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But he’s still at least 1 1/2 years away, and that’s pushing optimistically fir a high school kid from Indiana. If the argument is Montgomery will replace TA7 in 2024, or they will move Anderson to 2B and extend his contract, sure. But we still don’t have any good solutions for 2023. Colas is also at least a year away. So do they really spend for a legit starter on Opening Day, 2023? And sure, we can try to ditch Pollock, but that leaves two open corner outfield spots. Does anyone trust Hahn not to mess that up…or for them not to throw Leury and Engel and Mendick out there again? Are we legitimately going to join the race for Conforto, and how effective would he be with so much downtime, switching leagues, hitting age 30/31?

But missing on Aiken led to Bregman Tucker and Cameron. Cameron helped lead to Verlander. They got Alvarez for a song from the Dodgers and always have a knack of relying on Latin America for a number of their starting pitchers. Plus they hit on Correa Springer and already had Altuve in house.

V-8 juice, too. Does that still even exist?

2006 second half. That was just more running out of gas and two incredible runs by the Twins/Tigers.

On position player side, see if anyone will take Pollock. Likely to be stuck with Harrison/Leury. No way you get what you want back for Moncada Eloy Grandal. And you arguably are without a legit 3B if you have to rely on Burger there. Some might even argue go with Sosa at third with Burger as pure DH. Others will argue Burger will improve with additional experience. Selling Lynn doesn't make much sense because we need him next year to compete since we will refuse to go after any top line talent in FA. Giolito is a conundrum.

Sell high on Graveman now if you can in the hopes of using Lopez more as a closer if the team is out of it a month from now. Prefer to deal Hendricks and keep Graveman, but how realistically will Liam's health hold up? Need to carve out payroll flexibility somewhere. Obviously you listen on Bummer and Kelly as well if you can get something useful back. Odds aren't great there either.

https://theathletic.com/3383695/2022/06/26/cubs-losing-streak-money-defensive/?source=freedailyemail&campaign=601983 Cubs say there’s a vision, and money, but past year has put organization on defensive

https://theathletic.com/3383798/2022/06/26/jorge-alfaro-nomar-mazara/?source=freedailyemail&campaign=601983 Guru working with past top prospects Mazara and Alfaro

Yomiuri though...

RS/RA by divisions (Coastal Elites vs. Flyover Territory) AL East +226 NL West +118 NL East +50 AL West -36 NL Central -175 AL Central -183 AL +7, NL -7

Johnson had served as the club's pitching coach since the 2019 season, when he was hired away from the University of Arkansas as the first pitching coach in Major League history to make the jump directly from college to the big leagues. The 50-year-old Johnson coached pitching staffs that brought the Twins two division championships in 2019 and '20. The Twins once again sit in first place in the American League Central following their series victory over the Rockies at Target Field over the weekend. During Johnson's tenure from 2019-22, the Twins' pitching staff ranked 10th in MLB in WAR, per FanGraphs, and 14th in ERA. He helped to guide Kenta Maeda to a second-place finish in AL Cy Young Award voting during the shortened '20 season. In the three seasons before Johnson arrived, the Twins' pitching staffs had finished 23rd, 24th and 22nd in the Majors in fWAR. Minnesota pitching jumped to fourth in fWAR in '19, and rose to third in '20 before falling back to 24th last season and 21st this year. The '19 pitching staff set a club record with 1,463 strikeouts. mlb.com

Katz is pretty likely to gone as soon as Giolito. Other than TLR and Hahn as Asst GM, we never pay coaches/managers/front office personnel Top 25% in the game wages. Assuming Guillen’s main motivation in leaving for the Marlins was salary-related, too.

We might actually be in second place if Hahn/TlR had another $65 million to waste/spend/allocate.

SEC >>> AL Central https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/34153969/minnesota-twins-pitching-coach-wes-johnson-exiting-reportedly-same-position-lsu-tigers “Johnson has accepted the pitching coach position at LSU, according to a report by D1Baseball.com on Twitter. LSU spokesman Bill Franques said the Tigers plan to announce a new pitching coach Monday, though he did not identify the hire. The Twins did not confirm Johnson's destination. Further announcements from the club surrounding the staff change will come this week. The Athletic reported Johnson will receive a significant raise. The midseason move by a key assistant from a first-place team was startling, but Johnson's arrival in 2019 was also unusual. He was the first college pitching coach in four decades to jump directly to the major leagues when the Twins hired him from Arkansas, which was the national runner-up in the 2018 College World Series. Johnson, 50, spent nine seasons as a college pitching coach before the Twins plucked him with a keen eye on his background in biomechanics. He has a master's degree in kinesiology.”

SPORTS ALERT Twins pitching coach Wes Johnson resigns abruptly to take college job at LSU In a stunning move, Johnson will leave the first-place Twins after the upcoming five-game series in Cleveland. Get updates on this

The Royals never get to the WS in 2014-15 following that strategy of retooling on the fly instead of a complete teardown and rebuild. The Guardians have now done it 3-4 times in the last two decades.

0/2 with a strikeout playing 1B

Keuchel 3 runs in 4 IP vs. Detroit so far… Cobb/Webb/DeScalifini would be the three against Sox over the weekend.. DeSclafini has been going so bad recently he might be dropped from rotation/IL/spot starter. Sunday would be regular rest from Rodon…off days on Mon/Thurs.

Extended…

That one looks like a combination of Jose Canseco and Rambo/Sylvester Stallone…

The Twins figured it out with Correa/Buxton and rebuilding their entire rotation in one year. The Guardians made some good trades and most importantly extended Jose Ramirez, the most important player in the entire AL Central. Perhaps the best parallel for the Sox is the Padres. They were a whopping 22 games under .500 the last six or seven weeks in 2021 and completely quit on their manager. Weren’t even going through the motions. Players who weren’t traded brought hurt feelings to the clubhouse. Had to go through two younger/inexperienced guys to the better fit. All it took was a new manager the players trusted/respected and pitching pitching pitching…as well as improved defense and pen. They did have the type of system depth to blow trades for Clevinger and Snell and still manage to thrive without their two best position players this year as well. The absolute key was that the players filling those roles had to be ready to get the job done…to pick up the slack.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1996-07-06-9607060022-story.html SoxFare instead of Welfare pitch “According to a 2017 financial report, ISFA’s combined fund deficits stand at $207.5 million. And taxpayers are still on the hook for debt repayments following a series of renovations at Guaranteed Rate Field and an overhaul of Soldier Field completed in 2003. Through Chicago hotel tax revenue and a combined $10 million in annual state and local subsidies, taxpayers can expect to continue shouldering these costs for decades. More recently, a cancelled concert at Guaranteed Rate Field cost taxpayers more than $1 million in 2017, when ISFA failed to obtain a full refund for the $1.6 million spent on the event.” https://www.illinoispolicy.org/30-years-later-taxpayers-still-on-the-hook-for-white-sox-stadium/

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/savannah-bananas-owner-details-baseball-232712183.html We need to change the game (again) and go all Bill Veeck. Sold-out games at the 4,000-capacity Savannah Bananas Grayson Stadium in Savannah, Georgia, feature dancing baseball players, coaches, and umpires — 120 different performers in all, including a male cheerleading squad. And 38-year-old owner Jesse Cole, dressed in his signature yellow suit, is the P.T. Barnum of the new kind of baseball circus. “Banana Ball is the fastest, most exciting form of baseball there is,” Cole told Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “We play it in two hours, batters can steal first, there’s no bunting, fans catch a foul ball it’s an out, it’s a crazy fast-paced play of game, and it’s a ton of fun to watch, and fans have been responding more than we could ever imagine.” Might be the only way half our offense can get to first against Balt. The bunting prohibition would have killed Renteria. The last part seems the most fun…especially for teenagers or just any kids bringing a glove to the game.

"For example, Dee Strange-Gordon was released by the Nationals earlier this week." Fine, the way you wrote it was something of a gotcha. Because there's a distinction between the terms, but they are used interchangeably. Waived/DFAed and then actually granted his official release from the organization at the end of whatever period of days that other teams can claim him or work out a deal. Didn't it used to be ten days for a waiver claim instead of five? Then there's conditional and unconditional. Glad you have time for all this putting me in my place but not when other posters write Indians instead of Guardians. Congrats.