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either do it or don't we all got places to be. John Jay is a .5 WAR player at best. He got what he's worth. I'm not sure in any non-Manny offseason pushing a pre-arb guy like Engel or Delmonico, guys already on the 40 man (as shitty as they are) that would be a smart move in what is ostensibly still a tank year. Of course given the bullpen signings maybe it's not a tank year anymore. Who the fuck knows.

Context. If it's 4th and 12 on your 48 and you go for it yea we can question the process. Given that 29 other team s aren't going the friends and family plan I think this process is open to ridicule should it fail.

Christ I actually agree with DA here. The sox are using a weird process. Now, maybe it's genius but an extraordinary claim like that requires an extraordinary result imo. Reel in the whale.

This better culminate in machado. Otherwise it's pathetic.

Next step: moving the club to Miami.

How the hell can teams only now be submitting formal offers? WTF has everybody been doing the last month?

whooosh!

Hey if homeboy is gonna steal our content we need to get a shout out.

If this goes into February, book it.

Or they are all MJs now and have a "fixer" who arranges the girls, takes their phones, drops them off then picks them up. In general I agree though I do think social media and cameras everywhere have tamed things quite a bit. That and recreational drug testing.

Yea one guy is a solid backup tolerable starter the other is a borderline MLB player. If Engel's defensive improvement in the 2nd half wasn't a mirage then maybe he can stick in MLB but he's proven nothing except that Chicago has a really shitty 25 man.

Yolmer is a nice utility guy. He's not a regular. Should be a platoon option at best. He'd be awesome as a super sub if Manny comes.

There is zero reason to move Moncada to 3B. You'd be taking away his biggest long term asset which is going to be incredible range up the middle and a strong pivot. And his hands are never going to be great which is basically the most important tool at 3B a long with 1st step and reaction. You're putting a huge cap on his value moving him to 3B.

I'd sprint to the contract lawyer before the Yankees change their mind. The risk is the years, not the AAV.

He's not going to leave money on the table. His wife will be part of that. If she wants to live in New York an extra 20 million for a townhouse will do nicely.

Yea Cubs tickets were like 50 bucks! Every other game we went to was just $10. At Peoria they had this cool deal where for $25 you get 20 little raffle tickets that could be used for concessions, including at their bourbon station. You could get a pour of Woodford for 5 tickets. That was nice. one strange thing, at least coming from Washington state, is that weed is kinda still frowned on down there and you won't find many people smoking in public if at all. If you want to get high down there I'd suggest trying to bring some edibles or a pen.

SS2K your meme game is strong for a retiree!

Some good advice. I'm a triple vet spring training now so I feel I can offer some advice: 1) stay in Tempe. Being able to walk to shit at night and have good food and night life was so much fun last time I went. We had an airbnb about 1 mile from the main strip and we had bikes that we just rode (we are 30 something single folks) to Mill every night after we got back from the games. Tempe is a neat town. Explore it, mingle. Climb that hill they got by the FB field and admire the scenery of uh, all types. There's a good mixed crowd in Tempe it's not all just kids, plenty of young urban people in their 30s and 40s as well. 2) Get a rental car. Seriously. Driving in the Valley of the Sun is fun. If you like driving, you'll enjoy it. Flat, straight fucking roads and you don't want to rely on Uber. The one time we used Uber it sucked and we ended up wasting 30 minutes of quality drinking pre-game. 3) Hit up a bunch of different parks. This ties in to having the rental car. Last time we went, in 2017, we went to Talking Stick (wow!), Camelback and Peoria Sports Complex. If you have kids, (or not) Talking Stick is awesome. We enjoyed the great amenities (booze...) but they have some family oriented stuff (like free instruction) that is awesome. 4) Go early. You'll see more stars, the sun isn't as oppressive, and the vibe is better. 1st or 2nd week of march is ideal. Spring training in AZ is awesome man. It's such a great time. Especially if you're coming from a long ass winter up north. The weather is pretty much perfect, mid 70s early march and sunny during the day, maybe at worst mid 50s at night but almost all the bars have little propane heaters and mid 50s at night after winter in the north is nothing. Get your airbnb as soon as you can. Spring training is getting even more popular down there. A great restaurant for breakfast is "N Counter" in Tempe. We'd hit up that spot, then usually (depending on hangover) relax for a bit or do a in city hike (we did Camelback, it's a cool little hike, can be a bit hard if you're not in shape but it's not that long so don't worry if you're not just keep pushing on) and it has a great view of the area at the top. If you can make the top in under 30 minutes congrats you're in shape. Also recoomend "Pedal Haus" for micro-brews and for a fancy dinner out among the local bougie crowd I'd recommend "Sumo Maya" in Scottsdale. There is so much great food in this area and coming from Chicago or most other urban cities everything is CHEAP. Enjoy the trip whoever goes, you'll have a great time. As far as tickets: just get lawn. The ushers don't GAF, especially at camelback in my experience. YOu can move right behind home plate usually by the time the 2nd or 3rd inning rolls around.

It prodded you out of one word replies so it worked. There's no doubt that the projections work better and the error bars narrow with more data: but I don't see any reason to expect the Sox to outperform their projection as a rotation other than hope. I'm not a pure stats guy by any means and I certainly played my share of ball growing up, including low level college. I get that players are not machines and that breakthroughs happen. But I don't see breakthroughs on this staff. If we want to go all meathead I'll be the 1st guy to say that I think Giolito is a 10 cent head and a headcase. Reminds me of myself when I played honestly. I'll also say I think that Lopez has an inner fire and resolve that serves him well. But, that could easily be confirmation bias stemming from an unsustainable strand rate and HR%. A few more balls fall in or go over the fence and who knows what I think about his "inner resolve". But for now I believe it. But Lopez has real problems missing bats and sustaining his velocity, regardless of any inner fire or fortitude.

You are fine until you type in "sextalk.com" instead.

You're not worth the skin off my rhetorical knuckles junior. If you got something to say, an argument to make, make it. Hope in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills up faster. On paper, this rotation sucks ass, once again. Look, I hope Lopez and Gio and all the other guys get hotter than shit and prove me wrong. I hope Gio turns into a right handed Tom Glavine and Lopez is Alex Fernandez without injuries but FFS don't "Yikes" me with that horse shit. Multiquote is absolute trash on this shit or I'd ether you more. Here, just look at these projections from last year. If anything the projections were too optimistic by far. Now that they have more data on our guys' suck, well, they expect them to suck more. Go figure.

Yikes. Some ignorance in this thread. All the projections are heavily regressed to the mean. No system is going to project variance you see IRL. Is what it is. ZIPS had CHW as the worst rotation in baseball in spring least year, how'd that work out for us? Fact of the matter is that Lopez and Giolito were bad last year by DIPS theory. You can quibble with DIPS all you want but it's the best system we have for projecting pitchers. You can think Mark Buehrles grow on trees but they are outliers to DIPS, not the rule and Buehrle was a generational fielder at his position that from some estimates was worth about 10 runs a year or 1 WAR. The rotation is going to suck next year most likely.

Well on pitches I throw the board is batting 1000.

Yea but what is Manny hitting on nights where there is a full moon and a girl with big tits is sitting front row 1st base side?

Meh. If you guys think GMs and Owners and agents give contract offers and counter offers based on twitter rumors I got no response. It's absurd on its face. Now for trades? Totally different.