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It happens more often than not. Not many professional players have made it out of Wisconsin. In the last 20-30 years, Brad Radke arguably the best. https://www.milwaukeemag.com/best-wisconsin-born-baseball-players/ Bob Wickman, Jordan Zimmermann and Rays pitcher JP Freyereisen three more.

Of every government in the world outside of Singapore Norway Finland Sweden and NZ.

Robinson Cano had two hits yesterday.

https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/giants/why-giants-made-difficult-call-send-luis-gonzalez-minors

And Vaughn over Sheets at DH despite handedness a newer approach.

Fwiw, he's going to miss about same amount of time as Eloy, mid to late June return. Eligible to come off DL as early as June 7th but just doing light baseball activity and not close to hitting in Peoria AZ.

ReyLo has been useful but consistently underperformed expectations. Still a great trade on Gio alone and Dunning of course turned into Lynn.

It was similar to a Pollock throw…way too much air under it but largely accurate. He was closing in on the deep deep SS position in the OF and Harrison hadn’t even hit the bag yet.

TLR claimed he was never a great fit for the role they forced him into. Maybe should have gotten on the same page before that ill-conceived move?

4/6ths of their rotation? We would be doomed. Buxton and Correa would mean Robert and Jimenez and still not even. Have been forced to use Celestino and Royce Lewis a ton and they have held their own more or less. Larnach and Sano were considered key starters too. Although some would have picked Kiriloff in the offseason ahead of Larnach. (The other thing is that Gary Sanchez despite his poor def seems a lot more likely to go on an offensive tear than Grandal. Have to go with youth…granted the Yankees went all defense at that spot for a reason.) And there’s yet another key piece, Kenta Maeda…who will attempt to return the last month or so of the season. Coming off major surgery.

Conforto is going to be the closest approximation. Maybe not the price tag though.

The rebuild didn’t start until the second half of 2016 and that offseason. Before that the old competing on the fly and retooling mode. Dye Pods Iguchi F.Garcia AJ Jenks all a lot closer to prime around age 30 or under for Bobby in 2005 let’s just say compared to current situation with Abreu, Pollock, Lynn, Grandal, Kelly, Keuchel, Cueto, Harrison, etc. Contreras was still close enough to his prime to last until first half of 2006.

Correa and Bundy coming off today. Buxton has missed time and still not in the lineup every day…has been alternating days off and on. Paddack likely done for the year. Sano out for a similar time to Jimenez. Sonny Gray starting this afternoon.

Agreed. Don't even need to think twice.

Jirschele.

If they added Suzuki and Rodon I would have been elated. Obviously Suzuki has cooled but still over an 800 ops and Cubs offense has been better recently granted they get to beat up on the Reds and Pirates. Still think you can win with young stars in the postseason if you have enough. Honestly would have thought about dumping Hendriks while adding Graveman and Tempera salaries (no Kelly ... got a 2B out of that.

The one guy everyone wanted early was Jean Segura, and that would have worked out okay...but then left no money for OF. "But we had Luis Gonzalez parked there in the minors all along...and he can actually play RF competently even." It was a great way for the Dodgers to dump a player who peaked at age 33/34 and for them to also get a similarly effective but expensive closer to replace Kenley...but a limited length deal in case it was a bad fit. Except we very easily could end up stuck with Pollock for the two most important seasons in modern White Sox history for determining the ultimate fate of this franchise.

We did have Cease and Dunning, but Cease wasn't ready for a big start like that yet. He still might not be. Of course Rodon was used in the pen, one of the more obvious moves that cost Renteria his job when he was the best pitcher on the team the following season. But instinct to use him there was off just like Kimbrel in 7th or 8th.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/batvspitch/_/id/5883/zack-greinke Probably should have rested TA against Greinke instead. Harrison hasn't hit him well at all. Probably see Sheets again, too.

Why did we have to hold Kimbrel's option to add a player who can't even play RF acceptably, and might very well be on the 2023 roster too? We still have guys like Vaughn Sheets and Engel who all are for various reasons not a regular RF either. That was also supposed to help against RHP. No QO for Rodon. No real look at Luis Gonzalez for regular PT the last two years. And it doesn't seem like VV discovered anything new...I guess we are fortunate to be 4-6 overall in VV Cueto Lambert Martin starts so far. 3-7 or even 2-8 seemed possible with how bad the defense bullpen offensive/RISP has been. Finally they need much better offensive numbers out of Reese McGuire if he's going to get so many starts...

Seems to be a pretty significant gap to Harrison’s deal. We certainly overpaid Leury and Joe Kelly as well…nobody was willing to offer anything close to those deals for those three in particular. “Alberto's contract is worth $1.85 million guaranteed, with a $1.6 million salary in 2022 and a $2 million club option for 2023. If that option isn't exercised by the team, Alberto will receive a $250,000 buyout”2022年3月23日

But what was the vision beyond adding a talented collection of Cuban players (along with Jimenez) to build around Tim Anderson? Do we have any positive calling card or identity for this current team?

Where would Harrison have played? Was that before they resigned Turner at third? Just don’t get the need for Harrison with younger/cheaper/better Gavin Lux and Chris Taylor on that roster. He would have been the very last guy on the bench.

And maybe Cueto at 90-92 and not the hot gun in KC. Might be worth a shot to try to get a surer Cease victory next time out. Of course that's a bit of a loser's mentality for Cease to deliberately avoid the Yankees. He likely would face them again in the playoffs. Therefore he needs to build up his confidence that he can at least record a QS against them.

Suffice it to say we would have had 1 likely 2 more victories compared to Lambert and VV starts. Record in VV starts 3-3. 10 9 9 runs total allowed across those three losses, obviously bullpen played a part. 7 5 3 earned runs allowed in losses. The 7 cancels out the recent Rodon outing against STL. Lambert went 3 2/3 and 2 ER in a 2-1 loss to CLE. 3 and 2 in a 5-1 loss to Seattle. So that's a team record of 3-5. 4-5 including Cueto's start, 4-6 record with Davis Martin's last night. Of course that doesn't include Keuchel because he would have still been in the rotation with Lynn out. So I would feel confident with Rodon's similar #'s to SFG that we would instead be 4 games over rather than merely .500, a full two game shift.