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".366 career on-base percentage is the highest by an AL shorstop in MLB history through his first three seasons..." That's just a BIT higher than Swanson/Brandon Crawford or even Tulo. And Correa could at least get 12-15 steals per season when he first entered the league.

Cholowsky to Correa isn't a very good comp either. Pre injury Correa was a border line superstar, especially in the post season.

There was a lefty and switch hitter coming up but Fry being PH was pretty darned obvious.

6 runs allowed in last three appearances against CLE...not good. That's just one week. Fastball too straight and gets in trouble when not getting curve over the plate and falling behind in counts.

The Guardians' starting pitching is just so much better...bullpen as well, and they'll get Ramirez-Martinez back to cancel out Murakami's return. Cleveland also has a lot more milb trade capital they're potentially willing to part with as well. Finally, have always done better in Latin America.

The Padres at one point had eight $100+ million contracts on the books and yet saw their franchise valuation more than double while the White Sox and JR just remained frozen in time.

Greg... Just don't try to meet single ladies in Medellin that you "miraculously discover" from online dating sites and you won't be murdered at least. In all seriousness...it's a lot more likely you are drugged/robbed because high profile tourism murders are terrible for business. Policia and military with machine guns in most major cities...safer during the daytime than Lawrence US or suburban Johnson County US. Have you noticed there has been a constant stream of refugees from Venezuela into Colombia at the Cucuta border crossing?...completely reversing the trend from twenty years ago. Surely you haven'the. Feet don't lie. Also try to watch "Encanto" sometime...based off Salento, that's just as much the the reality in Quindio between Medellin and Cali, most beautiful place in the world mountains coffee flora fauna perfect weather no need for air conditioning or heater. Rent horses for $20 for the entire afternoon and road wherever you want to go. Just make sure you can dance drink or play futbol to fit in comfortably there, at least one of the three. Will ignore the unsurprisingly biased comment about US women being less popular...that has just never been true. By the way, who has quoted Al Davis one thousand times here? Just win baby!!!

Then where is the World Cup thread a full two two weeks into the tournament???

Why would there be a right/left political agenda to a sports poll? That doesn't make any sense at all. "Left/woke" is on the side of forcing soccer/football on Americans? Really???...And have been ever since Pele was on the New York Cosmos in the late 70s?

Sorry to challenge your limited world view/s... Mods can go ahead and bury this in some far flung section of the site that nobody goes to anymore. We'll just pretend this whole World Cup thing doesn't exist as anything but a foreign touristic invasion of the country...with their strange/eccentric antics at baseball stadiums across the country.

So what objective source of news information exists in the world today? There isn't one, right? I suppose the NY Times is corrupting The Athletic... Everyone complained about the depth of recent results for the "negative/anti Sox" The Athletic's players' poll feedback recently. "Scientific polling" can be massaged based on how questions/options are posed. I suppose the foreign/outsidery football is a threat to America too. It's why Alexei Lalas still refuses to call it anything besides soccer.

You don't get CNN lol? https://www.cnn.com/videos/title-2572883 I can click directly on this link with a VPN and get to the video and you can't in the US? Well there's always Cubs/Mets now in extra innings to capture your attention.

CNN posed the question. Not me. Soccer and cricket are the two sports with the biggest global pull... You can start by comparing EPL La Liga Serie A Bundesliga and PSG team valuations. Youth participation rates. Safety of soccer vs. other sports...obviously concussion rates from headers to be considered. Cost/s of participation. Adult viewership. Youth viewership. Viewership demographics. Advertising/corporate sponsorship dollars.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7382367/2026/06/24/mlb-trade-deadline-big-board-players-postseason-skubal/

Written into the 26-year-old's contract extension is a clause that if spends over 120 days on the injured list with a left arm injury, would trigger a $15 million club option for 2032, essentially turning his six-year deal into a seven-year deal. Probably covers everything from shoulder/rotator cuff all the way through elbow/forearm.

He will never be another Bobby Witt in power or speed or defensive brilliance. Meidroth is a very good but not quite great/elite defender. 2006-2008 Sox position groups, 2019-2021 all make good arguments. Current White Sox still not getting enough from OF overall...catcher pre Teel and DH has been below average, too.

One thing that's interesting is the WNBA now passing NHL in average t.v. ratings...except for maybe peak Stanley Cup Finals Games 5-7. NASCAR has definitely gone backwards from high point 15+ years ago. No Tiger-Phil in golf. LIV distractions. MMA/wrestling trending upwards. College football ratings have never been higher, at least the Big Ten and SEC. NCAA softball way up.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/title-2572883&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjpzf7S06OVAxVOmGoFHVs2IgwQFnoECAgQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2J-PI8cob_yAg8BCtfvZHa More interesting off day topic lol. Having grown up playing both baseball basketball and soccer from Grade 4 through high school (late 80s), it's interesting to reflect on the changes over the last 30-40 years. https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=951062647473877&id=100077104500727 The NBA once dominated MLB in viewership, but recent years have seen a dramatic reversal. We break down why baseball might be making a comeback, despite the popular narrative. #MLB This is from 2022. What changed? Ohtani and the Dodgers? Judge/Yankees? More parity? Exploding popularity in Pacific Rim and influx of Asian talent? WBCs? Fall off from Lebron and the Warriors? Too many threes in NBA? MLB relatively more affordable and family oriented in comparison?

Except defensive lapses and Ks...although great going out into the outfield for popups.

Need two grumps (Garfein/Stone) and a drunk in Ozzie to cancel out Fletcher Schriff McKnight...

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Better to give up less talent and take on Alcantara salary or fix Eury Perez. White Sox are simply not just one starting pitcher away from a WS team...especially if they are not going to end up keeping Murakami. They might still need most of a bullpen, as well. And who knows what Tristan Peters will look like one year from now? Feels like just another version of the Todd Ritchie trade, two decades later...and Marlins are right in the middle of the playoff mix. How many retools/rebuild can they recycle?

"Michael Reinsdorf has insisted in the past that the Bulls have everything they need to succeed and there isn't a use for more front office personnel. But information aggregation on the NBA, college, international basketball is an arms race. The sufficiency of your front office is not based on "does it appear as if we have enough people with enough time to do everything", the sufficiency is necessarily based on a comparison to what other teams are doing. Where other teams have more man hours committed to basketball operations, you have by definition created an information deficit and put yourself at a competitive disadvantage by not even coming close to matching their personnel." Sounds pretty darned similar to the other Reinsdorf family property... https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/49135150/2026-nba-offseason-trade-grades-contracts-new-deals-rosters-teams TWolves get D+ grade for Ball trade.

Go to chicagobulls r/chicagobulls1y ago A Severely Understaffed Front Office: A Deep Dive Into The Bulls Deficit in Personnel and a Comparison to Other TeamsNot every team in the NBA has a public listing of their staff directory. The Chicago Bulls do. So do a few other teams. I decided to take a look at the front office group at the United Center and how it compares to the size/roles in other front offices. Surprise: the Bulls front office is woefully understaffed, even before the firings of Patton and Weinman. Below is an analysis of investments other owners have made in their front offices and how the Bulls have fallen behind. I compared the Bulls to three other teams. The Miami Heat (mid to large market), the Knicks (large market) and the Pelicans (small market). The Bulls Front Office is smaller than each of these three teams (especially dwarfed by the Pelicans and Knicks). One notable difference is analytics. Each of the other three teams has heavily invested in analytics, with multiple individuals being responsible solely for analytics. The Chicago Bulls analytics group is made up of 1 person. With no insult to this individual, who I am sure is very talented, he graduated college in 2018 and it appears working for the Bulls was his first job out of college. Again, I am sure this person is talented. But I do not understand how the coaching staff or the remaining front office is expected to treat his input with any level of credibility when it is so painfully obvious that even ownership doesn't have enough trust in analytics to get this poor guy some help. Other examples of roles in other front offices that don't exist in the Bulls Front Office: Cap Specialists, Team Chefs, in-house Basketball Products Engineers, Data Scientists, dedicated college scouts." https://www.reddit.com/r/chicagobulls/comments/1k374li/a_severely_understaffed_front_office_a_deep_dive/

104.3 The Score] Why did the Bulls trade both of their 2nd-round picks Wednesday, including No. 38 overall? Bryson Graham explains that none of the players on the board were targets of the Bulls. “How can we get some future assets and push this pick forward?” he says. “That was the thinking.” Maybe they need to expand their scouting target list lol? Have they also dramatically cut back like the White Sox in this area?