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Love Ramos.

Bleh. I would have been more perked up had they hired Steve Bieser, mizzous former head coach. Don’t mind poaching from college, many (all?) have more sophisticated PD operations than the white Sox, but would have enjoyed a better program. That said, bieser for example had no chance in the SEC. They tried every trick to maximize player growth and development, still a pretty meh record. Maybe Rice is the same.

I could easily swing a positive here - they could not have gotten Sweat without trading a second rounder for him, as ATL was about to trade and extend him. That kinda validates the reason why you DO trade for an impending free agent, as now you can Franchise him at the very least. For Johnson, they can still sign him, probably will help if some other deals come in.

I know but I think it's kinda both sides needing each other. I don't know that it will work, but kinda feels like a Love Island episode where someones about to be eliminated because they've alienated a bunch of people, only to find someone just broke up and equally kinda sucks.

I feel like hiring a coach to rescue them from a cheating scandal seems very Raiders material.

I do feel like Sweat isn't that much better than a Jadaveon clowney type, who has its uses. Good against run, good pass rusher. not elite. And he did have Jonathan Allen and Daron Payne next to him. I think Young was trending toward pass rush specialist, personally. And he was extremely undisciplined about getting out of his lanes, but definitely had high Pass rush win rates on ESPN.

yeah for sure. I think Las Vegas is more likely.

I am definitely nervous about the Sweat trade, but that said am a bit embarrassed at how behind the strategy the national writers of the sport are. Biggs and the local writers caught on by this year. This is definitely a new thing. The trade deadline was largely a calendar item of the same significance of whatever "national hot dog day" level occasions there were. But there has definitely been a shift where teams have either gotten so good at managing the cap, along with the franchise tag just continuing to exist in CBA navigations, where FA has been void of finding significant upgrades. You can sign a "top tackle on the market" like Mike McGlinchey, but it's not clear you get an upgrade. You do pay a lot though. So if you are a team, you have two avenues of explicitly adding top talent. Draft and FA. When FA is only providing the ability to improve bad talent to average talent at a premium, you are stuck with hoping it is a good draft that supplies talent at the places you need. And that they produce right away. Because otherwise, you are Sasha from the Browns, trying only to improve via draft and getting fired before you can see the rewards. So now you have teams going to teams with FAs, who have ample ability to keep via tags or other measures, but have some incentive to let them leave via comp picks. The market has been to either match the comp pick (except it's same year, so more valuable), or more. That market hasn't really been established yet, and it's where it feels nerve wrecking since a top 2nd is valuable (it basically netted a tyreek hill), you can't use it twice, and I'm not sure Sweat is the best you could net for that. But the lens of national writers is to view football like baseball or basketball. I.e. Why not sign them in the offseason. But after being a bears fan who basically cashed that Daron Payne would be a bear, it's not a real thing. You don't know who will hit, and often it's way worse than the level of FAs, and rarely is it someone south of 30 years old. I think it shows it's not worth it to rip an NFL team down to the studs. I think our secondary is hard to judge with how bad our D line is. I think our offense was hard to judge last year with how bad our WR was. And it's too hard to fix it in one offseason. As the sox have taught me, you don't really improve replacing below average with average. You need to add elite. But adding elite players in the nfl is extremely hard to time. And now we end up trying to time better with a top 20 guy...but not an elite guy.

I think they did indeed want to move lavine but realized there is no market for him. Too many games he is a zero, and then he has a 51 pt no assist game and it's like...this guy is damon stoudemire lol. I do think they could get a real big package for Demar and Caruso together. I don't get the crapping on Demar, he's the one guy that deserves to play like that. Just a terribly constructed team that they just seemed unable to make less terribly constructed so kept making it more terribly constructed. But drafting two complete projects really takes the cake. Ugh. No end in sight for the bulls. But that aside...I cannot believe we are still in the "emptying out the team for James Harden" era. Feels like this has been a game of hot potato, and the clippers are definitely gonna be stuck with the music stopping.

thought when I saw he walked it off it was a homer, but still a pretty sweet, deep hit with the CF playing in.

I think Coby needs to move to the 2nd unit. Just too much guys need the ball in the starters.

what do you mean over the hump? He's gotten miami to the finals twice as the best player on that team. He carried Philly in the playoffs before Embiid really took over as a top 5 guy, and they made the insane decision to go with TObias Harris over him. At the time I did think the Bulls could never put stars around butler. It was sane to think that given the conservative nature of paxson at the end of his tenure. But given the rest of how the nba moved after that, they got by far the worst package for a guy that good since, and traded him right as top 30 players started moving a lot more as teams gave up hope they could re-sign guys with the extra money.

Basketball is such a mental game. I'm not sure you can ever hit a high level when you never played like you were the best player on the floor. Can't imagine how different everything looks if they draft Halliburton instead.

yeah, said it before but while it's nice they aren't acting like you can be positive with this trash, when fans were accurately pointing out some of the fatal mistakes happening in real time, they were called complainers by guff and garfein. but regardless happy there is a soxtalk podcast.

The penalties piss me off more than being bad, but I know that it's probably them realizing they are terrible now that they keep needing to commit penalties.

someone broke down how has has a real baseball infielder throw that gets the ball out incredibly quick and accurate with zip on shorter throws, but then he doesn't really switch that up well to the kind of over-the-top arm angle you'd use in the outfield to get a long throw with velocity. Made sense to me, and was also pointed out how many top QBs recently had baseball backgrounds. That was never "new", but probably more pronounced in how guys now play off script and can change arm angles like Mahomes and to a lesser extent kyler murray can. While we didn't hit an inside straight on bagent, I tell ya one thing I'm extremely reayd for is not seeing an offensive line with cody whitehair and lucas patrick.

I'm sure they did, but the sox did a lot of outlier-hunting in the draft in the last decade in the first round. - No profile has seemed to be dropped from the first round as much as the shorter RHP, yet the sox were there to scoop up Carson Fulmer, the 6'0 righty with an unorthodox delivery who was the poster child for Kiley McDaniels "black swan" theory applied to the draft. Sox were sure his stuff could be harnessed and his fiery demeanor would be what did it. Nope! Everyone else seeing bullpen pitcher was more correct, but he was terrible anyway. - The draft that set the sox back a decade, swinging and missing at an absolutely loaded 2016 draft when we had 3 top 50 picks, taking Zack Burdi to be a reliever. Because when you are already a limited player in college, surely you will still excel in the mlb in the same role. Nope he was bad. - Yes this short, power-lacking 2b who was a 2b only because the SS as the elite Caden Grenier and not becuase he was just not athletic enough for SS, is actually just going to be dustin pedroia and won't be the .10 version of dustin pedroia. nope, actually bad. 4th overall. - THIS 1st baseman, who is shorter, righty and doesn't have prodigious power is definitely just going to be paul konerko and not end up in the same disappointment bin as all the other first round first baseman the last decade. Nope, horrendous defense and mid offense. You definitely set yourself up with being hardlined on this stuff to maybe miss Frank Thomas, but, in Thomas Defense him being massive and hitting the crap out of th eball probably would lend itself to being an outlier more than Vaughn. But it doesn't seem a coincidence to me that when we've chased probably the best first round profile, tooled up, athletic shortstops we've gotten the most bang for the buck so far in Colson and Tim Anderson. Vs when we draft the guy saying "wow he's playing at this high a level as a reliever in college, surely he'll be the same in the pros" we see that they were mostly maxed out and we just get a worse version that may or may not be playable.

But they have both been bleh. Torkelson was seen as a better hitter than vaughn, largely due to power. Well, he gets to rest on that power even if his lower avg and obp stay where they are. I remember with vaughn people talking about how he wasn't recruited and how he looked extremely unathletic everywhere except in the batters box. Well, having that athleticism and ability to manipulate your body seems to help a lot in the most difficult level of the sport.

What a stupid comparison.

I love calling this the typical KW pick because pre draft this board was apoplectic about possibly going Abrams over Vaughn because Abram’s was just a typical KW “athlete” pick.

You could say it today

I don’t know man. I feel like the other side of the story is “don’t draft a first baseman too 3”. A hell of a lot of the WAR above is the sides of baseball Vaughn would never touch on any team.

Eureka!

https://twitter.com/matteddyba/status/1717912785298899250?s=46&t=9lkBcVJmwvxFpyVi5DNtCg argh. Embed you jerk

not like Giolito recovered for the Guardians, whose pitching coach I'm pretty sure is good.