Balta1701

Not in 2019. They had 3 years to prepare for that, but even with that, scouting guys to spend all their money on was too much work. But hey, it’s not like the White Sox have one of the worst minor league systems in baseball now, so they did plenty of work and very much deserve their juice boxes.

Huh? The White Sox were out of the penalty box in 2019. They had a big international pool and 2 years in the penalty box they could have used to prepare. They worked so hard that they had a million dollars in international space remaining and traded that to the Rangers so the Rangers could sign a guy they scouted. What does that have to do with their Center Fielder other than making the team around him worse?

Ok here’s my lane. “Casey Mize and Adley Rutchsman didn’t move up through the minors as fast as they should have and that’s entirely their fault and reflects on all number 1 picks because nothing unusual or unexpected happened since they were drafted” is one helluva strange take.

And they realized something was amiss with Aiken and magically turned him into Bregman. I would also say that “no first draft pick has made the big leagues since 2016” is a helluva BS way to point things out given the last year and a half. The 2019 number 1 pick was a catcher (who tend to need extra time), he’s now the #1 prospect in baseball by MLB.com. The 2017 number 1 pick was a top 10 prospect at one point, is only 22 years old, and is down right now from a major injury. 2018 made it this year. And oh yeah…none of them played any baseball in 2020 because of a virus!

Of course that could just be a specific issue with the quality of the White Sox’s drafting, which is something we have heard with this organization for two decades. The Astros tanked and as a consequence drafted Springer, Correa, Tucker, Bregman, McCullers. And a lot of their trade chips. They also signed Valdez, Garcia, Urquidy, and Javier with their international dollars in those years - the money the White Sox couldn’t find anything to use it on so they sent it away to the Rangers. A student who doesn’t work hard might do just fine when they can cheat on the homework using someone else’s top 100 prospect list, but they will flop on the test when they can only rely on themselves.

The thought has always been that if you allow that, the Pirates will package their top pick with a Gregory Polanco and make their organization worse while making themselves more profitable. This is also extremely relevant for the White Sox as we have in recent years seen them give up on the international signing market when they had money to spend and trade that space to Texas to get them to absorb Nate Jones’s deal. That was effectively like giving up a mid round draft pick for money.

The universal DH also benefits the players. The only thing in that package that would benefit the owners is more playoff revenue, and you don’t want that. In other words, you support the players’ requests so strongly that you can’t endorse a single thing the owners would want, but you still want to say both sides must be at fault?

While these aren't verified, this has been put out there:

1. Helps the players 2. Helps the players 3. helps the players in multiple ways (system to keep players on their original team not explained). 4. Two more assists for the players 5. Reduces impact of rebuilding, maybe a slight help to the players. 6. New playoff revenue. Helps the owners. Anyone else seeing the issue here?

Tell Bruce Levine to leak that they are going to, then he leaks that and you've got the requested press even though you show no actual interest.

In case anyone was curious about the White Sox’s supposed interest in Semien, Jeff Passan has the Boras supplied play by play of the teams that were interested in his guys and how things came together. The White Sox never appear in the story even when he is listing the teams that showed a vague interest in Semien at the beginning of November. https://www.espn.com/mlb/insider/story/_/id/32821654/how-rangers-mets-blue-jays-mariners-combined-wildest-day-mlb-free-agent-history

Unsurprising news. Now that it has started, neither side has any reason to do anything other than public posturing until sometime in late January. I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't meeting at all, or if they were meeting they were talking about minor issues like pitch clocks.

A cheap pickup is different from an asset you trade something for.

So would the setup be that Fulmer was eligible to declare himself a free agent but passed, leaving himself renewed with the Tigers?

How the Hell? I guess that means he's not on a 40 man roster, but wouldn't he be a minor league free agent/out of options?

Well, there's at least 2 months before this is true.

I continue to be surprised that he was not moved at the trade deadline last year. I think he's more than Arizona got back for Escobar, and they have plenty of room to keep him on their 26 man roster to see if he can do anything.

An injured Glasnow who is due ~$12 million and who might pitch 1 season before free agency? Tells you all you need to know about how poorly they viewed Kimbrel.

They're not scared of TJS, but they're scared of Free Agency. He has 2 years of control before Free Agency - 2022 and 2023. He will miss all of 2022, but he will still be paid for it. Here's the Rays' writer for the Tampa Bay times noting how it's a narrow decision back in August, right after the surgery was done.

If you asked me this question before picking up Kimbrel's option I'd have said no. The $6 million or so in arbitration that he'd be paid in 2022 while on the IL is money the White Sox really can't afford, and although he'd be useful and cheaper in 2023, there's not a lot of upside in only 1 year of him for $12 million+. Plus, there's a risk that the next CBA could change the rules for how long you have control of guys, so there's a nonzero chance he could never throw a pitch for the team acquiring him. Glasnow is right on the edge of a non-tender candidate, especially for the Rays. Right now? Sure, getting "anything" back for Kimbrel now that his option is picked up is fine.

Tyler Glasnow, who has never started more than 14 games in a season, who has never been worth more than 2.3 rWAR in a season, who is out for all of 2022 after Tommy John Surgery, who will have a total of 1 year before free agency to actually pitch, while coming off TJS where he probably won’t be fully effective? Man the Rays didn’t think very much of Kimbrel if that was their actual offer.

The Yankees could have moved on by declining him arbitration, although that will earn him far less than Kimbrel they did in fact tender him a contract.

Chris Sale was on the mound to close out a world series in part because Boston's highly paid closer at the time was bad, so they got something out of him - but he also developed some arm troubles just as he was extended. Thus far, I think there's a decent balance here. The Red Sox got what they needed - a short jolt of elite performance to get over the hump. The White Sox got something they needed - a solid major league contributor when they were ready to make the playoffs again.

At the very least it was possible to do some business, someone pointed out that the Yankees got an extension done for Paul O'Neill during the 94 strike. https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/29/sports/baseball-yanks-give-o-neill-19-million-contract.html According to B-R's timeline, Jack McDowell was traded to the Yankees in December of 1994? https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/1995-transactions.shtml

Black Jack got to 20. Loaiza got there before having some…issues.