Dick Allen

Bears are playing a "home" game in London next season.

A Texans beat writer said the Texans preferred Young over Stroud. So sometimes you just have to get lucky.

I'll argue the problems were A. they overvauled their payers and B. it is always about being good enough to potentially win the ALC instead of being the best they can be. Rick Hahn couldn't stop mentioning he won Exec of the Year. It wasn't even half a season. He acquired Grandal, Keuchel,, Mazara, Cishek and Encanarcion the previous offseason.

The Bears have more draft capital, and are the 3rd youngest team in football. Put Mercedes Lewis back in GB and they are probably the youngest.

He’ll be on the IL before the end of April.

I saw something where teams can't talk to playoff teams assistants until the 22nd. So all of this stuff is slowed down a bit.

If Thom Brennaman should be banned, how about Josh Hader and Trea Turner?

Brenneman also lost his NFL gig when this went down. That may appeal to the White Sox. He'd be around for the meaningless September weekend games.

he's a good announcer, much better than several of the names mentioned. i think Monaco was the best choice, but since he's not hired yet and they are supposedly still bringing in candidates, I would think for one reason or another he's most likely out.

https://www.outsports.com/2022/3/22/22989588/thom-brennaman-gay-slur-lgbtq-mlb-baseball-tv-hire

I would be willing to bet somewhere down the line, the vast majority of this board used the same term Thom did, and in a derogatory way. I understand it was way out of bounds. He paid a huge price. Lost more than 1 gig. He apologized, he did some things to try to make amends. It's been 4 years. I doubt it will happen, but if the White Sox select him, I won't be up in arms.

Grandal threw out 15% of baserunners last year. Maldonado threw out 14%. I think some are expecting a lot more than they will be getting. 37 year old catchers generally don't get better.

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.