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Really doesn't mean much to me right now. Nice to have a riser but we have fallers too.

It's silly to blame any club for any action when it's all CBA anyways. If the cabal doesn't like how the other cabal members are operating change the rules, you know the rules you all agreed to last time.

So there is like a 100 million dollar difference between what JR claims on revenue and this chart. JR is claiming operating losses. Truth is probably somewhere in the middle.

he had a big time hitch in his swing when drafted. hopefully they can get his hands through the zone quicker or he'll never hit enough to be more than a utility player.

He seems like a guy that 1/4 the time turns into a borderline AS, 2 time out of 4 turns into a weak starter or solid utility guy and of course the other 1/4 just never hits enough to make MLB. Not a bad projection at that draft spot, agree with @Chicago White Sox

I figured he'd have a 1000 inning career as a 4th starter. Battling a shoulder injury never helps.

Who cares? Wait until you hear about their SEC bias...

I've started to think this about certain beefs here:

Don't think Taylor has much value. He needs to prove he can produce and stay healthy. We have plenty of innings available for him might as well see what he can do on the South Side for now.

Profile looks decent. Walks too many guys but has pretty electric mix looks like. Hopefully he does solid and is flipped at some point.

I've said this a billion times at this point but when I saw him from the 3rd row or whatever here he stood out even as a shorter guy as a fairly explosive athlete. Just park him in LF 5 days a week and see what happens. He has the profile to become what in today's game is a 3 WAR corner player. Hell all you gotta do is slash 250/310/420 and play a slightly above avg corner OF. The statcast stuff on him bears this out, he's got a little juice, just hopefully needs seasoning. If not who cares, move on to the next guy. No reason not to give him like 300 PA before the ASB.

Jim has officially given his verbosity to Fegan, for the worse.

We went from the dumpster in Tucson to the one in Venice Beach.

Closest thing I can think of is they picked up Alex Rios' waiver and then took on his salary basically "for free". Amazingly the Sox agreed to pickup the 58.7 million left on his deal just to improve the team -- 16 years ago. JR wasn't always such a stooge but his time is long over as anything but a dinosaur. I don't want to defend Getz' overall record, it's mixed to this point at best -- at best -- but he's not operating with any sort of fair deck relative to even the other bottom 1/4 payrolls.

Brother you gotta come back for the WBC. I've been getting hyped watching last tourney's games and some of the team Taiwan training footage. Bud Selig had a bunch of crap as a commish but helping create the WBC is a big time feather in his cap.

The framing is absurd. You know what else would bring "financial flexibility"? 40 million more allocated to payroll.

Sucks the only one left to stir any crap is Cowley and mostly focuses on stupid rumors rather than hammering home again and again how cheap JR is.

Sure, but this is a JR joint. Can't get fooled again. Just hope he turns over the team ASAP.

It kinda seems like the same people who said he had no value are the most upset he had no value. Puzzling responses here. This move also doesn't indicate much else imo. I guess you can read into that JR is going to go out cheap as always, but what else? Not sure. We just have to wait until ST starts to see how things shake out. Only another month.

Well hard to say the Sox lost what they never really had. That said, we wasted a lot of words here on what ultimately was a nothing burger. Robert is clearly valued as a 1.5 WAR player on a bad one year deal. I don't really blame Getz if JR wasn't willing to pay any freight. At least they got something, even if the upside is a few years of a mildly useful Leury like utility guy.

I mean the solution is pretty fucking simple, if you want a soft cap than introduce the apron system as the NBA did so at a certain point it becomes a de facto hard cap -- which brings me to my next point: I would just get rid of the cap and tax each club's payroll towards revenue sharing. You want to have a 500 million dollar payroll you'll pay a flat __% into the sharing pool and then that money gets distributed however. I'd add a stipulation that a team that was in the top say 20% of league payroll two of the last three seasons is ineligble to recieve revenue sharing payouts, or similar. MLB doesn't need to make what uber generous and loaded owners are doing impossible: they need to make sure it rewards everybody else appropriately.

My dad really loved the 84 team. I was about 5 weeks old that spring training. Time flies.

20 million is ash tray money. Why would you let an asset expire for free rather than invest a little to make a little down the line? If absolutely nothing else Robert in CF makes this team a helluva lot more watchable in 2026 until he's moved. That's not nothing at this point in the team's progress.

Officially three weeks until pitchers and catchers report. Anybody have any data on how this years FA compares to prior years? Seems every offseason we slide more and more towards extremely late signings. I'm not a "the economics are broken" guy but it can't be healthy for the sport as a whole to have so many late signings. An arbitrary deadline will never happen but this is probably the result of only a half dozen or so of the (usually) same teams swimming in that top FA tier. As the Yankees just did in @WestEddy post these teams have the leverage to wait and not engage in back and forths -- as suitors are limited.

Oh? A swing adjustment? Do tell.