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All that'll get them is a 25-30% fall off in season ticket sales.

"All you really need to know about the Rays is that they have been slotted in the top 10 of MLB Pipeline’s farm system rankings for a record 12 consecutive years, and this is the sixth time in those 12 years that they are headed to the postseason. That is a really difficult trick to pull off for any franchise, let alone one with the revenue challenges the Rays face, relative to their AL East peers." Anthony Castrovince MLB.com

You know they're going with Davis Martin and half assing it again for depth...see VV type at best.

Coach Lisle

Looks a lot different with Rodon still around and Lynn’s normal season…I think he was the AL and maybe MLB leader in fWAR from 2018/19-2021. Whichever year he was great for Texas starting the string.

Marlins would laugh at that one…unless it’s Colas, Vera or Montgomery.

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I was being kind. In FA, 15-20% feels about right. And not the big moves, but the almost completely under the radar ones…players literally anyone in baseball could have had. Over $8-10 million per year, disaster. Even Hendriks has barely been worth his deal, and a trade today would simply net 85-90% salary relief. Narvaez (Rule 5) McCann Rodon Cueto Andrus

Braves and Dodgers just luckier than others? Why have a GM or leaders at all? Let’s just allow AI’s and algorithm’s to make decisions and entirely divorce the human element entirely…that would still be much better than Rick Hahn’s roughly 25-30% career success rate.

Showalter/Bobby Valentine type. The problem is all the coaches were too soft with them. Like parenting, doesn't work well without one bad cop.

Dylan Cease is worth a LOT more than Clevinger who got CLE Quantrill Naylor O.Miller Hedges Reyes... Cease can hardly ever get past 5-6 innings. A great GM makes that kind of a fill out the roster with depth move if they're cornered by payroll constraints. The only other obvious cuts are Abreu for Vaughn, along with Graveman for Lopez. Or Hendriks for Lopez. Then Crochet/Bummer coming back equalizes that loss and then some.

Dansby Swanson is pretty inconsistent, but closer to that second tier price range. (We would probably get Brandon Crawford two years too late.) And X.Bogaerts will cost an arm and a leg.

At least they kept making moves until they had a team there was no way to deny even if less than the sum of all its individual parts.

That and Shago are consistent at least.

Rays from 2008-2022 have 120 years of White Sox history beaten....except for the title. Brewers 4 of the last 5...not dead yet. Guardians in the Francona Era.

World Series titles (0) None AL Pennants (2) 2008 2020 AL East Division titles (4) 2008 2010 2020 2021 Wild card berths (4) 2011 2013 2019 2022

McCullers Verlander Valdez starting next three for Hous against Philly. But Phils have tiebreaker but maybe Milwaukee can win three in a row at home.

That's right, not quite over yet for Milwaukee.

I got him confused with Adrian Nieto, Cuban from Nationals' system. And I suppose that's a different category when they aren't established big leaguers. Carlos Quentin and Eaton remain the two best young NL players the Sox have brought over under the KW/Hahn regime.

Weird how all the climactic action both days happened simultaneously within 2-3 minutes...two days in a row. Brewers fought the good fight. Phillies breaking the second longest postseason streak too...Mariners were obviously longest.

Minnesota not exactly pushing the Sox down the stretch but a sweep to end things wouldn't be a total shocker, either.

This is the game one might expect the Sox to just go through the motions to get it over a quickly as possible.

Chicago White Sox: How can we improve our depth? The top-of-the-roster talent on the South Side remains excellent. That's true even though the production and availability of a lot of the players we count among those impact talents fell short in 2022. At this point, Chicago has little choice but to bank on rebound seasons from Eloy Jimenez, Tim Anderson, Yoan Moncada, Luis Robert, Yasmani Grandal, Lucas Giolito, et al. Some of them need to play better. Some of them need to be more durable. Some need to do both. If that doesn't happen collectively, then the depth question will hardly matter. Even if the bounce-backs happen, the White Sox will need to figure out how to create better depth in support of that top tier of talent, especially as the minor league system does not seem poised to solve this problem internally. espn.com

Dave Martinez parallel?

Lombard was originally a UGA RB1, fwiw. KW parallels. Outfielder. Dodgers' coach. Interesting no mention of Harris or Alomar Jr.