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I don't really care about spring training Giolito. It has proven to be a false indicator before.

That was a nice one and I missed it because I was staring at Welington Castillo's splits page garitall

That's giving them more credit than I was thinking. Castillo is much much better against righties than mccann and only a wee bit better against lefties so my guess is they were going to bat castillo basically exclusively against righties.

I didn't call them good platoons!

Darby went for 1 year 8.5 mill back to the eagles, which is admittedly a bit more than I thought he'd get considering he may be a tough call to start season on short term IR.

These are never interesting but it has felt more than ever like the manager, boyer, etc sound defeated knowing they are pushing trash.

I think this is true, I think Gomez is wrong on this though, I'm guessing Rosenthal has denials from org and agent whose worried he will look bad with being significantly under.

My guess: Hamels is lefty, and he's a career .797 ops hitters vs. lefties, and so this year we are going to see a whole bunch of terrible platoons.

Most interesting thing to me was Sox signed a 16 year old named Ronaldo Guzman in October from DR for 75k. The note on him: "He's grown to 6-foot-1, throwing a fastball up to 89 mph with easy arm action and an athletic delivery that he repeats well to throw strikes with an advanced changeup for his age." Sounds like someone that could pick up velocity and be an interesting pitching prospect.

Jonathan (Los Angeles): Does Zach Collins establish himself as the White Sox catcher of the future by the end of this year? Kyle Glaser: It's tough because evaluators who think Collins can actually catch are limited exclusively to the White Sox organization. No one, and I mean no one, anyone on our staff has ever spoken with thinks he's a viable major league catcher. Given that, I have to say no. There is a major league role for him, but everyday catcher does not appear to be the one ++++ Sounds promising.

I went with Yonder, Jay and Manny.

While certainly true, I feel like I recall people saying this about him in his first year, that he really lacks confidence. I hope he can cope with his nerves and have a great year.

This was really great. Was disappointed in last years write-up which had very little detail...but also may have been an indication of those prospects. He had tremendous detail in here, really looking forward to seeing some stats from these guys.

Absolutely it's different. Those players were on a market. The sox doing nothing have ~7 years of control at relatively fixed costs and not guaranteed. They have no one to bid against, they already own those years. How much do you add to those costs for an additional year? This is quite a bit.

I get that they'd want to extend, but it's this amount that's surprising to me. Not expecting a george springer deal, but, this is really on the edge of too risky.

Same, I think an RB and a kicker are almost a lock.

I just have a hard time believing Sox do that pre any mlb at bats. If it was after year 1 I get it. It seems remarkably risky.

I was trying to think of weird deal structures where the total money is over 100 but that's with escalators like MVPs and stuff, and maybe a swellopt that sox have to trigger pre arb years and are quite expensive for the extended years but I think it's more likely this was floated from jimenez' side?

Yeah this was for UCLs where they, in my basic understanding, could just tape a fairly healthy though torn UCL to the bone which allowed faster recovery. This was the PRP I was talking about (did not know it was a common term) https://www.stack.com/a/new-tommy-john-surgery-promises-to-cut-rehab-time-in-half And this was the player (Seth Maness) https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/maness-a-trailblazer-new-surgery-for-elbow-repair-cuts-recovery/article_165ee721-5a36-58f9-8d8e-fb515ba037da.html I guess it's been done about 100 times but this was the first mlb player to do it, mostly done on younger high schoolers. edit: I can see why it's confusing that I asked a UCL question in a shoulder injury thread.

The one part of it I'm interested in is Pagano, who from what I understand manufactures pressure from all over. Skrine and Callahan are both good pass rushers from the slot, adding more secondary rushers could be interesting, especially where with Roquan you have some nice interior pass rushing lbs. You know, the flurry is over now and I actually think I'm comfortable in this spread the money around approach. Not crazy with Skrine deal but whatever. We got great impact from players like Lynch last year in depth roles. I think at this point I don't see him getting more than a 1 year deal. He could come back, or you could go after Shane Ray, who had a similar profile to lynch the previous year and is given a great role to try and be productive. I wonder how you could spread around a bunch of 1 year 4-5 mill deals. I'm not sure I wouldn't be happy if we could get maybe Jared Cook, Shane Ray, Ronald Darby/cb, Spencer Ware and a swing G/T. It lets them focus draft on some high priority targets and protects against the worst thing that can happen next year which is a lot of injuries.

I honestly think Giannis has hit that level where it won't matter. He's been limited for a while from long range, but he just can get to the rim no matter what the hell you do. I could buy that they'll end up one of those teams that were just on their top gear all year and then get to the playoffs and don't have another one, but I believe that more for the Raps. Now if the shooting goes ice cold around him, that will be difficult.

Hey @ptatc has there been any updates on that primary repair surgery that was supposed to have a faster recovery for less significant tears that a STL pitcher did? I saw that he was cut and was in independent league, but he wasn't very good before.

That rockets win was big for them. They seem weaker but its hard to trust teams like Denver until they prove it. But Houston/OKC look like tough matchups if PG doesn't disappear in the playoffs. But, I do think the Bucks are the best eastern conference team since the 16(?) Cavs.

Aside from Houston, I’d love if Bears could still bring back Callahan. Getting good depth at CB after how healthy they all were last year would be reassuring. Getting to 2-3 days later you mostly assume the guys will come relatively cheap.

I don't recall this at all. I know they were interested but I mean come on, sox could have easily picked that year to go way over and get a tremendous player and they picked their quantity route. In their defense, they picked the other incredible player in that class then traded him away.