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Curious where new Venezuelan top signee Eduardo Herrera ends up…

We can't even afford two consecutive Zack Wheeler deals...let alone a new stadium and urban development projects. Just sell to someone who will actually commit to ONE $100+ million contract, JR.

Z.Wheeler, 3 years, $126 million extension with the Phillies, no options or opt-outs following the Bryce Harper similar commitment https://www.mlb.com/news/zack-wheeler-phillies-extension

Trade Flexen while he’s hot… And looks like Pillar just made the team, lol.

Witt, Jr., career MiLB plate appearances....744 Colson Montgomery......826 This would make more sense if the White Sox were going to spend in FA like the Royals did heading into this upcoming season.

Except that was associated with Greg Walker's "lift and pull" philosophy, which at least occasionally paid off with 3 run homers. On the plus side, DeLoach seemingly might be a pretty decent defender, at least the two corner spots.

Well yeah just like the 2013-2023 run by LA with the Covid asterisk title ...lots of winning Dodgers baseball but two titles back in the 70s and 80s.

Okay Brooks, Our Chuck, Merkinpuff and Stone Pony. (Don't think you will see those words from Fegan this year.)

It's also not like the value of bringing him up at that point is worth the slight attendance boost. One of the problems with the rebuild was miss timing the arrival of talent waves and veteran additions. Barring unexpected FA spending, they're at least three years from being a legitimately competitive team. And that requires a lot of things to go right. The other key points is that there's just no way JR will authorize the kind of extension KC gave to Witt, Jr., to Montgomery.

Also zero reason to blow a year of control unless he's legitimately earned it...forcing the issue.

Lunacy. Doesn't have an arm any better than Pollock and likely worse for that spot. Same way we got stuck with Vaughn and Sheets and even Palka out there. Flies directly in the face of all this incessant preaching about defense.

Startung to get a feeling they will go with a bigger name in Leyland's son eventually over Jirschele.

Well, technically 1.000. That's a pretty good "pull" rate. Thought Fathom would like that one.

Meanwhile, the Rangers with an embarrassment of riches. Will see the at least two games in the July 22nd -25th Sox massacre in Arlington.

And at least Trout is an iconic player. They draw really well regardless. But signing Rendon was the critical mistake.

https://www.hawkcentral.com/picture-gallery/sports/college/iowa/basketball-women/2024/03/02/giant-nike-ad-caitlin-clark-iowa-womens-basketball-debuts-iowa-city-building-advertisement-billboard/72820431007/

Dusty Baker already turned on his former teammate. The difference is at least those Dodgers' teams came together to win on the field.

Well...theoretically a bevy of 24-26 year old Tier B/C prospects added in flip trades. And then there's the Cease deal.

That just diminishes the value of your product so much that nobody will want to pay legit prices again in the future if the team is ever decent again. This might work for A ball teams....but not so much major leagues. Would have worked a lot better in 2022 and 2023 as well...before so many fans gave up out of frustration and started to say things like I wouldn't go even if they gave away tickets for free.

Triggering the Baker's Dozen Krispy Kreme giveaway for opponents scoring 13 runs or more this season against the Sox in a game.

Even Wendy's is more exciting than the White Sox and Grifol.

Tanner’s mention of dynamic pricing led observers to imagine the chain jacking up the cost of ice-cold Frostys on parched summer afternoons, or boosting Baconator bills during the lunch rush. As backlash built, Wendy’s was forced to issue a statement, saying that the media had misconstrued the intent of its dynamic pricing plans as focused on raising prices during peak demand times. Instead, the chain maintained, the digital menuboards would allow it to “offer discounts and value offers to our customers more easily, particularly in the slower times of day.” That may have soothed the masses a little. But the reality is that implementing “dynamic discounts,” as one might refer to them, instead of surge pricing, is simply another way for a business to engage in price discrimination — the economic term for charging different costs to people who have different demand profiles in order to extract maximum profit. Yes, the stray customer who wants a Loaded Nacho Chicken Sandwich at 11 a.m. might benefit from a few cents off. But realistically, such dynamic discounts could just be used to soften the impact of future price increases. And it’s easy to imagine how that might backfire, given how fluidly people can shift gears from chain to chain if they feel like they’re not getting their money’s worth. Discounts at odd hours might pull in some marginal customers, but not knowing how much of a hit your wallet might take when you’re craving a Dave’s Double adds a layer of unnecessary anxiety to a world that already frequently feels like it’s on the brink of the existential abyss, which could push away customers more generally. https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/01/opinions/wendys-menu-dynamic-pricing-yang/index.html

Matt Chapman to Giants...3 years, "just" $54 million.

https://www.sfgate.com/giants/article/brandon-crawford-departure-farhan-zaidi-fault-18698540.php SF Giants seem to be taking the opposite approach with their veteran players...thinking that moving on will make it easier for young players feeling there's a margin of error or comfort level with an established between on the roster trying to take their starting spot back.

Well, the example would be a busload of school kids on a class trip showing up and flooding the restaurant on a hot late May day with Frosty prices instantly doubling as soon as they walked in to order.