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Scholtens was filler/mop-up at best...when "healthy" and next to zero trade value. Might be negative value, actually. A good story for one month about persistence perseverance resiliency.

The Padres really used him to the point that Jimmy Cordero comps might fit. His stuff simply degraded from overuse/wear and tear. Requires some scouting though in 2022/23.

All the ex Padres... 3.1 and 2.7 fWAR before falling off the early 30s cliff last season. Horrible contract that went the wrong way for LAA.

Rodney McCray? Terrence Gore?

And if he could put all those things together at once he would be a starter. Being realistic isn't about hating, is it? Did we hate on Julks too...or Fletcher, unfairly? Just to hate lol? That's also a player profile for someone who needs to play everyday if they're a legit prospect. Otherwise just acquire Kelenic from ATL and see if he can be more than a platoon bat.

No room in their bullpen...likely AAA insurance guy.

why?

Merrill can play (and now has played) both SS and CF at Gold Glove level. He had a high 700's ops in AA when he was just a teenager...or 20, likely the youngest player in the league. His performances and Montgomery's low 700's in AAA last have very little to nothing in common.

"This is an issue that we need to be vigilant on," Manfred said Thursday following the end of an owners meeting. "We need to pay attention to it and need to determine whether there are things that can be done to allay those kinds of concerns and make sure we have a competitive and healthy game going forward." ….. "The Dodgers are a really well-run, successful organization," Manfred said. "Everything that they do and have done is consistent with our rules. They're trying to give their fans the best possible product. Those are all positives. I recognize, however, and my emails certainly reflect that there are fans in other markets who are concerned about their team's ability to compete. And we always have to be concerned when our fans are concerned about something. But pinning it on the Dodgers, I'm not in that camp."

Don’t bring us down with you…

Baldwin in LF Robert CF and Benintendi to DH makes the most sense the first half...

And a plus reliever...Cuban Ohtani.

Nick Solak non roster invite too, right?

DeLoach lol?

In the same way Brian Anderson was Torii Hunter Lite...

Sosa doesn't have the range, instincts or fast-twitch reactions to play there. It will be Baldwin or Amaya.

The common wisdom seemed to be that he wouldn't listen to anyone but his own "natural instincts"...see ball, hit ball without any type of plan of attack or interest in scouting reports.

https://www.truebluela.com/2025/2/6/24360310/dodgers-star-wars-night-death-star-evil-empire Dodgers acknowledge new role as baseball's EVIL EMPIRE with clever Star Wars Night promotion... What will the White Sox be for this night, the Millennium Falcon?

QUIT COPYING ENTIRE STORIES https://soxmachine.com/2025/02/as-white-sox-weigh-his-trade-value-luis-robert-jr-prepares-for-a-bounce-back/

Unless they're going to bench Vaughn part of the time against tough RHP...and of course Colas could get DH at-bats as well. Anything's better than another year of Gavin Sheets I guess.

Especially considering the Bulls couldn’t get across the finish line in negotiations for stretch-5 Nikola Vučević rather than seizing an opportunity to capitalize on his outlier-excellent season by expunging the rest of his contract and getting some draft picks for him. And that he didn’t push to move guards Coby White or Ayo Dosunmu before they wind up in an untenable contractual middle ground where the Bulls can’t effectively extend them for what they’re worth. And that, rather than moving the finally-healthy-and-looking-great Lonzo Ball while the iron was hot, he instead extended Ball for a still-moveable two years and $20 million … and then didn’t move him. Yes, trades are hard, it takes two to tango, etc. But the Bulls just, like, never tango. They are the guy in the “They Don’t Know” meme, standing in the corner at the party, talking to themselves about how nobody knows that Patrick Williams is totally still going to become Kawhi Leonard someday, just you wait. Meanwhile … everybody else is dancing and having a good time, you know? Just for the record: The Bulls are 22-30, on pace to finish between sixth and 11th place in the East for the sixth straight season. If they’re not OK with being in the middle, they should probably, at some point, try to stop being in the middle. https://sports.yahoo.com/nba-trade-deadline-2025-winners-and-losers-and-one-mega-super-huge-loser-222749477.html

"We don't have time to waste a year (evaluating)..." JR Karnisovas acknowledged it can be a long process to begin remaking the team, but he touted the Bulls controlling of all of their draft picks going forward along with the fact they have already started building a roster with young players he believes have upside. "Three and a half years ago, we tried to put that team together. That came out pretty well, but we skipped steps and tried to accelerate the process," Karnisovas said. "Right now we have an opportunity here to play slower and evaluate our young guys." ... "We might get a high draft pick or we might be in the play-in, we might be in the playoffs," he said. "I think I was saying that if this young nucleus can get you to play in the playoffs, I think it's going to be growth in terms of your young players and development. That's worth it for me." espn.com

Major League Baseball could reportedly “walk away” from ESPN in the event the network opts out of its current rights deal after next season. Andrew Marchand and Evan Drellich of The Athletic reported Thursday that MLB would be “unlikely” to reach a new deal with ESPN should it opt out of its contract, a move that the network has long been expected to make. The thought has been that ESPN would opt out and reach a new deal with MLB that would potentially include a lower rights fee or some local rights. Both ESPN and MLB are able to opt out of the deal next month, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred said Thursday, though there is no expectation that MLB would be the one to pull the trigger. Manfred said the sides are in talks. ESPN currently owns rights to Sunday Night Baseball, a handful of other exclusive regular season windows (including Opening Day), the Home Run Derby and the entire Wild Card round of playoffs. Its rights fee of $550 million/year is actually a reduction from its previous contract ($700m/year), which included considerably more regular season coverage. John Ourand of Puck reported last year that ESPN was irked about the minuscule rights fees streamers have paid for their MLB packages. ESPN’s inventory is not dramatically different than that of Apple, which pays just $85 million/year for exclusive Friday night doubleheaders. (Apple of course does not have marquee events like Opening Day, the Derby or the Wild Card round, but even those ESPN properties would surely not make up a $465 million/year gap.) https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2025/02/mlb-espn-contract-talks-opt-out/

Hopefully they corner the market on Gatorade baths... That is not how things have played out. Moncada slumped to a .225/.320/.385 showing in 2020. That looked like a short-season aberration the following year, as he posted a strong .263/.375/.412 slash across 144 games. Moncada’s bat hit another sharp decline thereafter. He combined for a .234/.288/.386 line in nearly 800 plate appearances over the next two seasons. His final year in Chicago was tanked by injury. Moncada suffered a significant left adductor (groin) strain two weeks into the year. He was immediately ruled out for 3-6 months. Moncada didn’t return to the active roster until the middle of September. By that point, the White Sox were playing out the string on the worst season in modern history. It was a foregone conclusion that they’d buy Moncada out for $5MM instead of a $25MM club option. The Sox had little reason to put him back in the lineup. He only made one appearance as a pinch-runner in the final two weeks. His season ended with 12 games and 45 plate appearances. mlbtraderumors.com

$102,300,012 career earnings 13.8 career fWAR 1 fWAR=$7.413 million Turning 30 this year in MAY...