Dick Allen

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 23, 2018 -> 06:08 AM) That Heyman and Morosi are the main pushers of these narratives tells me all I need to know on whether to believe it. Morosi, to me, is the most inaccurate guy who actually gets a lot of face time on MLB Network. I don't think it's even close. Heyman is a Boras mouthpiece. That is well known, but he throws a lot of his own opinions out there. Rosenthal, to me, is the king, and he's on the DL.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Feb 23, 2018 -> 07:50 AM) I just listed twelve guys for six relief roles and acknowledged there are other major league quality arms I’m ignoring. I fail to see how I’m being optimistic here. Burdi & Cease project as impact relievers. Filling out the rest is simply a numbers game. There are a heck of a lot of guys who project to things they never become. I hope all the White Sox prospects reach to their projections and above, but it's not realistic to not think at least half of these guys are going to face plant. If they don't, it's gravy, but right now Eloy, Moncada, Hansen, Kopech, Robert, are all future 9 figure contract guys. Hopefully, 2 are.

It's too bad so many won't use common sense because they want to make guns a republican/democrat issue.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Feb 23, 2018 -> 07:22 AM) I personally hope we add one impact reliever and then go young with the rest of the pen. I think we have the pieces to accomplish that. Let’s say we sign Andrew Miller for example sake. We could be looking at a 2020 pen something like this: CL: Burdi SU: Miller SU: Cease MR: Fulmer MR: Bummer/Fry/Clarkin MR: Vierira/Hamilton/Burr LR: Stephens/Adams/Guerrero And I’m sure there are other potential pen guys I’m missing. But overall I feel pretty good about the depth we have in place on the pitching side and agree that will allow us to splurge on the positional side. You are way too optimistic about White Sox prospects.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Feb 22, 2018 -> 09:26 PM) Where the hell do you come up with these odds? I have never seen a poster throw out random probabilites more than you. Right now, all four of those guys are within two years of free agency. Odds are they will wait it out for a big payday if they haven’t settled already by this point. Anything can happen, but I’d wager none of these guys resign with their current clubs prior to testing the market. And yes, the Sox with a $50M payroll will have TWTW a bidding war in the $150M. For f***s same, they just spent $50M on an amateur free agent. I’m certain they plan on going to the $300M+ range for Machado. Probably won’t be enough to outbid the Yankees, but once they’re out of the picture we’re as dangerous as anyone. People really need to accept the fact that the Sox are going to spend like crazy over the next two years assuming no stumbling blocks with the rebuild and that the old way of doing things will no longer be relevant. They say things will be different and I believe them, but I will believe they will sign one of these guys when they actually sign him. No offense to anyone.

Trust the process.

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Feb 22, 2018 -> 07:05 PM) I’m not a fan of this signing. I don’t want to give up the draft pick for him and I think his injuries are catching up and will continue to do so. Judging from Hahn’s comments, I don’t think you have much to worry about unless his price becomes a very non Boras number.

Trump says Obama took no action on guns. He will. Obama had a bipartisan bill to expand background checks. The republicans killed it. When will this guy be required to tell the truth?

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Feb 22, 2018 -> 06:22 PM) Whose playing time did I ignore? All the guys who were not full time players. You ignored if they played 15 games or 150.you ignored if they sat vs. LHP or RHP. You ignored if they were September call ups, or just some player that had a hot week. And you took these guys and made a blanket statement that they were better hitters. These are things you wouldn’t ingnore nomally.

Since Trump is thinking about pulling ICE out of California and in his mind causing a crime wave never before seen, is there a way, if he was correct, for it to be considered a treasonous act?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Feb 22, 2018 -> 06:13 PM) Just like every teacher wielding a gun would then become the first targets of the attacker. Since public school records have to be published, it would be easy to research exactly who has certification and permits to carry a gun. Also, for all we know, ex military suffering from PTSD might not react well under stressful combat conditions after 10-15 years away from that environment. Just like this SRO apparently. I agree. Teachers will be the first target. These attackers do so,e planning. Let’s face it, the chances of your particular school being attacked is slim, so chances are the guards will either not be on guard satisfactorily or might be a little too gung ho.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Feb 22, 2018 -> 06:09 PM) Again, that's not at all related to the post we're talking about, which is based on ignoring certain portions of a sample. I didn't ignore any part of any sample. So Jose Abreu's claim that it was ironic makes no sense. Regarding what you're talking about: I think you're right that 50 is far too low. I didn't put a lot of thought into it. The correct number is probably more like 100-150 PA. It's important to include mid and late season callups/breakouts. That probably bring Moustakas just into the top 100. Generally, I think my point still stands: I don't think he is (or has recently been) as good a hitter as people think, because while hits hits homeruns, he does everything else poorly. So his overall production last year really wasn't high enough to (IMO) justify the risk against his aging curve to sign him. It you did ignore playing time. By definition you used part time players to make is performance less impressive. The White Sox aren’t going to sign the guy unless it’s for dirt cheap anyway. But he is a pretty good player.

My sister teaches special ed. Her first day on the job, she was told depending on the day a few of her students could stick a pencil in their eye or try to stick one in hers. She has thus far avoided any trouble in her years at the school. Her packing heat would make me a nervous brother..

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Feb 22, 2018 -> 03:47 PM) That's not what I did with Moustakas, though. It's fair to say that 50 PA is too low a cutoff for that list, but it's not even related to the idea of arbitrarily lopping off parts of a given sample based on time. That would be like if I chose Moustakas' 50 worst plate appearances to judge him. That's not at all the same thing as setting 50 PA as a cut off to ordinarily rank hitters in 2017 by wRC+. But they are because you were using players that didn’t play a whole season, and platoon guys whose numbers would certainly go down if they played every day. Yet you claimed they were better than Moustakas. Trance Thompson put up a 146wRC+ in 2015. Was he really better than big Papi, Rizzo, Bryant , McCutchen, Machado..... If you use those guys, it could only make Moustakas look worse because you were just looking for guys that did better. Far more did worse.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Feb 22, 2018 -> 02:44 PM) I'm not following you here -- the post you just quoted is implying absolutely nothing related to the significance of a sample size. The point being 50 PA is not something you would use to conclude like you did with Moustakas. 10 or 12 bad or unlucky PA would drop those numbers quickly.

What is the over/under for when a kid gets pissed off at his 115 lb. teacher, overpowers her and grabs her gun?

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Feb 22, 2018 -> 12:56 PM) What's funny is we already have "more" guns. America has about 42% of the civilian-owned guns in the world. We have almost as many guns in this country alone as the rest of the world combined. 4.4% of the world population. The more guns theory has been debunked and the politicians with their tongues up the NRA's ass just ignore it. I hope it does get these young men and women to the voting booth.

Trump threatening to pull ICE out of California and says if he does, you will see crime like you never have before. President or spoiled brat 3 year old?

Gun free zones are like going for ice cream to a killer. That's what Trump thinks. Why is no one questioning Trump about rolling back the Obama mandate about making it harder for mentally ill people to buy guns?

QUOTE (Brian @ Feb 22, 2018 -> 12:15 PM) Did Trump praise the NRA in front of all those kids or just on Twitter? He's nothing more than a keyboard warrior. Did you see the photo with the close up of his notes yesterday?

I saw an interview with Hub yesterday discussing the Bears. He said they won't be able to spend all of their cap money. Also said, if they have to, they should tag Fuller. Said he probably isn't worth the salary, but they can't create more holes, and it isn't going to be a payroll problem. Didn't understand why teams kept trying to pick on Fuller last year, he played really well. Also said Fangio was Fuller's biggest detractor before the season, and a huge backer afterward.

QUOTE (knightni @ Feb 22, 2018 -> 11:02 AM) I don't believe that Eloy will be anything other than a LF. His arm is not strong enough for RF. Everything you read on line during the season last year, Eloy seemed like the next face of MLB. Then the winter happens and all of a sudden you start seeing articles about how he can't do this or can't do that. At least he's still ranked really high, whatever that is worth.

QUOTE (Tony @ Feb 22, 2018 -> 10:25 AM) If he was a better player, his market wouldn’t be as limited. Him playing 3B doesn’t help, but if he played LF I think he’s still sitting at home, based on what he’s asking for. He could play 1B, he could DH if a team was really enamored with him.. You’re arguing a small semantical point because it’s your shtick, but whatever. Why did it take forever for Darvish to sign? Why isn't Arrieta signed? Do they need to be better players? Same agent. Similar problem, only everyone can use pitchers. This is what Boras does, and it can backfire. Usually he pulls something out of his ass though.

Will future teachers have to take gun courses to get certified?

QUOTE (Tony @ Feb 22, 2018 -> 09:52 AM) It’s one in the same. He’s asking for a lot of money which doesn’t match his actual production. I don't necessarily agree. He has a limited market. And most of the big spenders have 3rd base occupied or are trying to re set their luxury tax. The guy just picked a bad year to be a free agent, and he picked the guy who tries to squeeze every last ounce out of a team. Sometimes that will come back to haunt some guys.