southsider2k5

It is the Y2K squad. Crazy.

This is quite literally what I was going to post in a more sarcastic form. Thank you.

None of this post actually addresses the situation at hand. Mine at least provided context.

Wow with the SS's down there.

With the change in cap rules allowing no one to go over the caps at all anymore, it is hard to say exactly how the market place is adjusting to that. I think you got some big inflation from the old system because once you went over the incentive became to spend as much as possible because you knew you were out for 2 years. Now, you have to make everyone fit regardless. So if the top guys are still getting $3 to $4 million and taking up almost all of a teams allotment for the season, the guys in the middle are probably the ones getting squeezed. The pressure to keep costs down has to trickle down somewhere, and I would guess that is where it happens.

I think the general consensus is actually that it is way to early to be panicking.

So let's do some unpacking here. First off, let's quit pretending that these issues are new. Right off of the bat the last Presidential administration went to court to defend the idea that illegals could be held indefinitely and without contact of lawyers and loved ones in detention centers without any legal rights. People were held for years without hearings, or even the government acknowledging that these people were being held. Even if you don't want to buy into what the right wing machine is putting out there in these regards you can look up PBS Frontline episodes on immigration over the years, and you will see that this goes back a long way. That said, if Trump really wanted these policies changed, he would have. The man picked right up with the last President's frequent usage of the Executive Order as a means of fiat legislation making. He has not hesitated for a second to use EO's to do whatever he feels like. He has also not hesitated in making a public mockery of the law, the legal community, and its enforcements whenever it was against a belief he held, so I don't believe for a second the crap about it being a law and order thing. If he really felt the policies were unjust and needed to be changed, at the very least we'd be getting a twitter fit about them.

Nice. Glad to see the team getting back to work in LA.

Not sure. Could also be a deal where we take on a bad contract (specifically saw Darling mentioned) in exchange for Hossa's deal. Could also be something to get a team to the salary floor.

The number of ABs both players had before their major slumps is actually really close. The difference is that Moncadas were spread over multiple seasons, where Cano did his all at once.

Even better, the dude has just over 500 career PAs.

Robinson Cano you say? Check out his August of his rookie year, and that stellar .513 OPS he put up. Next. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.fcgi?id=canoro01&year=2005&t=b

Yep, the White Sox will be getting Leury and Avi back in short order, so that is two extra players that have to be accounted for somehow. Whatever is in Charlotte today PLUS probably Rondon and Thompson. I think Trayce probably is a DFA candidate at the very least. Alfredo Gonzalez could well be the person to move out of Charlotte behind the plate, as he brought nothing to the table, then again I haven't seen Garneau, but his numbers look pretty awful too. I really think Saunders and Pressley are the two most likely OFs to go, plus I think you are right on Giovatella too.

So a catcher, a reliever, and an OF have to move out of Charlotte.

Relax. Whenever Avi is ready he will be in RF for the White Sox. Sadly it would have been Palka out there if he could catch a ball at least as well as a little leaguer.

Even that was a situation where he had been there for six years, not three months.

Still will bet you on this.

Thank goodness you have nothing better to be upset about.

And nothing screams bitter like a decades old grudge.

This is a rough transition. In one spot you are talking about opinions, and in the next you are talking about something that is completely unsupported by anything as if it were a fact.

Well on the bright side the Sox are going to keep the Tigers away from the #1 pick again.

Thompson is here because 3 people in front of him are on the DL. Once that changes, so will his big league status.

Great play by Anderson !

Shields has had another respectable outing.