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Tiquan forbes tripled home the bases loaded. Birmingham leads 4-1. Andrew Perez has a nice line in Kanny, 2 IP, 4 ks

I swear end of April last year Brett Austin was hitting like .300 and by end of May it was like .100. Barely any baseball has been played. Roberts kind of demolishing is a great sign but he has not been “held back”.

I had not thought about Pratto, that's an interesting angle.

this is hilarious:

Low expectations, no accountability.

blogabull nailed it.

Albies agent is getting destroyed.

Working for reinsdorf in a nutshell.

Definitely. Quite honestly the hardest task is sorting through the transaction logs and being able to identify ML deals vs. org churn. It requires some familiarity, frankly, with the players. Would a tigers fan know to pull in Brian Ommogrosso? That's the killer part. I wonder if MLB trade rumors has yearly free agent logs by team. edit: actually i suppose this could be done from a total offseason perspective by pulling the mlb trade rumors free agent trackers but may not offer insight on the smaller deals.

Bulls should be falling over themselves to hire Dave Joerger (but won't because they have a guy who had a losing record at utah state).

You are framing this as holding the sox to high standards but you are actually holding them to low standards. You are saying an entire decade of no playoffs is equal to making the playoffs if there is no championship.

His agent is terrible. They basically tied him to scott kingerys contract for some (no) reason?

Paxson post-mortem:...SUCCESSFUL SEASON!!!!

I consider the David Stearns brewers to be very successful. He was hired prior to the 2016 season with a weak, bloated roster. In his first year they won 73 games, his second they won 86, and last year won 96 games. They look very likely to win 85+ games. The rays dipped after friedman left but build themselves back up and look to be on the verge of a run in a MUCH more competitive and difficult division. When the White sox had to compete directly against the yankees historically, it didn't go so well. Championships require a lot of luck in injury and getting hot at the right time. And are awesome. But building consistent winners is the mark of a successful front office, by way of building a team talented and deep enough to overcome bad luck and still be a winning roster.

Thanks again DS!

A couple interesting items from talking to other people: - Seems consensus is its not fair to remove Abreu. His age plus the fact that every other team could sign him at time makes him more of a free agent than traditional INTL. That and this certainly was not a case of just a marco paddy referral. - Some debate over whether negative WAR should be used to subtract from other WAR and not just be zeroed out. I still lean toward it subtracting from the amount, but at least will consider zeroing out the minor league contracts.

Yes him. I was thinking Dye, but I think there is probably a strong case for Jose over Dye. Even best seasons were comparable, and longevity certainly in Jose's favor.

The positive developments you mention is basically that if you never compare the sox to any successful organization then they don't look so bad.

Abreu is the best free agent signing in white sox history? I'm not sure I buy that.

You gotta hand it to abreu, he really muddies the water here.

Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R_yaQ3MB5ExjZ9c8Z8BKk4quxB40prLBjKdPSmEZoug/edit?usp=sharing Some numbers I got from spotrac vs. baseball ref.

I have a feeling in the past forbes was WAY underrepresenting org value but I actually think this list plays catch up a bit more appropriately. Like they were way off on the dodgers pre-sale and I think they've reframed the issue better.

I'm surprised that he was eligible but didn't sign. I like the scouting comments on him, but should I read anything into that?

100% believe if Rodon goes to astros he'll become a star.

I was thinking "man this is really bad", but then I thought back to how bad it was in 2015, then the laroche saga, collapse, and then jersey incident in 2016... Usually really bad, out of control events seem to spell doom for orgs. But not ours! We continue to capitalize from the stable hands running the ship.