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70 grade facial hair.

He doesn't have a ton of control left that's part of it. He's also a good, but not elite SP. This is comparable to the Quintana deal imo except Q at the time was on a better contract. Teams were never going to give up a MLB ready player (why would they, they are trying to contend by trading for Dylan) so I don't know why some are disappointed by that. I think this is a fine trade. They just removed the 10% chance he gets hurt and they get nothing, that's worth something in itself.

I'll go B I guess.

I'm liking this less. Why the f*** are we filling the 40 man? Can we just cut Maldonado now at least?

Give his expected surplus value two top 100 guys for Dylan plus some filler sounds about right. We'll have to see how the filler looks in a few years.

Real MVP is all that backend work the admins did that has the site functioning right now.

quantity has a quality all of its own.

The Thorpe guys sounds like a right handed MB.

Holy s%*#. And that's just one piece. This move looks FIRE.

Bad day for some orioles fans here.

Of course it's steep. There was a frenzy of reports today and it's the Padres. They give away prospects like the guy that takes the dimes out of the give a penny take a penny bin and keeps the change.

He won't be traded this year. You can take that to the bank.

So sounds like we had a bidding war and Padres won. Let's hope that's what happened.

Thanks for the recap. Nice to see some better baseball preseason or not.

He's one of the few vets I actually like, so sure. Keep him around.

The official White Sox fluffer.

Put me down as not caring one bit about what position the players coming back play. I want the best consensus prospects at any position. I think I can count on one hand (maybe one or two fingers) how many times in over 30 years as a Sox fan the Sox had a glut of players at one position where someone was blocked. It just doesn't happen.

Seems like they aren't even going to entertain the notion of a younger player like Colas or Sosa getting some playing time to start the year. It's not like those guys are super studs banging down the door but it's still off putting to see such a commitment, even so far in spring, to getting vets at bats. Would it really harm anybody to have gotten Colas and Sosa and Ramos and others some more camp ABs against hopeful MLB players instead of going back to the back fields? Whatever. Just make sure some of these guys are getting playing time in MLB by mid summer.

The guy that does the formatting in Excel for these lineups is the only competent person in the org.

I'm not claiming to be a source but I'm hearing that a package centered around Ohtani and Betts with 500 million headed to Chicago is being floated for Dylan Cease. Just getting that out there, again, not claiming to be a source.

We have all the leverage. No reason to rush anything. If he has good value now he'll have excellent value in a few months. Put him in bubble wrap.

Sir, this is Soxtalk.

Very weak. Not even on the table. Oscar Colas was a back end top 100 guy. That's like a B- prospect. Cease is worth way more than that plus A ball lottos.

It's easy to be a "leader" when things are going well. Baseball isn't really a sport that lends itself to the rah rah pep talk. Being a leader in baseball usually just means doing your job on the field. Hard to be a leader when you've got an ERA around 6. In other sports in season practice is more important in a team sense, in baseball you're just doing individual drills for the most part. Paul Konerko going hard through his 1st base drills isn't going to sharpen Uribe at short stop and so on.

11 hits, one run. White Sox baseball!