Balta1701
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/09/trump-cabinet-resignations-death-star/ “I see no choice but to resign from this Death Star as it begins to explode.”
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Kyle Schwarber signs with Nationals: 1 year 10mil
Balta1701 replied to Buehrle>Wood's topic in Pale Hose Talk
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No. I don’t care this is half personal. No. Go somewhere else.
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I would say that is clearly wrong for this team, but for once if the Front Office disagrees with me I will question my thinking.
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I know this is the wrong sentiment, but please keep doing that against top teams until the trade deadline.
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Holy s***. This blew my mind. Following a lot of news and I didn’t hear this about her until a screenshot of a tweet. Jesus that’s who we are.
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I think these two trades illustrate what the risk was. Hudson wasn’t all that good, yet we still overpaid, and in the end it wasn’t just a bad deal, it was a particularly bad deal for the White Sox given their status and needs for young pitching. They did it again, it still didn’t make a difference for a struggling team, the frontline piece wasn’t as good, the pitcher coming back struggled more, but then the secondary piece...I won’t discuss. The strategy was such that the average outcome is somewhere between a slight failure and one of the worst deals made in baseball history. In general, you should avoid deals where “oops I gave up a hall of famer and took on one of the worst contracts in baseball” is a possible outcome.
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I would say the Sox narrowly lost that deal. Not the worst loss I have ever seen, but a minor loss nonetheless. What is exceptionally ironic is the details of the deal. The White Sox identified a veteran pitcher, in the NL west, struggling with a high ERA, which would cost them just under $10 million a year, with a recent but brief history in the AL Central, in a season where they were underperforming, decided they had a young pitching prospect who had recently been one of their top few prospects in a weak system, that they didn't like any more, they were willing to give up that player, but it wasn't enough so they threw in another player to go along with him, absorbed the salary hit, and got the deal done. What's the harm, right?
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I cannot possibly top this tweet tonight. I'm out.
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The 2011 Diamondbacks won 94 games and won the NL West. I don't believe that they are clearly a lower pressure setup than the 79-83 Chicago White Sox that season. Again, not the worst deal the White Sox have ever made. I will not reference others here as I've wasted way too many posts about those. But the same basic problems are here. Undervaluing years of control. Undervaluing their own guys' ability to contribute. Overvaluing guys because they are veterans. Failing to understand that the $8 million salary of the guy coming back...adds up.
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Heuer put up 0.5 fWAR last year as a reliever. Treinen did that last year - he just got 2/$17.5 from the Dodgers. While a deal at that level is affordable for the White Sox, in the context of "We're also signing a replacement for Madrigal, we have no long term replacements for either right now, the White Sox have a clear and stringent salary limit this year, and a much bigger issue with growing payroll in 2022", at the very least giving up both of them is something I don't particularly like.
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In 1.5 seasons with the White Sox (and with the Cardinals for a straight comparison), Edwin Jackson put up 5.3 fWAR and the White Sox paid him approximately $8 million over that time period (would have been $10 million if not for the trade you mention). During the exact same 1.5 seasons, Daniel Hudson put up 6.3 fWAR for the Diamondbacks for something like $800,000. Was it the worst deal the White Sox have made? Not particularly close. But did the White Sox win that deal? Nope.
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If President Hawley chose not to run a Twitter account, could Twitter sue him for refusing to use their network?
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I believe at that point the videos we had seen were clearly sufficient to understand what had happened. We didn't know every single detail, but we had seen easily enough of people standing aside, removing barriers, and taking selfies by that point.
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Note the difference though. That was with Donald Trump as a public official, the President of the United States. That was not legislating the behavior of a private company, but of a government official. If Donald Trump was unwilling to accept the limits of service as a public official as set by US records law, Donald Trump could have resigned from his public position at any point, and I promise I would not have complained one bit. Twitter is a different entity under different rules.
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In terms of a couple years of injury, in terms of being traded in a deal the White Sox shouldn't have made, or in terms of getting the final out of the world series?
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I just really don't like creating 2 holes on the big league roster in 1 move as a strategy in a year where we've got a legit shot and budget limitations. That just sounds like a bad setup to me, and one we should be able to avoid.
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Ok, my bad. I thought we were still talking about Twitter. My apologies sir. Editing post to remove your reply.
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Maybe, but can they do it this year, when they're trying to win in 2021? Giving up Madrigal hurts the 2021 team but that's replaceable, and I understand why that's the top value piece that the Mariners would need. Giving up 2 pieces from the big league team?
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Re: Twitter. No one has to provide a platform for specific content, and if you disagree with their practices - don't use their network and don't read content posted on there. https://xkcd.com/1357/
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Those are big second and third pieces, especially the guy from the current bullpen. We've got to be able to find a minor league piece as a 3rd piece that has value. Madrigal and Stiever + one more minor league piece for this pitcher, with that amount of control, I'm intrigued by if the money is there to sign LaStella. Could Sheets or Lambert fill Heuer's role?
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What are the two other pieces?
