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Beckham only really had those 3-4 months is his rookie campaign. He’s around a career 5 war, 80+ ops hitter, with a lot of that value derived from his defense. Benintendi has double that value already, with a 107+ ops, but almost all of his value coming on the offensive side.

It’s 75% better than 3-4 years ago when Moncada was struggling and Benintendi looking like a perennial All-Star. After all this time, Yoan and Kopech still retain the volatility that was the partial reasoning behind the trade from the Boston perspective. To their detriment, though, Benintendi has regressed. He was the quintessential high floor, but limited ceiling collegian and Hahn rolled the dice. Devers was never going to be included as the third piece. Guessing it would be a 50/50 split or maybe even slightly leaning Devers if you had a poll asking who you’d prefer as a White Sox fan to have between him and Moncada from this point forward. Also, speaking of DH/1B/3B, Miguel Andujar would be an ideal add, but the Yankees aren’t stupid...even though he currently has no place to play.

Cordero is one of those toolsy guys like Adolfo that has never been able to stay healthy and match his raw power with actual HR consistency in the majors. Plus, AB’s getting more and more expensive. And he doesn’t have the arm for RF. For this season though, Benintendi in LF, Jimenez to DH would have been something to consider. Just need to keep Jimenez healthy and out in the field for 140+ games somehow.

Not seeing the Dunning move as a mistake, simply because they have (now at least four) alternatives in Cease, Kopech, Rodon and Lopez they believe can outproduce him this season. They likely never projected him as more than a fifth starter or swingman in the bullpen. They just have to be right on that evaluation. It’s nothing like trading Wells, Fogg and Lowe for one pitcher, then not being able to replace him...or giving up Montas and Bassitt in addition to a future MVP candidate for one year of Samardzija. Those were desperation moves...they simply had to work for the team to compete. What will make most everyone extremely irate is if they use this “window of unprecedented financial flexibility” not to take on any additional salary or fix the obvious roster/depth issues we’re already well aware of at the trade deadline.

Strength of competition difference...

It’s still not clear whether he owed that actual amount of money, whether just his exposure was potentially -$730,000, whether he understood the trades he’d made, or if the brokerage notified they were shutting his credit lines down...or he simply didn’t understand that he’d hedged his positions and could possibly be coming out even or at least not hundreds of thousands in debt. As far a movie deal, it sounds so depressing that I’m not sure who would want to watch. The Redditors have their “stick it to the man” storyline, this would be sticking it to the trading platform that wants to get back at the man but is pretty much an illusion created by hedge funds...that they’re still just getting caught up in the man’s web? Too complicated, and too bittersweet/ironic that the process of empowering individual investors is actually putting them more at risk. Who’s the compelling villain? Greed itself?

Not take down obviously, but it (the situation outlined here) certainly dovetails with the discussions over the last couple of weeks, especially margin trading and short squeezes being terms that the majority of Americans, let alone high schoolers, aren’t 100% familiar with. My guess is the lawsuit was partially a result of recent events, but maybe it was happening all along and the timelines just conveniently converged. And with so many billion+ companies emerging in the last five or so years, there will undoubtedly be even more lawsuits. For example, at what age can we hold corporations at least partially responsible for the actions of customers? Should a 17 or 18 year old be able to set up their own trading account? Why/why not? We certainly wouldn’t have taken the money away had he earned hundreds of thousands. In the 2000’s, despite so many fraudulent subprime loan applications being approved without even simple salary checks, how many of those Mnuchin-esque firms were held accountable in any way? How many homes were foreclosed on? Or student loans taken on that weren’t repaid, or could never realistically be repaid?

What about rain-shortened ones? Melido Perez says hi!

“@soxsi75 it's putting on a bandaid but you could limit the lead off distance after a pitcher maxes out. You could change the rules to where the pitcher has to step back from the rubber to make a pick off move after he's reached his max. There are ways to mitigate. I'm not certain I would like any of those changes.” Base-stealing has been less and less a factor the last decade, but that will change if the homer reliant offenses are forced to once again manufacture individual runs for lower scoring games with a major change in the official ball again. As far as sport popularity goes, one of the big advantages for football or basketball (excitement-wise) has and always be that they’re better suited for gambling...and baseball is so hard to bet on due to day to day variances. Not to mention college football bowl picks, NCAA Tourney pools are culturally imbedded.

But the actual incident/suicide must be a ways back...but now all the knives are coming out for RH because of all the public attention, and potential IPO?

For example, what about high contact sports such as football, wrestling and even basketball or soccer? Will you need a vaccine shot to participate in those? And then trying to get a universally agreed upon standard for both international and domestic travel...I can see a situation where I might be quarantined coming to the US with “only” the Chinese vaccine (of course, part of it’s politics and PR). All of us (here) will eventually have to decide whether to accept being forced to take the Chinese vaccine, with resistance to that meaning we would lose our jobs and likely have to leave the country, or abandon wife/children. I guess the majority will grit their teeth and bear it. Or students from our school going to the UK for study...seems there are issues with AstraZeneca/Oxford as well. God knows the solution, but a stamped Covid passport, CDC or WHO booklet of immunizations (easy to fake), who the heck is going to be trusted to control all that private, quite personal data? How not to create another massive bureaucracy? Especially with all the variants circulating, even one basic shot with booster is going to need constant updating depending on where in the world one is traveling to.

I guess it’s the natural corollary to all the conspiracy theories about leverage JR had over Jim Thompson. Probably involves switching up ownership of the Bulls/Bobcats, so Michael Jordan can return to his rightful throne Chicago.

The only way those not getting the vaccine could counterattack would be on the efficacy and safety of the vaccines. But that’s a slippery slope, and even an effectiveness rate in the 60-75% range has utilitarian benefit to the country as a hole. Of course, the biggest legal battle is going to be over school policies...and whether the “resistors” will be forced to home school or privately educate their kids. (Of course, here in China, you’d end up in jail trying to resist or protest, despite the fact that there is mounting evidence of significant issues in the multiple traditional vaccines offered here.)

Or, it’s simply a matter of cutting down travel expenses and missed game action when transferring players around the system. They even had a team in Bristol for a long time, with Great Falls the only outlier. Birmingham’s in the Southern, which is the closest AA league to the Carolinas. But you can also make logical arguments for why your AAA team should be closer to appease the fanbase, like Iowa/Cubs, Omaha/Royals, Toledo/Tigers, Louisville/Cardinals, etc. Not to mention you made an argument against public subsidies for stadiums. I sincerely doubt Bank of America wants to buy the Sox and loan money to itself for stadium construction...but it’s going to take a ton of money to upgrade to MLB standards. Plus that market is already well-served by MiLB. Finally, those affiliates are on limited number of year agreements, so it wouldn’t be that difficult to shift 2-3 of their affiliates to a completely different region within the span of 3-5 years.

How many hitters on the entire Charlotte roster that received regular playing time were under .850? I guess the key difference is Thomas just tore right through the Sox minor league system from the moment he was drafted...whereas it’s difficult to know what to make of last year development-wise for minor leaguers. Gordon Beckham and Luis Robert are the only two Sox rookie position players to come right out of the box guns blazing in quite some time (but both faded down the stretch.) Tim Anderson held his own, too. But that’s still a lot of pressure to put on a Collins or Vaughn if the team is struggling and there are significant injuries on either side of the roster. Now Vaughn’s certainly no Brian Anderson psychologically or in terms of work habits, but only those 1993-94 offenses were comparable to 2006, yet there still came a point in the season where Ozzie panicked and went to Mackowiak instead. We can sit here today and say Vaughn only needs to be around 775 ops, because the rest of the hitters can carry the lineup. But things don’t usually go as planned.

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Now at 67%, highest recorded polling number yet.

Asking JR to pay MJ money per season was never going to happen for a Sox player...not even two decades later.

The only problem is there are usually only about 5-7 per free agent class that are in that 28-29 year age range, and many of them end up being $100+ million players in FA because of their early impacts, like Harper and Machado. The White Sox history has been to take calculated risks on players in their early 30’s, with often disastrous consequences. It’s (age factor) another reason Pederson was coveted around here for many seasons, as well. And he’s not THAT young, 28 turning 29 in April. When Tatis, Jr., hits free agency in four years (more than a 50% probability unless he gets hurt again this season and goes for some security with an extension), he will be just 25, turning 26 the following January. It’s also the massive risk that teams take when they don’t get that extra year of control by holding a player back into May...seeing how things developed and the fact that 2019 was just too early to compete for SD, it’s likely to come back and haunt them now after 2024.

Guess some of us need to watch “21” again but ignore the presence of Kevin Spacey...

Judas and the Black Messiah currently at 98 positive and just one negative review at RT. Good friend of mine with similar movies tastes saw it this past weekend in Michigan and highly recommends.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/30857724/espn-baseball-reporter-pedro-gomez-dies-58 Only 58.

Also hard not to believe the incident with Reid’s son wasn’t weighing heavily on the team...although pretty sure he won’t ever bring it up as an excuse.

Bowles is definitely getting his schemes copied by every team that faces the Chiefs the next decade. Of course, the only question is whether teams have the personnel to execute it, but you’d think an AFC West team would either offer a HC position or huge salary hike to go over there when Brady’s done (maybe when he turns 48-50?)

Which is a SLIGHT problem when it’s looking more and more probable Giolito will be gone after 2023. That said, he’s the main loss until Anderson after the following year. However you look at, doing much beyond 2024 is going to be highly uncertain for the two looming super teams in Chicago and San Diego. Of course, you’re always going to have the Dodgers, Yankees and likely the Braves or Blue Jays to contend with over these must-be-competitive seasons.