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They did in 2018 and 2019. In neither year was Burnes among them. And if we are talking about starters to pay a lot for, I would rather it be 180 to 200 innings we were talking about. Instead we are talking about half of that.

I get that, but I also get that some guys aren't made to be 30 start guys.

I'd rather not catch the next Todd Ritchie where we try to project someone isn't ready to make a leap.

Someone convince me how it is worth it to back up the truck for a guy who hasn't pitched over 100 IP in a season since his 2017 A+/AA season.

It sounds great in principal, but those are things they should be getting at home.

And this is why women wait years, if ever, to say anything

Honestly if we are going to bring in another IF, I would prefer it to be Profar to LaStella just because with Tim Anderson, he seems to be able to take one solid DL stint a season, and having someone who can play SS should be important. I do wonder if the Sox are just going to roll with Tim Beckham and Leury Garcia in that roll though.

The idea that we are trusting 17-18 year old kids to be able to see the future and project which jobs and careers will be around in 10/20/30 years to a degree of certainty that many are going to carry six figures (or more) of debt in making that bet is absurd. These are the same kids we don't trust to drink or drive a rental car, but are fully putting a hundred thousand dollars worth of debt and their careers in the same hands. The best economists out there struggled to see the changes in the world during my lifetime. The fact that we are having kids bet their careers and financial futures on it is laughable. There has to be a better way to do this.

Hearing Vera is up to 97, I am just going to say that there is a real chance that he ends up being the best of this class for the White Sox.

Indiana is currently giving to people with qualifying situations (medical, first responders etc) and 70 years or older. Our county is booked out until APRIL for an appointment.

I would bet money that Bryant will be gone before the season starts. It sounds like they thought about non-tender, but noticed a trade market so they were going to explore that.

The Cubs know their window is somewhere between closing and closed, and their debt levels combined with zero revenue are putting them in a spot where they are probably in trouble with the MLB rules for debt versus revenue, as they were really highly leveraged even before the pandemic happened.

Oh I get it. You are just going to keep poking at it until someone does something about it. Don't treat me like I am stupid.

You can also make a clear argument that he is around the least likely to get to that reward level.

He has maxed out at 76.1 IP for the last 5 years. If you are counting on him for more innings than he has ever given you in the last 5 years, you are doing it wrong.

Look, obviously Trevor Bauer should be the answer, but the Sox aren't in that market. For my two cents, when I look at this rotation as it stands today there are a whole of of innings and starts to fill. We know Kopech probably isn't starting this season with the big team. It really sounds like they want Crochet working out of the pen. So how do you fill those innings? For my two cents, my #1 goal is to not do anything that endangers the depth and future pieces we have coming through the system. We already did it with Dunning and Lynn. Hopefully Lynn extends to fix another future hole in the pen, but until they, the pitching should be mostly off limits. Maybe a Steiver whose timing is blocked by the guys who are already ahead of him, but for the most part, pitching should be off limits. #2 hopefully we are looking at the free agent market. Keep in mind with the injury risks, if they aren't starting, then you are dropping into the minors to cover their starts. So if your bring in a Paxton or Richards, sure you get some great starts, but then you also get Reynaldo Lopez, Jon Stiever, and company doing a lot of other starts. The stability of knowing that you are pretty sure about getting a certain guy, and knowing that he is going to give you six innings every five days allows you to set your pen, not overextend those guys, and have them ready to go when you need them. #3, again while it would be nice to be getting a top flight guy to fill in back of the rotation, if you can't, it isn't the worst thing, because you are going to be running one of the best offenses in baseball out on the field every day, so if you have to win some games 7-5, so be it. You are OK with that. #4, while we want the Sox to spend, they are obviously being safe and conservative with the budget. Assuming this season isn't a worst case scenario, hopefully a budget conscious move allows them to make another move at the deadline, if needed. Realistically, Jose Quintana fits this resume. He is also a guy you already know, and he seemed to fit into the White Sox just fine before, so there isn't a real feel that he wouldn't now.

Except you are only getting a month or two out of him.

Again, if this is a cute attempt to draw some sort of false equivalency between consent and non-consent, this is a failure.

Of course the President is the King of Cancel Culture by targeting anyone who speaks out against him.

David Haugh doesn't want to see guys who are washed up get fired, for obvious reasons.

From the guy who complained about the swear filters not working...

This. It is really bad roster management to lose TWO pitchers for 5 days with a set up like this.