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https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/leaderboard/pitch-arsenals?year=2023&min=2000&type=avg_speed&hand= Cease was 16th and Kopech 21st in average FB velocity among starters. Unless someone is going to trade for Castillo Gilbert Miller or Kirby…there aren’t many available options. Luzardo, I guess. That’s if the goal is pure velo.

Two ACLs (both knees) and two other major injuries might push him down on some boards to the 2nd or 3rd because of risk mitigation, but have a feeling someone will pull the trigger in the late first or early 2nd.

Yay. Ahead of the Orioles even. Somehow.

21. Chicago White Sox (41.0°) 2023 change: -4.1° (once-promising rebuild devolved into 101-loss debacle) 10-year change: -15.5° since 2014 Franchise peak: 122.0° in 1919 (the team that will live in infamy) Franchise nadir: 16.6° in 1950 (after the Black Sox scandal broke in 1920, the ChiSox didn't finish above third place again until 1957) The White Sox have been stuck in the 30s and 40s ever since cooling down from their 2005 World Series championship. Things warmed up during the very brief resurgence of 2020 and 2021, but that netted just two playoff wins. And now, once again, the temperature is dropping. Chicago and its new baseball honcho, Chris Getz, have three years to avoid falling below freezing for the first time this century. https://www.espn.com/mlb/insider/story/_/id/39235505/mlb-ranking-all-30-teams-franchise-temperatures-2024 Cubs were 12th, fwiw

9. Sounds close enough to Mike Sirotka it will fool old school fans or make them believe it's actually his son.

Everyone BUT Staumont lol. Who is of course the only really solid guy over there.

Absolutely pathetic Cubs and Cards would both be favored in the Central...by some instance. Even the Reds and Brewers. Who are still ruminating over a rebuild.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/39249174/rays-trade-andrew-kittredge-cardinals-richie-palacios-acquire-jose-caballero-mariners-luke-raley Watch Palacios turn into next Arozarena/A.Garcia.

Mix in the Twins...although they won too much. Problem was always the post season until 2023. Now it's the Pohlads' spending or lack thereof. Seemingly, Javy Baez and Correa paralyzed the entire division...frozen in fear over a similar big contract going awry.

Other team are looking at him as a future coach...

Let's see if he can make it on the Rays...just not the dynamic type of impact talent you dream on and imagine him having a 3-4 let alone 5 fWAR ceiling. Complementary player...super utility guy who it would be nice if he had anything resembling Mateo's stolen?base game. If you merged Mateo and Ortiz and gave him 15-20 homer pop you would actually have something extremely valuable.

https://www.camdenchat.com/2023/11/3/23942456/orioles-prospects-joey-ortiz-season-review-2023 The terrible offensive season in 2019 (sub 600 ops) and age and size makes him the perfect sell high guy for Baltimore...but there's a reason he is buried behind something like 5-6 other infielders on all the various depth charts, starting with Westburg Henderson Urias Mateo and Holliday. Screams utility infielder ala Nick Madrigal. Better defense...so more valuable overall. Lacks dynamic speed game that Baltimore covers so much...if they're not going to provide much pop. For every 5'9" Houston Astro on a HoF track...there are 100 Yolmer Sanchez's and Nick Madrigals.

They have six starters now with Desclafini and a pretty deep minor league system as well. Fathom keeps mentioning Woo and Miller.

The one guy they didn't draft in Alek Thomas almost won a WS.

Cohen has discovered a niche to be exploited in the proprietary algorithm.

Any publicity is basically better than none for the Sox. We weren't totally irrelevant last year, simply because we did so many things that elicited national media attention.

More so than former Orioles or sons of former Orioles with the same positional versatility as their fathers. Sheets has worked so well...he basically needs to be cloned.

The two NBA players on same team with almost identical names that caused a mixup this week.

Looks like he was released in July. We should provide scouting services...how NOT to pick family members like Machado, Tatis Jr, Jimenez, Fr.Reyes, Guerrero, Cespedes, Thompson, Danks, etc.

Not YET he hasn't.

We can always get Ortiz from the Rays 4-5 years from now when the cost has fallen to Yolmer/Nicky Lopez levels anyway. Why strike now?

Just an article from one of the Dominican papers (El Diario) with a picture of the mother on the front and linked story...assuming that has to be the mother and that minors would not be allowed.

Well it can't go any worse than Elijah Tatis, so there's that.

https://www.instagram.com/diariolibre/p/C1u86TCp5MS/

Or even two years, in the case of Rodon.