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Then why are we supposed to believe they will now?

The Bulls haven't traded for a true superstar in this century. The Lakers have done it multiple times in the last times years, as have the Suns, the Rockets, and others.

And the Bulls? Why are they unable to do this?

Stop it. The Lakers haven't had cap space since the concept was created, and still managed to land everyone from Shaq to LeBron to Luka.

Here's the thing. TODAY I would much rather give Baldwin a shot over Colson, simply because of how up and down Montgomery has been. Baldwin feels like he has nothing else left for AAA, while Montgomery still has some consistency and fielding issues for sure. That could change, but I would absolutely suffer through a mistake ridden and learning Baldwin over Capra, for sure.

Did he make it to .150?

Hence why they aren't looking for small projects there.

This close to the draft, is there anyone out there who is has a feeling who the Sox top priorties are vs who THEY would pick if available (realistically of course)

This. If you consistently fail in trades, the problem is you.

Both are 5 years past this one, assuming nothing weird happens. They do have the Rule 5 roster requirements this year, which include not being on the IL for too much of the season. So far, so good.

It would be a good start to get him with a Color guy who actually worked with him more.

Colson is so odd. He's either Martin Maldonado or Barry Bonds at the plate, it feels like no in between. I wonder what the consistency hang up is?

Again, he has to learn how to go 100 pitches. This is the downside of him only going to 50/60 pitches his first two years in the system. It is much easier to pitch when you can always go all out. It is much tougher to go 100/110 pitches and deep into games trying to make your stuff last. Dude is 4/5 starts away from his career high in IP and we are about half way through the season.

Keith Law LOVED the dude. Someone sure saw him as huge right away.

Boy is history repeating itself then.

No matter what you thought of his technical skills, the kids loved him and they played a much cleaner game than they do now.

And this IS the kind of stuff the government agencies will help with intrastructure and TIF money to move a project like this of off the books. This site is worth MUCH to them with stuff on it, vs an empty lot.

If they want to build there, they can build there. We engineer things a million times tougher then this. We built a nearly 2000 foot building in what was the Hudson River a few hundred years ago. They can build a ballpark on an old railyard.

Pitching I get having some optimism about, but offensively we improved from worst of all time to just historically bad, and a lot of it was from guys who are 1 year stop gaps anyway, and have zero trade value. Slater and Tauchman putting up a little over league average numbers does nothing for the future of this franchise. Maybe you can squint and see league average out of a couple of young guys, maybe a little better from Teel. That still leaves us finding 7/8 hitters in the next few year.

The Bulls are trash.

He isn't waiting.

Yes. Literally no matter what level of belief, or not, you have in Getz, or anyone else in this organization, he has the anchor of Jerry around his neck. While the former crew was all pretty awful at their jobs by the end, so many problems were created by the boss. Most notably the signings Jerry won’t allow, and inserting himself into daily operations by insisting on Tony instead of a real manager. Even the Getz hire was because he had Jerry’s ear and filled him with what he wanted to hear. If you are going to succeed as an org you find good people and let them do their jobs. Considering Tony is still roaming the system, does it sound like that is happening? Eh. With many of the same oddities around roster management and line up construction looking identical to the previous regime, I am sure not convinced Chris even has control.

With as many people as are constantly worried about what I have to say, that seems to be a fallacy.

Again, that is NOT the same thing as ONLY GETZ AND JR ARE TO BLAME. You can feel anything you want, or read into it whatever you like but there is not a single post of mine that states only those two are to blame. Gaslight me personally all you like, but all of the non sequitors in the world still do not make your original statement true. Find a post that actually states it, or give it up. If you would actually like to walk away from this, please do, and we can pretend it never happened, and instead get back to a decent conversation.