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The rumor is he won’t get past philly but the draft is starting to get silly

Ugh went to bed top of eighth. Great win.

Yeah, I just really thought the firing of Baker and Joe last year were dumb. But, there's also a clear trend toward just getting a players manager that will follow orders from the analysts/front office, so I'm not that crazy about going to some grizzled manager.

This seems to be at odds to me with the fact that some of his best teams had really young players.

He lives.

It seems like it's been slated to come out "next week" for the last 4 weeks. Kiley said "soon" today in the chat. Edit: he clarified it should come this week.

There is an inverse relationship to how often Heyman writes on a subject to how credibly close it is to occurring.

I've been mostly patient but last night really broke my back. I don't like in anything when managers or people in charge meddle just for the appearance of being productive. The suicide squeeze was to appear proactive when really it just placed the hitter in the box in a worse position. Just let your players play, stop distracting them in the box with low-success plays. Baseballs hard enough. How many suicide squeeze's have they successfully performed this year? 0?

Manny may have done teams a favor by proving he can't play SS anymore before heading to FA.

I know most would say Singer, but if Mize has something bad on his medicals I would probably cut Kelenic a deal at 4.

I read this, really liked it. Sometimes players stay up there long but don't get mocked to the sox, and you forget how exciting they are. Major bat.

If you want to feel good about Bohm for a reason not really related to Bohm himself, check out top 5 3bs drafted in the last 30 years.

I will remember the 2010s for how the white sox would end up in these positions where the only replacements they had for historically bad offensive players was somehow worse offensive players. Our success will be defined by when we need to replace a player for injury plugging in a decent player behind and not players that make 2011 Adam Dunn look decent.

Can't answer this question on stuff, but that could take a while to perform the switch. He was a converted catcher just 2 years ago.

I would be really happy with Bohm. I'm not sure I buy the certainty around position changes. Look at players like matt carpenter. When you need them to play third they'll play third, and use shifting to minimize the damage.

It’s also become a crutch decision that has not worked and has seemed to show he does not trust his players

Hi my names Ricky Renteria, and I want you to buy my management book about how to put your players in the worst position to succeed in their most pressure packed moments.

. . . What

Atta boy Yoan

I think I have more fingers on my hand than his wRC+

LOL. I came here just to moan about Engel batting (which was the wrong decision) and he draws a walk.

Still ended up with one of the best game scores of the decade. He’ll always have that.

I’d add Devers as a success too. He was nowhere near top 10 when he became popular. albies I’ll give half credit for since he was a top 20 prospect at time, so not that impressive. Dont forget with Peavy that Alan Hansen was a big one too. Looking back that trade was just a parade of bad prospects. Avi may legit have been best, Iglesias probably though.

Not sure why I’m putting this here except it’s often the same crowd: but as I watch Juan Soto belt a HR in his first mlb at bat, I have to say that while it has its misses (usually with mid tier catcher obsessions), soxtalk is pretty damn good at identifying big prospects early. Soxtalkers were all over Acuna and Soto early, and like a year later they are in bigs.

Not really.