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I still think the CJ Mosely contract is the worst of the offseason, personally. One other thing is it feels like I know a lot of nfl players but then the free agency starts and its all inside linebackers and o lineman and I keep doublechecking if the cardinals signing jordan hicks is a baseball signing or football.

I would let the host of american ninja warrior break all my news, personally

Yeah, gonna be exciting.

Yeah gonna be weird if they just sign cody whitehair, get the cheaper safeties and call it a year. I'd guess Houston because Bell will have longer term cap issues which the mack situation doesn't clear up.

https://www.theringer.com/2018/3/20/17144242/restructuring-contracts-nfl-gamble Yeah check out the Von Miller table here, its virtually the same conversion as Macks was.

The thing about fuer is the org was flying high on their work with Sale. So I think it was mostly a scouting fail but it also punctured the impression we had that we may not have position player development but had top pitcher development.

In fairness to sss, it’s clear their trouble is due to prioritizing paying their writers which is something vox avoids like the plague. Good on the individual editor for trying to do that. I support a lot of Sox media and hopefully their community can find ways to keep them on that mission, but vox will just get people to write for free if they fail.

Obviously I read the post after writing that. Very cool of him to prioritize paying contributors and I wish them the best.

I don’t wish anyone to lose their jobs (if sbnation even pays anyone there which isn’t guaranteed), but when Jim left there was no reason to go to south side Sox and there are plenty of options for Sox content. Had sbnation tried and found a good site lead it probably would have survived, but as it is it’s not at the same level as other Sox blogs.

https://theathletic.com/856960/2019/03/08/he-actually-has-said-that-i-have-a-good-spirit-michael-reinsdorf-talks-jim-boylen-and-much-more/ man this monitor comment is so embarrassing ” I firmly believe that we are staffed really well. That the Bulls, it’s not about cutting costs. John, Gar, his staff, they’re able to cover the college games for us scouting. I did believe that one day, this was like four or five years ago, I walked into Steve Weinman’s office. He was working on one computer. I said, “Steve, you’re our analytics person. Why don’t you have like four screens here?” And he was new and I said, “OK Steve, let’s get you set up.” We expanded his staff this year, we added people.”

I'm kinda over scouting reports on defense. Unless they say they are a wizard on defense they seem to be all over the map based on body projections and the like, until the org moves them off the position it's hard to care.

Correct. Leury did move from terrible offensive player to slightly above average if he could stay healthy so that was decent. Maybe I should move Omar up.

I wonder where she read that?

Still feels like we are going to be light on offense without a big bat.

It feels like this is going to be one of the weirder nfl offseasons.

It has been a really interesting series. Some white sox specific notes is you can see the sox doubled their scouting since 2009 and are in equal footing with most. Sox have also appeared to be influenced in the draft by trackman universities, and you have to wonder if part of their heavy tilt toward college players during hostetler is perhaps because of maybe overemphasizing those data points when available over none at all. Also really good stuff on university of missouri, who compete in the SEC with big disadvantage due to weather (though nashville not insanely different). But to counter it have really leaned into tech under Bieser, and there is a white sox angle there as Matt Lisle was a short lived Mizzou hire before being poached by the White Sox this offseason.

Yes and it will not end any time soon so strap it in.

Yeah that was the impression from the chat yesterday. I'm definitely gonna go from wavering on drafting a vaughn profile to having major fomo.

He is absolutely a feather in the cap. Top Sox Development Success stories since Hahn: 1. Tim Anderson 2. Leury Garcia 3. Yolmer Sanchez 4. Trayce Thompson 5. Omar Narvaez 6. Tyler Saladino Abreu I would consider a scout success, same with Kahnle. I think Avi and Rodon have been biggest development failures.

Keith bogans was more valuable than a player not in the league at the time, yes.

2 HS draft picks selected after zack collins in 2016 may make it to the big leagues before or on same time as him.

The other draft I think about which was still one of the more productive when you consider the history, but the 2004 draft we had 6? draft picks in the top 70. We got Gio in the supplementary which help fuel a bunch of trades but the second round that featured 3 sox picks and included dustin pedroia, yovani gallardo, hunter pence, kurt suzuki, (to lesser extents) jason vargas, and in the next round adam lind and ian desmond. Had we nailed that draft as Boston nailed their 2005 draft its just such a different franchise, for one, we'd have had enough capital to probably get cabrera in 2008. The trajectory of this franchise was so often just lost on the margins which is still where I see it struggling.

I'd say the fact that the best and one of the deepest teams in the league is still playing snell 18 mpg while he's hitting 40% from 3pt land shows he clearly is worth something.

He was a 37% 3 point shooter when we traded him. It wasn't the 3point revolution quite yet but yes I think he could have gotten a 2nd rounder. Its actually amazing that the jason kidd led bucks recognized what he was and doubled his 3pa but hoiberg was just in over his head his first year. I don't know why you are amazed they got a player that is basically a contract that just gets exchanged between teams now and are slighting the guy who actually received a good second contract.