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Baker has the Astros with the lowest AL odds to win the WS. Seemingly TB is there every year. Oakland continues to succeed, somehow. And then you have the Red Sox that everyone was picking fourth.

It was a bit frustrating to watch Narvaez, Bassitt, Semien, Escobar and Tatis in the ASG. Three of those guys are players capable of playing 2-3 or even all four infield positions in a pinch… Obviously things will look better for the Sox with Robert and Madrigal back in the middle, and Adam Engel has been a late blooming success story…but we’ve had a horrible run developing our own outfielders as well as middle infielders, other than the obvious big names already listed and TA7. We also lack the flexibility to move Moncada to open a spot for Burger…and as a result have a glut of those players now like Sheets, Burger, Collins, Vaughn, Jimenez, Grandal, Abreu that really belong at 1B/DH. Mercedes, too. Other than Leury, there’s just not enough positional flexibility. If you look at the Dodgers, they found three guys like that in Turner, Taylor and Muncy for basically free, and that’s not even counting Kike now with Boston. That’s one the many reasons they’ve won eight consecutive NL West titles. The best “find” the White Sox had from all that rebuilding playing time from 2016/17-19 is now an All Star with Milwaukee in Narvaez.

If you’re adopting that high school strategy, the majority of the impact will be 2026 and later. If you’re fortunate with some, 2025. Other than the Astros in 2019-20-21, no “typical” rebuilding team after the first wave hit has sustained themselves in the back half of a window. For example, the Royals and Cubs. The players just got hurt, unaffordable…and then a number of bad FA decisions in concert. The jury’s still out on Atlanta and Toronto, but we should be trying to emulate Oakland, Cleveland, Tampa Bay and Milwaukee in how we operate…unless we’re going to be at least above a $150 million yearly budget. This future wave has some pieces, but let’s look at the Royals or the post 2011 Chicago White Sox. Both teams held onto veterans like Gordon, Perez, Merrifield and Duffy to name a few. It seems they got caught in between, where they never really bottomed out in a way where they would get at least three Top 3-5 draft picks. Witt, Jr., and some pieces are definitely better than we have in our system, and they drafted a ton of pitching, but they’re still how many years from even contending? 2 or 3? They’re definitely behind the Tigers, who hit rock bottom and are now fighting back behind strong drafts while carrying forward the ugly Cabrera deal. Even the Cubs eventually ran out of money to keep their core together. Unless you’re the Dodgers and can spend well over $200 million (or the Red Sox/Yankees), you’re going to experience these boom and bust cycles.

McDowell, Ventura, Thomas, Fernandez…Karkovice, Grebeck, Bere, Pall, Radinsky, Thigpen

Worse than pulling Snell early?

Well, this seems familiar…they should have sent someone out there to warn him since the earpiece wasn’t working. At least he didn’t say something politically incorrect to become the headline story.

Haha. MIC not cut. Yet.

Really out of breath but took advantage of that huge break…

FCC not amused. Just don’t get hurt.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rob-manfred-says-stan-kastens-182510652.html

Eduardo Rodriguez.

Thought David Harbour's humor and the family dynamic was actually the star of the movie. Some will complain the action/set pieces were too derivative and that it played more like a Bourne or MI spy movie. The one thing that felt out of place was the tone... should we feel guilty for BW being objectified or now more comfortably laugh at it because her sister does? It just felt like the whole global trafficking and discarding of women issue was brought up as this heavy topic and then conveniently dropped for a typical Marvel setting up of something else...mostly connecting the hanging storyline points together. Pugh star path on the rise. The best film she has done was about women's professional wrestling.

Obviously you missed the sarcastic joke while lost in the weeds seeing every topic as being an opportunity to fight the righteous fight against snowflakes and the woke crowd.

What team had the fewest home runs in a season and won the World Series? Wiki User ∙ May 28, 2009 3:40PM Best Answer That was the 1906 Chicago White Sox who hit 7 home runs for the season.

Young people don’t feel they need it. Distrust of government, masks, vaccine coming from Trump and right wing media. Concerns about vaccine risks such as heart attacks, future pregnancies, etc. The main reason for most middle class and poor people at least has been unable to get paid time off from work. Bad PR with Johnson & Johnson. Rural locations/lack of convenience or accessibility. Religious objections. Fear of long lines. All these would probably rank higher than distrust of Fauci as reasons.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/uniform-decision-different-look-attitude-120050052.html New Nike uniforms for ASG controversy…guess they’re already sold out.

This sounds like a wedding vow.

https://www.fangraphs.com/players/joey-gallo/14128/stats?position=OF Still has a negative defensive score after positives the last two seasons. Just can’t imagine a 5+ fWAR guy for 1.4 or 1.5 seasons or whatever will come cheap but we will see how many dumpers there are the last 2 weeks of the month. Vaughn, fwiw, now at -3.6 defensively and trending for around 1.5 overall, 2ish if the offense continues like it has in recent weeks.

Too fast for a relatively inexperienced Indiana high schooler...normal progression is 3 1/2 to 5 years.

Better to argue he's not (yet) the superstar a #1 prospect in the game ranking foreshadowed. We've had just one season of that offensively and one defensively (depending on how one counts 2020), minus the 20/20 or 30/30 as he's also missing the big stolen base numbers that were originally attached. He's not the franchise or Mr. White Sox many hoped for in terms of branding.

It’s waning, but first round draft pick “halos” have surrounded players ever since BA started doing their prospect rankings. Look how long Rutherford has held onto such status based on his original selection by the Yankees. It’s also why Burger and even Sheets are getting a lot more notice now…IMO.

Not even sure I’d classify Baddoo and Candelario that way…not until he proves he can sustain the success longer than, say, Gordon Beckham did. He’s a nice hitter to have, but more of a complementary piece.

Well, Fox News is foreign owned.

The funny thing is that very first major league game was at Wrigley against the Cardinals in 1978 or 1979…Garry Templeton was my favorite player then, along with Claudell Washington for the Sox. Jody Davis Eyes feels more early 80s still…some overlap there.

One-quarter of unvaccinated people who make less than $50,000 still say they either "definitely" or "probably" will get the vaccine, according to the Census Bureau. That rises to two-thirds of people when including those who are receptive or "unsure" about getting the vaccine. Editor’s note: This post has been corrected to show one-quarter of unvaccinated people who make less than $50,000 either "definitely" or "probably" will get the vaccine, and two-thirds of unvaccinated people either will "definitely/probably" get the vaccine or are receptive/"unsure" of getting the vaccine. Talk about poorly-phrased…