get you an .850 OPs and great defense was what I wanted! But the main issues are well documented, but aside from injuries it has been : - Still developing player development operation - Inability to convert more depth from international scouting operation - Inability to convert more depth from rounds 3-10 in draft - Consistently signing free agents that then produce the worst year of their careers. Regardless of whether the free agents are supposed to be "part of the core", signing free agents during our competing years of 2014-16 proved to be an awful mark on Hahns tenure, and he has not gotten better. And I do not want to hear about McCann, I'm as happy as ever on signing him, but every GM in the game has a McCann that has been around longer than 2 years. When we started the rebuild, the expectation was we were setting ourselves up for consistent contention. Trading away three great, cost controlled players for prospects and multiple top ten picks should net us great prospects and a competitive team. It's fair for people to judge whether their process is consistent with other organizations who are putting together consistently excellent teams.

This is embarrassing.

I'm glad a decade of irrelevance has created the lowest of expectations. "Hey old me, so excited after trading Eaton! In 3 years, the sox will be two games below .500 in June, 12.5 games out of a resurgent twins and many of your top prospects will be injured, some so badly they won't have careers!! How friggen awesome is this?!"

Wow check out the message board GM.

Soxtalk would be a good GM.

Yeah that's pretty typical. It was hard to even get info on Sosa for a while and he was stateside. For now, just hope he keeps producing. His size and power relative to DSL is nice, so you just kinda follow it like a video game sim.

You know it's bad when you miss Dylan Axelrod.

Yeah 2017 was garbage.

Also Guerrero with a double. He has had a nice start after two horrendous years statistically.

Weaver with a 2b, Lenny Delgado 3-4 with a double. Decent start for our HSers in GF.

Pilkington was a 3 year starter in the SEC. Him being successful against Hi-A hitters with the same stuff is not impressive to me. Better than the alternative though.

It really does feel at this point like we are about to get a “burger faced a set back in his recovery and will get shut down for the year”.

Not trying to be negative but I would have all of your “exceeded” as merely “met”. But meeting expectations is part a matter of what they were and that’s okay.

Whites profiles were so great, gonna be fun rooting for these guys.

Great story thanks. I’m sure he misses Adolfo in that locker room who I believe is fluent in English to help. There was a lot in Astroball on how big of a help Bregman and Beltran were in helping Spanish speaking players get comfortable (bregman speaks Spanish). Getz has done a good job building up these cultural coordinators and I hope we see it payoff as he’s been aggressive moving guys stateside.