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This is such a weird year. The team has largely overachieved, and has a ton of issues that are going to crop up over the next couple of months. They have a ton of players they have to make room for from the 60 day DL, and every player added from the outside complicates that math. There are about half a dozen guys on the 60 day who might show back up. Add four outside players (2 SP, 1 RP, and a C) and you now have 10 40 man roster slots to account for in the next month or so. We also have plenty of pitchers who are hitting the upper limits of their innings histories, on a staff that is already short handed. Can they continue to achieve at that level? I don't know. The other side is I don't know who is demonstrably better. Both the AL Central and the AL are weirdly low this year. We all know the story of the last rebuild where all of these guys were primed for a long run atop the division, and then they all flamed out under Tony. Could it happen again? Who knows. If you push in for this year, and the young pitching runs out of gas, as it well could, will you miss the guys you dealt in the future? I have no idea what I would be doing right now as GM. There are plenty of reasons to go for it, and there are plenty of reasons to do as little as possible to get by.

Can you show me a draft of a team who didn't do this?

Chris Sale was a reliever, at best.

Or until one of them gets hurt again.

Been saying that since the deal was announced.

We're fucked

Full speed, slow mo, etc. It's a catching move.

As a catcher, he has probably made those motions 10,000 times when you combine games, practices, drills, etc. There was nothing extraordinary about the move, except for the stuck cleat. If it wasn't the cleat, Teel has way bigger problems, because his body is not made for catching then.

Kinky.

Oh man, the posts flipping back to how great Robert is would be totally worth it.

Something like Houston does where the outside wall opens.

I really, really, really hope that we use the found money this season (literally, we are up 20% YoY in attendance so far, with a lot of season left) that they are willing to take on salary versus the prospect cost this season.

Wow, that's impressively hard to achieve something that bad. That's 2.5 walks PER INNING.

Roch signed for $10.35m. Emerson $9.75m. Lackey was $9.4975 The difference was $600k between the top two picks. It was $850k between Roch and Lackey. If they had drafted and signed Lackey for that amount, the difference between their bonuses would have almost exactly fit the Bowen kid who signed just under a million, if he had been drafted after round 10. If it had been Emerson, they could have added another $750k signing after round 10, or between $800 or $850k in rounds 8 or 9. Still worth it with some numbers to see?

Uh huh. Right.

When a guy is repeatedly suffering soft tissue injuries it is absolutely fair to wonder if either A, the guy is just fragile (it happens), or if there is something not right in their training, especially if it happens to a lot of different players. In this specific case, you can see his cleat stick in the clay. It's really obvious. Something like that would hurt just about anyone. When your body tries to go one way, and your foot does not, there are a million tendons and ligaments in the foot that can, and do, tear. This is more likey a problem with footing, or cleats being too long, or most likely, just a random... s%*# happens, kind of event.

So you agree with exactly what I said, since you just rephrased it. He was up on his feet, and went down to make the play, just like I said. Why are you still so mad? How many hours a day do you waste mad about my posts? It's insane how much time you put into me. It's almost like...

A person briefed on their plans? WTAF? Are they leaking their own information now?

So you think the Sox aren't coaching him correctly? Interesting.

That has absolutely nothing to do with how he was hurt. He was standing and had to go down for the tag. He was never on his knees to start with. His cleat stuck as he was going down to the ground for the tag.

KLaw just put Anderson as #1 on his prospect list.

It almost tastes like a Tatis.

From the early discussions, it does not appear that a dome will fit on the 78 or Amtrak sites.

How? His cleat got stuck in the clay. You could see it on the replay from behind the plate.

In the most recent updates from Law, Bonemer is #30 and Carlson 40 for tradeable assets.