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Or the Stroman/TA connection seems like something to build on. Of course, Bauer is already familiar with AL Central and his spent his entire career in the Midwest/Rust Belt, essentially...

And stay with our existing pen or add ONE more outside piece (again)? That ONE piece is like Dunning/Lopez/Rodon, or 2/3 of those guys. Or even the possibility of Kopech moving into that back-end role to go along with Burdi, Bummer and Heuer + 3 already mentioned.

Everyone has lost their minds. COVID-19, whether true or hoax....the threat of continued stoppages of revenue into 2021 in terms of ticketing (season), food/concessions/beverages, souvenirs and parking, that's wiping out roughly 60-65% of team revenue. One can easily imagine a downward adjustment of 20-40% on regular/"expected" contract offers as a result. Great opportunity for league-wide collusion, PR campaign featuring teams like NYM supposedly losing $50-100 million per season, etc.

Assuming you keep Leury, let Gio/EE go...how much would that save? Mazara as well, of course, he would need to be replaced at potentially/likely a higher salary. Hard to believe they're not going to give Rodon one last shot, at least out of the pen in the Andrew Miller role...after how long they've stuck with him.

We have to spend the money wisely, on a pitcher, whether it's Lynn, Gibson or Minor last season (and Lynn continuing to be great at a bargain basement price of $8 million), Kenta Maeda (trade)/Odorizzi for the Twins. Examples from just a few teams. The Reds come to mind here as well with Sonny Gray/Bauer/Miley. We know all the FA names out there, it's just a matter of finding the right one. That way, they don't have to completely rely on Keuchel outperforming again, Cease pitching over his control issues, Lopez/Rodon, Kopech (who knows what we actually get out of him) and Dunning.

3/$50 off of 4-5 really solid months and the All-Star berth, compared to the relatively pedestrian rest of his career with DET? How would we feel if we were fans of another team and they signed McCann to that kind of deal? Really not that far off from Grandal's numbers, 1 year less for contract, "only" $2 million more per season for Grandal, who has an established track record and playoff history of performances dating back over a number of years. 5,2 5.8 4.1 4.7 5.2=25/5=5.0 fWAR average over the last five full seasons for Grandal James McCann is at +2.1 for his ENTIRE career. Including 2.3 last season. That would have to be about his max, right?

Grand Slam #4, four consecutive games...has to be some type of MLB record. This time Hosmer does the trick, with Machado, Tatis and Austin Hedges on base. Padres' shaky bullpen blows 5-2 lead, becomes 5-6, but France and Hedges both homer, 7-6, Padres in the bottom of the 9th. Padres and White Sox neck and neck for #3/4 for MLB team homers lead.

Ummm...then you’re running a charter school, essentially. These last three sentences don’t seem possible in modern America...where has empathy disappeared to, and compassion for our fellow citizens? Exhaustive, 27 post thread on Wuhan Institute of Virology...coverups, allegations, etc.

https://theathletic.com/2008668/2020/08/20/buy-sell-hold-new-pitches-eno-sarris/?source=dailyemail Cease breakdown, mostly based on control issues and lack of strikes/swings on the curve...SELL.

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/columnists/paul-daugherty/2020/08/19/doc-thom-brennaman-slur-words-matter-words-create-perceptions/5614164002/ Paul Daugherty on Thom Brennaman slur: Words matter. Words create perceptions. Too often, perception is reality. https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2020/08/19/reds-announcer-thom-brennaman-uses-homophobic-slur-amir-garrett-matt-bowman-chris-seelbach-reactions/5614046002/

And ANOTHER Grand Slam, walk off winner against a "pitching on fumes" (40+ pitches) Montero of the Rangers. This time, by Machado with one down in the bottom of the 9th (Rangers tied it up 2-2 in top of 9th, went ahead 3-2 in top of the 10th.) Tatis walked to load the bases (fouled off a number of good pitches) right b4 Machado hit.

Lance Lynn becomes ONE obvious choice, if you're willing to trade Vaughn $8,000,000 base salary for 2021, $9,333,333 "payroll salary" according to Sportrac. Contract is HUGE bargain based on performance in both 2019 and 2020.

Please tell me that it's not THE Bonifacio playing RF for Los Tigres...?

First read this as "exposed himself to Covid"... first thought, what else can wrong this season? An arrest for indecent exposure, sure, why not?

Wasn't someone on on here talking about their Day jersey they got for pennies on the dollar in the clearout bin?

Sosa now looks like Bela Lugosi or Ed Wood with all that harsh whitening skin foundation/bleaching. He's gone from a panther to the equivalent of a tree sloth.

Or NASCAR driver in Ferrell/John C.O'Reilly/SB Cohen vehicle.

https://www.mlb.com/news/tim-anderson-praises-fernando-tatis-jr https://www.yahoo.com/sports/how-a-tired-argument-engulfed-fernando-tatis-jr-a-slowmoving-games-dynamic-new-superstar-231338371.html

That’s why KyLe is similarly en fuego. Or, to quote Bad Boys 4 Life, Hasta La Fuego. https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/tickets?partnerId=zh-20200819-236941-CWS&qid=16&bt_ee=sUPMdeAVaiIRcUmVYidchVYzjEppiUbA4001HO4HMt3cRGAmykO6srBx%2B6klSwiV&bt_ts=1597854418095

But he almost won two WS, is a local hero in KC for buying everyone drinks the night of the clincher and he did stay at a high-quality Holiday Inn Express last night.

Betts for the entire farm system...don’t pass go. Actually, there are roughly ten realistic offseason RF possibilities.

Call me crazy. Stole Mize for fantasy before anyone realized he was up, starting him today. Robert also on team...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/18/asia/wuhan-water-park-party-intl-hnk/index.html

The Millionaire Next Door. $40-60 watch, too?

https://theathletic.com/2006926/2020/08/19/why-dane-dunning-always-had-the-fortitude-to-make-his-white-sox-debut/?source=dailyemail In a tough University of Florida program that hadn’t offered him until he was a rising high school senior, with A.J. Puk, Alex Faedo and Logan Shore in the rotation, Dane Dunning was working out of the bullpen as a junior, after a rough freshman year and a solid but unspectacular sophomore campaign. His even keel seems perfect now for the pressures of professional baseball and Wednesday’s big-league debut, and especially for coping with over two years of elbow rehab, but at the time some questioned whether the happy and approachable right-hander truly burned to be great. He was still smooth-faced, easily 30 pounds lighter than he is today, and when he wore his now trademark glasses, Dunning still looked 12 years old. Thompson’s friends were a little skeptical. “I said, ‘Listen, guys,'” Thompson recalled in a phone call with The Athletic. “‘Dane is 6-foot-4. He’s young, his arm has not been used that much and he’s throwing 93-94 mph with movement. If you don’t think he’s going in the top two rounds, you’re nuts.'”