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0-0 = 0. Yes, it checks out.

Assuming they picked him and he didn't get Getz'd like the rest of our hitter top picks.

A related tweet. Seattle really comes to mind as one who didn't go all out for sure.

I wonder how many teams out there are having regrets about not getting enough at their deadline?

They have also juggled the head of international and their draft teams before too, but never actually made any investments in more scouts, health, nutrition, development, etc.

Because they hired a culture leader and gave their flunkies a press release to write about?

Are there subsidies for that? Asking for a random billionaire.

Your job isn't to hurt yourself to make someone else rich.

Lots of MLB guys are expert bumslayers. Those stats count all the same

Literally just saw a college kid who pitched through pain in the playoffs now is getting TJS and missing all of 2025, all for no paycheck at all.

Do you have any data at to what percentage of Cub fans reply on mass transportation to get there, and exactly how much dumber Sox fans are that they can't do the same thing/

It also wouldn't have worked if he didn't force the issue.

[searches for something to throw\

Literally, Crochet asked them to do it.

Eh, it is basically two sets of billionaires fighting over money. It has zero financial effect on us.

If they had stayed with the Sox way, Crochet would be valued as an oft injured and relatively unproven reliever. That isn't great. It isn't just about service time. It is about lifetime earnings. Getting a few bucks early might be a thing, but you are playing for the powerball contract. His deal as a reliever would have been missing a zero as to what he could get as a starter. It's pennywise and pound foolish.

If they are going to go all of the way, this could be the best thing they ever did. But hearing people talk about them not wanting to deal with analytics, it seems like we will half ass it. Again.

If the Sox, Bulls, and Hawks are unviewable, it is probably a favor to us honestly

This has been the mode of operation in pro sports for 2 generations now. Yeah it sucks at times, but with the failure of the RSNs, this was the next step to keep it all in house.

It could also be another cheap way of not addressing the ACTUAL problems in the Sox organization.

But guys who bash their work mates anonymously to media, those are the guys who you want around.

If they were to do this right, they really could fix every mistake they made with New Comiskey. The paying for it part, who knows.

The Sox way would have left hundreds of millions of dollars potentially on the table by potentially rushing him as a reliever instead of taking his time as a starter. He might have started the money earlier, but he should have been between $3m and $5m in his first year in arb as a starter. Instead he was barely over minimum as an injury riddled reliever.