chitownsportsfan

Yea and if he has a nice season you get to sign him again the next year! Only the Dodgers have this sort of "fuck you" money.

That's such a horrible deal for anybody but the Dodgers. Whatever. He was never in play. The opt outs are just poison.

He did a good job but he's teetering on the edge of a cliff.

He should be the opener, no doubt.

He's Mr. Manager now.

He has no chance unless Jose is hurt and even then he'd be behind other guys.

He can work as hard as he wants (and I agree with your point about his conditioning, which he's never cared about) but if his arm is paper mache it won't matter. Hopefully he's working smart, not just hard.

Ask me in 5 months. Honestly have zero clue.

If he gets ~250 or so PA I can see 280/350/440. Hard to project anything on less playing time.

Man how the mighty have fallen. Lotta competition for B-Pro these days and PECOTA is just one projection system in a sea of them. Used to be a real event back in the early aughts.

I'm honestly surprised he wanted to come back to the Sox. For 3 million I like the deal. I can't stand Carlos but if he can find a little health he'll be a great middle reliever at that price. I think the odds are decent, maybe like 60/40 he can produce something like a 3.20 ERA in ~70 innings.

This guy annoys me.

you should write him a strongly worded letter.

He's a cheap fuck that hires his buddies. But the Sox have an exciting young club despite him and I am content.

Sure it's valid so is complaining about the cold in winter. Doesn't make it compelling or interesting conversation.

Lol get a grip.

It's beyond me why people beat dead horses.

Don't give him two years.

Not that familiar with him but some info on him here. https://www.prospects1500.com/al-central/white-sox/chicago-white-sox-2021-top-50-prospects/ Helluva free break down really.

Nice to see Lambert and Burdi healthy and able to work out. Need. Moar. Pitching. Depth.

I don't think so. I think he was overwhelmed mentally at the MLB level. His swing got noticeably worse after his rookie year. Whatever he was doing in the offseason to tinker with it didn't work. When he got under pressure in season he would always revert back to that slow inside out swing that was good for a million popups to 2B. I don't think any amount of time in the minors would have solved his biggest issue, and that was just that he didn't have a great natural swing and wasn't able to ever implement the necessary changes to shorten it.

He gave us one of the greatest Hawk melt down calls of all time. For that I will always have a place in my heart for him.

I will try and explain this as easily and concisely as possible. WAR is based on the idea that baseball is at heart, a discrete sport with a very nice denominator (outs) that allows statisticians to break it down into easily digested parts and assign each action (centered around outs) a value.. This guy named "Tango Tiger" did just that. He assigned a run value to pretty much everything that happens in baseball. The math is a bit beyond my pay grade but he actually uses the empirical data as well (like how many times a double produced a run, or a triple, or a single, or a walk, and so on) to sanity check his math and it turns out his math was pretty much perfect. The values he gave for example to a triple turned out pretty damn accurate. Here is a math primer: https://gosu02.tripod.com/id16.html Once you can assign a run value to every action (stolen base, triple, crazy Luis Robert running catch) it becomes easy to assign overall ranking against the hypothetical "replacement player" who is basically expected to produce enough runs (or prevent enough) so that a team filled with 25 of them would win like 45-50 games. This is the difference basically between a team full of average players (so roughly 81 wins) and one filled with 0 WAR players (replacement level). Pitching WAR is harder because people disagree on how much credit pitchers should get for preventing runs (usually the controversy is in how much hard hit contact they have control over) and always use pitching WAR values with a large grain of salt. In fact take all WAR values with a grain of salt because they are NOT PROJECTIONS ABOUT FUTURE PERFORMANCE. Sometimes a player can just get really fucking lucky all year (Hello Avi Garcia) and every worm burner finds a hole. That player really isn't a 4 WAR player, they just got really lucky one year. Hope this helps.

Are you familiar with Twitter clout? That's the entire point of the thing.

Have to wonder how healthy he is given nobody would even go 2/15 it appears. Might have dodged a bullet here.