chitownsportsfan

really? Huh.

Pretty underwhelming return honestly. The trades are fine in isolation but we kept vets we don't need.

His ZIPS projections are horrific. He's a warm body but I don't know if he's even on the 40 man this time next year.

Can this guy play 3B at all?

Well s%*# we better pickup that option.

lol we have so many mediocre 1B now.

Big if true.

Clevinger is picking him up at the jail as we speak.

I still expect a flurry of deals in the next few hours.

Based on his EVs so far he had to have been battling some sort of injury last season and this spring. There's no way he was swinging freely like he is now. You don't go from zero to 100mph like that just based on some instruction week down in AZ imo. If that was the case everybody would be doing it.

Eh, I know it seems a long ass time ago but the Sox took on some payroll back then. They straight up claimed Alex Rios and took on 60 million for example. They'd never do anything like that recently tho.

SD has been around 5th to 10th in payroll during the Machado and Tatis era. That's pretty similar to where the Sox were during their stars and scrubs era. I just don't think it's sustainable for anybody other than maybe NY or LA.

That strategy relies on a few stars. Once Machado fades and or Tatis gets hurt it wont work so well as sooner or later the farm won't have the capital to keep refreshing the MLB roster and the below replacement holes will grow faster than the stars can make it up.

I mean this conflicts with your FGs trade value posts! For all we know teams feed disinformation as much as their honest thoughts to the industry and media.

Sure most are but a top 5 consensus industry wide guy!? Seems like there is a massive seller's market with 2nd wildcard and other factors.

What the actual hell is going on this year? Relievers are not this valuable.

He has freakish bat speed. 82.8 MPH on the lineout. Only 79.7 on the HR. To put that in perspective, only last year one player (Stanton, 80.4) averaged bat speed over 78. Oneil Cruz was 77.7 was 2nd. So far for his career Colson is over 77 mph after tonight's game. That would have been good enough for 3rd best last year, ahead of guys like Judge, Ohtani and others. He might not stay healthy, he might not hit for much average, but he has more talent in his body than any prospect we've seen lately. He is the definition of toolsy. Robert is probably the last guy with this sort of athletic profile.

I def give Venable credit for being a perfectly cromulent rebuild manager. First decent hire at manager since Renteria.

Pretty balanced take. We are going to lose 105+, probably 110+ but hey watchability is up.

No, as I said in the game thread, he needs to get in the lab and add one more decent pitch and he's good to go. He has a solid fastball slider combo, needs to find one more pitch.

They threw him a high fastball after he'd scuffled all night against junk. He crushed it. Wow, Colson with the two of hardest hit balls of the night. 113mph on his lineout. Vargas and Quero took advantage of our park, summer and LA, as their HR were 98 and 97. But that's what you gotta do here.

He proved he's as healthy as he's ever going to be the last couple games. Please get the deal done. Anything involving a B- prospect is a win.

It's really exciting to see Colson go the other way on breaking stuff. He needs to trust his bat speed and stay balanced. Going to be a battle for him his entire career but boy his raw power is unmatched in our org. I can't remember the last time we had a young lefty power slugger, let alone one capable of playing SS.

Lol, who is this clown on the post game for Philly trashing the Sox? Let's be honest if you knew nothing of the two teams headed into this series you'd say Chicago was by far the more talented lineup.

That's a clean 7 runs a game scored since the break now. Beat some good teams. Playing some good ball really. Nice to see them finally taking advantage of their home park via the summer long ball.