Dick Allen

That was a different regime. Poles has been, IMO, better than pretty good. He had nothing in the draft his first year yet got Brisker and Gordon who look like they are going to be really good players. This past draft looks really good. He missed on Claypool. He missed on Leatherwood, he missed on Neal, but he moved on. Everything else seems to be a bullseye.

You almost have to either keep them all or get rid of them all, in Eberflus, Getsy and Fields. My thing with keeping them and trading the pick, is if they fail in 2024, they will have the draft capital to get back up top in the draft.

Thanks for leaving.

What a trajection he helped Royals to. The last 4 full seasons they lost 103, 88,97, and 106 games. He'll help the White Sox beat that.

My problem, and I realize Wong in all probability will have very little say in the roster, but it's another KC guy who has the GMs eat and probability is very loyal to Grifol. How Pedro is still around is a joke.

Next weekend is the Cubs convention. I suspect they do something this week. They really should be in on Cease.

The Royals have been above .500 three times the past twenty seasons. They were also .exactly 500 once. So like JR suggested in his press conference, their players and employees understand how special going 81-81 is. They are probably working to get a KC broadcaster out of their contract now to take over for Benetti.

White Sox aren’t through collecting ex Royals. According to Bob, Jeremey Haber will be leaving and Jim Wong from KC will be taking his place.

There’s a good chance every single player the White Sox acquire for Cease, if they are ready in 2024 or 2025, will be eligible for free agency before the White Sox are good again as long as JR is operating the team.

He can’t count on that timeline with the new draft rules. The Orioles drafted 1, 2, 5, 1. JR is already at 5, 10 at best. If he wants to win, he has to spend money, including using all of his international pool, and maybe doing the opposite of what he has been doing and taking contracts for more pool money. That’s the bottom line. Too many people think it’s 2016 again. It’s not. The new anti tanking rules are going to burn a team that didn’t tank on purpose, but are so stuck in the past they can’t get out of the way of themselves. moral of the story is letting KW and RH make baseball decisions is tanking.

Until the White Sox can actually develop a guy who isn’t considered a top prospect, I’m going with 2 top 50s.

Getz isn’t going to trade Robert or Montgomery or Schultz, so he has to get this trade right. He messes it up, the next decade will almost assuredly look like Rick Hahn’s tenure. If not worse. Imagine how long a rebuild would have taken if there wasn’t Sale, Q, and Eaton on team friendly contracts to trade, and having to draft 10th every other year and drafting guys like Collins? After Cease, all he has left will only get him the type of crap he has already picked up. At some point, some other team will blink.

As diminished as Cease’s stuff was last year, at least according to Balta, he led all of baseball in swords. Those are ridiculous looking half swings hitters take when they have been fooled.

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Doesn't mean they are out at all. They are not going to meet the current price, at least not now. But let's see what happens when something appears to be cooking.

How many GMs think they have more than enough pitching? These teams would still like to add him, but don't want to pay out there nose with prospects.

Plus he needs a new TV deal. I think this screams of going at it without much help because who would throw money at his franchises?

It's a minor league deal so I shouldn't be bothered, but Machado's friends and family acquisitions, as bad as there were, had a lot more upside than the Pedro friends and family picks. Can Getz at least acquire 1 guy we can be semi-excited about?

Think about how bad the AL Central has been. Then think about how many years the White Sox, with all their advantages, seemed to not even try to compete. MLB should do itself a favor and force JR to get out.

I think it worked out pretty well they traded the pick. I get your position. I just think the Bears maximize their offseaon haul trading the pick, and if Fields doesn't get better, he's at least not terrible, they would probably have 2 high firsts and at least 2 high seconds in 2025 which would be more than enough to get them at the top of the draft again.

Pedro’s comment “and we’re not done” was great too. He can’t be this clueless. What they aren’t done acquiring replacement level and below players? With a legitimate major league organization, Pedro would have been done long ago.

I bet Fields QBR goes up next year if the Bears add Maserati Marv to the mix. If he plays like he played yesterday in playoff games, he’s definitely good enough to win a Super Bowl. I get everyone’s feeling from both sides, but I think the point about the Bears , if they didn’t draft a QB this year, worst case scenario being pretty set with draft capital because of it, to draft one next year.is spot on. It worked pretty well this year. They have Moore, Stevenson, Wright, the first pick this year, and a second next year. They get a similar haul for this pick, and all their bases are covered. I did read an article a few weeks old where ex NFL GMs said Fields would only get the Bears a second or third rounder. The talent is there. I agree he is inconsistent, but he has thrown some unreal balls, and his legs are such a weapon. Maybe I’m drinking the kool aide, but this team isn’t far away from being really good.

I was watching MLBN a month or so ago and they had Ted Simmons on. A HOF catcher back in the era guys through 250 innings a year. Also was a long time executive. He said if he were running a team today he would limit pitchers to 10 batters an appearance. It’s hard to believe you could go through an enitire season like that, but we may be heading that way. I’m sure some team will experiment with 2 or 3 bullpen games a week soon.

I read that earlier and thought it was strange. The good news is I don't think the article gets Omar anywhere.

So why blast me for not understanding or liking the strategy? They trade Cease, while it's a tank move, at least what you get back you can expect to be good. There is not 1 playet Getz has signed or traded for yet, you can EXPECT to be good Right now it looks like they are trying to be historically bad.