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oh crap I am an idiot Everyone I screwed up 1 and 2. Rutschmann is 1. I'll edit. A note for all the quotes.

I'll take my chances. Victory laps after april tend not to last.

I received it in PDF so I have to type it out, so ranking is what you'll get but I'll summarize any questions you have. 1. Rutschmann 2. Vaughn 3. Witt 4. Carroll 5. Abrams 6. Green 7. Bleday 8. Bishop 9. Manoah 10. Lodolo Priester was at 20.

I, too, read "has not been bad" as "has been very good". Walks are in Ottavino's profile, his k's are there, he'll have variations but I would not be deterred by him back there. We'd give him more space to develop, but he'll always be valuable at deadline because he k's guys.

Uh, colome is 30. Do you think he's going to be our closer for the next generation or something? These guys purpose was to get us a stabilized back end. They will all need to be replaced when the time comes, and hopefully internally.

I mean, yeah, SSS is kinda a big part of that. And Ottavino has not been bad and has not had the light schedule we have had. Soria is fine, he had some bad luck.

Soria/Ottavino/Robertson.

These are the types of things that are oft-repeated but I'm not remotely convinced by. Colome has been traded 3 times, has less control and is more expensive now. We've seen what that type of profile nets you.

We will pay Colome probably 16 million over his 2 years here. Keep Narvaez, trade Castillo in offseason for nothing, even eat half, have an additional $12 million to commit to finding a closer in the free agent market. Sign mccann.

Also I'm just not a big josh jacobs fan, I think that Memphis rb is going to be the best RB from this draft.

I also have very little confidence that McCann will finish year above 100 wrC+ but I have loved his gamecalling, so I'm a much bigger fan than I was in offseason.

Why do people keep pitting decisions like Narvaez against McCann when it's as big of an indictment on Castillo. I know its heresy around here, but Narvaez actually improved defensively and is basically equal to what Castillo offers, but Narvaez is now a better offensive catcher and does not ditch his new team because he needed to roid to justify his contract. I still would have liked a better framer than McCann, but his gamecalling is legit and probably more important to advance our game calling from "fastball/slider through first three innings, then start throwing change" that was essentially all we did last year. But with Narvaez/McCann the sox would have the 5 and 7 best catchers this year according to fWAR, and a better DH/Catcher combo than Castillo, who is garbage.

I don't think this goes far enough. They really should just have him retire now, try to get him on the front office or managerial track. Could be a really good manager some day, and can't risk it.

A to A+ is legit, and there's no room in AA. But, yeah, he's very much on the Luis Gonzalez track - who himself could have been pushed a bit more aggressively. Another example of a reason not to get too upset about the post draft performance of players. Sucks because it gives you a "what if" with Burger too.

I need to watch this. A smaller commitment, but "I think you should leave" on netflix cracked me up over the weekend. 16 minute episodes, only I think 6 of them, all sketch comedy from Tim robinson. There's 4-5 sketches that I still think to myself and laugh, but definitely more absurd/dude humor, my wife didn't find it very funny.

https://theathletic.com/952627/2019/04/30/how-did-tim-anderson-get-here-by-listening-learning-and-believing-in-himself/ Gated - another fantastic article on Anderson. I'm not sure he should be AL player of the month, but an incredible start for him. He's such a fun player to watch.

I would be shocked if they were 10-6 in that division. I also wouldn't be so quick to call things upgraded, they added some players but i'm really not sure I believe in that coaching staff as developers. WR is better and RB is...maybe better? It depends whether their OL/DL picks/upgrades are actually good.

Raiders will be in a tough division but I kinda see them as just mediocre bad, not outright terrible this year. Sorta like a classic Dolphins team.

They had that absolute quicksand couple of weeks in april where it seemed they lost every game (add to that, some injuries). Schedule has been very favorable to sox, but the highs that will come down a bit from Anderson/Moncada (though I don't think Moncada will be much different, probably just degrees less) will be met by some resurgence from some unlikely-bad starts from others. McCann will probably have a rough month soon. His production against RHP is outta nowhere.

Or his splitter will catch up to him and he’ll be injured constantly.

Sox should just put him in a cryogenic freezer for a few years. Best way to preserve value.

What’s his k rate

In that blackhole that has been birmingham, Ti'Quan forbes homered today and now has a pretty interesting stat line. Forbes is only 22 years old, and was acquired for I want to say Miguel gonzalez in 2017. So far in Birmingham he's batting .250 / .354 / .353 for a .704 ops. He only struck out 15% of the time last year, and this year in 79 ABs he's only k'ing 17% of the time. However, his walk rate has quadrupled from 3% to 13% this year. He already has half the walks he had all of last year. His power still needs to arrive, and it'll be tough in birmingham, but that is a much different profile than we are used to seeing.

The White Sox have been very bad at free agency and I would like to see even low stakes signings like this accomplish the job they set out to accomplish which was get below average, but consistent innings and production while being nice clubhouse guys. There was several guys they could go after, and once again, their scouts identified a player that could not come close to accomplishing that. That they didn't sign Lance Lynn to also be bad isn't something I'm prepared to congratulate them for yet. I want to see just some baseline competency of "we signed this guy to a deal, will give him opportunity, and while not good, was an mlb player, not aggressively bad."

I wouldn't go this far. Let's remember he was very bad last year and bad this year, and the purpose was to get a stabile, consistent vet that wouldn't get us into short inning blow outs. Brett Anderson, Martin Perez or Buchholz are not great but have provided some decent starts this year.