southsider2k5

No Colson

Hopefully this keeps him out of White Sox business for a while.

I am pretty sure he gets a MLB deal this year. Remember, Tim is about two years ahead of Yoan on the fall off scale.

With typical White Sox communications, we will find out in February when he doesn't show up.

Seems like a question for management who did everything to bury him instead of playing him to see what he had.

Cool, then do it. I would take the baseball experiences with my favorite team over the rest of it.

If you are looking to maximize the cash value, you are doing it wrong. If you just want money, take it to the open market. Better yet, sit on it, and let it appreciate. Hell by the time the 11 year old is college age, that won't pay for a decent education.

$200k is nothing in real life terms. Take the experiences 100%.

Not here they didn't.

One was a Yankee.

Too late for half assed measures. This is already the most embarassing team in baseball. A few C list free agents doesn't do anything to fix that. Its the draft picks we punt on and resources we giveaway for those players who might actually make this a worthwhile franchise in a couple of years, assuming Chris Getz found someone way better at player dev than he ever actually was.

Kopech with the dreaded forearm inflamation.

These guys will not make this a 72 win team. There is not 30 games of improvement to be had with this pitching staff let alone a very mediocre offense, at best, with those guys.

Translation: By the time that we may actually need a Santander, Santander probably won't be a Santander anymore, and more like a Chris Davis.

Cool. I don't buy that for a second. Projection systems like ZIPS have problems with historic outliers. Why? Because by their very definition, they are historic. Statistical models by their very nature regress to norms, not dealing with the worst team in 125 years history of baseball. Literally no one, or nothing, projected 41 wins last year, and we have already significantly subtracted from that team at the major league level. There is no real bullpen, and a AAA starting rotation, if it stays healthy. Getting the offense back to zero would be an improvement, while adding nothing to the offense either. Even with "regression" and luck, that isn't enough to make up 25 games. That's a joke. Nor do I think the idea of trying to take a shortcut around taking the time to actually build a real player development system, and not taking the short cuts that led to to Chris Getz is a good idea. Look, if you want to sustain actually winning, you have to be cranking players out of your minor league system on a regular basis. If you are robbing yourself of draft pick to sign 2nd and 3rd tier free agents, while robbing your minor league system to do it, you are just redoing exactly what got you here in the first place. Once we actually show our player development team has been significantly improved by replacing Chris Getz, there will be the next group of mid tier free agents to choose from. Our next Andrew Benitendi awaits soon enough.

So they can drop a few hundred million dollars and still lose 100 games? Great story, all while giving up multiple draft picks.

Can I let you in on a secret? Anthony Santander doesn't change that.

OSU sold out on the run, and ND could do nothing about it.

It is all on Poles at this point. He HAS to get Williams and this squad a real offensive line. Both to give the offense time, but also to keep the offense ON the field, and keep the defense off it it. I don't think it was a coincidence that the defense seemed to get worse as the season went on, and that was from being on the field too damned much.