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I don't freak out over 9 innings. His WHIP drops to 1.2 without the intentional walk. Romine's home run leaves the yard in a third of the ballparks in baseball and it still needed the wind blowing out 10 MPH in 83 degree weather at Wrigley for it to leave the yard. His ERA is less than 3 without that fluke. Kimbrel has 4 wild pitches in his last 4.2IP and they're all pitching to Zavala. He had 3 the whole year pitching with the Cubs. The Sox are 3rd in baseball in wild pitches and third in passed balls. You would think they have a really wild pitching staff but they also have the lowest number of HBP of any team in baseball. Zavala has 16 wild pitches and 7 passed balls in 214.2 innings. For catchers with at least 200 innings caught, Zavala leads the league in passed ball/inning and is 4th in the league in wild pitches/inning. But yeah, go off on the 9 innings.

Kimbrel let up an infield single and an intentional walk yesterday.

Looks like him and Quantrill. They both have the pedigree.

1 - So not extending Lynn would crater this season? What does that have to do with anything? 2 - It's Hendriks and Kimbrel. And the Sox talked to Luba after the Sox signed Hendriks so not true but keep treating your assumptions as fact. 3 - Yet you're speaking so assuredly. 4 - When Bauer went out on leave, the Sox were several games up in the division and the team chasing them was providing them with reinforcements for the playoffs but sure. I am sure Detroit would have gone 40-10 to catch the Sox. Whatever suits your argument. 5 - Who said anything about voiding the contract or the Sox dealing with this is in future? Did someone recommend signing him regardless of his current situation? You're really reaching. No one said any of this but sure set up some dumb argument that you can knock down to feel smart. The point was there is no reason to be upset if you wanted to sign Bauer in the offseason because of his actions committed several months later. 6 - Tell me your post is personal without tell me your post is personal. Like seriously, you're trying to dunk on me for things I didn't even said and scenarios I didn't even get behind. Your post has little attention to detail, little relevancy but you were actually able to abstain from name calling in a post so you get 2/10.

I had to check this wasn't the same tweet from 3 weeks ago when LaRussa said this the first time.

I am more curious of how this would be perceived in Korea or Japan. Bauer could be the best pitcher in KBO/NPB history.

Why would you feel bad? He didn't do anything at the time of you wanting him on the Sox. Frankly, given he was a Cy Young winner and given what was public about Bauer's personal life in the offseason everyone should have wanted him. He was a great networker in the game who worked his ass off, constantly tried to improve and practiced sober living. No one had any idea that he has abusive and gross sexual habits. You wanted the best baseball team and he was one of the best players on the market. This would not have any way killed the Sox either. They lost Eloy, Robert, Madrigal and Grandal. That's 45% of your starting lineup. They persevered. Losing a guy who throws every fifth day wouldn't have cratered a team that's going to win their division by ~15. Should Buffalo Bills fans be sorry they rooted for OJ? Should kids who watched the Huxtables be punished for supporting Cosby? Is anyone who watched a Weinstein move a bad person? It's crazy. LOL cmon. Arguing with someone on twitter is a precursor that someone is going to abuse a girl during sex, choke her unconscious and sodomize her? I mean this is ridiculous. All twitter is is people shitting on others. My trends are filled with filth and people understanding being hateful gets more clicks than being reasonable. Are all these people possible sexual assaulters? It's just crazy. This is one guy doing heinous shit. Nothing more.

1 - It seems like you are implying that clubs didn't have losses last year. Do you have any evidence of that or is that just what you would prefer to be the case? 2 - Never is an absolute word. There are teams that pay for their stadium. I mean look at the differences in the way the City/State have treated/supported the Sox and Cubs here in Chicago. Completely different situations. There are teams that pay some sort of fee to whatever municipality supported their stadium. It's all on a case-by-case basis. Additionally, if they are profiting so much off the stadiums, why don't you buy the fact that there were losses last year when no fans were allowed at the stadiums? How do structures profit without attendees? 3 - They don't pay most minor leaguers anything. They don't own the minor league teams in most cases. Barely anyone is profiting off of anything in minor league baseball. This is just wrong on every level. 4 - If they're making cable deals and it doesn't make its way back to the players you should have an issue with the union who is not getting their players a fair share of the revenue. 5 - This is your opinion and while I may be inclined to agree at some level, what does this have to do with the CBA? Are the owners required to "grow the game" for the players? They certainly are incentivized to grow the game for their own business. You're acting like they don't want to grow the game which obviously isn't true. Idk what they're blaming on the players but this isn't a bargaining issue. Just seems like across the board your opinions and points are coming from emotion rather than the facts of the matter. I could be wrong on some of this stuff and feel free to support any of your points but 1-3 are undoubtedly incorrect.

Sorry wasn't following the back and forth with Oldsox. So what's the point of bringing it up if you know they won't turn it over? The owners have all the risk and the players have none. It's not a level playing field. Your bias towards the union doesn't mean the owners should release their private financials. EDIT: And every time the owners claim losses? You mean just this most recent time when a worldwide pandemic didn't allow spectators at their entertainment events? Believe me. At least in Chicago baseball, the claims of losses are not just claims, it's the truth.

Look at the checkbook? I don't know what that means. Do you mean financials? And that you think the owners should release private/asymmetric information to help the union?

And what has the union done about? What changes have they made? How have they done in the past agreements in settling their qualms leading up to the last CBA's? They've done next to nothing. And they still trot out Tony Clark to negotiate against some of the best business people in the world. Unless the union gets a real negotiator/negotiators in there, they're going to continue to get beat. People need to stop acting like the union is a bunch of little kids getting taken advantage of by the older kids. This is millionaires vs. billionaires. Everyone is in the 1% that most people around here hate. The union has plenty of leverage. Until they acknowledge the mistakes they've made and come forward with a formidable counter to the owners' negotiating might they will continue to lose. I agree with the last couple sentences. Is the first sentence still true though? MLB has been looked at as the best union for a long time but the NBA has certainly closed that gap in the last several years. I don't know the NBA well enough to say either way but they seem to be doing more and more for their guys.

They offer Rodon the QO. If he declines (he should), Sox likely stay involved publicly (where they are interested or not) as a favor to Rodon. Rodon likes it here. He could have left in the offseason but wanted to stay here.

I think Jed Hoyer knows what the MLB is planning to do with expanded playoffs. They'll have to spend significantly but past Heyward and Hendricks/Contreras (who are actually good), they have basically no money on the books. Man Heyward has 25M coming in 2022 and 2023. I wonder if Balta still wants to trade for him.

The bolded isn't true. What is just insane about this situation is the woman's account, the evidence behind her account and the fact that Bauer's camp isn't even denying her allegations just denying that they weren't consensual. Crazy. This isn't a situation where someone says the athlete was abusive or had regrettable sex and the person was trying to monetize the situation. This is heinous shit with significant evidence. It gives me the heebie jeebiez.

Even if so, she could have easily done the same to Tatis right? The difference is Tatis didn't beat the piss out of her or sodomize her after choking her unconscious. No doubt these guys look like money bags to opportunists but what Bauer did is heinous and a product of his own perversions. He probably has been abused himself if he gets off hurting a woman the way he did. Plus, the evidence of her physical abuse is significant and was documented. I don't know how he could get out of this. Even if he did from a legal standpoint, the MLB will/would do everything to blackball him given his career long attack at the league.

With expanded playoffs and the way they'll spend in that division they could absolutely turn it around and make the playoffs if they have some luck and avoid injury in 2023. A - That is nowhere near a half billion in signings. B - Their ownership ran a top 5 payroll for multiple years in a row leading into COVID. What is a real offer? The Cubs are lucky that those guys didn't sign the extension they put forward. Per Buster Olney, the Cubs offered Baez an extension in the range of $180M prior to 2020. Do you think he gets half that this offseason? https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/sports/nbcsports/report-javy-baez-turned-down-cubs-180-million-extension-offer/2489584/#:~:text=The Cubs were ready to,prior to the 2020 season. Per David Kaplan, Cubs offered Bryant around $200m in 2018. Obviously this one is more complicated since he still had control and has since seen his production decrease, but do you think Bryant would have been better off financially accepting that deal? Absolutely. https://www.si.com/mlb/2018/10/11/chicago-cubs-kris-bryant-rejects-contract-offer Per Ken Rosenthal, the Cubs offered Rizzo an extension in the amount of $70 prior to 2021. Do you think he beats that this offseason? He may be the only one who could possibly beat the extension the Cubs offered. If the NL doesn't get a DH I still would guess no. https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/anthony-rizzo-contract-extension-update-cubs-president-jed-hoyer-very-confident-a-new-deal-will-be-reached/

That's disingenuous. How much would a high school pitching prospect throw in their first short season in pro ball? Thompson and Dalquist combined for 5 innings in 2019. I wouldn't call that a year of development.

They were indeed the first team that had a chance. When a player is DFA'd, his league has first dibs worse record to best. If they all decline, then goes to the other league. Worst to first.

So if I thought the Sox and Billy Hamilton has some sort of backroom/handshake deal to IL him over a nagging injury that he could be playing through to keep him on the roster/with the team, what would you think given your experience?

You have to wonder if he has both issues (I mean I technically have should inflammation right now) and they are calling it a shoulder injury just because of how poorly they'd managed Engel's injury and recovery and the huge number of groin issues the team has had.

He's had one now but they IL'd him before they did an MRI.

LOL. When Jerry gives a top 5 payroll annually let me know.

Rodon hadn't even had an MRI yet when they put him on the IL. He wasn't concerned at all. Maybe just some rest for a guy who hasn't logged innings in years.

It's Cubs and Cardinals next year. The Cubs will lose over 90 games and the Cardinals will be mediocre. Their teams and fanbases win and no one else does.