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He wouldn't say.

The irony is that this applies to Eloy as well. You have to be healthy to take advantage of your upside, and he still hasn't proven he can do that. Eloy repeating his 2021 performance doesn't help the team either. We can't just bank on one of these guys exploding while assuming the other one won't. when there is a plenty of contradictory evidence to go around.

Yes, I pointed out the falsehood. Have you been on a message board before? The rest of it also ignores the other part I pointed out in a different post WHICH YOU IGNORED in that this is a kid who essentially skipped the minor leagues and STILL managed to hold his own in the majors, despite having never played anything longer than a college baseball season + a bit of MiLB in his life, and not being conditioned for a 162 games yet. He has a TON of upside as a hitter, and that hasn't changed, despite the effort to focus on a couple of small negatives over his first season in MLB. I also think he may well play LF more than Eloy simply because Eloy is very regularly hurt from his incompetence in LF. Its also worth noting that if we want to focus just on the small and bad things, Eloy wasn't exactly a superstar hitter last year with his big ol .740 OPS and OPS+ of 100.

It is 100% wrong. Andrew Vaughn is NOT the most hyped prospect since Brian Anderson. That is ridiculous.

It wasn't a "small issue". The set up crew had given away a lot of games and had put up awful numbers, again including Heuer.

If you are trying to contend that the White Sox pen didn't need help at the deadline, you would have totally ignored the gaping hole in the pen. It had been awful outside of Hendriks in the month leading up to the deal, including Heuer. The Sox saw that hole, and filled it with the best reliever on the market, statistically. The awfulness of the Sox pen in July has already been shown.

Sure, but Deutsche Zeppelin Reederei at least kept their asset allocation such that they maintained their financial flexibility.

The Sox could have been done with all of these contracts after this year. They could still be done with them. They could also promote internally if they so choose. But that still doesn't alter the original premise that somehow Hernandez should have been known as a failure for the last five years, but the other guys get an asterick applied to them because of some other made up standards that actually apply to the Sox as well, but you still make up another reason to disqualify them.

Because of "asset allocation" meaning it was OK for Atlanta to do it 4 times, but not the Sox to do it once, despite the Sox ow So Atlanta didn't trade anyone to get these guys? That doesn't enter the equation for Atlanta, but only the Sox? Boy that sounds familiar. You are quite literally making up justifications for the last failed justifications you had made.

I also can't help but think this is funny timing for it to come out after the TLR experience of JR going over all of their heads. Typically I would expect them to promote Hahn, but I still wonder how good he is with getting usurped and embarrassed like that.

Literally none of these deals had to have any affect on financial flexibility going forward. But I guess you are avoiding that too. They still don't today. I do like how you have assigned the phrase "asset allocation" to cover the Braves getting a bunch of guys worse than Cesar Hernandez so that you can still be mad and trash Cesar Hernandez.

This is you. Yet, somehow when the Braves did it more, and at a higher level, this was a great thing.

He got 60 MiLB games in 2019.

Yet the Braves tried to fill three starting OF positions with worse profiles than the guy you were ripping the Sox for getting, but that is a success. That is some crazy contortions.

But I was told other teams don't run to the media after failed deals to tell their side of the story?

No, you spent post after post trashing Hernandez as toast because it should have been obvious by his stats, when Atlanta just won a world series by picking up four guys with worse profiles than Hernandez, yet Atlanta is a genius.

All with essentially zero minor league time.

This is so wrong, it is hilarious. The amount of hype around the guys on this team like Carlos Rodon, Yoan Moncada, and Luis Robert to start with, blow away anything Andrew Vaughn has seen. Hell the Sox created a freaking T-shit with most of those guys on it before they even hit the majors. Vaughn has actually become extremely underrated and understated precisely because of the hype around the rest of the better known guys.

That was an impressive goal post shift into a completely different topic.

This is huge. I hadn't read the article, but this is as big of a change as has happened with the Sox in a really, really long time.

I have honestly always through the opposite of Levine if you really listen to him. When he let's his guard down, he seems to have a pretty decent level of inside knowledge. The problem is that he seems to be more concerned with protecting his sources than he is about revealing info. if you listen to him as news breaks, he will THEN start to reveal details that could have only been known if he knew something before the news broke. But for whatever reason, he is content not being the guy in front of the news.

Here's the thing. If everyone looks exactly the same, they are either saying the best people for the job are all white males, or they are all saying they aren't hiring the best guys.

To add to this, the last five years of WAR from the Atlanta Braves OFs that won them a World Series, including that Soler guy you were dropping. Soler 17 0.2, 18 3.5, 19 0.3, 20 -1.4, 21 1.1 Duvall, 17 2.0, 18 0.8, 19 0.7, 20 1.9, 21 1.2 Joc 17 --0.4, 18 2.2, 19 2.8, 20 -0.3, 21 -0.1 Rosario 17 1.6, 18 4.3, 19 1.5, 20 1.2, 21 1.1 But somehow Atlanta is a genius for trading for all of these guys in super clear high WAR trends in recent years.

But it wasn't. It was 20 and the 1st half of 21