chitownsportsfan

that's a great summary of the narrative at the time. turns out Sox didn't need Manny to take the next step, which is great. I was wrong about that and I think probably 85% or so of Soxtalk was as well. The Sox have shown a commitment to winning imo, maybe not with a huge increase in payroll, but certainly with the move to Katz and other organizational changes.

Something is just broken in his batted ball profile. Despite above average exit velocity he's below avg in both expected slugging and expected BA. His BABIP numbers bear this out, where he's at a career .294 and trending down. ZIPS projects him for only a .268 BABIP ROS. He hits way too many ground balls. Furthermore, he was incredibly lucky on HR/FB% in 2018 and 19 when over 17% of his fly balls left the park. This year he's down to a more reasonable 11.2%. He's def a guy that has been hurt by MLB taking the juice out of the ball. He's still a good player, a very good defensive SS that can hit league average or slightly better. But the back end of that contract is going to be fucking ugly for the Mets. In fact, I'd bet that in 2024 when he's 30 that without a dramatic change in his batted ball profile he's down to a 2.5 WAR true talent player. His defense at age 30 isn't going to be enough to carry him to 4-5 fWAR seasons.

they just raised their prices but it's still only like 7 bucks a month for access to a lot of streaming content. I only use it to watch Serie A and some other soccer stuff but it's worth it just for that.

That is bizarre. Maybe I get from ESPN+? Ah shit yea that's it. I forget I even get some ESPN+ articles, I just have it for soccer watching. Here I will copy and past the Twins grade for our amusement. Get rekt Twins.

Article is free and it's linked in my OP. You are correct Twinkies got one F, D-Backs got the F-, which isn't even a thing, so yea.

On a related note I did a bit of a deep dive into Lindor's stats last night. WTF were the Mets thinking? There are red flags everywhere in his underlying offensive stats. There is no question TA is the better player now and going forward, even with Lindor's defense being near elite at SS.

You want to pay 330 million for a 4 WAR player leaving his prime? Thank god they didn't sign Harper. Harper has never lived up to his 9 WAR season or frankly his billing. People want to rip Moncada for only being a 4-5 WAR player, well Harper is 28 and is basically a very good regular, borderline all-star. He was billed as a once a decade superstar.

oh wow they gave you the good shit.

Good luck, get one of those scraping tools for the scar area, I feel those things work pretty well, placebo effect if nothing else.

we had what, kenny and ozzie's kids drafted?

The amount of attention the mets are getting is absurd.

HE REALLY WANTS YOU TO DO KNOW THAT THE BEST DIVISION IS THE AL EAST.

ultimate is a lot of fun as well. there is something about a perfectly thrown disc that is quite satisfying.

I have no fucking clue how it's not a straight A. They've had like 15 projected WAR on the shelf at are still 2nd best RD in the AL and best record at the break. If that's not an A I'm not sure what is. Grades: Schoenfield is bad. He gave the Mariners a "B" for being 5 games over .500 with a -50 differential and being dead last in the AL in almost every batting stat. I mean you can fucking factor out luck in these rankings, right? The Mariners should be like a C- at best, other than being incredibly lucky they've had a bad season with bad production from almost every young player they are counting on. FFS Kelenic was historically bad and so was Evan White before he went down. Anyways, whatever.

oh I know, I've watched some of the tourneys. growing up in the early aughts in Michigan the game was huge. we'd play pretty much every single day in the summer. in those days I was in such great shape I'd usually run from shot to shot. god to have 20 year old knees again.

To add to the dogpile I put that guy on ignore 4 pages ago in this thread. That ballgame is ovah!

lol, disc golf. a great excuse to walk around the woods and get stoned.

Am I missing something where are the rest of the teams for the chart? Good post thanks. I think you have to give him more credit for for Nick and Andrew. Teams fuck up those picks all the time and if Nick can stay healthy it looks like Sox found two borderline all stars.

Feel.good.story.

it's probably in his contract not to at this point. I mean obviously TA likes TLR on some level, at least as a boss, but I get the feeling like you're saying that he's tired of it.

Jesus man, inject this into my veins:

I mean what the White Sox are doing right now is basically unprecedented in contemporary baseball as far as impact from the draft. Yea other teams have home grown talent but it's from their latin systems or guys that acquired vie trade or whatever but the Sox have an absurd amount of draft picks from the last 6 or so years contributing as solid backups to solid regulars to stars.

thanks scott!

ngl the ASG is really boring.