Everything posted by Dick Allen
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Your 2023 Off-Season Plan
I still think Madrigal can be a decent player if he could stay healthy. That's a pretty gigantic if at this point.
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Let's make Crochet a starter?
As far as I'm concerned, it's better than spending pick #13 on Courtney Hawkins, and he supposedly fits the profile of what you are supposed to draft. I just want them to get guys that help them win, no matter what the position. And relievers are pretty valuable these days. Much more than car salesmen.
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Let's make Crochet a starter?
The guy can't hold up as a reliever. How is he going to hold up as a starter?
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2023 MLB offseason signings and rumors thread
Been watching MLBN lately. O'Dowd seems to think Lopez is a pretty big injury risk. The Twins rotation is pretty good right now, but they really don't have an ace. Quite a few #3 guys though.
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2023 MLB offseason signings and rumors thread
If I'm trading Arraez, I'd want more than Lopez.
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Lance Lynn has a new trick
I laughed when Steve Stone insisted Lynn did everything he could to pitch 200 innings, including being in top physical condition. I think Steve knows the game, and sometimes he is really good. But he thinks the audience is just a bunch of total idiots.
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2023 MLB offseason signings and rumors thread
I wonder if Shelley will be putting guys with 1-2 counts on first base.
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Liam Hendriks is cancer free
They sell SUX stuff outside of Wrigley, but then again, Cubs fans don't even think about the Sox. LOL.
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Giolito revamped mechanics
This change wasnt just a whim after struggling. A biomechanics assessment this offseason revealed misfiring in his delivery, and a throwing program reintroducing plyometric balls with focus on “getting everything back in sync, my whole kinetic chain” is going well. He's got his kenetic chain in sync. Look out AL.
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Giolito revamped mechanics
You only have at most 10 months to worry about Gio as a White Sox.
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Giolito revamped mechanics
He’s been working with som pretty advanced things. I wouldn’t be too nervous. He wouldn’t change if it didn’t make him better. BTW, they had Eloy on MLBN today. He looks good. Yonder Alonso was interviewing him. He looks 70 lbs. lighter than Yonder.
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2023 MLB offseason signings and rumors thread
Which is reminiscent of the team's strategy before the rebuild. Mired in mediocrity. Hahn was correct about something. Having the same fools in charge, doing the exact same thing, shouldn't surprise anyone. If they were serious about winning, RH and KW would have been shown the door.
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Gary Sanchez Twitter rumor
I've never really understood these fake insiders. Maybe you get something from someone once and you post it, and you get enough people to think youre an insider, but if you really aren't, what's the motivation?
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Soxtalk was down; Back up
Soxtalk is out as much as Sox core players.
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Sox with "plenty of money" left in Jan 15 international pool
International signing day turns out to be just as exciting as the trade deadline and Winter Meetings for White Sox fans.
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Gary Sanchez Twitter rumor
I think the issue is if Grandal can't bounce back and at least be a regular, is Seby and his mostly impossible to maintain numbers good enough to be a regular. Is Perez ready to be a regular. Chances are, the answer to those questions is no. I
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2023 MLB offseason signings and rumors thread
Great, another talking point for RH.
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Gary Sanchez Twitter rumor
Luis Robert comes up lame the last week of Spring Training, who plays CF?
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Gary Sanchez Twitter rumor
I know he has supposedly improved defensively, but why not sign a guy most likely cheaper, who pitchers love to throw to? I though the Sox could use a guy like Barnhart earlier. Stolen bases are about to become more prevalent, he would have been a better use of resources than Sanchez. It has to be BS.
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Lightning in a Bottle; Sox have amazing year?
There obviously is time to make moves, but to me, I don’t know why fans should be excited. They weren’t good enough last year, lost their best player and leader, and at least 3rd best starter for nothing. Replaced the starter with a more expensive question mark. Signing Benitendi seems good, but I hope they really don’t think he’s the savior for which they are making him . Pedro has to be better than Tony, I ll give them that, but relying on the rest of the roster to remain healthy let alone have big time bounce back seasons? How baked is Hahn?
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Sox building something outside GRF…?
A quote which will live in infamy. BTW, the big market White Sox mlb.com beat writer referred to Benintendi as a whale. I guess the seat has been removed.
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Sox building something outside GRF…?
I don't think these will get snatched up as fast most nights. It's not a location upgrade for most. And for those it is, a $13 beer may be a little more than they want to spend.
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Your 2023 Off-Season Plan
I don't know how it will translate to baseball, but it looks like a pretty intense exercise to me.
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Would TLR be the 2023 White Sox manager if healthy?
I don’t think he would have been back. He had the pacemaker all last season. Now it’s an issue that can’t be dealt with? They said he had another issue. Wouldn’t surprise me if it was cognitive. There was a big difference difference between Tony’s postgame press conferences in 2021 and 2022 and 2011. im sure even JR realized Tony wasn’t the guy they needed last season.
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Carlos Correa is a Twin - 6 yrs $200M
Both the Mets and Twins were willing to guarantee 6 years. Usually with the free agent whales who arent pushing 40, any production the last couple of years is gravy if you have any chance of landing them. So I'm thinking Correa probably looks like he has 3 or 4 more productive years left before the arthritis becomes a problem.