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On further thought, could probably be convinced that a healthy Corey Seager belongs, too. Interestingly, one name you never hear anymore is Vladimir Guerrero, Jr. Looks like Bichette could be the more valuable player.

So...his last start was July 25th. More than 3 weeks between them, yikes.

The injury risk with Tatis is arguably the highest because of the way he plays so recklessly, and the torque created by violent repetitive swings (see Woods, Eldrick Tiger.) Note I didn't include a single pitcher for that very reason. Too risky.

Dr. Sealy? Mike Lindell from My Pillow?

Nope, see above. I didn’t include Robert because it’s not yet justified, but an interesting argument. Betts would have been my second choice, probably. So there you go...

I like Lindor’s leadership a lot. I probably would go Bellinger due to LH bat, power and positional flexibility to play CF, 1B, etc.

Acuna and Soto don't have the premiere defensive value of playing SS, C, CF. And neither of them are amazing defenders in the first place, let's just call them competent to slightly above average.

More like Drew Carey...

Who would you choose? Left off a couple of obvious names, like Christian Yelich...

https://www.cleveland.com/tribe/2020/08/cleveland-indians-reinstate-mike-clevinger-and-zach-plesac-from-mlb-restricted-list-option-both-to-alternate-training-site.html “We spent time thinking about what gives our team the best chance to win tonight,” Antonetti said. “We made the determination that it made the most sense to, in order to be the best team we can be, we made the decisions we did to option them to the alternate site.” “They hurt us bad,” Plutko said after Cleveland’s 7-1 loss to the Cubs at Progressive Field. “They lied to us. They sat here in front of you guys and publicly said things that they didn’t follow through on.” Francona’s reaction upon seeing the video did not necessarily produce the results Plesac was likely hoping for. “I was disappointed,” Francona said. Antonetti said he also had a chance to view the video, and he’s not sure Plesac was able to convey what he intended after speaking to him individually. “I think if he had a do-over, he may have said things a bit differently,” Antonetti said.

Giolito vs. Wainright, Opener vs. Flaherty Keuchel vs. Dakota Hudson/Ponce de Leon Just some guesswork...

They have to be scared to death about Flaherty. He’s their franchise cornerstone. Carlos Martinez is already out.

Bauer, Plesac and Clevinger all feeling wrath of Francona/Antonelli.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/14/politics/obama-trump-usps-postal-service/index.html Obama, in a podcast with David Plouffe, his former campaign manager, took on the Trump administration in direct terms, including calling out Vice President Mike Pence by name. "What we've seen in a way that is unique to modern political history is a President who is explicit in trying to discourage people from voting," Obama said. "What we've never seen before is a President say, 'I'm going to try to actively kneecap the postal service to encourage voting and I will be explicit about the reason I'm doing it.'" Obama added: "That's sort of unheard of."

https://www.cleveland.com/tribe/2020/08/did-cleveland-indians-zach-plesac-help-or-hurt-his-case-with-video-explanation-podcast.html

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/contact-tracing-a-key-way-to-slow-covid-19-is-badly-underused-by-the-u-s/

This directly contradicts Dennis Lin The Athletic story, who had Indians with first offer, and Rays as well as another team (pretty sure it was the Blue Jays) all making offers. Nothing about the Cardinals. Fernando Tatis Sr.: Toronto made an offer to us. At that time, he was in the DPL (Dominican Prospect League). We didn’t really know exactly what the offer was, and then they decided to sign Vladimir Jr. We had a lot of teams interested, but at that moment they didn’t have the money to sign him. They signed a lot of players before he was coming out. A lot of people liked him, but in that moment they didn’t think that he cost that much money. A lot of people wanted to sign him, but they only wanted to spend $500,000, $600,000, $700,000, and we weren’t looking for that at that time. Tatis Jr.: Cleveland was pretty close. Tampa. Who else? I didn’t have that many teams trying to sign me. 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/

To be more specific, in the mail-in, a fan posed the question whether it was possible the movement to replace him was picking up steam....Fegan doesn’t at all, at least not at the moment.

Fire Renteria gaining steam? I’m trying to be more economical with my answers, so there’s a temptation to just write “No,” and move on. But between the pandemic effect on team finances, the unusual nature of a season that is more about survival and crisis management than reading Renteria the riot act about proper deployment of Ross Detwiler, I truly don’t sense it, see it, taste it, etc. The White Sox have pushed back against the notion that anyone has a job for life or scholarship, but as it was described to me, there’s needs to be an affirmative reason for why a coach/manager has to go for someone to be fired in this organization. It’s not a simple case of “Let’s try something different!” but rather, “We’re failing at these specific elements and this coach/manager is specifically failing to address them and also has not shown the ability/willingness to address them going forward AND we think we can find or have already identified someone who would.” (my take, the reason Omar Vizquel was jettisoned, also caring more about winning than development and protecting top prospects There can be frustration with day-to-day decisions, as Rick Hahn has conceded there will be at times, but I don’t think any of that gets us there with Renteria, nor particularly close. https://theathletic.com/1994354/2020/08/14/white-sox-mailbag-youre-all-nuts-and-i-depend-on-you-to-live/?source=dailyemail

By Ptac?

SOXTALK BIG BOARD. We're playing three-dimensional chess while the rest of MLB fan boards are playing checkers and Tiddly Winks (does anyone even play that anymore, haha)?

Anderson, Tim. END of DEBATE. Please see quotes from Timmy himself in The Athletic (Accountability Thread) upon his 4/5 performance and rumors Luis ROH-BEER would be coming for his job...

You never know with the Indians, pretty budget-conscious. Remember playfully “stripping” owner Rachel Phelps in the clubhouse with each victory down the stretch run? The two “they’re still shitty” Asian dudes? Charter flight on an old DC-7 that almost crashed in lightning storm and heavy roller coaster-like turbulence?

https://twitter.com/ChewieTheChi/status/1136375559754092544/photo/1

Francona was already out of action when all this transpired, yes? Alomar, Jr. running team...