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Do you think he is too dumb to see guys like Dunning, Kopech and others, plus the Sox signing two free agent starters in the off season?

Delmonico goes out to make room for Lopez.

I see the Boomer crowd is up past their bed time and cranky.

SUCK IT 6 TIMES CUBS!!

The Cubs already threw their trash on the mound.

Bahahaha, he got what he deserved.

21 homers in 43 innings for the Sox.

It's a good things fans can't be there because a couple of these homers could have killed someone.

Hahaha Hahaha Hahaha

Sox with 5 runs against the Cubs, my HS football team team with 5 1st half TDs. Happy Friday!

I would love this over what we have now.

I love it. I love the excitement, energy and hope around this season.

That is why I have more problem with reaching deep into the past for things that weren't considered a big deal at that time. We have all grown up and learned that things and things aren't the same as they were when we were kids. We grow and we do better. I have WAY bigger problems with that stuff today. Obviously there is a line between talk and words and more actionable types of things, but there is zero excuse for this in 2020.

Grandal was a full market value contract over last winter when everyone was flush with cash. Now everyone has taken huge dollar hits as organizations. The start is just another reason to put on a list.

Any chance at the Bulls taking the kid from Dayton?

After COVID and the start that Grandal has been off to? I don't buy it.

There is no question that this season the Sox pitching depth, specifically their drafting and development, as well as their minor league scouting, has saved the asses of this team so far. With injury after injury, they have brought up pitcher after pitcher who has contributed to this start and they have largely been one of the best bullpens in baseball from top to bottom.

Who is going to be willing to take on that deal right now?

First off, if you don't make the playoffs, you get nothing. So for half of the league this year, and 3/4 of the league in a normal year playoff money means nothing. For anyone who is in the playoffs, they don't get their salary. All players get the same amount as all of the other players as they all share a pot of dollars based on how far you team makes it, that gets divided up evenly between everybody with a share. Owners keep that difference. Last year a share of the wild card round was worth about 14k. Remember the lowest paid players make around 100k a month for the regular season, or about 3k per day. A guy like Mike Trout is making about $6 million a month. Teams that lost in the division round make about 35k each, or about a week and a half's worth of pay at the minimum rate, which when you add in the wild card games, is about how long the first round would take. The average mlb salary is about $4.5 million, or 750k a month, or about 200k a week. So a guy making an AVERAGE salary is probably taking around an 85-90% paycut on his normal salary in the playoffs. The losers of the championship series got about 115k for a few weeks worth of play, or around 1.5 times the MLB minimum rate. The World Series losers got $250k, for a months worth of play, or about 3X's the MLB minimum, working out to a paycheck that a guy making about 1.5 million a season would get. The World Champs got 380k for a month's worth of play, or the average paycheck for a MLB player earning about $2.5 million a season. Again, the playoffs are all about the owners when it comes to dollars.

I still don't see why the Sox would offer him top dollar to be a part time player when they have other holes to fill and no starting position to use McCann at, especially when they could well be looking at filling RF and SP at a minimum this off season. Also why would McCann sign a deal here, when he could pick his own team in the off season?

But what does his carry rate look like?

Actually on this topic, I do have to say, that the Sox took a guy who had been pretty awful in his career. He had been a pretty medicore to bad player for his Tigers career. He came to the Sox and got turned into an all-star, and seems to be repeating those successes this year. This is a pretty nice success for Sox in terms of major league scouting and player development.

Not even 2 months. We are talking 4-6 weeks depending on when a deal happens. We are already at 34 games left in this season for the Sox.

5 weeks of James McCann isn't going to get you a "young starter" unless you mean a very low level minor league starter that isn't very highly ranked.