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If they are talking about moving Adley

First game will be in Rome

Guess who got his 10 million dollar check

That seems too good to be true, but I would love it.

I guess that makes you a follower since you are here bickering about roles.

It seems about the time he got injured is when his numbers started tailing off. I wonder if there is a connection more than they are telling us.

No, bringing people's family into discussions is really weird. Honestly it is a shitty thing to do. Leave family out of it. I promise you Noah is a big boy who can answer for himself. The rest is creepy.

I really hope they sit on him, because he is worth an absolute HAUL and we don't want Detroit re-arming in the short term.

Quintana was signed to a dirt cheap extension with a longer track record.

I mean it seems obvious to me. If he was a Dbag, he wouldn't be around.

Predictable thing is predictable.

As a Sox fan who has seen a lot of these "turned the corner" guys turn out to just be flukes in a career year, I am not ready to proclaim them fixed.

I said a couple of years ago that a great yardmarker of success would be how the trio of Taylor, Hagen, and Schultz ended up. So far, the needle isn't pointing up.

Set your river on fire?

Now we are talking overpay.

It makes a lot of sense if either of them have enough value to get there. It could even be a dump for a nothing MiLB player to get the roster spot open.

Like an 88 mph grooved fastball.

I think the "he wasn't ready" part was pretty clear, and was talked about by some ahead of his call up. I don't think most of us think he is dead yet.

That's the whole equation.

It is ironic that you went and posted these two posts within 5 minutes of each other. Did YOU ask the players how they feel about Mike Vasil? Did YOU ask the Coaches what they think of Vasil being in the dugout? Maybe ask them and then back up your outsided opinions with facts. That's how that works, right?

Very plainly he was rushed to the majors as a starter. That is what is obvious.

How much less do you want him throw in terms of stuff?

Can we stop pretending it is the good old days when it comes to pitching? We know for a fact that pitcher throw harder than ever because hitters are more advanced than ever. We only have data back to 2002, and the average fastball then was 89.2 mph. So far in 2026 it is 94.7. Keep going backwards in time, and that number keeps dropping. It was notable in the old days when I guy threw 90, let alone 95. Today it is notable when they don't. It was MUCH easier to go deeper into games then, because you weren't going at max effort on each pitch. Somehow in the discussion about how no one works deep into games, we seem to leave out the fact that instead of marathon runners on the mound, pitchers have turned into 100 meter sprinters, with a few 200 and 400 meter guys mixed in who can hold their stuff out to 100 pitches 30 times per year. It was easy to go 300 innings when you were topping out at 80 mph and were mixing in junk like a knuckleball because each pitch was at 75 to 80%. NO ONE does that today, which is why almost no one gets to 200, let alone 300 innings. Again, think of it this way. World class 100 meter dash speeds the last couple of Olympics are in the 9.8 range. Projected out over 400 meters, that would be about a 39 second pace. The record is just over 43 seconds, meaning no one in the world has ever held a top 100 meter pace for 400 meters. If you ran 4 sets of 43 second 400's to get to a mile, your pace would be 2 minutes and 52 seconds, the world record just set was 3 minutes and 42 seconds. Drag that out to a marathon, and you would finish the world record in 1 hour and 37 minutes. The World record is just under 2 hours. Bonus, if you ran a 9.8 second 100 meter pace for a marathon, you would finish in just over an hour and eight minutes. TLDR, you can throw a lot of pitches at a much lower rate, or you can throw the hardest pitches and throw many less of them. But you cannot physically do both. Stop wondering why.

With the White Sox in first place with the best record in the AL.