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Fun fact: Pat Bev and I went to the same High School. The play-in celebrations will be lit.

Woah, a manager that doesn't think Leury is god's gift to the world. That's refreshing. Didn't Ricky and TLR both overrate Leury?

Simmons has looked like he stopped giving a s%*#. Been that way since his 1 year with Minnesota.

Sums up my feelings about this team perfectly

I don't mind this. The fact that nobody else gave him a starting SS job or more than $3 million should tell you what teams really think of his offensive "breakout" last year. That being said, the alternatives for us could have been really bad. Andrus is a smart player. He's gonna play good defense at 2B. If he puts up an 80 wRC+, it is what it is.

Hahaha. Hey, maybe we'll be fun bad now?

Hope and pray that Lonzo comes back and the team plays like they did in the first half of last season. It's a bad plan.

This is worse than Derrick Rose... At least we knew what Rose's injury was. Seems like nobody can really figure out what's wrong with Lonzo.

That guy posted a bunch of "insider" points in a post the other day on the White Sox subreddit. Some of them seemed believable. Some of them were absolute bullshit. So take that with a grain of salt. It's not like anybody here really should want to rely on Pineda as insurance. He's god awful.

Greinke hates us. He's never coming here. Not that we should want him either.

All the projection systems have him at around 80 wRC+. If he gives you 1.5 wins of value on defense (which is what he's done the past 2 seasons and then some) then that's useful.

And he had a .283 xwOBA that year. His wOBA was almost 50 points higher. He probably won't produce as well as he did that year on offense again, but I also doubt be will be as bad as he was last year offensively. I'm not opposed to him since his defense gives him an ok floor. If he can slap singles with a .330 OBP he'll be useful.

Yay it's left handed Nick Madrigal...

Cleveland may be good at developing pitchers, but it seems like most of the starters they produce are assholes.

The girlfriend has been informing the MLB of this since summer. How the hell did the FO miss this?

Oh great, we signed a wife beater. This has been the off-season from hell.

I would have liked to give Mondesi a shot. He's decent when he's healthy. He's just never healthy.

That arm action was also a TJS ago. I'm not sure he's got the same arm strength he did back then.

I'm not sure getting rid of his short arm action is the right thing to do. It was the thing that made him effective because the release point made it hard to pick up the ball out of his hand. He also threw harder with the short arm action vs. his long arm action prior. I'm sure there's people way more knowledgeable than me advising him, but Lucas decided to bulk up last off-season and it didn't really help him.

Didn't they hear from Pedro? He's a right fielder now.

Yeah he's basically Adam Engel's replacement. Looks like his defense didn't drop off like Engel's, so there's that.

They must know Yaz is done if they're going after Sanchez.

Who are you going to trade for Gleyber? Not Hendriks, obviously.

Not a bad depth guy to have. But if he's our regular 2B, we're gonna be in trouble.

That too