southsider2k5

I agree with this part of your post, though not for the reasons you want.

So what exactly are you ranting about here? What is this plan?

Bullshit. If the Democrats were so mighty and powerful as to be able to manufacture this stuff out of no where, how come they didn't do this to Gorsuch? This is a party that couldn't get its own nominee straight, yet we are supposed to believe they were able to coordinate this compaign? Pick a lane.

Co-signed Sox Fans.

Talking about Madrigal and walking... My gut feeling is that if you put Nick in front of Eloy, and Eloy is pushing triple crown numbers behind him like we all hope... his walks would go up. I really believe with his baseball IQ he would get that getting on base in front of Eloy would matter most, and he would do it.

Reading his numbers, he was a pretty effective minimum wage lefty who improved in pretty much every stat this year (walks down, K's up, HR rate down) except for one (H9), and was two full runs different between ERA and FIP, meaning his defense really hurt him badly. The numbers don't agree with your eye test.

The way they handled themselves couldn't be more different.

In Kavanaugh's case he showed me that he is absolutely going to look at everything through partisan lenses. I have seen a lot of Supreme Court nominations hearings, and this is quite literally the first one where I have said that.

And even if Madrigal flies through the system, we really have until 2020 at the earliest to worry about this. I can't see him blasting through A+/AA/AAA and into the majors in 2019. Really we are probably talking about starting at WS/A+ and then a possible midyear promotion to AA. Once 2020 rolls around starting at AA, and then again a mid season promotion into AAA, with a possible September call up. And that is insanely fast all by itself. That process could easily be A+->2019, AA->2020 and AAA/MLB->2021, without it being a bad thing. If all that comes together, THEN we can really talk about moving Moncada if Madrigal is looking like a guy who will push Moncada off of 2B in two years.

Jose Altuve didn't even make it to 10 HRs until his 5th season in the bigs.

The fact that the entire world viewed Madrigal as a near top of the draft pick in 2018 is more telling to me than any of this. There are plenty of evaluluators/teams/scouts out there who think Madrigal is going to be a very good major leaguer. To already be classifying him as a back up is crazy.

To be fair, that is about 16 less examples than normal.

This is complete and 100% BS. The rest I agree with, but the bolder portion is not accurate at all.

You can already see a huge difference over the course of this season.

You are ready to release a second year lefty with those kind of peripherals over his IR%? Yikes.

And won 76 games? Did you pay any attention to the rest of the roster? It would have been the dumbest thing possible to blow the present by drafting in the middle of the 1st round in 19 to assemble a team in 18 that wasn't going to win a thing, and trading a significant amount of our future talent to do it. Do you even realize that it took 92 wins to make the playoffs this year in the AL Central? Are you seriously trying to tell me that those 3 players were worth 30 more wins this year? Seriously this post is not thinking about reality even a minimal amount.

The irony is that people were talking about how pissed they would be if the Sox took him. Jaren Kendal was the other one.

The iceberg of talent will hit Birmingham next year. We have only seen the tip of the iceberg in Chicago so far.

Of course they aren't ready today. But that is why they are here and playing so that they can get here. I mean am I the only on who remembers what Javy Baez looked like when he got to the bigs? MLB is tough. Sometimes it takes a while.

The Brewers didn't do a full rebuild.

Lmao, wat?

Of note here, Yoan Moncada led all 2Bs in OOZ plays with 90.