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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.”

https://sports.yahoo.com/browns-dysfunction-runs-deep-new-espn-report-5-reasons-may-180043174.html http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/25797430/inside-cleveland-browns-front-office-where-hope-history-collide https://www.cleveland.com/expo/sports/g66l-2019/01/248d850cbe6194/jimmy-haslam-seems-to-have-learned-from-his-mistakes-and-other-takeaways-from-the-espn-piece.html https://thebiglead.com/2019/01/24/can-john-dorsey-control-jimmy-haslam-like-no-one-else-has/

https://sports.yahoo.com/james-dolan-responds-fan-video-shouldnt-taken-bait-215553159.html We could always try thecapproach of this NY Knicks fan to confront/embarrass ownership...front office. Still seems more of a Boston, NY or Philly fan approach than what would play in the Midwest.

Steven Masera, 69, the accountant and financial officer for the Edge College & Career Network and the Key Worldwide Foundation, was also indicted, according to court documents. Masera and Mark Riddell, a private school counselor in Bradenton, Florida, allegedly worked closely with Singer in the scam, according to the indictment. Mikaela Sanford, 32, of Folsom, California, another employee of the Edge College & Career Network and the Key Worldwide Foundation, and David Sidoo, 59, of Vancouver, Canada, were also indicted for allegedly working closely with Singer to facilitate the scam, according to the indictment. Singer would allegedly instruct parents to seek extended time for the children to take entrance exams or obtain medical documentation that their child had a learning disability, according to the indictment. The parents were then told to get the location of the test changed to one of two testing centers, one in Houston and another in West Hollywood, California, where test administrators Niki Williams, 44, of Houston and Igor Dvorskiy, 52, of Sherman Oaks, California, helped carry out the scam, the indictment alleges. Riddell, 36, allegedly either took ACT and SAT tests for students whose parents had paid bribes to Singer, according to the indictment. "Singer typically paid Riddell $10,000 for each student's test," according to the indictment. Those charged in the probe include nine coaches at elite schools, two SAT and ACT exam administrators, one exam proctor, a college administrator and 33 parents, including Huffman and Loughlin. Huffman's husband, actor William H. Macy, was not indicted, but according to the court document he and Huffman were caught on a recorded conversation with a corroborating witness in the case, allegedly discussing a $15,000 payment to ensure their younger daughter scored high on a college entrance exam. Huffman was indicted on charges stemming from the $15,000 she allegedly disguised as a charitable donation so her older daughter could take part in the college entrance cheating scam, the indictment reads. But Huffman and Macy apparently decided not to go through with scheme for their younger daughter. At a hearing before a judge Tuesday afternoon in Los Angeles, Huffman answered "yes" to questions from the judge and acknowledged she understood the charges against her. Macy watched silently from the front row of the courtroom. Out on $250,000 bond. Live Updates: Ringleader pleads guilty in $25 million nationwide college admissions cheating scam AARON KATERSKY, BILL HUTCHINSON and MIKE LEVINE,Good Morning America 52 minutes ago

How did the Brewers go from the #5 pick in 2016 when we simultaneously drafted Collins at #10 and then "rebuild/retool" to a nearly World Series team in the span of just two years????? It must have been Junior Guerra, Saladino, Soria, Swarzak, Jennings, Avilan and Matt Fat Albers.

The fact is, if you just randomly had the White Sox ONLY drafting high school and collegiate players from Florida, Texas or California, they'd be MUCH better off than they are now. Forget about scouting the entire country or regions, just be the expert/master of SOMETHING, ANYTHING WILL DO.

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/25893836/inside-37-year-old-pitcher-luke-hagerty-improbable-comeback-story You can already practically guarantee this story ends up with Hagerty being played by Dennis Quaid again in THE ROOKIE 2: CUBS BOOGALOO Pretty amazing the guy comes back 13 years later after being drafted, at age 37, 12 years since his last pitch in competitive baseball, and is throwing mid to high 90's. I guess Matt Bush is the closest we've had to this story, Josh Hamilton, obviously.

With that in mind, Rick Hahn definitely will be AL Front Office Executive of the Year in 2021/22.