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Carlson 100% depends on his bat, which has miles to go. Penciling this dude into a starting position, and trying to move players around before he has ever taken a MiLB AB, it nuts. Let him simmer first and start to force his way into the picture.

They are paying him whether he is here or not. It's a sunk cost. The contract is guaranteed.

Sunk Cost Fallacy:

Maybe he's just so excited about Kannapolis he got mixed up, but either way it's not a big deal because it is so great!

Again, obviously none of this is a surprise or even a deal breaker. Why it is being drama queened is beyond me. I am sure with its industrial and manufacturing history, I am sure the Southside is loaded with brown and superfund sites where work like this is way more common than you would ever want it to be. Yet, here we are building a modern sports facility on the site, just like I said could be done.

This is why mediocre to bad walk numbers are a big red flag

Thanks Mr Obvious, you're a lifesaver!

Where are you getting 80/90%? Everything I have seen is under 50%.

Oh hell yes.

Hopefully Brooks and Jerry are taking notes.

Nice. Hopefully mid is more 3rd than 5th, but the cap space is nice, the pick is a bonus.

The Sox have a couple of really important pieces of business this season. #1 is getting Dutch and Hagen back on track as front end starters. #2 is finding MULTIPLE front line players in this draft. Not only getting a future superstar at the top of the draft, but using the extra money from the top of the draft to get multiple first round pick level players into this system, plus something else valuable at the end of the draft with the overage. This is such a pivotal year for the rebuild.

I will leave on an NCAA basketball game with two teams I have zero interest in, just because he is calling it.

I will be honest, it might have gotten him in the door at the beginning, but it is no where near why he is one of the best in the business. I can't think of another person in sportscasting who has the versatility that he does. He sits down in three different sports and sounds like he does any particular one of them all of the time. He's sits down with different partners and sounds like he has been on the air with whoever it is, forever. He has a light touch, and is perfectly willing to get his partner engaged as much as possible. Dude is one of the best in the business.

Any word on how they ingressed or regressed?

The big problem isn't single concussions, it is the build up of damage over the long term of repeated damage to the brain, and we know almost nothing about how much and how often. I would bet money that's why the guy from the Bears just quit football.

I am not going to slow roll CTE.

If they are playing sports like football and soccer, they are already endangering their health anyway.

The only way you dump Benny is if you take on another bad contract in return. If he was a free agent, what kind of deal would he get? Looking at his offensive numbers and adding to it he is borderline unplayable in LF for a team with aspirations, would he even get a true major league deal? Dude is a replacement play who can't play defense. He doesn't hit enough to hide at DH or 1B. Cut him and move on. He's a waste of space for the White Sox.

Also with this being a retirement, how does this do the Bears with the cap? Obviously they lose the salary, but does the signing bonus all get shoved into this season now?

Agreed. Something big happened. WIth football, you have to wonder CTE or the like.

Initial rankings from The Athletic. First top 4 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7078205/2026/03/03/2026-mlb-draft-ranking-roch-cholowsky/?source=athletic_thewindup_newsletter&campaign=17086219&userId=6062851

When it is absolutely necessary, and not a minute before.

But if it keeps happening, it most likely means a flaw in the stat. Call it the Mark Buehrle rule.

But does he meet the minimum standards to be allowed to compare the stadiums?