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You’re not counting the massive amount of travel time, practice time (fielding, bunting, hitting), extraneous responsibilities like charity events and autograph signings and visiting sick kids in hospitals….they’re there a lot closer to eight to ten hours. Coaches would stay an hour or two later to fill out reports for the parent affiliates, then there was dealing with the media pre and post game, etc.

Because the teams always shared or outsourced this responsibility with the independently owned minor league affiliates. Below the AA/AAA level, there aren’t huge profits and there are frequently losses, although franchise values continue to escalate. The biggest concerns clubs used to have was simply the safety of the playing surface, locker rooms and training facilities. Essentially, the major league teams would have to buy those owners out. Or what has happened to the Clintons and Burlington’s in the past couple decades…they simply disappeared. Further cost cutting. I made it part of my job to help all the Latin American players (especially Dominican) players with finding apartments to rent and even ordering at McDonald’s or providing rides home from the ballpark (for home games), but it was always so messy with players coming in and out constantly, tracking people down for utilities or phone charges (when there were land lines and they used intl long distance constantly), it was a massive headache for both affiliates and their players who were of course owned by the MLB affiliates. Things are better now, but the lower level teams, a lot of the season ticket holders essentially took care of the players. And, as noted, married players or those with fiancé’s or gf’s staying with them the entire summer created a whole separate array of problems. It reinforced the cliques from the beginning, mostly by nationality. First round picks had fancy cars, no roommates and a luxurious lifestyle while the money lasted…relievers stuck together, Christians who didn’t like to go out every night, etc.

No Harold Baines? He has to be 4th…

Almost always see this with short season clubs and the two A level teams that are relatively distant from the majors...where the odds of players making it are significantly diminished comparatively.

Well, there’s that ongoing claim about Anderson not being mentally focused this year…allegations from multiple women regarding extramarital affairs or a pregnancy,..if it was Abreu, nobody would say anything. To others, it’s just one more data point supporting their preconceived notions about TA7. With Anderson, Robert and Moncada, they will always have the weight of additional expectations to carry.

Jim Thome: “And just honestly sitting around with Kenny and Rick and Jerry and discussing the moves and things that this organization is going to (do to) go forward. To be a part of that is very special. They’ve given me the opportunity to be around the game in that capacity, which I’ve got to say is very fun. I really have enjoyed it. “Being around Rick and Kenny, the motivation to win is big. So that drove me now from this side, to try to be a part of a championship, just not as a player anymore, but now in the front office. “Kenny’s great at scouting. Rick has a great demeanor. I think Rick is very well suited for his job. I think one of his biggest strengths is he’s a great listener. … He’s got a great personality. Top to bottom, I think our organization has a lot of those guys. They genuinely, passionately want to bring a championship here. I hope we’re all together to do that soon.” https://www.nbcsports.com/chicago/white-sox/jim-thome-brain-trust-white-sox-rebuild-they-genuinely-passionately-want-bring I really hope Marco Paddy and Katz have just as much, if not more, input than Chris Getz. Jeremy Haber, for sure, although nobody can really assert what he actually does…or how he does it differently from Hahn. Hostetler has been a disaster. Hard to believe they kept him around in a different capacity, but we saw the exact same treatment with Buddy Bell previously. Dan Fabian in stats/analytics has to be right up there as well in terms of the top braintrust, if that’s the right word for it.

Well, the city itself is named Armenia. Confusing, I know. Very close to Salento, the basis or model for the “Encanto” animated movie this past year.

Armenia, Colombia

But then traded him for Leury Garcia…

Roughly $5 million remaining for TLR, assuming he's not currently operating on a lame duck deal. Hendriks money at back end of his contract.

Ron will argue vehemently it actually helped lead the Sox to victory...if you break the trend, it will now invariably result in a key loss.

Cottage cheese

Not even including Josh Harrison anymore... And with Lynn, probably need to wait and see how he does out of a regular spring training.

Just wait until he miraculously starts producing for another organization...

One way to get Engel into the game.

Thor also loves Mead.

That's the problem without Lopez available...

Why is Jimenez still in the game?

Military intelligence. Oxymorons.

Would it really be mysterious?

Wonder who Zavala would credit his mysterious defensive improvements to? Better conditioning?

Pollock must be positioning himself for a trade back to the NL...or Orioles/Mariners.

What team would take him for salary relief alone? As a pure DH at that salary? You might find 3-5 risk takers with a Tier C prospect coming back.

Quickly followed up by an error and opposition runs scoring...

Vaughn in a funk now...inconsistent playing time doesn't help much.