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I will end up being wrong, but I have always wanted Salazar. Just seemed like the guy always on the verge of a breakout. But easily, the injuries just mean breakdown.

I am with that Eminor post, would add to DA and theirs that my biggest disappointment is the FOs lack of success in finding talent outside of trades. I am quite frankly not thrilled with the development of our draft picks, middling results from LatAm and truly bizarre handling of the 2016 class, waivers, and far and away, pro free agents. I will add a caveat that there could be big returns here if Palka improves and Rondon's power number end up for real. But they require big improvement. Those would be nice waiver pickups (rondon may have been a minor trade after a waiver claim). After initially being really intrigued, I'm very skeptical of this intense focus on collecting minor league relievers. Among other reasons, I worry that we will end up running out of space for them before they even get to bigs. Lastly what I've been batting around in my head, is if you acquired the white sox this offseason, would you keep Rick Hahn and co? I would not. I would do a huge revamping of FO to focus on getting this group into competition and one that has better pro scouting ability. And that's as someone that supports the rebuild and in terms of trades generally thinks Hahn did well, with the exception of the more marginal trades where he went after AAAA "one year past a prospect" guys instead of more raw A/INTL players. I think his trades were good, but, the phrase one foot in, one foot out, that's all I can think of when I look at white sox. Smart enough to know they should put soem resources toward things, restricted enough to ever go full bore.

Yes, when you include the last two years, which feature Avi Garcia's lone good offensive year, they do look like comparable players. Pollock can probably still play center. there is no CF for a few years in our system. It's the perfect place to supplement. That doesn't mean "make playoff teams now", but it does allow sox to support young players with not garbage and encourage competition. It also allows possible value if a young prospect forces issue and vet looks good.

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They need both him to nail a bunch of picks and actually learn from getting his teeth kicked in, become more of a CEO coach that finds bring progressive minds to come in and turn it around. Who wants to bet on that?

I can't stop repeating this but it is really astonishing how quickly the raiders went from young up and coming team to trash.

I think the only way you feel this way is just quirk of the calendar. Had he been injured at such a time that the start of his rehab was in march, and then in May we heard he was being shut down from fatigue and his velocity wasn't back, you would be concerned. Instead he started rehab in late July, was throwing in AZ in August, goes to AFL in September and has to get shut down. But because all of that was out of site of minor league ball and then the offseason, we can just brush it off. But the guy has been throwing competitively for months.

I really thought raiders would be fine this year, seemed like last year just got away from them. I also thought for a time that Grudens time as a broadcaster connecting with so many in the game he could actually be decent for a while. That stopped when he hired his staff. I really feel for Raiders fans. This is just awful. Ruining your last few years for no reason.

gross.

I like Barnwell. If Mitch doesn't progress, Bortles is a comp, but even then Mitch takes care of the ball much better (though could be product of a better oline). But the reason I'm surprised there was a sudden hammer brought down on him is I've actually been encouraged the last 3 weeks even despite the lower comp % last two games, and these are games he became more run heavy. Because though he's taken off, he's taken off walking into the pocket more often. Also the second half of Jets game he was really doing well with pocket forming around him. He has these bad bad quarters but then keeps recovering, so, to me that is big big progress and the kinds that i like to see. Feeling much more positive than ever.

If the sox add him to the 40 man I will be surprised/disappointed.

So, I mentioned Trubisky could be just Bortles if he never develops beyond this. Well, that suddenly (not attributing this to me obviously) became a national "thing" really quickly.

In the hope for the best type lens, that's a pretty good ERA for PCL. Maybe he'll be a junior guerra type success. On the other hand, the dodgers are pretty good at scouting so, Yurchak will be Muncy and Banuelos will be another run of jacob turners.

unbelievable run of breaking news by sleepy harold

However, I really worry that another year trotting out garbage will adversely effect development. I'd much rather have a veteran presence who can perform, and who pushes others to match it, than this 6 pitchers with a 5+ ERA all just saying "well he's having issues too". You can't measure it, but I don't like idea of bookending garbage pitchers around the young guys.

This is just gamesmanship. Heyman is quick to spout off anything an agent or fo tells him. His roundup articles are entertaining but not very predictive. GMs are gonna huff and haw publicly to prevent a bidding war. My guess: it's going to seem like Machado is going to get paid way less at first with early leaks, he'll hold out, and around GM meetings he'll sign a deal less than the crazy numbers some expected last season but much higher than the initial "omg nobody wants to sign him because he didn't run out a double" numbers.

Man, last night was fun. I get so much night to night enjoyment from NBA when bulls can just be competitive and/or not play Monday night or Hawks game. Payne though, i just refuse to believe a waiver PG isn't better than him. Arci clearly better. We waived two better PGs last year in Dinwiddie (actually good) and that other guy (probably bad).

I'm really really excited to see WCJ and Lauri together. It seems like they are going to complement each other so well.

I don't know about that. I did not see tonight but I have seen some moves this year that gave me pause. The stop start acceleration and vertical definitely made his finishing skills way off from 2011 for last many years. Maybe it's finally back.

That said I don't quite understand how out of the timeout Justin Holliday ends up guarding paul milsap. I assume Hutchinson was supposed to be doing it, but that's not a particularly small lineup by denver but it's not a good rebounding one for us.

An absolutely dominant Wendell Carter Jr. game, his offense matched his fantastic defense. 25 pts, 8 reb, 5 asst and 3 blocks. And I thought he had like 10 blocks. He did all of this pretty much within the offense.

This is an absolutely fun game.

Hey this is great.

The rockets are 1-5. Feels like they are about to take it all out bulls on saturday.

that specific part of the third is where I gave up. For the first half it was like, yeah this is what the best team in league will do to you. That part, was just embarrassing. I think Fred may have even let it happen, like "okay let them do that then let's get their scrubs so we can try to close gap"