southsider2k5

If there is no difference between Riley Pint and Zack Collins in your definitions, then your world view is overly simplistic.

As opposed to a guy like Riley Pint was was drafted #4 in the same draft and never made it past High A?

This is a very big deal.

Again, we have SIX home grown 1st round picks ON OUR ROSTER TODAY. This might have been a thing five years ago, but anymore, we are successfully turning our top picks into useful players. We also have on this roster one of our 6th round, 19th round, another 19th round, 20th round, and 22nd rounders on this active roster. That is completely leaving out guys like Evan Marshall who we got as an MiLB FA, Jose Ruiz who was a waiver claim, Yermin a MiLB Rule 5 pick, etc.

If someone on Soxtalk knew, it would have already been said. If we had the power to force "Sox media" to speak our words, we also would have already done it. At the end of the day you are dealing with the federal government, and an agency within the government which was largely reconfigured to do to immigrants exactly what we are seeing done here in being so difficult and confounding to solve that people just give up and go back home.

I think my favorite Jay story was the time he threatened to quit for the umpteenth time, and finally the Sun Times had enough of him and accepted his resignation.

He is on a major league roster contributing to a playoff team. He might not be where you want him, but it is hard to call someone on a major league roster a draft bust.

It really took him until his 30s to really learn how to pitch.

I though the story went they asked for all three, and then once Devers turned into Basabe and Diaz, that is when Hahn agreed.

Thanks Tony, now back to your tapioca pudding.

The Sox wanted Eloy and held out until they got Cease too.

What makes you think that other teams didn't influence who got traded by who they asked for?

I think teams are smart enough to realize that the loss of an entire league has forced guys up above where they would usually be, and aren't hung up on only stats.

Half of a season is a mile stone worth looking at.

I remember saying that I was positive that someone with a higher ceiling would be taken behind Nick, and would end up being a better player in the long term. But what we knew with Nick was that he was about as good of a bet at finding someone to be a 10 year starter as existed in that draft that we could have selected. The hard part was finding which guy that was, and then getting them developed and contributing. Plus Nick is already a contributing starter on a playoff caliber team.

I really wonder how much the front office mess, with his name being right in the center of it, led him to press too much to try to prove to the world and the Mariners that they screwed up with how the handled him.

This is a great way of putting it. Nice read. https://theathletic.com/2635429/2021/06/06/fegan-what-im-looking-for-when-i-question-white-sox-manager-tony-la-russa/?source=dailyemail

Dbacks are listening on Perralta https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/06/diamondbacks-reportedly-listening-to-trade-offers-for-david-peralta.html

I want zero part of a long term deal for Carlos Rodon. Lynn? Sure throw money at him. Giolito? Great, throw 100-150 million at him to get a long term deal done. Rodon? His history of health is really, really bad. Maybe he's learned how to pitch, but can you really learn to be healthy? Pass at those numbers.

If a team is really willing to pay Carlos Rodon $20 million, not just for one year, but for multiple years, you laugh and move on.

Let's bump the brakes here. The dude hasn't been able to stay healthy since Robin Ventura was his manager, and you want to throw $20 million at him for two months of work? Let's get through a season before we blow everything on a guy who hasn't made it 100 innings but 3 times since 2015.

It's time to remove the bankruptcy restrictions from student loans.