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They badly badly need that injection from Teel and Mune. Gonzalez and Braden still have a ways to go. Relying on Junior Perez contributions?

That worked at least...

Bullpen needs 1-2 more solid RHP to go with Taylor Davis Dominguez.

Meidroth can play SS for 7-10 days but he's limited as an everyday fielder by arm and range. Then you're moving both Colson and Vargas to positions where they're much less valuable defensively. Not to mention you can't keep yoyoing Antonacci all around the field as a rookie.

Watch the play again...he lost his rooting more than he intended to dive. Maybe the grass is wet/dew-covered?

Peters simply got a bad read and then lost his footing...it happens. He's not Austin Meadows good out there, but at least he shows up every day wanting to play hard. But thinking he was the long term CF solution...the underlying analytical numbers told a different story.

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except they already know how much all three players are going to ask for…and Roch/Emerson certainly are clued in about each other’s numbers as well due to having the same representation

The Pirates at least extend their young players…or try to. Statistically, what’s more likely to have a profound impact? Letting Mune and Vargas go, or second and third round draft picks? The idea the Pirates are suddenly being cheap with their draft budget is pretty laughable when they’ve doled out hundreds of millions in extensions. That’s just an old and tired trope about the Pirates and that until relatively recently highly-criticized ownership group. Signing pools are pretty much locked in for every team…+/-5%.

Ryan would cost them Bonemer to start with...and a couple Tier B/C guys. The Twins would make the Sox pay a heavy heavy price to trade him to their arch rival.

Camiletti has approximately the same odds of making it as a long term big league regular as Junior Perez.

The Pirates spent $330 million on Griffin Reynolds and Keller alone. Would rather the Sox figured out ways to extend Vargas/Mune than spend it on anything else. That said, the great organizations can and do both equally well, like the Brewers with their extensions for three young players, including Chourio.

Carlson is the only one that would have defensive priority at both SS/2B...if he could hit at least for a 675-700 ops.

So play Colson at 3B and Vargas at 2B? Seems crazy to move two players off their best positions where they provide the most value to the team. And then there's the issue of benching Meidroth as well.

Pérez is the 13th Sox player to make his major-league debut this season, tying the World War II-diminished 1944 Cincinnati Reds for most debuts before the All-Star Break...

Guardians beat him last time out.

Davis Martin, but minus the stuff...close to a Thorpe fb. Twenty five years ago, Glavine or Maddux would have been elated with 92-93, especially Glavine. Yes, coming back from tjs, but was never a fireballer to begin with.

He's also been hit by what, 15 pitches? That has a cumulative effect, just like catches getting beaten up behind the plate over the course of a season.

The only reason they're willing to start adding multi year contract guys in FA is the belief they will need to hit a payroll salary floor number in the next 12-24 months... All that said, it's suddenly becoming much more interesting now with three key positional starters out for CLE. They're just not going to be able to run away from anyone, and Kwan has had one of his worst seasons so far as well.

https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/mlb-reportedly-proposes-drastic-overhaul-to-draft-which-would-exclude-high-school-players-and-cut-rounds-from-event-193522373.html Putting another 50% of costs/development responsibilities on the NCAA side of the equation. Won't stand up in courts. Would result in lots of future stars going other routes like basketball and football with so much more NIL $$$ available in those areas. It's not like Japan/Korea and Latin America can/could offset thc significant loss of baseball talent this would result in...all in the name of preventing young stars from getting to FA in their mid to late 20s instead of early 30s.

https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/chicago-white-sox-are-proving-that-theyre-not-just-fun--theyre-one-of-the-american-leagues-best-182240730.html

All the scouts keep saying Swanson/Brandon Crawford numbers ... around 15-20 homers per season. Since when are catchers on the same developmental timelines and finished products at age 20 as SS's when they always take a couple of years longer? Why are posters acting like Lackey sat on the bench all last season when he had a 900+ ops? Citing Vargas, Peters, Montgomery's, Jacob Gonzalez (jury still out), Bonemer (big challenge now in AA)...does that mean they now have a magic formula to fix Wolkow and Zavala, too? The test of any organization is at least occasionally getting results out of non million dollar bonus guys from the amateur draft and especially international. To say they've fixed hitting is the equivalent of saying they've equally screwed up pitching...the truth is not as bleak for pitching nor as rosy or optimistic for hitting prospects as it may seem today.

Not bad for Lackey's 2025. Still ascending vs. plateaued/mixed out???