chitownsportsfan

Listen I'm as prone to it as anybody else but this sort of attitude is stupid. Here's a quote that keeps rattling around in my brain these days:

We'll see. The problem is they weren't a 90 win team on paper last year, closer to 82 and they needed to do more to just run in place imo. They lost Seager's 2.8fWAR, rotation lost Kikuchi, who gave them 160 crumulent innings if not much else. Flexen is coming off a career year, probably a fluke. I'd think Ray will makeup for the regression there but that just leaves them again, about where they were. You can't count on Kyle Lewis for anything this year imo, and we'll see how their OF defense looks with Winkler, Kelenic and Haniger. On paper that has the potential to be a straight beer league OF. Not going to help their pitching at all.

The biggest problem they have is on paper their rotation is pretty bad. They really need to hope every guy out performs his projection. I get signing Ray but without more help feels like it will hold them back. Offensively we'll see what Saurez and Toro can do. They have a lot of guys coming off career years or absolute shit (Kelenic), that could be awesome for them or could be a big blow if many of them regress without improvement from the younger guys. We'll see what happens it's an intriguing ass roster I'll give them that.

It's a shit system. I don't know how you can think otherwise. There's a bunch of guys that are two years away from being two years away (so wildcards really) and a bunch of low ceiling type corner players at the higher levels that project as solid regulars at best. No real star power and is devoid of top end talent with any sort of projectability as the talent they do have is mostly below high A.

Mariners are having a pretty shit offseason as well imo.

That is a very white sox deal on the face. Overpaying a guy who might just slide back to a 1 WAR player or even worse.

We're a Luis Robert torn thumb or strained hammy away from being in a dogfight. Didn't have to be this way.

I speak only for myself but this is about as down as I could possibly be on a club projected to win the division.

I tried listening to his pod once or twice, it was shockingly stupid for a guy that spends so much time covering the team and making it a public persona. But, the same is true of his boss Jim.

This has the potential to be a legendary Soxtalk meme.

narrator: turns out, he was never their guy.

is this an open letter?

Fegan is a great writer and a terrible tweeter.

I'm Jerry Reinsdorf, b****.

Dumb question but maybe they figured a better cba? I'm reaching here, I know.

I honestly don't think he's an upgrade of Engel. ZIPS thinks they are about equal per PA FWIW.

Joc isn't an upgrade on what they already have, so it would have been another shit move.

hahn trending on twitter for the wrong reasons.

well that's dumb. at least we aren't the rockies.

...as there's a deep drive to left...

That's what I'm thinking. Even if they don't win it all I can see him saying enough. He's got generational wealth, he's got an MVP, he's played in the playoffs. He's accomplished quite a bit. He's a Sox legend and will get a statue. If he wants to spend more time with his family who can blame him and it might honestly help the Sox if he decides to retire anyways.

Could be but the impression I get is that he's thinking about his family and is tired of baseball a bit, maybe climbing the mountain so many times but not quite summiting has gotten to him. Quite the contrast from "I'll sign myself" a couple years ago.

Wow. Not exactly a ringing endorsement of his future either in Chicago or elsewhere. Sounds sorta like a guy tired of the long hours in the offseason in your mid 30s to keep trying to play 130 plus games. I feel that quote deserves a thread. I'll make one.

God this is fucking boring and lame.