caulfield12

Mature.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2929266-ranking-all-30-mlb-teams-on-homegrown-talent-entering-2021-season White Sox right in the middle of the pack at #16 at that point...quite interesting teams #21-30. Would have to be down in 20's now.

Or just hire Antonetti from CLE.

Kwan, Rosario (only one going into FA after next year), Gonzalez and likely Brennan all really solid players. Gimenez is secretly a stud, second best player. And Straw has finally been dangerous the last 4-6 weeks like they envisioned with the early extension. Great pen if Karinchak is actually back again at 100%. And cheap as heck. The big question is whether they try to hold onto Bieber. Civale and Plesac to be cast aside for better pitchers, and soon. Tried to shed at the deadline. .

The pitching list also demonstrates or validates the #26-30 minor league system rankings of the past couple of seasons.

They need the equivalent of the 2004-05 cycle, meaning we’ve already added Contreras/Garcia and now jettisoning Valentin, Ordonez and Carlos Lee.

Best closer in the game.

Just think how close they were to dealing Ramirez and or Bieber. Just like Sox seats at the table with Harper Machado Wheeler. Must have all gone to Hahn's head that he was considering himself an actual legit player in the top tier market.

Neither for $1 million. No more doubling down on bad bets to save face.

Grandal obviously? Couldn't be Seby or McGuire...

Everyone in the world can see it. Other than Andrus Cease and Harrison, Abreu. It was patently obvious after losing the first game against CLE. We have witnessed enough false poditives this year to intuitiveoy know the difference. The difference is that the Tigers and Royals and soon Twins are going to drop the guillotine.

An AI lawnchair propped in dugout would be better. No more retreads.

The White Sox franchise mockery and quitting unfortunately hurts Dylan's campaign. He wins on the Astros ... handily. They're (Sox/disappointment) linked together over decades of underachieving. Abreu winning Covid MVP now seems like such a fluke.

Verlander will clearly not lose to Cease in Cy voting because the media simply love that redemption story.

Lost strike season, 1997 White Flag, 2003, 2006 and this season some of the worst. Never expected much after the off season and with TLR back. Now those claimed managers don't matter much can no longer assert that ridiculous "sabes" claim watching Francona's mastery this season.

Conditional or unconditional based on future coaching, FA moves, trade and strength and conditioning/training changes? Predicted fall off? 25%? 33% 50%? Looming recession seemingly isn't helping matters much here, either. Does anyone expect a payroll over $175 million again or the makings of a full scale reckoning, down to $160 even?

Orlioles lost. Manny Machado just added his 30/100 season that the Sox weren't willing to pay for. Drury followed it up...didn't need him either for under $1 million. #28 for Drury nearly doubling Sox leaders.

Ken Dorsey just destroyed the coaching box in Miami when the Bills couldn't get a last minute spike executed to go for the winning field goal.

On playoff successes of Cubs’ lower level affiliates this fall… “I don't think winning is something that you just happen upon,” Cubs shortstop Nico Hoerner said. “I think it is something that you've done before. Big situations, dealing with other people, building relationships with other people, and then knowing that it's possible. I mean, they won, they celebrated, they did the champagne.” Hoerner chuckled. “If that's allowed,” he added. “It’s really cool to see. I was super aware of that. I know we've got a lot of talent, especially at that lowest level there. It’s awesome to see and good for the organization.” That South Bend roster (the season-end version) included nine players from the Cubs’ Top 30 Prospects list, per MLB Pipeline: Pete Crow-Armstrong (No. 1), Owen Caissie (No. 10), Kevin Made (No. 17), Yohendrick Pinango (No. 18), Daniel Palencia(No. 19), Porter Hodge (No. 22), Luis Devers (No. 26), Luke Little (No. 27) and Kohl Franklin (No. 29). As players move their way up the organizational ladder, there is a high level of focus on individual development. That is all important for a player’s path to the big leagues, but Hoerner said the stuff that can’t be quantified -- the aspects of baseball centered around teamwork and relationship building, for example -- are crucial for finding the win column. “You're going to have the data, exit velocity, spin axis, whatever, going on,” Hoerner said. “And all that stuff's important, but just as long as it's still going toward winning, winning. Keep on talking about it. Make it redundant. That is the thing that matters most, and the other stuff falls in line along with it. So, if that's being emphasized at the Minor League level and guys are capitalizing on it, then that's awesome.” Cubs manager David Ross echoed that sentiment. “Just putting your organization and your players in the championship environment and the playoff environment is extremely helpful,” Ross said. “There's a development process that you go through in the Minor Leagues, and things that you do throughout a season, that may not be all about just winning that day. And once you get to that winning environment, you get to learn those little details about what it takes to do that. And the more we get guys in that space, it's really important and the better off we'll be.” Jordan Bastian mlb.com

Two Kwans/Piranhas on one team is kinda scary. And Owen Miller-Myles Straw are basically two more the way they play.

But, I have to confess, the Kansas City Royals have astounded even this veteran observer. A week or so ago, the team hosted a workshop to warn players and coaches against the dangers of … pornography. The way this happened was equally odd. Apparently, after one of the Royals was busted for a DUI last season, GM Dayton Moore got up at a press conference called to address the situation and wound up veering off into a screed about the perils of porn. (Moore has made no secret of his religious fundamentalism. One of his basic texts is a book titled, The Management Methods of Jesus, a title which, I admit, seems fairly far removed from the gospels.) So, I guess this recent workshop can be seen as a kind of follow-up to what Moore said at that press conference. In fact, the Royals always have had a close relationship with fundamentalist Protestantism, and with its many enthusiastic fundraising arms. I can remember being in the press box at Royals Stadium back in the day and seeing the headquarters of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes on a bluff out behind left field. (The nights when the biweekly apocalyptic thunderstorms came rolling in off the prairies and illuminated the FCA building with lightning were especially signifying.) In 2001, fed up with losing, manager Tony Muser said "Chewing cookies, drinking milk, and praying isn't going to get it done. It's going to take a lot of hard work and some mindset … I'd like them to go out and pound tequila rather than have cookies and milk.”The local Christian activists went up the wall, and so did the fundamentalists on Muser’s team, one of whom was Mike Sweeney, who was the franchise cornerstone. Muser was gone by the end of the following April.

https://www.si.com/mlb/2018/03/21/kansas-city-royals-dayton-moore-anti-pornography-fight-new-drug

Pederson is terribly out of shape.

Clevinger will get bigger money based on the past two months. Guessing $13-15 million based on supply and demand despite his recent injury history. Manaea has been terrible over these last two months.