Balta1701

Bah, this isn't the kind of deal where you can just find a team that works because they have a deeper system. When you're trading mid-level relievers, this is where scouting comes into play - you want to find a guy that your team likes that the other team undervalues.

I don't know what this means.

The NY state attorney general because the entire thing is currently being sued by the State of New York as having been run fraudulently for personal enrichment and as a tax exempt arm of their campaign. And also on the Clinton foundation's 2017 financials, I'm no expert in when charities release their financial statements, but I do have the ability to look at dates when news stories were published. Here's at least 1 article on their 2016 financial report, dated November 20th of 2017.

Stealing from a Reddit thread that I think is accurate:

I don't think there's any chance whatsoever that the O's agree to that.

The Dodgers are NOT moving Matt Kemp he has been one of their best players. You'll have to find someone else on their roster that makes enough money that they don't want.

If Diaz from the Dodgers is on the table right now, could they legitimately have expected a better deal last offseason? The fact that Seager went down with an injury and other teams (Braves) were better than expected created the market for him.

Over the last 45 games, more than 1/4 of a season, he's hit .180 with a .538 OPS. He may still have another good stretch in him, but how on Earth could you count on him down the stretch if you were a competitive team? If your 1b got hurt, you'd take him on as a salary dump/replacement candidate, but you're not giving up anything of value for that. If you're going to trade something of value to upgrade your 1b position you'd go get Justin Smoak. So unless the White Sox are for some reason desperate to move his salary, he's not moving and we'll have to see if he snaps out of this.

Why is talk of trading Abreu detrimental when Abreu has been this bad of a player? Right now Jose Abreu looks like he's going to absolutely need replaced before the White Sox can talk about being competitive full time. He may have some good time left in him, but 2x in the last 3 seasons he's gone into multi-month slumps and put up disappointing numbers overall. I wouldn't trade for that or sign that. Right now, Jose Abreu would be a salary dump, they'd be lucky to get a Gillespie back for him, and the White Sox should not need to do salary dumps right now.

The bolded is untrue, Jennings is still under team control via arbitration through 2020.

Hey look, another step taken by the Republicans to make sure that their donors are completely covered up, on the same day that one of their donors was charged with being a russian spy.

Where would the White Sox be if they kept these guys? Dan Jennings right now is doing decent with the Rays but he's a 30 year old left handed reliever. You know the amazing thing? We currently, already, have better left handed relievers on today's White Sox roster. Our bullpen wouldn't be any better with Jennings. Gillaspie was a 2016 Avisail Garcia when we got him - a wild card with some nonzero chance of breaking out and some nonzero chance of washing away completely. For a left handed reliever who will be 31 last year, that's the type of move the White Sox should be making. It's the type of move they should have been making in 2015 and 2016, and the fact that they were doing the opposite is why their organization was so bereft of talent by the end. What are the chances that an international signed shortstop will blow up into a top prospect in baseball, or that a guy we never bothered to coach on defensive footwork could be a decent SS?

Because Mitch McConnell protected Donald Trump's deal with the Russians and said that if they tried to release a statement about the Russian attack he'd make it a partisan issue. http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/12/10/mitch_mcconnell_prevented_stronger_action_against_russian_election_meddling.html https://nypost.com/2018/03/04/mcconnell-watered-down-response-to-russian-meddling-ex-obama-official/ https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/24/580171396/biden-mcconnell-refused-to-sign-bipartisan-statement-on-russian-interference https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-orders-review-of-russian-hacking-during-presidential-campaign/2016/12/09/31d6b300-be2a-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html?postshare=7111481335261119&utm_term=.c9ab6a714070 https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/02/mitch-mcconnell-russian-asset.html https://www.npr.org/2018/02/21/587614043/fact-check-why-didnt-obama-stop-russia-s-election-interference-in-2016 Harry Reid also sent a letter to James Comey begging Comey to make a public statement about the existence of that investigation, and Comey refused.

I think it's actually going to be sickeningly fun replying with the comments of this administration to this post. For example:

Here is video of a 5 year old boy that was split from his asylum seeking family for 2 months, returned seemingly shell shocked, bruised, and with rashes. As long as the Republican Party gets this done to people and gets their tax cuts, they don't care about a little treason.

I very much disagree. That reads like a guy who had heard all 3 terms and never, ever realized they weren't interchangeable.

When you fail at something that dramatically you can't just move on, at an organizational level you stop and assess what f***-ups allowed such a dramatic failure to happen, then you take major steps to fix them. You remove people from their jobs if necessary, you change organizational procedures in any way you can think of. That's like the equivalent of the business losing well over a hundred million dollars, between the money taken on for Shields and the value that Tatis could have brought even if he was just traded later. Someone made a decision in haste that cost the White Sox organization the equivalent of $100+ million in value. Anyone here think they've maid corrections equivalent to a failure of that magnitude?

That could have something to do with the fact that, prior to being called up and put at 3b in the big leagues, he had played a total of 6 games at 3b. In the Arizona Fall League. Not even played there in Cuba.

So Musk is apparently melting down over the fact that his submarine wasn't all that helpful. If you'd like to see him randomly decide to call one of the rescuers a pedophile for saying it wasn't helpful, here you go.

Ugh. If a guy gets pulled one day because of something physical, sit him at least one more day. Even if the next day starts the AS break.

Hell they could still be really bad this year with 1 or 2 injuries. It would be a bad sign, but there's not a whole lot of guys who you would say are 100% established, dominant players. If the guys with ACL injuries all have ACL injuries then next year they're drafting top 5, and if these guys impress more than expected, then they're actually in position to make a pitch to free agents next offseason as well as having a lottery-ish pick. On paper it's not a bad place to be.

Solid move. Better than a 2nd round draft pick for Anthony's $28 million. Did exactly what I was hoping with the 2nd year.

If you go to Soxtalk.com futuresox tweets are on the front page now:

So the blog post denies something after the fact, once investigations are starting to form around it...and you're willing to take that denial at face value and present it. Right. The start of investigations around a crime involving treason of the President elect is no reason for someone to deny something. At the same time as the tweet above where the account was working with wikileaks, people were tracking back the trail of documents to Russian servers, but I don't even need to bother linking all that because the Dutch intelligence service had actually broken into the Russian hacking group's electronics and they've shared that with the FBI. Mueller's group literally has video of your Russian friends composing that tweet. That's how they know the exact times of everything in the indictment today.