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that's not lightning that's the plasma field around a baseball at light speed.

oh man, now I'm hungry.

Grab some popcorn and a beer all indications are the game will be played, and it will have delays.

If nothing else on days Rodon and Lopez pitch it might be worth tuning in. I figure I'll watch most of their starts and punt on the rest unless the team catches fire or something. Going to be relying on free streams this year hopefully it works because I do not want to pay for this shit.

They saved it by getting Eloy up. I'm excited.

Right, that's the gist of what the weather woman was saying.

This woman seems fairly optimistic there will be a window. That said, it's too bad they didn't move the game up an hour.

Long day of sports ahead come on get this game in it's the perfect lead up to the UM game.

Rotation will be historically awful without a massive improvement from the starters and team defense. I can see the Sox scoring about 750 runs and giving up 850 or so. I'm going with 75-87.

Figures. Looking at the hourly forecast tho Flavum is def correct they should try and move it up. Most of the rain is predicted for later in the afternoon after 3 or so. I think they'll get the game in although it might get delayed for a passing shower.

I thought as part of a good will campaign everybody registered here got free diamond club tix on the White Sox and this was the party thread. FML.

What's his spray chart like? He could be a guy that analytics on batted ball tendencies will hurt big time.

I think we have some common ground here as it's intuitive to think that most low minors hitters are benefiting more from the typical hard throwing no control A ball pitcher than any great command of the strike zone. For college hitters using metal bats completely screws up the data imo. I'd be looking carefully at how how any college hitter performed in wooden bat summer league ball. I'm curious as all hell to see how Madrigal fairs in AA this year once guys that can find the zone start pounding him and he has to prove he won't get the bat knocked out of his hand.

It really doesn't. If everything as as clear and easy as you make it sound nobody would ever screw up a pick. Thing is there is an incredible amount of complexity that going into projecting a college hitter, let alone a HS hitter and that the greater data available on college hitters doesn't make it that much less of a guessing game. I'd argue personally that trying to draft "high floor" guys is pointless. It's as much of a guessing game as taking "combine guys".

Much more complicated than that.

The change in philosophy has been obvious but hasn't clearly shown any better results. Not that any team hits on even half their first round picks but the change seemed to occur sometime around the time Hawkins was entering non prospect status in late 2016. You can see they also have attempted to get high best high upside guys in the system (I like that "combine guy" term someone used yesterday) via Int. Signings and trade (Rutherford obvious example). Overall this remains a bottom 1/3 drafting and development club and probably bottom 1/5. Hard to consistently win until that changes.

physician, heal thyself. You are the poster child for overly aggressive takes and binary thinking.

Not with TINSSAAPP. As we've seen.

I agree and after all those "floor picks" not a single one of them really looks like a great "floor" pick in hindsight. That's not good. Granted it's early for all the post '16 picks.

I'm excited to see eloy and if this team can actually surpass expectations for the first time in recent memory. I guess I'm just succumbing to being a fan and with that comes hope, even for the most beaten down.

Fuck, I'm actually excited for the start of the season.

If he hits like Manny he can be Manny in LF.

I had beef with him for awhile but he's a cool dude, he's probably one of the better admins I've seen on any forum.