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OK, this is genuinely funny.

Jerry is not thrilled.

Cash considerations. Castro had a June 3rd opt out and Houston didn't plan on adding him.

With Dutch finally logging starters innings for the first time in his life, the waxing and waning of his stuff isn't a surprise. He's literally never pitched at this volume. It all about him building conditioning for a season while he learns how to make his stuff last 100 pitches instead of 50.

The return is the most important part.

Really after Getz got everyone axed it a great place to start counting. Parts of three seasons now.

But its true. That is 2020 and 21 we made the playoffs. 22 was a wake up call, and after 23, there was no doubting this wasn't a playoff team. It has been years since we were trying to win.

Jayden Daniels wouldn't have done a damned thing here either. Williams's Dad is 100% right. This place was a deathpool for QBs. Hopefully they made the right changes this year, but we will see.

Um, that hasn't been their goal for years now. This franchise is a dumpster fire they are trying to currently put out, and try to recover from. The won't be winning or contending for years.

Then you pick up his option and trade him. He'd still have two years of contract control, instead of one with QO.

This has all been obvious for years. The Bears and White Sox have a lot in common. #1, they still think you can run a franchise like you did in the 1980s.

If he is good enough to decline a qualifying offer, he is good enough to get traded before the deadline. At the very least, he would be good enough to pick up the option on, and then try to trade over the winter.

One of the most interesting things he said in here was the phrase "free agent signings" which would be "tolerated".

Speaking of rebranding.

Which you also have if you pay him a million dollars less AND preserve the QO by not offering it to him this year.

Or he sees this a chance to do a one year rebound deal with a bigger salary and we get nothing at all for him.

Why would you decline a $20 million option to offer someone MORE in a QO?

But an up and coming team didn't have him. It was the White Sox.

Fair? The Sun Times is running a business. This harkens back to whoever it was who used to measure by the inch the press coverage in the Tribune back in the day. If Sox fans don't buy papers, why would the Sun Times invest in the Sox? Do they have to carry full embedded reporters for all sports, including womens? I mean that is "fair" right? Make sure each team gets exactly as much coverage, and no one teams gets the headlines too often, right? Bears one day, Sky the next? Nah. They are going to invest in what sells papers.

It's a "load" all right.

That's why some of us want the roster building to include as many long term fringe guys as possible instead of washed up utility players with no control. Even if your hit rate is low, finding anyone who you can turn into long term depth is huge.

Stone has been the biggest problem in the booth for a decade.

That's been the story on him since he was drafted. High floor innings eater, but mid rotation ceiling.

That baller .325 OBP.