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This idea of Sheets as a possible DH or corner outfielder getting more than a handful of at-bats seems even more implausible...except for the fact he’s probably going to have a better big league career somewhere than Zack Collins or Yermin.

This idea of Sheets as a possible DH or corner outfielder getting more than a handful of at-bats seems even more implausible...except for the fact he’s probably going to have a better big league career somewhere than Zack Collins or Yermin.

He’s quite fortunate that he is now going to be able to get out of his original $750k investment in AMC at around $8 with a 30-40% profit in just a few weeks. Claimed to already have lost the same roughly on GME. https://twitter.com/RazerSliced/status/1364746958049533957/photo/1 BlackBoxStocks

Robert at 5, Jimenez at 8 and Vaughn at 21. Moncada 25 years old already. Madrigal (23) and Kopech (24) not mentioned. https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-best-players-under-25?partnerId=zh-20210225-156906-MLB&qid=1026&bt_ee=fCmeGMRvCaJnHXI9fXyGVuRvlHCMzP6Ut8PVgiwhUALVNnB4NOwQgudsK9nRO%2Fk2&bt_ts=1614256686777 https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb-spring-training-four-young-players-including-gavin-lux-and-jo-adell-with-something-to-prove-in-2021/ Adell, C.Kieboom, Lux, Mize

Don’t forget LuGon.

Ultimately, you can argue that Hendriks will be hard-pressed to repeat or better Colome's success, that Grandal/Keuchel/Abreu/Dunning are definitely regression along the aging curve candidates, Eaton/Rodon/Moncada's health...Kopech being away from the game for so long and then the psychological adjustment side (he's going to want to go out right away and throw 100 again.) Plus, you lost McCann's leadership and rapport with Giolito. Finally, Crochet's being able to remain healthy in a year where he will certainly be over-utilized by match-ups master TLR is a definite concern. We should certainly expect to get more production out of Eaton, Moncada, Robert and whoever is at DH, but there's a lingering question mark to go along with nearly every positive point. And better defense and base running from Nick Madrigal. Which is why the White Sox are perceived as being neck and neck with the Twins, and perhaps slightly behind since they're defending the division title and made a ton of moves in the last 4-6 weeks to improve themselves. Yay, 15 names!!!

Not beating up on the Tigers and Royals alone will definitely test the White Sox this year. They have to prove they can somehow vanquish the Indians first, before they worry about the Twins. With a more balanced schedule, most reasonable Sox fans would expect 88-94 wins this upcoming season (not knowing about injuries, obviously, how much money they have to spend at the deadline, when fans will return and in what percentages of capacity, even whether Vaughn will be held back or not to gain another year of control contractually.)

We shall see. But can you imagine "old school" Tony LaRussa being force-fed an inexperienced rookie at DH in a year he's expected to compete for the AL pennant? I can't. Now maybe if it's just the Cardinals' history, where they seemingly come up with a rookie impact (many not highly touted) player nearly every season, but that hasn't historically been the case with the White Sox farm system. You have to go from two decades ago in Rowand/Crede to Gordon Beckham/Viciedo and then all the way to TA and then the last 3-4 seasons of acquisitions and high draft picks to get any significantly impactful players in a given year. Heck, somehow Carlos Martinez's son became a near All-Star level hitter with them for a season or two after starting out with the White Sox.

Craig Biggio

No way. They'll pick up someone like a Smoak/Pearce/Moreland just to hold the position down...not those names, of course, but a veteran cut lose in the last couple of roster cutdowns before Opening Day, most likely a player they're actively already watching in Arizona.

Not to mention Erik Johnson was the "well-known" part of that deal on the day it was made, surrendering TWO players to save money on Shields' deal instead of keeping their own talent in-house...when Fowler was desperate (this was put into the press quite openly, not an industry secret) to get Shields off the team as quickly as possible during that time span.

https://theathletic.com/884960/2019/03/25/everybody-was-surprised-but-here-we-are-an-oral-history-of-how-the-padres-acquired-fernando-tatis-jr/ And here's your answer... https://theathletic.com/2395904/2021/02/18/padres-fernando-tatis-extension-lebron-james/

The quote was that BAL gave him the money before he was on a single Top 40 list. Then he popped when Keith Law suddenly had him in the Top 5-10 and almost nobody could believe it. The arm strength was always there, and the speed/explosiveness, but that he was able to maintain those two characteristics while adding 2-3 inches in height/leverage/power while still being able to play a spectacular (defensive ratings in 2019 were down because he made numerous mistakes trying to turn every single play into an ESPN Top 10 moment) shortstop. Guys that size in the past like Ripken and A-Rod (Michael Morse would be another) always ended up at 3B or even the outfield.

I really like SouthSider2k5 when he's on baseball-related topics, but he always comes across as Potter from It's a Wonderful LIfe when on the subject of finance/stock market. It's perfectly natural for him to have a bias that's more towards protecting the point of view of his employer than representing the so-called 99%. Sometimes it comes across like "you guys don't understand something so complex, so you're going to have rely upon the foxes and wolves to guard the hen house." Janet Yellen's Net Worth: $16 Million Between 2018 and 2020, Yellen earned $7 million from 50 speaking engagements.1 hour ago Beyond the SEC, you have the Treasury Secretary, and she's almost as much captured by the system that she represents as Steve Mnuchin, Greenspan, Rubin, Larry Summers, etc. Then you have basically degrees of complicity, but still with tendencies more towards advocating for Wall Street interests as opposed to protecting "Joe the Plumber." Heck, this idea of the Clintons being in the pocket of Wall Street was a not insignificant factor in her 2016 loss. If we didn't witness what happened in 1997-98 (Asian crisis), the tech stock/Nasdaq crash (and the pumping and dumping of all those names like Nortel, JDS Uniphase, Enron, Worldcom, Cisco, Lucent, AIG, etc.), then in the 2000's, all the mortgage originators not even performing rudimentary due diligence and of course Wall Street banks not separating institutional investment, retail banking and all the collusion with the ratings agencies on the sub-primes and CDO's/credit default swaps. Nobody got punished or held accountable. And that was under a 100% Democratic-led executive and legislative branch from 2009-2010. The last time it happened that anyone of note really got into trouble from the political and banking/high finance world was the S&L Scandal in the 1980's, and that left some of the key figures censured but certainly not out of commission permanently.

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb-players-respond-to-kevin-mathers-service-time-comments-and-preview-upcoming-cba-fight/

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/sports/baseball/thinking-fast-and-slow-book.html?referringSource=articleShare

Basically, if the US population of those 18 years and older is 234.6 million... And 25% are Republicans.... And 44% of those Republicans say they will adamantly refuse to be vaccinated, EVER... This is just answering the general question, do you plan to get vaccinated or have you already been vaccinated? You get 58.65 million GOP X .53 (% rejecting vaccine)=31 million You get 72.5 million Dem X .22=16 million You get 96.2 million Independents X .44=42.3 million That's roughly 90-94 million Americans. Essentially 25-26% of the entire US population.

Last November, before any vaccines had been approved, the gap between Democrats who said they planned to get vaccinated (51 percent) and Republicans who said the same (43 percent) was relatively small. Not anymore. Now, a full 78 percent of Democrats say they have gotten vaccinated or will get vaccinated versus just 47 percent of Republicans — a 31-point chasm. Among Republicans who haven’t been vaccinated yet, a plurality (44 percent) say they will “never” go through with it. And while most Democrats and independents who were unsure about vaccination back in November now favor it, the opposite is true among previously unsure Republicans, who either remain undecided (25 percent) or have split evenly between the “yes” and “no” camps — making the GOP the only political group with more noes now than before the election. This hardening hesitancy on the right stands in stark contrast to a growing pro-vaccination consensus that otherwise cuts across demographic and racial lines. The numbers are clear. Among Democrats, the margin in favor of getting a COVID-19 vaccine — a.k.a., the gap between the yeas and the nays — has grown by 31 points since Election Day; among independents, it has grown by 18 points. Among white Americans, it has grown by 17 points; among Black Americans, it has grown by 31. Only Republicans have bucked this trend, showing no net shift in favor of vaccination since last November. https://www.yahoo.com/news/new-yahoo-news-you-gov-poll-covid-19-vaccine-acceptance-is-rising-except-among-republicans-003242019.html

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/30952867/yankees-gerrit-cole-calls-mlb-service-manipulation-exposed-exec-video-blatant-not-productive

In fact, the third biggest contract in baseball history after Trout and barely trailing Mookie Betts, arguably the two best players in baseball, at least position player-wise.

Umm...they beat the Cardinals last year. Quick would be the Cubs getting swept by the Marlins in two games.

Plus the guy flat out lied or just made up/embellished two stories based on clubhouse gossip apparently. Almost comes across like Hector and the food guys, showing off supposed insider knowledge to a bunch of mostly 50+ Rotarians. I wonder whether Marco Gonzales feels comfortable and respected. He is the Mariners' ace, a 29-year-old whom Mather considers "very boring" because ... he doesn't throw very hard? Anyway, Mather delighted in telling a story about Gonzales "pushing [former teammate Mike Leake] into the locker" after Leake resisted team rules. The problem, a source familiar with the situation told ESPN, is that the story is untrue. While Gonzales did confront Leake, he did not lay hands on him. I wonder whether Mitch Haniger feels comfortable and respected. As was the case with most of Mather's comments, they included compliments, and initially he spoke well of the 30-year-old who has missed the past 1½ years due to injury. After suggesting Haniger will be an All-Star this season, Mather said, "he has a little bit of a chip on his shoulder as we talk about our prospects and these young kids. He's mentioned more than once: What about me?" According to a source close to Haniger, he has not discussed his standing with regards to the coming prospects. ..... Two years ago, the Mariners thought enough of Rodriguez's English to post a video of him speaking in it on their YouTube channel. His English sounds pretty good, and I don't imagine it has worsened since. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/30949984/chicago-white-sox-star-tim-anderson-backs-new-manager-tony-la-russa-1-1-meeting Jeff Passan commentary, you knew this slam was coming

The problem is that Keuchel and Lynn have regression in their future...so it all comes down to Cease/Kopech or the White Sox making a Verlander or Greinke type acquisition like the Astros did. If Severino comes back 100%, the Yankees’ rotation suddenly becomes a strength.

Wells looked liked a TOR starter when he first came up...and put up huge numbers with the Pirates. Second Sox season was step back. Buehrle and Fogg the two that were least hyped, for sure. Rauch, Garland and Wells were projected as frontline guys. If Stiever came anywhere close at big league level, massive win. Forgot to add Garland because he moved so fast and was originally with Cubs. Ruffcorn was a high draft pick but a largely disappointing career. At any rate, that group was main reason Sox were #1 farm system, along with Borchard/Rowand/Crede during that era.

Researchers analyzed U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs data on more than 3,600 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 between Feb. 1 and June 17 of this year, and more than 12,600 hospitalized with the flu between Jan. 1, 2017 and Dec. 31, 2019. The average age of patients in both groups was 69. The death rate among COVID-19 patients was 18.5%, while it was 5.3% for those with the flu. Those with COVID were nearly five times more likely to die than flu patients, according to the study published online Dec. 15 in the BMJ. https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20201218/covid-19-is-far-more-lethal-damaging-than-flu-data-shows#1