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You think they'd go for Raffaela if elite defense was the main point. Ofc...that would mean the least amount of homers for the offense but it's a vision of sorts that certainly got distorted last season.

Sure Lux over Amaya at SS. Likely they already are targeting Montgomery for third and don't have an internal replacement (Baldwin more utility guy), but the main point would just be turning around and flipping Lux for a prospect at some point after his value had magically bounced back to a higher point again.

Red Sox have supposedly joined Soto Sweepstakes. Need Crochet to go along with that...also, to bring along Benintendi Yoshida would have to go.

https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-trade-rumors-top-players-for-2024-2025-hot-stove?partnerId=it-20241113-11683663-mlb-1-A&utm_id=it-20241113-11683663-mlb-1-A&lctg=34656683 Crochet and Robert prominently featured.

Plus he'd be going back home to Maryland...

Pittsburgh you also have Heinz Stadium in the immediate vicinity...and 17 consecutive years of .500 and above football takes the edge off Pirates' criticism, just like Royals/Chiefs relationship where one team dominates the marketplace.

Why in God's name would we want Lux at SS for two years before losing him after arbitration runs out? The Dodgers reliably prove where guys like Grandal Vargas and Peralta do and don't belong on the field, but we just disregard their findings because the Sox have such a good record with fixing players defensively.

Can probably put the Dodgers Cards and Padres into that zone of built in attendance. Maybe even the Rockies to a lesser extent.

Single game offerings for sports that aren't played every single day make MORE sense than for baseball obviously...there's the sense that some games are "events." Maybe if it was changed to buying an individual series of games or not.. .or all the Cubs games for a season against StL for example, SD/LA, Baltimore vs. Yankees, etc.

Payroll lol? This is getting more pathetic by the day that we're creating space for a guy who has almost no positives other than being left-handed but is in no conceivable way part of the next playoff team. And they wonder why attendance is to the point of collapsing the next two seasons...

How can they possibly consider pushing Fletcher to the bench? Well they can always trade Robert too and put Fletcher in a new position where he won't lead the league in DRS/game.

Zuckerberg Bezos Musk LV guy and Buffett are not patient enough to run 100 loss teams out there into perpetuity. You'd have your new stadium and maybe not Soto but at least a fighting chance to compete...just like the Mets now under Cohen, granted 2023 was a major disappointment, but they followed with a magical season and Stearns is another Andrew Friedman in waiting.

Tim Anderson, 31, career fWAR 17.5 Yasiel Puig, 33, career fWAR 19.6 RIP Rizzo 35.7, Bryant 29.7, Baez 23.7 Andrew Vaughn 1.7 Shohei Ohtani, 30, fWAR 28.6

Kenley Jansen Hader and Kimbrel are the only relievers that are possibilities…maybe Edwin Diaz in 3-5 more years.

The Bears chose Waldron over Kliff Kingsbury, whose job at USC as a senior offensive analyst was to get Williams ready for the NFL, and Zac Robinson, who has built the Atlanta Falcons' offense into a top-five passing unit and the league's 12th-ranked rushing attack. Kingsbury became the Washington Commanders' offensive coordinator and is helping guide rookie quarterback Jayden Daniels, drafted one spot after Williams and the current favorite to become Offensive Rookie of the Year. The Bears also passed over three other candidates who went on to snag offensive coordinator jobs this past cycle: Liam Coen with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, whose offense is ranked eighth, Klint Kubiak with the New Orleans Saints, who have the 16th-ranked offense, and Greg Roman, offensive coordinator of the Los Angeles Chargers (22nd). Espn.com

Riley Greene…but we don’t even have anything close to 2024 Salvy Perez and Pasquantino production-wise. Plug Teoscar Hernandez into the equation and still not close to a 100 loss team. You’re assuming ROY candidacies from Smith and Schultz, Cy Young from Crochet…but Eder and Thorpe??? I think Burke, Cannon and Martin would be much higher in the pecking order. Eder will be in a pen role undoubtedly and we don’t know much of anything about Thorpe’s health.

“We’ve had very thoughtful discussions,” Reinsdorf said. “I’m always positive about everything. I’m even positive about the White Sox winning the division.” Said before the worst season in modern recorded baseball history…

Then you better be on par with Milwaukee TB and Cleveland on the development side. Dodgers, obviously.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/nancy-armour/2024/11/11/bears-caleb-williams-botching-qb-development/76206105007/

Fwiw, Jobe could STILL be a monster.

Looks up the Top 50-100 prospect lists from 2022-23/24.

JR doesn't lift a finger to do something that's not in his own best interest...not even White Sox Charities.

How much of the Bulls does Jerry Reinsdorf own? He still owns an estimated 19% stake. He and investors bought a controlling stake in the NBA's Chicago Bulls for $9.2 million in 1985, one year after the team drafted Michael Jordan. Six championships and 33 years later, the Bulls are worth $3 billion net of debt (as of 2018); Reinsdorf still owns an estimated 40%. JR's Total Net Worth is reportedly $3 billion, so the total estate tax on that would be 40%...$1.2 billion chopped off. No way in hell JR is going to lose that much if he can help it. https://www.forbes.com/teams/chicago-bulls/ $5 billion current valuation, so JR's stake in the Bulls is at least $2 billion...not sure how the United Center is figured into that.

flowerman_22 • 27d ago • I’m stupid so I could be 100% wrong. Wouldn’t this be the worst financial move in the world (yes I know he’s worth billions). Scenario 1: he sells the team, gets a big capital gains tax on the sale. Pays long-term capital gains taxes. Later on dies, his family needs to pay estate taxes on his fortune, essentially getting double taxed. Scenario 2: he keeps the team. Later on dies. Family needs to pay estate taxes on the value of the team. Family sells team to pay the taxes. However, by selling the team after he dies they get a step-up basis on the value of the team and avoid capital gains taxes. reddit Let's say $500 million plus capital gains tax (his 25% share of the $2 billion payout expected)...this would basically be reset to $2 billion upon death for his kids as the beginning price versus the $19 million from 1981 or whatever it originally was. His kids actually might end up with NEGATIVE tax liability as it's EASY to see the value for the White Sox declining in the next 5-10 years from $2.1-2.2 billion to to a figure closer to $1.8-1.9 billion (diminishing media and attendance revenues, parking, etc.) No matter what accounts he has, the long term capital gains tax would amount to either $75 million or $100 million...about one Benitendi or Grandal contract, lol. We keep talking about capital gains taxes, but not the estate/wealth tax on the total value of portfolio, including the White Sox/Bulls/UC, etc. So there's a double tax issue to consider as well.

But Kyler Murray the last month or so suddenly looks like one of the most dangerous QB's in the entire league, with Daniels starting to struggle a bit, too. Let's not forget he was recovering from ACL surgery the first half of the 2023 season...last year isn't a very good indicator of his still considerable upside (despite his height/size). https://www.espn.com/nfl/qbr #2 in current QB ratings With Murray under center, the Cardinals had the 9th ranked offense in the NFL (362.8 ypg) and averaged 22.4 points per game. Israel Woolfork is in his second season with the Cardinals after being hired to coach quarterbacks on 3/1/23. He previously served as an assistant coach for the Cleveland Browns and Miami University, only 34 years old. So the moral of the story seemingly is don't give up on mobile former Oklahoma QB's too soon, like the Cleveland Browns did with Mayfield and many wanted to do with Murray as well.