caulfield12

A month ago, we would have had the same conversation about Harper being a terrible signing when he was getting booed nightly in Philadelphia. How many of the 3B ahead of Machado were available to the White Sox or other teams last offseason? http://www.espn.com/mlb/stats/batting/_/position/3b/sort/WARBR/order/true If you go by bWAR, Machado is 9th at 2.9, and Josh Donaldson...who would have made little sense for 1-2 non-competitive seasons, would have been the only other option. This idea that Machado is suddenly a terrible contract or that Madrigal will outproduce him is...well, let’s knock off 1 fWAR from his average for the last four years, which was 5.4. Now, we expect Madrigal to realistically roll out 4-5 fWAR seasons based on what exactly? Hitting 15-18 homers per season?

Let’s just see how it plays out...they’re definitely not in “win now” mode (as opposed to developmental) for the rest of the season. Have a feeling they will end up one spot in front of the White Sox.

He actually hurt it on a swing...but diving on nearly every ball he can get to and running the bases like a daredevil doesn’t help much.

More like Charlie Weis...

Harper’s all the way up to a 3 fWAR season. If you consider marketing, national relevance and what we’ve actually gotten out of RF, it would have been the right move regardless of it being nowhere close to his legendary 9.3 season in 2015.

The Trout home run call was classic, too.

Well, it’s 220 pm Saturday afternoon in China...

https://old.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/crgpi7/a_thread_of_the_best_bill_walton_quotes_from/?st=jzf4ol3q&sh=22af44f0 For those who missed it, here are a ton of quotes... The Usain Bolt/Wellington Castillo comp will last into legendary status...or any slow Sox batter like a Crede, Konerko or one of the Flying Molina Brothers.

When’s the last time a 9 p.m. start had 17 pages?

McCann contract extension...two grannies in one week, wow.

Native American Inclusion Night...

Trout swimming upstream and avoiding all the flies. Will forget he just called them the A’s.

At least he’s well read. How much he remembers is another question altogether.

Gavin Floyd was the comp throughout last season...solid 2/3.

https://electricwasteband.com/

Vogelbach, haha.

Benetti, you can get more than 3 k’s in an inning...

You can just see Benetti imagining who the heck can I get so I don’t have to broadcast by myself out in Cali...it’s going to get more views/listens than anything else that happens with the Sox this year. Now he’s criticizing Giolito’s brother for being too shy/quiet/polite and doubting his acting potential.

At least it’s more entertaining than the average Sox game this year...how many would turn a West Coast game off after 1030 normally? Pujols is Carl Lewis!

Walton will get a guest spot on NCIS with Mark Harmon now...and even Walton won’t know Mississippi BB.

Even Chet Coppock says Jimenez needs to DH.

Yolmer SANCHEZ=Renaldo Nehemiah

70 mph top velocity Now they’ll have to bring back Giolito’s brother because he hardly got a word in edgewise...the funny thing is he left the home of acting in Hollywood to get away from his family name out there by going all the way to Wales. Usain Bolt compared to Wellington Castillo? Beach nakedness? Yosemite Falls? But he hasn’t seen The Naked Gun?

Plus the kid’s dealing with jet lag after three flights...great defense from Leury on the can of corn, but the pitcher’s the initial defender, lol.

Tony Salmon and Charlie the Tuna for the win...exoskeletons rule!