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They have made two good moves in a row. We'll see how it goes, I have a feeling we'll wish they had bought out Ro Lo but he is certainly helping with development especially on offense. I go to tankathon a lot. The only 48% chance of being top 5 is tough, but realistically it's top 3 or bust with this group and that's probably being a bit generous including Barrett with Zion and Morant. But yeah, these odds are wild, and I think they had their intended effect. The bottom 3 teams aren't removing all their star players, they are just playing their bad rosters. Same with Hawks/bulls. I'm not sure people are psychologically ready for how big of a likelihood it is that the worst 3 teams are scattered about the top 7.

I still am not crazy about trying to force Leury back to IF mostly

I felt better when kiley said their hit tool isn't that far off, sounds like witt improved with scouts in some summer/fall tournaments.

Well we could certainly mess it up, but we only have so much knowledge of these guys, so the exciting part is having some really exciting player types available.

Baltimore has such an uphill battle and new fo as you said. My prediction is if they value adley equally to another player, they'll take lowest deal and try to save up. However, AZ also has 6 top 75 picks, so you have to think about how much you can even compete with a team that has such flexibility. KC we have no idea, but judging by last years draft, if Adley slips to them I have a hard time seeing them passing him up, I could also see them go vaughn. If it goes Adley/Vaughn 1-2, I don't think the sox should feel bad about that.

At least in the top 5, they have carried pretty good value recently. Even when they bust out at the major league level, they still carry value for some time in the minors. One scary part with vaughn is if he hits AA and has just a .850 ops or something, that's a big hit to his value. You are basically saying he needs vlad jr type bat, and he may have it. It's not a safe pick, but elite bats should not be underrated.

If the high schooler is good you could trade him for someone awesome immediately.

Big loss, stay 4 up on ATL, with the way trae looks I think we’ll be pretty up on 4th unless a team like the grizz lose every game going out

Kris Dunn has been atrocious vs Young

In Sun times run down, mentioned Adolfo hit a homer in his first at bat, then homered in his fourth at bat in an intraday after game. Im excited to have Micker back.

Really interesting Abrams discussion. I really like all the profiles of the top four to date. Would be happy with Witt, Abrams Vaughn or Adley obviously. if Misner keeps up you have a nice option of getting a power plus bat, well rounded catcher, two prep shortstops with power, and a top college hitter that can stick in CF. That’s a nice group.

I didn’t say the white Sox should sign him to a long term deal, you said there was no way he would sign a longer deal. But a 2 year contract with a team option for the third year? Who knows, don’t even hate it at two, could be a small payoff of ten million. Maybe he’s terrible, maybe he’s great, these are risks you can afford when you have open spots on 40 man and decreased budget.

He would be a potential asset that you could take the risk on to get at a lower price than he would be otherwise. You have no idea what an additional team option year would have cost, and you don’t know that he wouldn’t have signed a long term deal coming off tommy john, that’s absurd confidence in your assumptions. As it is the Sox have zero interesting trade assets as they paid market value if not more for some average relievers.

They would not have needed to sign him to the same deal, but at the amount it took he’s a nice signing for that arm. Maybe he has a second career in bullpen, maybe he finds a new way to pitch in a different org and with a year off. These are things you can afford in a rebuild and the cost was what we waste money on shitty first baseman anyway.

I was fine with Sox making small moves. I expected them to be able to find with their free playing time what other rebuilding teams found, such as Jesus Aguilar, odubel Herrera, or you know, how the freakin dodgers found max muncy. Thats basically what we are all hoping Palka can be, or else it’s another case of our rebuild underperforming others.

Or pitchers like Pineda who are injured but talented.

Yeah between the comment from kw and the Verducci article that mentioned like 10 teams but not the white Sox it’s hard to believe there was any behind the scenes action.

Well this was a lotta fun. lets hope it doesn’t cost the bulls a decade of dominance.

Lol don’t include chandler in that crew

It’s been a blast. They are gassed right now though.

Yeah I’m just reacting to the nba hell line. Some versions of hell are worse than others, we aren’t talking about those like 09/10/11 bucks teams, that’s the worst to me.

Oh man young is soooooo fun

ATL has been quite good recently. This is a fun game. Hoping ATL wins so I can stop worrying rest of year. Fav part about Lauri recently aside from passing is him muscling down smaller guards any time there is an unfavorable switch.

So glad I was kind to young, he is fun to watch

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