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You can be worse at drafting when you are ++ at other talent acquisition modes like international free agency and trades. Hendricks was a great trade. Arrietta was a great trade. Regardless of whether he drafted any stars outside Bryant they are still getting mlb production and depth out of them, and they found two other likely stars in international in eloy and torres.

He was a 4th round draft pick in 2012, just one of those guys that hangs around in bullpen but had a good year in birmingham and pitched just a bit in AAA. Was out of options and I'm pretty sure he was just lost as a minor league free agent to Seattle this summer. And he made the team out of camp and has a .7 WAR after half a month.

These actually annoy me the most because I don't expect anyone on this forum to have been like "oh crap sox shouldn't have let brandon brennan go", but the sox have put a crap ton of resources into bullpen scouting, acquisition and I would suppose development. And gave a bunch of pitchers tryouts. They should have known what they had.

It's where you have to look over at the dodgers to compare. No, Friedman has not gotten himself into the same jams Theo has. He also hasn't won a world series with similar resources. Sometimes it's worth the trouble.

Yeah not gonna lie I'm extremely frustrated by his early success.

Yeah. I will go to bat a little for Theo. His record in boston and cubs shows that he can get into FA trouble. However, where he gets into trouble is when he's trying to squeeze additional wins at the margin of an already great team, and overpays trying to go from 92 wins to 94 or in theory NLCS to WS. He overpays to make sure that spot that's kinda weak becomes strong. But, he still will have built a core of great players, and the frustration is tying up the org from finding the next upgrade. I'm fine with a GM failing worst there, as I want to be at the point where we are throwing resources at getting over the top of the next best team, isntead of trying to buoy ourselves up to be close to the competitive teams.

I don’t know how to rip it, but Roberts Instagram story has the best view of the home run. Holy crap where that hit!

That’s fair and I’m someone who thought he should start in Birmingham, it’s more I find it annoying anytime someone had a good game that they should be moved up.

Hahahahahaha he destroyed this pitcher he needs to retire now

Luis Robert’s Instagram had his jersey saying “Roberts 21”. Have we all gotten his last name wrong again or did W-S?

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!