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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

TCU pitchers ...

No they were doing it as a favor to Robert and it was likely pre negotiated to help sign him.

He played professionally for two years. His first year here he was way underslotted in DSL for tax reasons.

I’d rather Robert learn in AA than A tbh. He’s been stateside for two years, he’d get consistency with Vizquel, get to work on better breaking balls and a more challenging park.

I think he's a plus plus runner but we've seen plus plus runners suck on the basepaths before (micah johnson). He's in major league camp now and was moved aggressively last year. He needs to time to get used to better pop times and pitchers.

that's what yonder was.

I mostly just get mad at the ryan cordell trade.

Please stay healthy this year leury.

Sorry, I should have quoted. Was responding to someone saying KW turned down a mully/haugh interview, and I was joking about it since they are among the easiest interviews in chicago media.

I realize you want shortstops to be instinctual but these kids grow in these years and sometimes need to adapt to their new bodies. I just can't get that nervous over a lack of fluidity when he has such high marks athletically,

while this is true, I think it can't be understated that baseball is not a traditional business. These people that own franchises do not want to have negative cash flow, but also aren't trying to suck actual wealth from the team. They get to have a cool toy that appreciates nicely, get interviewed and be a star, and try to compete. Jerry is a more old school owner though that was around when baseball was more volatile. He's carried those instincts despite the situation changing, and it hurts the white sox. He more than any other owner feels the need to police the league and fight down costs for league health, and if he has to sacrifice the white sox to do it, so be it.

you can't really worry about that. They just need to keep hitting on draft picks, making smart choices with money, and wait for an opportunity to acquire one via trade.

lol k i'm done.

well that was a very good phillies team that was winding down after a world series and another berth. The padres that made it in 2010 I dont think I could name you a single player on. Probably Adrian Gonzalez? Chris Young the less famous one? Phillies had a long slow expensive fall from 2012-15 but still had guys like hamels that you squinted and said maybe this expensive slow bad team will compete. Familiar in that way.