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Def benefited from playing with Miggy early and being dubbed "Minny Miggy". He was a looks like Tarzan plays like Jane type guy. Stiff athlete for his size, even for baseball. some adventures in the corner in RF at US Cell.

Relative to his talent it can only be said he was a massive disappointment. Not a bust, but a huge let down. Finished with a career OPS+ of 100 and only 9.4 bWAR. Made 84.3 million for his 9.4 bWAR. Not bad.

Having a top heavy system is fine if you have a constant supply of boom/bust type prospects coming out of your international and domestic scouting operations. Hopefully Getz can continue to expand those areas.

Nice, won't have to worry about a snow / rain out. I hate having a game, day off, then it gets snowed out anyways and you have to wait another day to get he season really going.

For now competent works. We'll see how things look when we aren't just a bad team working with no expecations.

It was a fine offseason given where we are. Not going to be a quick process.

Agree with a lot of this. IMO Phoenix metro is very drivable but some people don't like driving on vacation, which I get. It is a bit of a haul to get to he various parks. Frankly I would just drink in the parking lot at most of the parks if you want to get a buzz and save some money. It's cheap AF in general to go out down there imo. Weather eh, I've had some rainy high 50s and it still felt quite nice the sun is high enough to get out of SAD type conditions even overcast. IMO Late March weather can scorch ya and along those lines I'd recommend the first week of march as by the end quite a few regulars are sitting, especially this year with the WBC, hell might even need to go earlier. Tempe is a late winter early spring place to hang, even for older people. I recommend Pedal Haus for great beer, Daily Jam for people watching and a decently quick breakfast, society is a fancyish place for drinks and italian, and finally Sumo Mayo in Scottsdale for a great upscaleish fusion japanese mexican dinner. You can see the escorts line up at the bar on a busy saturday night as you enjoy some prime rib avocado rolls.

I thought that was clumsily handled as well. It's really BLACK AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH and not "Cubans with African descent month". They could have said something about how Minnie was treated because of his skin and helped break the color barrier for foreign players as well as US blacks, but they half assed it.

f*** that s%*#. He's right and it has nothing to to with him being "sensitive". This was a lazy half assed PR thing from JR's crew and it's the same bush league s%*# we've seen for decades. I'm tired of it. Bush league org.

I wonder if JR had anything to do with hit. He seems to still have beef with Frank.

How do you not mention Frank? Anderson as well, but not mentioning Frank is insane. He's arguably the best player in franchise history and IS BLACK. Frank is really pissed about it. “I guess the Black player who made you rich over there and holds all your records is forgettable!" he wrote. "Don’t worry, I’m taking receipts!”

Just that elder millennial style that was fresh 20 years ago and now just comes across as trying way too hard. Yea, not only is this over the top, it's factually wrong as well. Sosa is nothing like Leury as a player and if the Sox had more 1.5 WAR types instead of replacement level or worse FA signings maybe Hahn is still in charge.

It's fun. You get to escape the last blast of winter and go hang out with a bunch of fellow baseball fans in the sun. I've been a few times, latest was 2019. I might go down for a few days this year, still working on planning something around that area in March. They have a bunch of kid friendly stuff at most the parks as well, they do a good job with it overall and it's a big month tourist wise so all the places are geared up and ready.

Why? Biggest expense would probably be renting a car or ubers. So say 300 for a 5 day trip. Lodging is cheap down there, can get a place in Tempe for $100 a night or so that's decent. So 500 there. Flight maybe a couple hundred so about 1K plus your tickets and other expenses. Obviously this is cheaper if you're splitting things with a friend or whoever. Tickets are usually like 10-30 bucks and after the first couple innings nobody is checking stubs, can move right behind the plate if you want. The games are whatever but seeing guys warm up, work on the back fields, work with coaches, being around all the other fans in great weather -- that stuff is totally worth it. The weather in early March down there is just about perfect, usually mid 70s with good but not overbearing sun. Nights can get a bit chilly but usually no worse than low 50s.

Yea it is, but Getz had to do it in that order, or risk getting even less for Robert. Sooner Ishbia takes over the better.

The Bulls and White Sox made on paper straight A trades in back to back days. Marginal roster moves, but still, it all adds up.

This seems light given his production last year. Is there a health concern beyond just being relatively injury prone? I guess it's probably just that, doesn't seem like you can rely on him for more than 100 or so games.

I'm taking the 45/60 guy over the 25/65 guy every single time. The entire point of Roch being a "quasi generation" type college prospect is that guys his athletic almost never get to college as SS. I really am having a hard time understanding (at this moment) trying to downplay his talent. Now if he lays a damn egg to start the college year sure, but I'll worry about that if it happens.

Quero had 4th percentile bat velocity last year. Chisholm was at like 67th percentile. Color me a bit skeptical that he just needs a 2mph boost to get 20-25 HR power. Good article otherwise.

I know I said I was above this yesterday but you're like Wario to Keith Law's Mario here. It's like you want to go against an industry consensus because...? Roch is right now, as of this moment, from every report, a perfectly capable defensive MLB SS. That's basically 2 WAR right off the bat even if he hits 220/280/380. His floor is basically Bonemer's median case. You literally just saw Colson play a very good MLB SS for three months while ranking 46th percentile in foot speed. It's not a 40 yard dash over there, it's about quickness, instincts and arm.

It is a little crazy I just looked at the Nats, Marlins, Twinkies, Pirates OF to see if any was worse projected and nope, our trio of .8 to 1 fWAR projected guys was easily the worst on paper. Minny without Buxton is similarly ugly, but they do have him if he can stay healthy.

The mods need to nip it in the bud. I saw this thread labeled "hot" this morning and figured maybe it was you know, about the article. Turns out it was just the same few people taking personal shots at each other mixed in with some baseball content here and there. I'm tired of it as well. As someone that grew out of that style posting years ago it confounds me that people don't just block and move on. Who has the energy and time to argue with the same folks over and over again once you're out of your 20s?

ZIPS has Baldwin at .8 projected fWAR and a 98 wRC+. We have "handed" starting jobs to worse players, worse older players, in "contending" years. The dead wood in the OF that doesn't deserve to start is Beni, not Brooks. Brooks is young, has 4 years of control left and might be a decent regular. Starting him 5 days out of the week in LF is fine.

11 days until Ps and Cs. I might try and catch a game as part of a road trip I'm trying to plan from AZ to SD in early March.

With all due respect: you're comparing an international teen signing that was like a consensus back end top 40 guy to a college JR consensus 1/1 entering the cycle with terms like "quasi generational draft prospect" by the cynical Law thrown around on them? Cholo is a really, really, really good prospect with what (at this data point in time) appears to have a "solid regular" floor. Salas never had "solid regular" as anything more than a median case outcome, at any point in his prospect pedigree.