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2000/03-06/08/10/12/16/20 (for the first 5-6 weeks). 10/21, but just 2 of last 8.

Don’t forget Bobby Jenks vs. a certain Twins CF who shall not be named from 2008, hint, a Hawk favorite not named Torii Hunter. Or one of the forgettable 2012 rookie relievers against Boston down the stretch...Cody Ross. Zobrist in the Dome against Koch. David Robertson vs. the Royals. Any no name Twin like Denny Hocking, Lew Ford, Nick Punto or Blanco vs. White Sox.

They seemed to pull a 3ish fWAR rookie out of their system nearly every year...many were not super heralded.

A loss that many bitter Rangers’ fans still blame him for...

Other than Koch, Robertson and Linebrink/Dotel, we haven’t historically spent a ton of money bring in outside talent for the pen.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/30759398/source-jurickson-profar-san-diego-padres-agree-3-year-21-million-deal 3 years and $21 million for a "utility player" who's not expected to start more than 1/2 of the time....and also insurance for Cronenwerth sophomore regression at 2B. 9 salaries now of over $7 million for 2021, including five at over $10+ million (Machado, Myers, Hosmer, Darvish and Snell). The first four names there are all higher than Grandal's team-leading salary. The White Sox, comparatively, have 4 over $10 million (Grandal, Keuchel, Abreu, Hendriks) and four more at $6.8 million or higher (Anderson, Eaton and Moncada all in this same neighborhood, contract-wise.)

Well, there’s simply no way that Collins will get the majority of DH at-bats.

"Garbage" take.

Kopech did not reveal his personal decisionmaking process in the announcement. Pursuant to the modified rules for the 2020 season, players have the exclusive right to opt out without penalty. Those that have a particular medical basis for the decision can retain their salary and service time; others sacrifice those things. It’s not clear in this case whether Kopech will continue to accrue service time in the 2020 season. If not, the 24-year-old will begin the 2021 campaign with just over one full season of MLB service. that’s all i could find at mlbtraderumors.com

Here’s where evaluation comes into play. God knows we’ve made plenty of mistakes (just having Bassitt and Montas could have staved off the rebuild, let alone Semien), but Dunning was never perceived to have that TOR upside of Kopech/Cease or Crochet and Jared Kelley. Plus, his age (26) worked a bit against him as well. A decade ago, his stuff would have played well as a starter, but not in the current game. While some starters can still succeed at 92-93, touching 94...the odds are going against those guys unless they can pitch in short bursts at higher velocity out of the pen. Otherwise, you’ve got to have wicked movement, difficult to pick up delivery or the type of extension Giolito gets with that massive frame and arm whip...where the ball is on you before you can react.

We will be lucky if anyone pitches 100 innings at the rate things are going...

https://www.denverpost.com/2020/09/16/rockies-jon-gray-season-ends/ Shoulder soreness...not exactly a great sign.

We’re not quite the NFL, where there’s already a mini team rebellion in Miami because players project Tua to be incapable of approximating Mahomes, Allen, Watson, Jackson or even Russell Wilson.

Don’t forget the cool personalized gifts he received, as well.

Adding Lynn, at least without an extension and giving up young pitching, is certainly all-in. Assuming nobody’s going to be happy with a FA pitching addition other than Odorizzi or Tanaka, we’re left in the typical KW position of waiting until midseason. Considering the fact that health/science is currently skeptical about a return to normal on Covid due to the slow/complicated vaccination progress (just 5% of the country) before the end of the year now, the transmissibility of the mutant strain outpacing containment, that big sports areas like LA and Texas are in chaos...it’s easy to see why they are being so conservative. It just sucks for fans who were so patient throughout this lost decade of Sox baseball. About all that’s missing are puff pieces on Cease, Kopech and Lopez. Thankfully, we can at least skip “Rodon’s turned the corner.”

In one sign of the confusion around vaccine distribution in Texas, officials in Dallas County scrapped a plan that would have prioritized shots for people living in heavily Black and Latino communities hit hardest by the virus. Texas state officials threatened to slash allocations of the vaccine if the county went ahead with the plan even though data showed that most of the shots administered in Dallas County had been in wealthier neighborhoods. Houston, the fourth-largest city in the country, is now struggling with a similar problem as the hospitals serving some of its poorest residents run out of the vaccine, prompting some public health experts to question why doses are not being made more available to vulnerable communities. “These are our front-line workers who are at the greatest risk of contracting the virus and at the greatest risk of spreading it to others,” said Vivian Ho, a health economist at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine. “We would be able to resolve the pandemic in Harris County quicker if we could get a sufficient number of vaccines,” she added, referring to the county encompassing much of Houston. Adding to the turmoil, just days after Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas, a Republican, praised the state’s vaccine rollout at a meeting in Houston where Democratic city and county officials were excluded from participating, the lieutenant governor, Dan Patrick, also a Republican, sent a letter Thursday to the state’s Expert Vaccination Allocation Panel urging its members to fix the problems. https://www.yahoo.com/news/pandemic-plight-hospitals-running-vaccines-152805912.html

Odorizzi was looking for $3/40...out of our current price range.

Now all you need is Max Fried, but that will really draw out wisebri’s future luxury tax implications posts again...

The Red Sox rotation is taking shape, as the team reached agreement on Saturday with righthander Garrett Richards on a one-year, $10 million contract. The deal includes a $10 million team option for 2022 and a buyout, with escalators for both the salary and the buyout based on Richards’s contributions in 2021, according to a major league source. Richards, 32, went 2-2 with a 4.03 ERA along with 8.1 strikeouts and 3.0 walks per nine innings for the Padres in 51⅓ innings in 2020 — his first full season back from Tommy John surgery in mid-2018. Richards had a 4.27 ERA in 10 starts, while allowing one run in five innings and striking out five in four relief appearances. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/01/23/sports/red-sox-nearing-deal-with-pitcher-garrett-richards/

Richards is reportedly signing with the Red Sox The Boston Red Sox have agreed to terms with free agent right-hander Garrett Richards on a one-year contract worth $10 million, ESPN's Jeff Passan reports. The deal is pending a physical. Alex Speier of the Boston Globe adds that the deal includes a $10 million option for 2022. https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb-free-agency-red-sox-agree-to-terms-with-right-hander-garret-richards-per-report/

https://www.si.com/mlb/2019/01/09/indians-trevor-bauer-college-student-twitter-exchange-harassment https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/feb/21/why-on-earth-is-climate-skeptic-twitter-troll-trevor-bauer-mlb-most-hated-man Signing Bauer would almost be the equivalent of Albert Belle. Except JR’s past the point of awarding one of the biggest contracts in the game just to make a point...

In most countries of the world, those companies would be nationalized... at least until the crisis had passed. But you wouldn't find more than 10-15% of the Congress in favor of such a radical approach that values citizens' lives over corporations and the profit incentive. People Are ‘Faking It’ To Get Vaccine Priority, So Just Yeet Me Off The Planet https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/people-faking-vaccine-priority-just-010026098.html

At least 1/3rd the franchises (see Rays, Indians or A's) wouldn't be able to survive in such a system. The NFL is the only league where a small market like Green Bay can consistently outplay two NY/NJ franchises.

They should be thanking their lucky stars they kept Campbell at least.

2015-2018 he only made 68 starts. On the plus side, he’s basically pitched three seasons out of the past six...