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Not to mention Max Kepler and Sano/Donaldson. Cruz isn’t a necessity. Then Arraez/Polanco/Adrianza for 2B/utility.

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb-free-agency-andrelton-simmons-reportedly-joins-twins-giants-close-to-deal-with-tommy-la-stella/ If they can move Polanco off SS...they’ve already markedly improved their defensive lineup from last year. Rosario was lousy too, in that regard. Then they have Royce Lewis coming right behind. Lewis could also end in CF if Buxton leaves, or Polanco, possibly moving out there. Looks like Kiriloff has mostly played 1B/RF, then you have Larnach as well for corner OF/DH. Which makes one think they will spend on pitching instead of Cruz.

Apparently enjoys life on the West Coast...and SF a massive upgrade over Oaktown.

Check all local hospitals for Fathom....and Madrigal family condition updates. Oh, thats’s right, he wanted Kolton Wong, but maybe LaStella as well.

It’s amazing in retrospect we gave Derek Holland so much in a non-compete year but now can’t seem to locate $6-8 million (at least not yet) when we’re actually trying to compete. Or Ivan Nova...I mean, I realize we were protecting the likes of Cease, Lopez and Kopech, but that money would come in quite handy now.

Did Ty Cobb “respect” the game with his style of play? It’s a very slippery slope, especially when you start incorporating off-the-field issues or political stances.

Depends how much you believe in guys like Vladdy, Biggio and Bichette...as well as their health.

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...