Balta1701

If this year doesn’t go well, the “led the rebuild” won’t be as shiny.

No, they didn't get a temporary bat for DH, they got one for RF.

I mean it could, you've got increased roster spots to do it with, but you're putting your whole team at a comparative disadvantage against the Twins and company if you do because they have a deeper bullpen/bench. It's like an odd version of a bullpen game once every trip through the rotation, except instead of burning the entire bullpen when you do it, you just constantly have one guy you can't use.

"Haters gotta hate" is a funky way to defend your government after a multi-day power outage. But anyway, I moved there because there was a huge surge of students in the geology major after the oil price boom, and lost my job because those students went away after the oil price bust.

struggling to remember any relief pitchers actually traded this offseason.

So if that happened in January...if I go back to threads started in January here, won't I find one of Getz saying Crochet will be in the bullpen right around that time?

65 total infected individuals, 7 B.1.1.7.

If Hahn wanted to leave, there's probably jobs this year he could have gotten. IIRC, the Phillies asked to interview him and were turned down - whether they were turned down by Hahn or management we never found out.

Fascinating. So this means some of the NBA players to test positive recently had the new variant?

Governor Coronavirus announced an investigation yesterday and put reform into the required subjects for this years legislative calendar, so maybe? All they would have to do to mitigate this is have a few connections to the wider US grids. It wouldn’t prevent all the problems, but the rest of the country had enough of a surplus that they could have cut out like 80% of the blackouts or shorten them to an hour or two instead of days. More likely though they will probably try to raise taxes on wind power in response. I am genuinely curious whether any of the Texan energy providers did an Enron-in-California situation here - taking capacity deliberately offline to push energy prices through the roof (you can’t say it’s just a crazy conspiracy when Enron literally did that to California in 2001). But, I have every confidence that if it did happen, the Attorney General of Texas will make sure it is covered up.

Frankly...YES. You absolutely prepare for 10 in 100 year weather events. A 1 in 100 year weather event is all but guaranteed to happen during your lifetime. Having that turn into a disaster that kills dozens is a bad thing! And some areas of the country are flat out guaranteed to have them happen every few weeks! Plus, if this is a 1 in 100 year cold snap (it isn’t), are you unprepared for 1 in 100 year floods? What about 1 in 100 year heat waves? 1 in 100 year wind events? 1 in 100 year flash floods? This is why you require resiliency to be built into systems you rely on, because they start failing every decade or so if you don’t; and in different ways each time. We scrapped all the plans for a 1 in 100 year pandemic after the Trump team took over. The end results were bad! Maybe you don’t spend the money building out to 1 in 1000 or 1 in 10000 year events, but you at least consider what they will do. Will a 1 in 1000 year cold snap leave a state with 1000 dead? If so, maybe you need to harden infrastructure even more because that would be a really severe policy failure.

I mean, you’re not wrong, but at the same time let’s go To the precedent.

Because you can winterize them to run but it costs money to do so. Same with all these plants. If regulations don’t require the utility to spend the money to prepare for extreme events, they won’t. 95% of the winters, that won’t matter and it keeps your costs low and profits high, but when it does, it can cascade into a giant failure. Anywhere else in the country, they could buy backup power from elsewhere at least to limit the hazard, but that’s where the isolated grid comes into play.

While it has been suggested that the severe bends in the jet stream are climate-change related, that isn't fully accepted in in the literature yet. Intense weather systems hitting Texas aren't impossible every 10 or 20 years under the previous climate regime. It may not have happened this year without the changes humans have put in the atmosphere, but it would have eventually. There's a lot more work to be done to be able to attribute this one strongly to a human-driven climate change effect. If you want to talk about the poor design and multiple failure points in the Texas electric grid regulations and how that was the direct trigger for this, go for it.

Yeah ok it’s not PECOTA.

Well, I did not see that, so you would be correct in targeting it.

Interesting that you went with "Superstar catcher" rather than "decent DH or pinch hitter".

Through November, the CDC shows Flu Vaccination numbers being less than 1% lower than as of November 2019, and about 5% higher than November of 2018. https://data.cdc.gov/Vaccinations/Weekly-Cumulative-Influenza-Vaccine-Doses-Distribu/k87d-gv3u/data

No team in baseball will give up a guy of value for a player whose team won't give him a shot at the big leagues even without being blocked. That doesn't mean no other team in baseball likes the guy, they might, they might not, their actions only say that no team thinks he's a likely enough star to jump on. What it means is that they know if the white sox won't play him, he'll be available on waivers eventually and they won't have to pay for him.

March 14...27 days, 3 hours, 6 minutes. Not that I'm counting.

If 2020 wasn't the last opportunity for Rodon, then there will always be a chance. What are the odds the White Sox will be looking for very cheap starting pitching next offseason? Seems pretty high.

I always say this in reply - I hate using Mr. offday as the 5th starter in a normal year more than a couple times all year. This year, coming off a season where guys' innings and arm work went completely haywire, you should really want to keep a 5 man rotation and give your starters the extra day of rest.

If the White Sox aren't confident enough to give him a big league shot, no one is going to trade for him. Other teams will know that in a year or two, he'll wind up available on the waiver wire or non-tendered.