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THREE CONSECUTIVE WALKS!!!! OBP/MONEYBALL RULES!

Those were far and away the most talented teams the White Sox (have) had since the late 1950's. 1967, 1977 and 1983 were more anomalies in a miasma of mediocrity.

1990-93 was great...especially that unexpected '90 season in the final year of Old Comiskey.

CAN NO LONGER TRUST GOMEZ! JK, Hector. We still love you White Sox enthusiasm...you did your job, reported the ongoing/developing situation with Machado accurately until the final 10 days when everything changed.

5.59 ERA should fit in nicely... Who the heck is Ma.Cabrera?

How many tickets do his antics sell? At least they're more entertaining than Melky's theatrics, I guess. In other news, Machado has just a 631 spring OPS but the Padres are simply destroying their opponents.

That deserves a LIKE for Gregster, lol...

Yeah, even if he repeated his 2017 season, maybe more homers and lower BA..."decent" defensively compensated for with a slew of OF assists like Eaton compiled in RF, then would they have really broken the bank and given him a deal like Aaron Hicks (which would have still been the biggest deal in WS history, for what amounts to a "complementary" player) just got from the Yankees? Garcia would have been younger, and fit the "core profile" for the 2020-2023 "playoff" drive. Otherwise, we're stuck waiting on the remaining four corner outfield guys (and Basabe already has been set back) or signing Puig/Castellanos/Ozuna for roughly the same we were going to pay our own homegrown (well, via DET) prospect in Avi. I guess, from a marketing standpoint, Puig could sell another 250-500 season tickets if he puts up 35-45 homers this season at GAB.

Realistically, what could we have gotten in return...it was his only healthy/productive season, so it surely looked like an outlier or anomaly to other analytics driven teams, particularly infield hits/BABIP. JDM took months to sign to sign at well under his fWAR value.

But at least he's a lefty?

You, Eminor and Shack are typically more enthusiastic...about supporting the team.

Victor Diaz’s health might be the worst of the bunch...

They might be nearing the point of no choice...unless they’re willing to spend in free agency.

When he mashes in B games and against AA/AAA hitters, we’ll surely get a series of puff pieces out of Merkin. One with Thome saying encouraging things about being patient, that his time will eventually come. If they quote his spring stats as the reason, well, Hahn will do spin this exactly as we all expect. Yesterday’s rainouts now doubly suck because Jimenez, Robert and even Madrigal were all slated to start.

At the very least, over the offseason. If he’s on the Burdi track, you’re talking 20-22 months...in the middle of 2021. And it’s not like he has dominating TOR stuff, so his command needs to be pinpoint to be effective.

When he was with the Twins...?

Save some for Robert, Cease and Madrigal...

Understatement of the year? Even Reds’ fans are pretty excited, at least for now.

Our starting lineup tonight against the Dodgers is so boring I can’t even muster up the energy to post it or start a Game Thread.

Well, as that’s pretty much 90% of our current rebuild strategy, along with the Robert acquisition...makes sense.

Washington/Rizzo looking better everyday on that Eaton trade, with Soto and Robles still in-house and the money to spend on Corbin.

Which free agent pitchers will we not target next offseason...? Eliminating Cole, Verlander and Sale, that leaves us with basically Porcello, Bumgarner, Z. Wheeler or “buying/renting” Greinke from the DBacks If they underperform this year. Not to mention extending Rodon, If actually healthy, seems like an improbable exercise in futility. But Hahn’s a master contract negotiator, right?

Edwards isn’t a starter, obviously, but he’s been a really effective reliever, when/if healthy. Or you can go all the way down the list to Alcantara or one of the Cuban lefties they signed for too much.

So put me on ignore. Very simple. Maybe you’re not interested in how an owner deciding not to interfere (finally) with his front office personnel and let them handle running the player evaluation and development has worked wonders for the Cleveland Browns, but 2-3 posters brought it up previously and argued they were much more relevant that the Sox. Maybe you dont follow the sport, know who Odell Beckham is, frankly, no idea. http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/26243093/grading-odell-beckham-jr-trade-giants-browns-won The NY Football Giants have already somehow outdone the Sox in worst offseason, ever. At any rate, I seem to recall page after page in one of the baseball threads analyzing the Bulls, for example. Life is too short to care about such little, insignificant things. There’s an ignore button for a reason. If you’re just going for cheap shots to get more likes on your board scorecard, I feel bad for you, but stalking posters from thread to thread and making personal attacks over and over again doesn’t contribute much. The board has already lost a lot of contributors since the Machado/Harper debacles. For example, I don’t have any recollection for what your plan is to get us out of this mess. Which free agents would you target next year? Maybe take an interesting/debate worthy position or two...

“The Reds’ offseason additions of Sonny Gray, Alex Wood, Tanner Roark, Yasiel Puig and Matt Kemp were a welcome departure from what has become standard operating procedure for many noncompetitive teams in recent seasons, opines Joel Sherman of the New York Post. While many teams have followed the Astros’ model of aggressively tanking to stockpile draft picks and international bonus resources, the Reds at least positioned themselves to have a chance in the division, even if few would peg them as any sort of favorite. “For the first time in a long time we added multiple well-known major league players to this team in an offseason,” president of baseball operations Dick Williams tells Sherman. “That clearly has people’s imaginations going. That is part of the fun. … Just to be able to ponder the possible and the excitement is a huge psychological benefit to our fans.” Even if the moves ultimately fail to yield dividends, several of the newly acquired assets (namely Wood, Roark and Puig) could hold value on the summer trade market, and the Reds didn’t sacrifice any of the organization’s very top prospects in order to take a shot at improved results in 2019.”