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It's obvious that the Sox looked at his pitching history and convinced themselves they were getting a bargain, instead of looking at everything else and realizing there was a reason everyone else was looking past his pitching ceiling.

The Jaime vs Beth thing needed to happen, but after that?

If we are going to have a sucky 2b, I would rather have one who can field.

His bat is terrible, but at least his defense picks him up for some value. He had the 13th best defensive WAR of any 2B with more than 500 innings at the position. Somehow he was almost a 6 fWAR player in 2022.

I did a search, it isn't in there.

Rick: You see the news boss? What do we do now? Jerry: Change the narrative, what do we have? Rick: Just leave that one to me! [dials phone] Hey Ken, have I got a story for you!

They should try to bring him and Alex Reyes in.

AJ Preller is also the GM that kept two sets of injury records and used them to screw over other teams. I am not sure what obligation teams have to report these types of things, but I can definitely see how Preller would keep this to himself either way and use it to screw over other teams. He quite literally has a history of doing exactly these kinds of things.

I am not sure the Sox could have planned any worse of a route since the off-season of 2019 if they sat down and knew what the result of each action would before making plan. It is surreal.

I really do appreciate the rent free room.

And guess what the busiest thread was yesterday. Don't worry, I will give you some time.

Logic is for suckers.

Right. I am not worried about the abuser here. That's the difference between you and me.

Yes, a player committing crimes is going get some attention. I am not sure why this would surprise you.

At the very least you need to quickly suspend him pending the results of the investigation, even if it is with pay.

To take this out to the next step, if you are willing to defend this as oh he COULD be innocent because of this small rate of false reporting, literally no one should be mad about what the Sox are doing, because they also have this small percentage chance of being right, even if you assign them a 95% chance of failure. Seeing as no one is actually applying this same standard evenly for way less important things, I have zero interest in pretending that this is a real thing.

This is exactly why victims are afraid to report. THEY get put on trail instead of the actual criminals. False reporting is such a small sliver of reports, and of those, people who are willing to report are also a small fraction of those who are abused.

I have no interest in playing your games on this topic.

I am guessing that MLB per se didn't say it, but someone close to the situation did, and then the cat was out of the bag.

Don't be the person who looks to make excuses for people like this, even accidentally.

It COULD be that MLB just didn't tell the team about the investigation. I don't know if that is true, or if I would believe them if they said so.

The sad thing is that despite the White Sox claiming ignorance here, after what they pulled in the TLR hire, I can't even give them the benefit of the doubt that they didn't know what was going on. They need to do the right thing here.