chitownsportsfan

Ideally a guy who covers baseball would know the rules and how it pertains to his hometown team. This guy has more value than anybody they were going to sign for 300k or less.

why did they win?

How about putting pitchers in to play 3B? Only going to see more and more stuff like this until they expand the active roster to 26, which will almost certainly happen next CBA negotiation.

boys, this game hasn't started yet.

I am a huge fan of "Bayesian" style induction. You make some good guesses, run some tests, and re-evaluate. Scouting gives MLB teams some "good guesses" about how to judge a player and analytics can refine those guesses.

no way, it got you three free karma.

"well we got some dead wood to clear off the roster..."

that's a pretty lame quote, I"ll say that.

seeing larry go full meathead is not a timeline I planned on.

larry has zero credibility outside of CBA stuff. read this from oct 2015, lmao. https://www.southsidesox.com/2015/10/20/9574813/larrys-offseason-plan?_ga=2.121017486.749235774.1532725988-723508451.1514001142

I gotta say watching Rodon pitch the other night with his jersey hanging off his chest and that little cocky smirk he had on his face made me proud to be a Sox fan and we haven't had many of those moments lately. He's totally the sort of guy that moves the needle in a playoff game and it would be nice to see him start one.

I'd offer Carlos 4 years 75 million with big team options (25,25?) at the end to get it done. I think it's a risk worth taking. Of course it doesn't really make much sense to do that right now. Be much smarter to wait until next offseason and see how close the Sox are to contending. If the club wins 80 games next year and Rodon gives the Sox about 180 innings with solid peripherals I'd "overpay" to keep him.

we've had some good memes come out of the rebuild, if nothing else.

But what's his road split?

Yea I'm the same. I don't think you can really evaluate a guy until he's got about 1000 PA under his belt at the MLB level, maybe even more. A great example of this is that ZIPS actually sees a 103 wRC+ for Moncada ROS and a 104 wRC+ for Ozzie Albies. The projection systems certainly don't believe that Albies is really a 135 wRC+ type -- not yet anyways.

I don't have a horse in this race but Eloy has slashed something like 300/360/580 since he came over from the Cubs in the high minors. That pretty much cemented him as a top 5 guy. Before he came over he wasn't tearing it up like that and he was more seen as a 5-15 guy.

It's amazing how much 250 or so PA turned Torres into a guy that is guaranteed to put up a 900 OPS until he's 33. Torres is also not long for 2B imo. At least not full time.

Interesting, as Rodon has similar concerns.

No reason to deal him unless you receive a Quintana trade like offer, which is highly unlikely obviously. It's too bad his agent is Boras. Has Boras ever agreed to a pre-FA contract? I'd consider extending Rodon this offseason if Boras is willing to listen.

#freeeloy

I can't fucking imagine playing baseball in Biloxi in the summer on a daily basis. I bet the local ladies are thirsty tho in this sweltering summer humidity. There's something about warm humid beach town weather that makes people let loose a bit all around. I spent some time in biloxi this winter, day trip from NOLA. Not a lot going on really. Military base, baseball, a go cart place, "black beach" but that's about it. I guess the town hasn't recovered post Katrina. Lost a lot of fisherman and jobs after that hurricane. /caulfield

turning this off, have fun guys.

JFC Palka. I"m not kidding when I say that numerous guys I played with were better outfielders, and that was DIII ffs.

this angels team is not very likeable.

yea, resigned to that fact as well. Solid player, not ever going to be a star.