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He has all of the physical tools to be a #1 starter. Big arm, big strong frame, fast twitch muscle to spare, 102 top fastball, plus he had an outrageous slider. By all indications he should have been Paul Skenes before he got here.

I disagree fully. Michael Kopech has more raw talent then just about anyone in baseball. He is just missing something between the ears to use it.

Thankfully we fired that guy, right? Right? https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2024/06/29/how-white-sox-development-plan-is-working-for-jonathan-cannon

Bowl of room temperature dog water would work.

Like Stacey King always tells us, KYP, Know Your Personnel.

Eloy already tore a Hamstring just thinking about running out on the damp field.

Starting to see our 2nd half bullpen come together

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He also gave up more hits JUST under someone's glove than anyone I can remember.

He has an option for 25, so you don't HAVE to trade him, but if you get a Graveman type offer, put him on the train to ORD.

Except he had a 3.58 FIP leading some to believe getting away from the worst fielding team in baseball would help his numbers normalize. The wild thing is even with pitching to contact and seeing his K and BB numbers both drop hard, his FIP is still a run less than his ERA.

That's a plus for a guy who is gone in three months.

That's honestly a pretty good call about a dude no one has talked about much. He has been impressive as a reliever. Maybe a low budget team looks at him as a cheaper target than an established reliever. He is a free agent after this season, so you have to imagine the Sox take any offer at all for him.

And while I get the Sox looking at bats, I think we are going to all look back at the 2024 draft and Hagen Smith, the same way we look back on the 2014 draft and Carlos Rodon, wondering how he wasn't the top pick. The dude is just a beast.

I think the only way a team isn't interested is if they think he is too hurt to help. They have to be looking at the toxic situation here and thinking if they get him out of Chicago, he will be fine.

To put it all out there, Baltimore is needs to s%*# or get off of the pot. They are about to hit a pretty hard core 40 man roster crunch that should almost force them into some 3:1/4:1 type deals where they move guys who are in between off of the roster to open up spots for the next guys they have to protect this winter. It's either that or starting to deal the guys who need to protected soon. They don't have nearly enough roster spots to cover everyone. A Crochet deal where they push some volume out there door makes some sense for them.

Come on lemon's! Come on lemon's! D'oh!

It's stark. First 11 games at A .140/.229/.279/.508 28k 48 PA Since .385/.448/.577/1.025 9 k 29 PA Kid did the same thing in ACL. He apparently needs a minute to get comfortable.

If they could figure out another guy to shove down, and a HS kid or two to convince late, this could be a big draft.

The last three aren't going anywhere because of their control. Vaughn isn't going anywhere because he isn't very good and is going to be getting more expensive. Robert and Crochet are 100% for sale if a team makes the right offer. I don't think they are a certainty to go, but they are 100% available. If I were a betting man, I would say a 90% chance that Crochet goes, and 70% for Robert.

Ideally you'd like a guy who profiles with some true up the middle defensive profile, but in this scenario you are getting two day one starters in Norby and Kjerstad. They solve 2/3 of your OF, or an OF and a 2B. McDermott might end up a reliever with his control. Beavers is supposed to have power to find, and he might be the make or break of a package like this.

He's actually been a totally different guy out of the pen.