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Nobody knows who is better...and teams building for 2028-30 should have enough minor league depth built up that they're not resorting to journeymen like Booser Wilson Eisert Ellard Gilbert. Why, because their trade value is pretty much negligible, and what's the upside for guys approaching or in their 30s already?

S.Moore now being detained by police for investigation according to ESPN. https://www.freep.com/story/sports/columnists/jeff-seidel/2025/12/10/sherrone-moore-firing-could-work-to-michigan-football-advantage/87708467007/ https://www.maizenbrew.com/football/100693/sherrone-moore-michigan-football-head-coach-betting-odds-kalen-deboer-marcus-freeman-jedd-fisch-brian-kelly M.Freeman deBoer Jesse Minter Joe Brady all getting mentions. best odds to become the next head coach in Ann Arbor is former Michigan assistant coach and current Washington head coach Jedd Fisch (+450)

The list of suitors for free agent reliever Pete Fairbanks continues to grow. Scott Merkin of MLB.com reports that the White Sox are interested in the veteran right-hander. Chicago joins the Diamondbacks, Tigers, Marlins, Blue Jays, and Dodgers as teams connected to Fairbanks.

This season with CLE will be the test, won't it? Unless you're going to be an elite closer, you probably have no business being all the way up at #14 unless you have a weak/er minor league system. He still maintains a little of that rumored Top Ten pick buzz from the 2021-22 cycle. CLE has no choice but to fill out their last eight to ten roster spots with guys near the minimum salary. But they can't just waste a spot all season long if not contributing. I think I must have read "Pallette Coffey Schoenle" 100 times last year...was that Cali? Kind of like Adams and S.Murphy with rockway.

Oops. Keep forgetting. Adams always seemed more like another Davis Martin. Back end 4/5 starter on a good team who can eat up innings and maintain a respectable ERA.

Braden is a prototypical RF but he's playing CF for the same reason every middle infielder stays at SS as long as possible. Big arm...and good speed but not anywhere close to healthy Robert in closing the gaps in terms of topline sprint speed.

Moore's contract, signed in 2024, was a five-year deal worth $27.5 million. The buyout figure is 75% of the remaining money on the deal, so the move to fire Moore for cause could cost him even more than the roughly $14 million buyout number. On ND tantrums "First, he has reinforced every negative Notre Dame stereotype for so many administrators across college athletics who had largely forgotten how little use they have for the Irish’s addiction to special treatment. Whereas former athletics director Jack Swarbrick wielded a hammer with a hint of charm and a deft touch, it seems Bevacqua’s way of doing business combines Tony Soprano’s hair-trigger temper with Baron Munchausen’s talent for exaggeration. Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark’s strong rebuttal this week was only a taste of what’s being said behind the scenes by people who have long memories and could one day be on a CFP committee themselves." yahoosports

$1.5 million

Losing a Top 15 prospect, seems like a neutral result at best for now.

https://www.coveringthecorner.com/cleveland-guardians-analysis/64293/guardians-select-peyton-pallet-in-rule-5-draft https://x.com/TJStats/status/1998838720447889524/photo/1

Better than McDougal and Oppor? More advanced perhaps, but definitely not the best stuff/potential upside.

Right. Once it went over $15-16 million, he (Gets) gone. Spotrac at a number in $30s is off unless it goes three years, but lower numbers always seemed off in this market. Who's the next reliever up after Fairbanks? Luke Weaver maybe? Finnegan at 2/$19 and Fairbanks is a more proven closer in the most competitive division.

And hurricanes mosquitoes and oppressive humidity. Good governance? Depends on your political persuasion I guess.

Just have a feeling neither of these guys can survive the year without a questionable phantom IL trip. If forced to bet, would say just 1 makes it out of ST. Not exactly going out on a limb there.

There are always going to be counter examples, like the Walton family in NW Arkansas/Ozarks. Or Tyson Chicken conglomerate. Heck, New Mexico/AZ always seems enticing at this time of year when winter starts to set in. And Kansas City is one of the best cities in the country for living in the suburbs and raising a family affordably.

https://www.thelist.com/463799/the-shocking-truth-about-warren-buffetts-marriage/ And his wife/ex preferred California for the majority of her lifetime. There's a reason recruiting college athletes to Nebraska or Iowa is so much harder than the SEC ACC California etc. Heck, even North/eastern students are flocking to the SEC schools just to have "experiences" like Bama Rush.

Cabrera has been getting actively shopped for seemingly ages. Nobody is biting on Alcantara. Weathers another option but diminishing control.

Second round picks continue to give the Sox trouble in terms of fWAR generated per $$$ invested...and you can forget Fairbanks, he will go to a contending team. Just let Pereira and Baldwin play. Tauchman is not even a band aid at this point.

“We need depth in the bullpen,” manager Stephen Vogt said at the MLB Winter Meetings in Orlando, Fla., this week. “We have four, maybe five guys in our bullpen, and we need eight. “It’s an area we're addressing for sure.” In fact, president of baseball operations Chris Antonetti surmised on Tuesday that the bullpen is likely the area Cleveland’s brass has spent the most time on -- not only the past few days, but the past few weeks. The Guardians have been examining multiple avenues through which they could acquire relievers, whether it be Major League or Minor League free agency, the trade market, the Rule 5 Draft (which is set for Wednesday) or otherwise. “We’ve spent a lot of time on that,” Antonetti said. “We want to examine all those options and alternatives, and it's a long list of guys. So it takes a lot of time to work through.” For now, as Vogt alluded to, there are only a handful of guys whom you could likely pencil into the bullpen picture: Cade Smith, Hunter Gaddis, Erik Sabrowski, Matt Festa and Tim Herrin. The Guardians also signed right-hander Connor Brogdon to a one-year Major League deal last Wednesday, and he will compete for a spot in Spring Training." guardians.com/mlb.com

$170,000??? Or million?

mlb.com picks Palette as Sox specific player most likely to get drafted by another team one listed from each org White Sox: Peyton Pallette, RHP (No. 14) A move to the bullpen last July has done wonders for Pallette, who posted a career-high 12.0 K/9 this season (86 in 64 1/3 innings) between Double-A and Triple-A. His fastball sits 94-96 mph and he combines it with a high-spin curveball (consistently north of 3,000 rpm) that falls off the table and a mid-80s changeup (50.8% whiff rate at Triple-A in 2025). A second-round pick in the 2022 Draft, the 24-year-old fits the prototypical mold (with the level pedigree to match) of a Rule 5 selectee that a club could plug and play into its bullpen.

Plus, a lot of the Asian players aren't ever going to be comfortable anywhere in the middle of the country except for Chicago and just maybe Houston and Dallas/Ft.Worth/Arlington. Flights to the California/Seattle 3-5 hours shorter compared to US Eastern seaboard, too. Toronto is definitely more eastern... albeit not quite Montreal winters.

I just wanted to put a possible set of players to the deal just to make discussions around it more interesting/worthwhile. Someone also wrote yesterday JFC Glasnow isn't going to be traded in a million years. They're forgetting he still possesses that original mindset of a TB underdog mentality front office executive. Glasnow carries the highest amount of risk in that rotation, other than Shohei. It still feels a bit light...but then it's allowing a decent chunk of the Glasnow contract to offset the proposed Skubal extension. And the Dodgers currently possess a ton of young pitching as well as OF depth.

It's going to be significantly more than 2/$16. That's basically Steven Matz, not the second best closer now available for just $$$ on the FA market with all but a handful of teams unwilling to give Robert Suarez $20-25 million over multiple years (especially considering his age.) Brandon Finnegan was at what, 2/$19?

I had 2027 and then changed it to 2028. Zero desire to see him ever play again.