Balta1701

“Ridiculous”

So a contract extension 1 year before free agency is different from a contract extension two years before free agency. Riiiiiiight.

I just assumed there'd be some significant amount of parking associated with the businesses on site. I'd be driving in to use whatever hotel they build on the site for a few days and a hotel is going to require some amount of parking access.

At the same time though, I'd imagine Getz would be notably hesitant to drop a pitcher to add an infielder, in terms of roster depth.

Boras will absolutely "allow" his clients to sign extensions. One signed an extension literally yesterday. He will encourage them to only sign extensions if they get their full value. Dylan Cease is a guy who Boras can genuinely say was a 2nd place Cy Young finisher 2 years ago, much like Getz clearly tried to do while marketing him in Trades. If he were to do that the next 2 years, he could be looking at a $300 million contract. Boras's push with a guy like that would be to make sure he didn't give up a stupid discount in exchange for an extension. It's not unreasonable to think that it would take $250 million+ to get him to commit to an extension right now. That's why it won't happen, because teams aren't going to put up that kind of money for him yet.

I'm thinking about 40 man slots. Assuming Pillar and a couple of pitchers are likely candidates to be added, even with the 60 day IL folks it will be tough to make a move without dropping someone. My guess is that by having a 40 man slot, Sosa is sort of stuck into that role to start the season.

Do we think we could get Sosa through waivers?

They did hire a new OC right?

What "Patriot stuff"? Mayo?

Clearly if this were used for the Bears they would rip out the current park and build a new dome. Having the parking lots there,, existing water, sewer, power infrastructure, highway and rail access already could be a way to limit the new stadium costs. But unlike Arlington there’s probably no chance for associated real estate development in the area, so maybe lower costs but way lower chances to develop a district around the stadium.

For the city, the other big part of this is that if this isn’t done, there’s a good chance this site is undeveloped 50 years from now. It’s already sat there for 60, and small projects won’t raise enough money to justify redeveloping it. On the other hand. The land in Bridgeport could be turned back into low to moderate density development or even turned into a new big project at lower cost.

Also since Wrigley is trending right now on one of my feeds, this site would probably host a winter classic at some point too.

Would have to see how it interacts with the buildings in the complex, but in general having it open towards the city itself is what we all want as well.

If the first half goes terribly, I will still say it was worth skipping that package. That package does not reshape the white Sox and is only a minor contribution to its next competitive team. Failing to take it doesn’t change their next competitive window to my eyes - heck, even if the Brewers rapidly turn them both into all stars, I won’t believe the White Sox could Have done the same. Lopez has to play somewhere, after all.

Which is totally reasonable and rational for a team that says they are trying to win a division.

And that's a reason to have him on there. He was not only overpaid, but the manager went so far as to bat him 3rd in the middle of a losing streak because the manager thought he looked good in the batting cages. That's a way to put the manager on the mountain.

And Rosario has been a way better defender. 2.5 fWAR for him the last 2 years, 1.5 for Anderson. But, he had a bad 2023 and currently unemployed. There is no market for these guys regardless of attitude.

Over/under on PECOTA related threads?

Hernandez is 32, Rosario is 28. Both had 4 WAR seasons as recently as Anderson. The thing they all have in common is not being good last year, not age. Attitude might matter a little, Getz clearly overpaid for a certain “type” of player for example, but they’re out of a job now because of bad baseball. Anderson fits well with this group.

There are tons of weak infielders still available for teams that need them. Looking at the list, I see Longoria, Brandon Crawford, k*** Hernandez, Jean Segura, Eduardo Escobar, Amed Rosario, Andrus, Didi Gregorius, on top of notable actual good player Matt Chapman. A lot of these guys have clearly been hoping for big league contracts and at this point they're probably going to get scooped up as NRIs. Anderson is in no way unusual here, and that's entirely coming off of his negative WAR season last year.

6 year $100 million extension for Evan Longoria.

It's not just "If Mena turns into anything special" to me, it's the philosophy of the deal itself. This is where Hahn and Williams went haywire. Ok, one of like 47 places they screwed up, but a big one. For a long, long, long time it was "oh it's ok, we can make a deal like this, we give guys up and they never turn into anything." it's ok to give up Poreda, Richard, Sweeney, Olivo, Hudson, Holmberg, De Los Santos, Masset - no one there was a franchise killing player, so it was constantly ok to give up guys to supplement the big league roster - for years. Then all of a sudden, in the space of 2 years, the White Sox gave up Semien, Bassitt, and Tatis (Montas could get thrown here too). Any one of those first deals you could say "oh this is fine, we didn't give up a guy who killed us and we got a tolerable baseball player out of it so it was a win, no problem let's keep doing this". Then, it imploded and wrecked the franchise for years. This one might work out fine, but you do this type of deal enough and you're playing with fire. The odds of any particular deal blowing up horribly are low, but if you do enough deals of the same sort, they can.

The good news is we're projected to be notably better than Colorado or Washington.