Eminor3rd
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Lmao Colas.Theres now a full useless journeyman platoon in his way.
Wtf did this guy DO to this org? He must have pissed Jerry off somehow.
EDIT: Wait I take it back. I somehow didn’t immediately see that this is the end of Sheets in RF. This move is brilliant.
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14 minutes ago, LittleHurtCG said:
Let's say Cease has a rough first half. Do you take something similiar to what the Brewers got for Burnes at the trade deadline or do you keep demanding your way or the highway?
I think it depends how the rough first half occurred. Is it an elevated ERA or BABIP with solid peripherals? Possibly hold. Is it reduced velocity, increased hard hit rate? I'd take the Burnes-ish return.
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If the going rate for Burnes is an old, low-ceiling IF prospect, a high-variance project arm, and a (n essentially) second round pick, then it's reasonable to hold Cease for the deadline. Deadline markets tend to increase the value for pending free agents, but there's always a premium for the second year of control. Yes, there's risk, but the Sox have to try to do better than what's on the table now -- and if Cease is healthy and effective, they likely will.
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Phenomenal move for the orioles. If this was available for Burnes, there was no argument for either side on making a Cease deal.
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You could say “put the ball on the air” or “never try to put the ball on the air,” and as long as you’re speaking in generalities, you’d be wrong both ways.
The reason there’s a burgeoning private industry for high-end skills development and coaching is because the actual solution to optimizing your performance is taking a customized approach to your game. Some hitters can benefit phenomenally from a narrow approach, others would be destroyed by it. It would be absolutely foolish to listen to advice from anyone who isn’t considering YOUR skill set when giving it.
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11 hours ago, Pale Sox said:
Yes paywall?
Not blaming the messenger, just sayin
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I think the lack of defense/position probably limits his earning cap a bit more than the typical case.
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11 minutes ago, Chicago White Sox said:
I don’t follow.
You can’t pick one dude who has a handful of similar characteristics and expect it to be a meaningful comp. Whether it’s comping Mayo to Bryant or it’s comping every right handed hitting 1B to Andrew Vaughn.
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1 to 1 anecdotal prospect comps are completely useless, no matter which direction you're arguing in.
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He better never get happy OR mad. And enough with the jokes, we don’t need that. But hopefully he’s really funny. The most important thing is he needs to clearly support the team on the broadcast, so he can relate with the fans. But definitely don’t want him to be a homer. He needs to be bold and progressive, but always stay in his lane and never rock the boat.
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I was hoping for a little more shove on Grant Taylor
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1 hour ago, flavum said:
Chuck and Guff have a new podcast about Yasiel Puig for right field. Ozzie Sr is managing him. Ozzie Jr sounds like his agent.
A non roster invite? Sure, why not.
I mean, we’re already this deep in the “culture over talent” zone, I’m not sure why we’d divert now. May as well see what happens.
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24 minutes ago, Squirmin' for Yermin said:
I've always been surprised we've never seen the Rangers. They have the prospects to do it AND the need for a guy like Cease.
I’m not sure their need is as high as it seems at first glance. They have a bunch of dudes set to come off the IL mid season, and the offense to carry in the meantime.
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I’m starting to want to hold Cease now. I’m reaching the threshold of hopelessness where I don’t think there’s any path to contention, ever, and so it’s becoming more valuable just to have a fun pitcher to watch once a week.
It’s like when you decide you’re just gonna “drive your car into the ground” instead of trade it in while it still has value. I’m resigning myself to having a problematic vehicle for the foreseeable future but at least I won’t have to make payments on it.
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1 hour ago, Sports Guy said:
I never said it was a problem for you guys to want high upside guys. I said that weeks ago. I said I didn’t feel you guys will contend for a while and that you should want high upside, further away guys.
Im not blaming you for that and I never have.
But the flip side to that is that if those guys fail, you end up with nothing. You guys have said time and time again how you need this trade to work out for you. Taking a bunch of high ceiling 20 year olds is great but your bust potential is high.
I’m not sure we need this one to work out any more than we needed all the others to work.
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On 1/9/2024 at 8:28 PM, champagne030 said:
Yeah, Kikuchi Lite or maybe if you squint really hard 2.0.
He’s not a lot like kikuchi, at least when Kikuchi first came over, though. Kikuchi always had command issues, threw harder than Imanaga does.
They are both fastball/slider heavy though.
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10 hours ago, South Side Hit Men said:
Yes, this sounds like 1/3 of what was expected. It’s a low risk savvy deal for the Cubs.
Yamamoto is better, but not 5 - 10 Xs better, even factoring for age.
Idk, Yamamoto is a hell of a lot better.
Admittedly, I haven’t watched nearly as much Imanaga (because it’s harder for me to get games from his league) as I have of both Yamamoto/Senga, but I’d put Imanaga below Senga pretty comfortably. It’s not a super fair comparison because they’ve got opposite strengths and weaknesses, it Senga’s raw stuff was always undoubtedly MLB quality, whereas there are some questions there with Imanaga.
Im also surprised he didn’t get more, just because of the market. But it makes sense that Senga outdid him.
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15 hours ago, chw42 said:
Imanaga at Wrigley might lead to him leading the league in HRs allowed.
Maybe. He pitched in a bandbox in Japan, too. He’s a high spin guy, which is often credited for his homer prevention. We’ll see if it’s enough to work over here.
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5 hours ago, WestEddy said:
As I said in the Cease rumor thread, I like a rotation of Cease, Fedde, Kopech, Crochet and Soroka. If Cease leaves, there's 5-6 guys to shuffle through for a 5th man.
I actually haven't felt this settled about an off-season in a while. At least now, the dumpster dives make sense. They're happening in context. We'll have positive WAR SS and 2B. If they pick up a RF, a few guys regress to the mean, I can actually see them challenging for a .500 record.Yeah, I mean the Sox are going to use 15+ starters this year as it looks today, might as well get 60-70 innings of five-and-dive out of Crochet as part of it.
The bullpen is going to be complete trash, but all of these junkheap starter projects have to land somewhere, so maybe its best if they see if one or two can reinvent themselves as 7th-8th inning guys anyway.
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1 hour ago, fathom said:
Good, I don’t think that will go well.
I think he'll be alright. The fastball has a ton of depth to it despite its velocity, and his command is excellent. No chance he misses enough bats to be more than 3-4 at most, IMO, but if they're paying $15m/yr, that's totally fine.
Tbh, I'm more worried about his health than anything else. He's been banged up a bit and has had an arm surgery already.
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8 minutes ago, Milkman delivers said:
I knew nothing about this whole situation before this thread. Never even saw the meme people are mentioning.
I don’t know if the bold statement is correct, but if it is and there’s no forgiveness or future opportunities after attempts to make amends, then there’s never any point in apologizing.
I really don’t think it’s about forgiveness. It’s just not really tenable to expect a fanbase to accept that their pbp guy is a clear homophobe. Sure, he deserves to be able to make a living, but at this point he’s just not a realistic candidate to be the public face of a sports team like that. At the minimum, practically every homosexual member of the fanbase will be constantly aware that this dude doesn’t respect their existence, and that his continued employment is a tacit endorsement by the team that it’s okay to hold those views. More realistically, that extends to any fan that feels sympathetic to the cause on any significant level. There’s just not a case to be made that you should hire that guy for that job.
I think we talk too much about “deserving” jobs in situations like this, when it really has nothing to do with it. He’s not being “cancelled” for his “slip,” he’s just no longer a job fit because of what the “slip” showed everyone about him.
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48 minutes ago, Lip Man 1 said:
As a broadcaster myself I always found Brennaman to be a tremendous broadcaster. The guy screwed up and said something he shouldn't have. He apologized.
Everyone has said or done something that they regret, so should everyone get the rest of their life destroyed because of a mistake?
He didn't murder someone, commit treason or pull off a pyramid scheme.
Talk about going overboard with a vendetta.
The guy was good enough to work national games for Fox in different sports and to be a Major League broadcaster for a few teams. That's a better resume than most of the recent Sox broadcasters including Benetti when he was hired. (and I liked him personally and professionally)
In my opinion the Sox could do a hell of a lot worse.
It’s not the fact that he said something stupid, it’s the fact that when you listen to what he said, it’s really really difficult to believe he didn’t mean it. This was not a case of stumbling over a word or improper context, he was quite articulate, he just didn’t think anyone was listening. It doesn’t matter what you think about second chances — it’s really hard for a fanbase to swallow that its broadcaster is a homophobe, whether he apologized for it or not.
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1 minute ago, Sports Guy said:
In all likelihood, the WS are not going to look to contend until 2028. The Os took 4 years, Houston took 4-5 years and Reinsdorf is like Angelos and will want to soak up profits while pointing to some bs timeline because “the Orioles and Astros did it”.
Because of that, you guys are right…Ortiz isn’t a logical candidate for you. Now, he still could be a valuable piece and someone you look to trade in a few years but I’m not sure that makes a ton of sense.
Now, if Reinsdorf sees the crap division and says, I want to contend in 2026, Ortiz makes a lot more sense but I tend to doubt that will happen.
Never fall into the trap of expecting Reinsdorf to make decisions with logic. He’s like my four-year old daughter, in that they both get frustrated and stubborn when they find out the world doesn’t work how they wanted it to, and sometimes grumpily go on pretending that it does even so — the only difference between him and her is that he has billions of dollars and everyone has to listen to him.
Reinsdorf sees the Royals championship window and pines for it — suck dick for 30 years, obtain exactly one good prospect for each spot on the field, have them all break out at the exactly same time and win a championship with a bottom-third payroll. That is the dream for him. It doesn’t matter that it’s a demonstrably terrible plan that failed for decades for multiple franchises before it improbably worked once, akin to watching your broke neighbor finally win big money on a scratchy lottery ticket and then deciding to mimic his life decisions, Reinsdorf is going to press on pretending it makes sense no matter how much evidence to the contrary that is shoved into his path every day, just like my daughter is going to continue to ask me if we can put the Christmas tree back up so Santa will come back this weekend. You can explain the calendar all you want, and on some level she understands, but it hasn’t stopped her from carrying on anyway.
So I wouldn’t put anything past him. He’s also a proven liar, so you’d think the whole story about hiring Getz as part of a plan to avoid a rebuild was textbook bullshit, but he’s also the most delusional business person I’ve ever had the misfortune of spending this much time thinking about, so he might actually really believe himself. In that case, he may actually want Ortiz.
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Whitesox sign Kevin Pillar to Minor League Deal 3M if he makes the club
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It's just like Kenny, except instead of has-been hitters, they're all has-been defenders.
This team is going to have like a 58 wRC+ next year.