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This is valid but the Sox can offer pederson ABs vs LHP that the dodgers can’t afford to do while competing. He likely will not improve against lHp, but he also could get even better vs righties. He’s young enough where this isn’t like trading for a 2 year contract for like a 31 year old player. He reasonably could turn into an asset himself, so it’s more productive than just plugging the hole for the next two years sake.

With Pederson I think it clearly is yes though. He’s also only 26. He may still either make his strength better or mitigate his weaknesses.

Pederson has value though. This isn’t taking on a chase headley. Value will have to be returned but it may be mitigated taking on salary. It just depends on the prospect.

Here is one argument that depends on return for me to still approve. This year is still not gonna be the year. But enough guys arrive in 2020 you hope, but they may not arrive and hit the ground running. Having a pretty good, young guy on your roster in 2020 may be good with that club, and then he’ll be 28 and you can decide whether you want to pay him because he is a top teams depth as we saw. It would be great to have a guy who destroys righties to complement around outfield.

Worth noting though wouldn’t he have had like the second highest OBP on our team last year still?

I’m surprised Pedersons arm didn’t grade out on fangraphs I thought His arm was plus for some reason.

I like him too, and like at least the possibility with him that he mitigates his big weakness and vaults himself to new level. At that point you could re sign or whatever.

I had mentioned sniffing around a jbj/porcello sumo and this is same years and structure. depends on return. I’ll just add that if bush goes I’ll be furious and it is horrendous process by Sox.

Maybe the leadership council isn’t doing it’s job

Yeah I guess, realize now they didn’t say close but more that even with another round of positive news I won’t be surprised if it drags out all the same. realized it was probably the ‘right now’ that gave me that impression.

Uh little different when you play 6 times a week versus 1

Can’t even keep track on how many losses this is.

I do think Sox have him but the contract is going to be pretty complex, may be one where it’s a hard time even figuring out total value. This weeks confusion in it’s weird way started to point to a structure, and I do think it’s just a lot to work through. It’s nice to hear people saying it’s close but After all this I mean, I’m just setting expectations of pitchers and catchers report time.

It’s just hard to excerpt because it’s so gif heavy but here’s a part on lopez His changeup has a nice velocity gap — over 10 mph — and gets average whiffs. That’s probably already enough, but if he improves his cutter or curve, which he threw a combined 211 times last year and only gave up one homer, then he’s got three pitches that he can use instead of his four-seam. Nate Eovaldi once had a big fastball he threw a ton, and people still hit it well. He found that no fastball is too big to hide and broke out by going more often to a cutter. López may want to learn from that lesson.

With the right hire you aren’t far. If the bulls could hire Masai Ujiri as president I feel like they would be a top east competitor after next year. They need someone that realizes the bulls is more than a job under jerry reinsdorf, that uses its brand and worries about more than their own careers. Or maybe we’ll just get lucky.

How edgy

Yeah he isn’t the best columnist but his podcast is still pretty good.

Then we steal the trillion dollar coin

He’s a fantastic interview. As fathom has pointed out, his swing feels like he is trying to hit grounders, but he has stated he’s tried to get more power out of it while not worrying too much about it.

True but had Rodon been off board I bet we went Nola

I have never seen johnson talk this negatively about the bulls, bernstein pulls out these quotes in his latest: https://670thescore.radio.com/bernstein-bulls-mess-needs-fixing-losing-streak-boylen "Now where do you go?" he asked. "What do you do? These are really troubling times for the Bulls. Something's got to break here -- something's got to give, because what's happening right now is not working."

Well this is progress in that they didn't play wendell with a torn ligament.

sorry one more, from boylen on trading justin holliday 15. I asked Boylen after the game the biggest issue for the team defensively right now. “Well, I think one thing is we traded one of our best defensive players and we’re looking for somebody else to step up,” Boylen said. “That’s an issue. We had a veteran guy that could guard. He’s a lockdown defender. And we’re looking for our young guys to grow into that role. We’ve had moments where they have. That’s just part of it. That’s part of what we’re trying to do, give those guys an opportunity to play. We’re learning about them. They’re learning what they need to do better. That’s all part of this season, a season of discovering what we have and what they can do and what they need to work on. And this (Denver) is a good team. This was the No. 1 team in the West until this week, and they played well. You’ve got to give them credit, too.”

from darnell maybury in the athletic: 11. That brief defensive bump the Bulls flashed at the beginning of the Boylen era? Long gone. Teams have averaged 122.3 points per 100 possessions against the Bulls in the past eight games. That’s 5.1 points per 100 worse than last-place Cleveland.