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This is part of the price they pay when they jump in early to target players and not wait for the market. Sometimes they will overpay, sometimes under but at least they have a player they liked and aren't waiting it out like the others.

It is a different philosophy, telling everyone exactly what the plan is and how the pitcher's arsenal is changing. In the NFL coaches dont like to admit they are even practicing.

I though you meant in the minors. This obviously wouldn't work in the majors.

Don't know if I like dropping the change for anyone let alone kopech. The only off speed being a curve will get read by the hitters very quickly

Sure for 2-3 innings at a time. In other words a reliever.

I wouldn't say surgery is inevitable. But they need to carefully build up his innings load in an attempt to avoid it.

Not surprising. The hamburgers aren't even in the top ten best things at portillos.

If Smith and Johnson are both out, the Bears don't stand a chance.

It's what you want in a coach. It's what the Bears need to see less of with Nagy.

I wouldn't make that comparison as the pitcher gets rest between each pitch, innings and games. The 100 meters is 9 seconds of all out everything.

Correct in the NBA it's basically split between the owners and the players at 50% each.

That's what I mean by your values are probably to high from where his starting point. He has been training for a 5K so far. He needs to take it slow to train for the marathon.

To have a true cap and revenue sharing it would need to be set by the % of revenue that is agreed upon. With the league not opening the books, who knows where it would be.

Hence the capitalism structure. the US has always had. They've always been run like that. Nothing is new except the regulations they keep changing

He threw over 144 innings total with a max of 76 and 27 in the pandemic year. Crochet threw 130 with a max of 65 and 3 in the pandemic year with being shut down due to a shoulder "issue" I won't call it an injury since you think having an issue significant enough to stop pitching not an injury. You may feel comfortable enough that his arm won't explode with all of these factors. I wouldn't be and it doesn't look like the Sox are either. Your described path is a possible one, I just don't think its the only one nor the best one. The best one is probably the one SS2k5 is stating but even it has its drawbacks.

I agree except the 4-6 innings per start for 12 starts is probably a little high. The low end of 48 would work but the 72 on the high end would not leave him much to pitch in the MLB. Once he gets to the pen his innings need to decrease due to the number of times he warms up and such.

You could very easily do that. The counter point is if he is on that innings limit per start, why not just have him in the MLB all year?

I disagree. No one really wants a pitcher to stop pitching in July and sit for a few added months. They would prefer to stretch it out over the entire season.

Number 1 isn't really an option though. If he truly starts he will need to he shut down in July. If you limit his innings to to 3 a start to pitch a full season, he is essentially a reliever.

The biggest difference is that Rodon started for years in college and was coming off a full season. Crochet has none of those innings.

Call it what you want. He was having enough issues that they decided not to pitch him. That is an injury in my view. If they thought he shouldn't pitch a full season with it, he shouldn't be pitching 4 weeks with it.

This is all true. They just need to decide the path. Either way this year he is essentially going to be a reliever with his innings limit whether it be in themajors or minors.

The problem is no one knows at this stage of his development. The only thing that is certain is that he was shut down twice last year due to injury, once in college and once in the MLB.

Sure and see how those teams handle their development. That is the key question here. How to take a pitcher who has never started or pitched many innings and turn him into a starter. As I've said both paths have advantages and disadvantages. My point here is that just because he is in the pen this year doesn't preclude him from starting in the future.

I think you are right, it's just that he is such an unknown due to never being a starter that the organization doesn't know if he can do it. They will know after this year. Ideally he does start next year but they will need to see how he handles even 70-80innings.