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My days of “youthful indiscretions” were over by my early 40’s, lol. Married life and fatherhood since 2015.

The Ghost of Nick Swisher still haunts us all. Or Bradford. Or Samardzija. Or Foulke. In reality, we don’t win a WS without Freddy Garcia (Olivo came over from Oakland) and Cotts.

They would call that compensated dating or perhaps worse here in Asia, lol.

Interestingly Bohm, taken right before Madrigal in that draft to play third…has had a largely disappointing start to his young career.

Bmags is actually pretty interesting too, going all philosophical/sentimental/self-reflective in recent weeks.

No body shaming, please!

Make sure he also gets the chin, behind the ears and the lower back near the tail, haha.

https://mobile.twitter.com/listenherepal/status/271098417617465345

https://theathletic.com/2939699/2021/11/07/which-offeason-roster-needs-will-weigh-heavily-for-the-white-sox-key-takeaways-from-rick-hahns-recent-media-session/ probably here…

Here’s the other team following the White Sox path this offseason…down to signing Ryan Tepera 13. Angels Key gains: Noah Syndergaard, Aaron Loup, Ryan Tepera, Archie Bradley, Michael Lorenzen, retained Iglesias Key losses: Alex Cobb The good news is the back three in the Angels’ bullpen—Loup and his 0.95 ERA, Tepera, and incumbent closer Raisel Iglesias—were all excellent last season. The bad news is the rotation is still lacking. A flurry of starters changed teams this winter, yet the Angels—a team in desperate need of reliable innings—landed Syndergaard, fresh off Tommy John surgery, and Michael Lorenzen, who’s started five total games in the past six years and wasn’t even good in the bullpen last season. Syndergaard offers considerable upside, of course, and the lineup could benefit from better health from Mike Trout and a rebound from Anthony Rendon, as well as breakouts from young outfielders Brandon Marsh and Jo Adell. But the Angels still look—and project—like a .500ish team, as they have for so many years. Their improvements push them forward only an inch at a time.

Dodgers, Yankees, Padres, Braves, Mets, Astros, Twins, White Sox, Blue Jays, Rays That was 2021 preseason. Tier 5: They didn’t do much, but at least they’re good. 18. White Sox Key gains: Kendall Graveman Key losses: Carlos Rodón, César Hernández, Ryan Tepera The White Sox are still heavy AL Central favorites and can bank on full seasons from Luis Robert and Eloy Jimenez for internal improvements, but they could have pursued more aggressive upgrades at second base (where Josh Harrison probably isn’t the answer) and right field. The starting spot vacated by Rodón (who, like with Gray and the Rockies, inexplicably didn’t even garner a qualifying offer) is also an area of concern if Michael Kopech struggles in his transition from the bullpen to the rotation. Remember: The new playoff structure means the White Sox can’t just worry about beating the rest of their division, because the worst division winner in each league gets a best-of-three against a wild-card team instead of a bye to the division series. So the White Sox could come to regret their relative inactivity. https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2022/3/24/22993741/mlb-teams-ranking-offseason-moves-twins-yankees-dodgers-mets

When Montas and Manaea inevitably fall through, there’s always The Batman/Dark Knight. https://nypost.com/2022/03/25/matt-harvey-getting-mlb-interest-after-tyler-skaggs-testimony/ Supposedly back to throwing in the mid 90s. Katz can fix him! Merkin also put this puff piece out about Vaughn being much better prepared for 2022 outfield play. “Ready to be White Sox RFer” https://www.mlb.com/news/andrew-vaughn-ready-to-be-white-sox-right-fielder?partnerId=zh-20220325-569999-mlb-1-A&qid=1026&utm_id=zh-20220325-569999-mlb-1-A&bt_ee=R%2F0BcX59im5JPsIZNXGsFakcb%2B1JN%2FIBxHEREeBJmb%2BGzcYALC7tAjoyeVHmKE7z&bt_ts=1648215862674

Keep in mind the Rockies just signed Ryan McMahon to a $70 million extension… No way Giolito thinks he’s remotely in the same zip code let alone neighborhood as that guy. That’s what, commitments amounting to a quarter of a billion dollars in about the span of a week from one of the “crying poor” owners.

Did any other MLB teams tweet about Conforto?

Is he related to George Soros or from Westeros?

He clearly lacks the leverage Correa and Boras took into contract talks with Minnesota.

Who was responsible for signing Marcus Semien for just $130,000? Jose Abreu? Luis Robert? Fernando Tatis, Jr. for under a million? Trading for the guy who would have won the 2008 MVP if he had successfully controlled his temper? Jose Contreras for someone he took off the scrap heap to almost win the 2003 Cy Young? Bobby Jenks? Jermaine Dye? Montas? Chris Bassitt? Matt Thornton? Floyd and Danks? Damaso Marte? Chris Sale? Jose Quintana? KW has always had the better eye for talent. It’s not even close. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2903817-power-ranking-every-mlb-teams-front-office I’m going to vociferously disagree with #26/29/30, but these rankings are from two years ago before there was more of a track record to go on. Still, interesting to discuss.

He was worth 11.2 fWAR in 2017/18/19. That’s $89.6 in FA terms…granted, paying for past production. However, the last two seasons pencil out to an average of 2.6 (adjusting for 2020’s brevity.) Basically, combined into one long year of 179 games. Which is worth $20.8. Add them together, you get $110.4 over four seasons. If you discount for the QO impact and falloff over the last two seasons, you’re still looking at $80-90 million over four years in this seller’s market. Or he simply does what Grandal and Moustakas did in taking 1 year deals and going back into a barren FA class in 2022-23 where he could increase his future contract by $50-75 million if he has another 3.5-4.0 fWAR season playing on a potent offensive team and appearing in the postseason.

You’re inevitably going to be disappointed. And a lot of teams are going to want a second or third look at Kimbrel. The question marks keep mounting.

Then you’re only going to buy players at max value by that argument, like Correa, Semien and Seager. Even those star players come with multiple question marks. On one hand, we almost gave Alex Gordon similar money…which would have been a disaster. On the other hand, if we can never quite manage to pull the trigger due to fear of risk or making a mistake, we can never be a truly great team, either. Not without nearly every single thing breaking our way, like 2005.

Another Wes Anderson film?

Uncharted Street-smart Nathan Drake is recruited by seasoned treasure hunter Victor "Sully" Sullivan to recover a fortune amassed by Ferdinand Magellan, and lost 500 years ago by the House of Moncada.

They must need to sell more.season ticket packages...that's pretty dishonest if they have no intention whatsoever of signing Conforto, or if it's all predicated on dumping Kimbrel first.

Leury/Rios got the ball rolling. The infamous Nate Jones for intl bonus pool money, etc.

Unless you buy into bad blood about player rep duties, arbitration hearing fight over pennies after turning down a team-friendly extension. That he's essentially being punished or however you want to put it. Which all sounds incredibly petty, but there's massive difference between that rumored extension and what Berrios actually ended up with the Blue Jays making him feel wanted after being pushed aside for Buxton's own team-friendly deal in Minny.