Balta1701

I mean he is, but MLB is deliberately not pushing anything on investigations or suspensions because they're just trusting teams not to sign him right now, and no team is doing so. They're going to let his legal case play out first and hope that a judge just makes this go away for them. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/31044776/sexual-assault-allegations-cloud-yasiel-puig-future-mlb

Puig is sorta...not available. At the very least, MLB probably wouldn't let you play him.

I mean, read the details (deliberately not quoted) and tell me you still want Puig. https://deadline.com/2020/10/ex-dodger-yasiel-puig-sued-for-sexual-assault-1234607027/

I mean, someone has to say this right? How much of a market is there for a full time DH with $35 million guaranteed over the next 3 years remaining on their contract and a severe arm/shoulder injury the previous season? You're not getting anything of use for that.

When he got hurt they said what, 3 weeks, and that was only a few days ago? https://www.nbcsports.com/chicago/white-sox/white-sox-opening-day-roster-what-adam-engels-hamstring-injury-means He's probably going to need some reps to get himself back ready for the season, so mid-April barring any setbacks?

I know a coach can't overcome everyything, but add to your list the coaching staff failing to correct him from doing something really stupid before it got really bad.

Except the $44 guaranteed also includes options that bring it up to $78 million.

But if Vaughn is buried at DH, and Eloy misses a third of every season for injury and his numbers start dropping because the injuries are building up, then Vaughn's value is diminished considerably.

Yup. Would you trade a potential $30 million 7 years from now for a $44 million guaranteed now?

Eloy will be back in LF assuming this isn’t a season ending thing, unless one of Vaughn and Abreu gets hurt. That’s just the reality of this roster.

That’s why I included him. 2 players who could be used more effectively by another team with a different situation.

Then you trade Vaughn and Crochet for someone who is otherwise ungettable and fill in the LF spot with a tolerable FA.

So this is something that a coaching staff probably should have worked with him about before?

Was there anything off about his technique with this stretch?

Bauer has been loudly complaining about other teams using the stuff, that's why he was brought up.

McCullers was on his last year of arb-eligibility, very different from Giolito. Effectively a 5/$85 deal for him is a 4/$79 extension. If Giolito is this level of pitcher in 2 seasons, then his extension would be Cole-level.

Assuming Vaughn were to sign an 8 year deal, he's giving up 1 year of FA control, so the extension is the difference between FA at age 30 vs 31. That one isn't a huge difference unless he gets hurt or falls apart during that last year. To get a $40 million guarantee - that's a pretty straightforward and logical move for him.

So you've got Giolito giving up 3 years of Free Agency time, and hitting FA again at age 32 rather than at age 29? If he stays this good of a pitcher, he's giving up an awful lot of career earnings by signing that deal. If, as some people have said, he's interested in the largest contract he can get, then this is a nonstarter from their side.

Are you implying something about pitchers on the white Sox using foreign substances?

November.

They had a deal for 100 million doses and AZ cut their delivery by 70%. Trump did the exact same thing in December.

No I’m not, but the power dynamics are still the same. Their families might be if they aren’t. The only reason you heard about this at all was Buzbee probably went out looking for something he could use to hurt Watson and got a group of women to go on the record with this. I’d bet folding money that a few weeks ago Watson’s side was told to drop the holdout or this comes out. Could he have fabricated the cases and found women willing to sign on? Sure. That’s for a court to determine. But there’s nothing suspicious whatsoever about these women hesitating to come forward against a local star QB.

Dude, (probably immigrant) women from Houston area massage parlors don’t go to the police when the local star QB does anything less than murder them. How many of them would get deported if they didn’t have a job? Especially not when the world has gone insane and they’d have no shot at a new job.

Walgreens.