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The Dodgers have come up with three great discoveries like that in Turner, Taylor and Muncy. We hang our hats on Swarzak, Soria and Kahnle.

And you can probably cross half of those players off our list before we even get to next offseason for a large variety of reasons.

Justin? Jacob? Ted?

And Ohtani!

Fine, if we had a Buster. But I'm not conceding the point. That said, there's no point to argue it out any further without getting into apolitical debate about cultural identity/identity politics. And Machado has been back to visit family/relatives in the Dominican Republic on NUMEROUS occasions.

By descent, he is...if the answer was as cut and dried as you think, WHY WOULD HE PLAY ON THE DOMINICAN WBC TEAM AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY? Because ethnic identity is a much more complicated issue than you're making it out to be.

Okay, so Dominican-American ISN'T equal to Latin-American, got it...

This is the most idiotic thing I've heard today. Have you seen him play? Watch his homer from yesterday or today on the highlights at MLB.com. He's about the size of Alexei Ramirez (in terms of BMI), maybe another 10-15 pounds, albeit taller. If he was juicing, with that frame, he'd be at 210-215, not still in the 170's or low 180's. It's one of the reasons lots of scouts expect him to eventually end up at 3B, because of how much weight his father carried later in his career (although Tatis' dad was closer to 5'11"). In fact, Tatis was always viewed as a player who could be even better had he kept his weight down a bit.

I think one mistake was underestimating the impact his father had on his career...and how success in baseball often passes down from generation to generation. “It was very difficult for me to grow up without my father,” Tatis Sr. said. “It was very difficult because I loved to play baseball and I would have loved to have had my father around me. I think that’s why I take every day, every moment I can to be with my children.” That desire picked up steam when Tatis – with 113 major league home runs, albeit the blasts leaving the yard far less frequently – walked away from his career to focus on his son’s. That ultimately started with Fernando Jr. learning both Spanish and English in school from the time he was 4 years old. He’d picked up a bat much earlier in his life. “I always had a bat in my hand; One day I hit my grandma in the head when I was 3,” the younger Tatis said with a laugh. His father home for good from his career, the two spent hours in the cage and on diamonds. They worked on technique. Day after day after day, the two talked, lived and breathed baseball until the White Sox offered Tatis’ oldest son, just 16 at the time, an $825,000 signing bonus to start his professional career. “I’m not going to lie,” Fernando Tatis Jr. recalled. “It was kind of hard at times. Being a dad and a coach at the same time, sometimes we’d start arguing and bring it into the house because I didn’t want to work hard enough. I was growing up. I was maturing a little bit more. I learned a lot. “It was great in the end, but in the beginning it was not easy.” It’s not always easy today. The two talk about the cows, horses and sheep on their farm when Tatis Sr. phones from the Dominican Republic. They talk about how his younger brothers – Elijah, 15 (now 16 or 17), and Daniel, 11 (now 12 or 13) – are coming along in the game. The conversation without fail lands on Fernando Tatis Jr.’s latest swings. “I watch on my phone – every pitch, every inning, every at-bat,” the elder Tatis said. “If I see something wrong, something I don’t like, I call him right away.” With a laugh, Tatis Sr. added: “Sometimes he doesn’t want to hear it. That’s baseball, but we’ve got a very good relationship. I say, ‘I’ve got to tell you. It’s the only way you’re going to get better. There’s things you’re not doing right.’ “That’s the way it is and that’s what it’s going to be.” Of course, Fernando Tatis Jr. – the Padres’ chief return from the White Sox when ownership OK’d eating $27-31 million remaining on James Shields’ contract – is doing plenty right. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/padres/sd-sp-padres-fernando-tatis-jr-groomed-for-big-future-in-baseball-20170928-story.html

Apparently since mid-summer 2015 in America, lol...

One can pretty much guarantee that Bruce Freakin' Levine and Lozano have never interacted in their entire lives. If they did, it would be a "go-between" like Michael Cohen repping Trump and doing his dirty work.

Or we can refer to them as jackasses for messing up Erik Johnson and also dumping him in that trade...after all, he was supposedly the headliner. It wasn't bad enough after Shields had given up 10 or 11 runs the previous start and his own owner basically badmouthed him to the point where Preller had to dump him off the roster, they still got the Sox to pay roughly half of Shields' remaining contract dollars as well. Nifty trick if you can pull it off. PS: Lozano's understandably upset he wasn't representing all of Manny's friends and family...he could have made a fortune auctioning all of them off to the White Sox this offseason, taken his agent's commission, and then laughed all the way to the bank when Machado signed elswhere.

Well, it just goes to show how successful they are at playing the villains, when NOBODY is even thinking about the Cleveland Indians anymore....as they're supposed to be our REAL competition, not even the Cubbies. But why not also hate on the Cardinals or Braves, they're also confirmed cheaters in terms of front office tactics?

If you were a football, rugby or cricket player...sure I would. Manuel Arturo Machado is a Dominican-American professional baseball third baseman and shortstop for the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball. Okay, I'll rephrase then, to be politically correct and more accurate. We WOULD have had the greatest collection of Hispanic, Caribbean-born, Latino, ABDD (American Born Dominican Descent), hyphenated (fill in the blank country, like Luis Gonzalez with Mexican-American, or Carlos Rodon with Cuban-American), in the history of the modern game. LatinA would be female Hispanic players...btw.

It was a joke about the time back in 2006 or 2008 when KW went to all those veteran leaders (not to be confused with 2010, when AJ argued not to break up the team and they went on a 26-5 run to get back in it)...and they all asserted there was no reason to make an addition to the team because they had everyone they needed in house.

Congratulations, you've just successfully earned yourself a job in the White Sox front office...or, at the very minimum, an internship "carrying water." Choose marketing, ticket sales or public relations. All departments can currently use all the help they can get with "spin doctoring" these days.

Sure, but he plays for the Dominican Republic in the WBC. It's like saying John Jay is not Hispanic because of his name. It's also the reason we signed or traded for half of the Latin American veterans (Nova, Colome, Herrera...kept Castillo, who he played with in Baltimore, over two younger/cheaper guys) that were available on the market.

We SHOULD have the greatest collection of Latin American talent the game has ever seen since the 1950's/60's Dodgers and Pirates or the Dodgers of Mike Brito (he with the hat and radar gun behind home plate) in the 70's and 80's/early 90's. Instead, we have Yolmer Sanchez as the best player produced in the last five years, a "lite" version of Eduardo Escobar, who led the LA pipeline (if that's the right word for it) the previous five years and was dumped for Liriano in 2012. 1. Manny Machado 2. Fernando Tatis, Jr. 3. Eloy Jimenez 4. Yoan Moncada 5. Carlos Rodon (family is all of Cuban descent, 2nd generation) 6. Lopez 7. Luis Robert (positions #5-7 are really interchangeable) 8. Luis Basabe 9. Micker Adolfo 10. Luis Gonzalez (family is originally from Mexico, grew up in Tucson) That doesn't even count Seby Zavala, Jose Ruiz, Bernardo Flores, Luis Curbelo, Laz Rivera and Johan Cruz. It also doesn't count Omar Narvaez, who was by some measures the 4th best offensive catcher in MLB last year and had four remaining years of control. We can throw Leury Garcia in there as well, haha. There's just no way all ten of those guys couldn't lead this organization to the playoffs again, if not the World Series. But we're the White Sox, so of course we get Dayan Viciedo (the Sox version of Jorge Soler) and Avi Garcia instead of superstars. We can't manage to sign Machado, and we can't manage to hold onto Tatis (when we should have folded in May/June 2016 in the first place, but "fought courageously on because of JR and KW" and probably Konerko/Dye/Thome/AJ selling Hahn on the idea they had enough horses to go the distance that year.)

His history with the Rangers is well-documented. For some reason, other organizations are able to outwork us...you explain it then. I'm not surprised about anything with our Dominican operations since WilderGate. We probably had a mole or spy reporting out to other teams, or a rogue buscone who wanted to get back at the Sox, lol. Paddy, for being this supposed huge asset, has been responsible for Tatis and Adolfo, and that's pretty much the full extent of it for Top 15 prospects the past decade out of LA. Or you could credit him for Robert if you want (but not blowing way past that budget to sign a boatload like SD.) A couple of other kids on the periphery of bring legit prospects, but still 3-4 seasons away at a minimum.

So, the Padres were just lucky to build the undisputed #1 farm system in the game, and just happened to pick the kid who can run well, hit for power and field SS of all positions well....and we’re basically just unlucky, right? Just like the Cubs identifying and signing Gleyber Torres and Jimenez in the same signing class was simply the result of good fortune and deep pockets? Preller did the same exact thing with the Rangers, especially on the LatAm side. They were perennial contenders until recently when they got old. Most of the FA signings/trades that Preller made in the 2014-15 actually had decent years, other than Shields and Kemp (compare to Sox FA signings since 2011.) PS: A player doesn’t have to play for him to be scouted well on practice fields or in AZ. Once upon a time, the Dodgers had an embarrassment of outfield riches and tried to hide Roberto Clemente by deliberately not playing him in Montreal (AAA)...didnt work, the Pirates and everyone in baseball still found out about him. Scouts talk...just one BP session or back fields practice game, whatever, can easily catch their eye.

They really want to hold onto Hill. With lingering uncertainty about Kershaw, Ryu’s health always up in the air...maybe if they can feel about confident about Urias, but he’s not ready to go 180 innings. With our luck, it would be Maeda.

Except Pederson for two years makes no sense without an extension. We don’t have a need for Toles, although he probably deserves a full-time MLB shot more than guys like Engel or Delmonico. 100% it won’t be Verdugo, so there are only two realistic options, unless KW coaxes Andre Ethier out of retirement.

That homer he hit yesterday...just looked like a line out to SS....then it just kept carrying and carrying. It’s AZ, obviously, but that might be the lowest peak height homer I’ve seen in a long time. 2553 attendance...roughly the same as Sunday’s game.

Wilson Betemit and Ryan Sweeney. Adam Engel in AFL. Irrelevant or small sample sizes.

What proof do we have that the Sox are better...especially since Sale, Eaton and Q?