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This is legitimately hilarious.

Harry Truman, Doris Day Red China, Johnnie Ray South Pacific Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

For what it's worth, I think any discussion about Mark Buehrle should include this article. https://grantland.com/features/mark-buehrle-surprising-success/

The silliest part of all of this is that if he doesn't let Sosa reach first, he probably gets another 20% of the vote

Leury was held and shoulders the best player that WestEddy named. Chris Getz was an active player when Leury joined the White Sox.

Lopez went from starter to reliever. Gio needed to go outside the org to fix himself. Kopech has massive talent and it's gone nowhere. Eloy had a great rookie season and nothing since. Moncada is basically the same player that he was when he came over from Boston, after debuting in Boston. Cease and Robert he can get credit for. But let's get some others: - Crochet is being mismanaged (you can blame KW/Hahn for this) - Vaughn was rushed - Burger had to go to a collegiate league to develop himself before getting added to the 2020 alternate site - Sheets trained himself to be an OF - Alec Hansen, Luis Basabe, Luis Gonzalez, Blake Rutherford, and Ian Clarkin all had various degrees of squandered talent. - Madrigal lmao. It's been said that Sox prospects enter the system with their strengths and weaknesses — and they pretty much keep those exact same strengths and weaknesses. It's hard to see proof that argues against that. If Getz's track record on producing players relies on trades for Top 50 prospects and $25M signing bonus LatAm players - and even THOSE aren't all hits - that's not a good track record at all. Now, he's in charge, so let's see if it changes with him running the whole thing, but his track record doesn't scream success.

I'm gonna beat this drum to death, especially since Glasnow said it, but the Dodgers are just the Rays with cash. And it makes sense since Friedman put both systems in place. They didn't sign free agents for their sustained run until Freeman. If the Rays actually extended players, they'd be the Dodgers. Reinsdorf thinks that this is a bad model, for some reason.

We needed an additional thread for airing grievances? This is like complaining about your hair getting wet after jumping in the pool.

It's called manifesting.

I immediately rescind my Getz* comments if that happens. Edit: Accidentally put Cease

I tried to get the word filter to swap Tatis for Voldermort, so don't get your hopes up.

The Dodgers just spent $375M on a pitcher who has never thrown in MLB. $125M (and prospect capital) on a glass pitcher who can't sniff Cease's durability. If Dylan Cease's 2022 doesn't count, I'm not sure why Aaron Nola - who again, is 3 years older - gets to count his 2022. And just got $175M. Snell is an up and down pitcher with two ridiculous seasons under his belt. He's gonna get paid. In fact, the only two years he's thrown 180+ innings were his Cy Young seasons. Otherwise, it's minus 130, with ERAs ranging from 3.30 to 4+. Montgomery is gonna get paid off of one postseason run. I fail to see the argument for why Dylan Cease's market would be anything but a haul.

Tbh, Peacock might be the streaming service that my wife and I use most consistently + it being the cheapest actually makes it not that bad a service. It's user interface has made HUGE leaps since it first launched. Funnily enough, with password sharing being dropped (and thus my parents no longer using my account), Netflix might be the service that we ax due to its price hike once we get through our backlog.

Yamamoto hasn't had an MLB season like Dylan Cease and just got the richest deal for a pitcher in major league history. Shohei just had his second TJ and is way less durable and got $700M. I think the deal is worth it for his sheer star power. You like to knock Cease hard for 2023, where he was 18th in fWAR ahead of Corbin Burnes. He was 0.2 behind Nola, who just got $175M and is 3 years older. This is of course with the s%*# defense behind him. This video is kind of the perfect encapsulation of how the team failed him. Cease is gonna cost a team a lot in terms of prospects. Probably not as much as most people here are dreaming, but it's not going to be Clint Frazier and Miguel Andujar.

If the Dodgers decide to go for Cease after Shohei, Yamamoto and Glasnow, I cannot wait to hear the rest of baseball attempt to cry foul.

I think the difference here is that Friedman has been planning for this offseason, letting All-Stars to superstars walk from their team — Machado, Seager, Turner, Scherzer, Darvish, Bellinger, Joc — while building a sustainable farm. They still somehow won 100 games in their down year. Obviously the big knock is that postseason pitching has bee We mourn the infield that never was (in Chicago) of Tatis/Machado. If Friedman spent like Preller (with seemingly no foresight), he could have had Machado-Seager-Turner, but probably doesn't have the purse ready to go this offseason, when the Dodgers are still projected third in payroll and the Padres have to slash.

Sorry, let me respond with an argument you understand.

The Dodgers experienced 2023 Lance Lynn and committed more than $1.2 billion (and prospects) to three players. The White Sox did that and decided to rebuild.

Work will be fun tomorrow after endless banter between Red Sox and Yankees fans posturing that they were each OBVIOUSLY getting Yamamoto.

The Dodgers org learned what the rest of baseball should have: Hire Rays FO personnel, give them cash.

All 30 teams had a chance to win. The Dodgers won. It's not an asterisk like the Trash Can Astros. They're also consistently providing their fans with exciting baseball every season and going to the playoffs for a decade.

They both have championships in the past four years.

Suspiciously posting a photo of Luis ?

I'm guessing Getz has a "buy now" price set for Getz, much like the Rays did with Glasnow.

Blame the teams that aren't in on him for waiting. The Orioles and Reds aren't gonna sign him, so why wait to make moves? Because they aren't actually all-in on winning their divisions.