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Just for clarification to everyone, McCann won’t have the service time to be a free agent after the season. He should be arb eligible if they want to tender him a contract.

The best I’ve seen his fastball is 94-95 and razor straight. That’s a 45/50 fastball if I’ve ever seen one.

First off, sorry.. I reread my post and I sounded like a dick. But if you are going to assign grades, with mlb guys especially, you need to factor in the highs and lows. It’s movement, velocity, deception, overall ability to execute. I would say Shane Bieber has a 60+fb and reylo is 55, despite throwing harder. Gio has a 45/50fb and is a fringe starter/swingman. If I was giving him a fresh look and didn’t know his pedigree I wouldn’t give him a second thought Every pitcher looks elite when everything is working.

His stuff was the same, the braves just weren’t prepped on him and weren’t good at the time. They missed a lot of hittable pitches.

I thought he had a 70fb? Didn’t you say that last year? If all of his pitches are 55min why should he ditch his curve, as you suggested? Who ditches a 55 curve? Please stop trying to be a scout. I’ve worked in scouting. I’ve been down that road. It’s fun for a while, but it sucks once that while is done. Just try and enjoy the game. Scouting isn’t for you.

I 100% understand the frustration. I feel it too. But I don’t see the satisfaction in someone getting fired because they’re the scapegoat for Hahn/Kenny being ineffective and Jerry being cheap.

So he isn’t going to have Giolito’s HoF arsenal?

Not really though. Arbitration awards the things Jiménez is expected to excel at.

Nobody is getting fired. Not publicly.

On the Sox website too as a main story. Kind of strange.

Penny wise and pound foolish.

Seems like there’s two types of old, rich guys. The spend it, go for it at all cost types, and the hoard all the money, everyone is out to get me guys. I guess there’s repercussions for both, but at least Detroit had a few fun years.

*promoted

If that’s the case I’m 2011-level All-In

Things even out. They aren’t giving up 8 runs a game. I don’t remember ever feeling so fed up with the franchise, but they aren’t losing 107 games.

If that’s the case, I apologize. They aren’t historically bad. Just your run-of-the-mill bad team. I think, at least. It’s plenty bad, but seems worse because of context.

Didn’t you suggest the Sox would break the all time loss record last season? The White Sox are a bad team, but they’re a better team than Baltimore and in a way easier division.

Kenny has Jerry’s dong so far up his throat I’m surprised he can say anything.

I’m sure Jerry is just saving up to sign Ty Cobb when he goes to hell.

I waited to get home to watch the game. Didn’t check my phone or internet or anything so I wouldn’t accidentally see the score. I just watched the first inning and I don’t remember ever seeing it so obvious they would lose by A LOT. So I checked the score and was surprised they only lost by 8.

Nice line for Viera

Heuer has a nice game. 2 innings, no baserunners, 4 k’s, only needed 21 pitches. I really liked what what I saw from him this spring. I think he’s got a shot.

It was this offseason for me. It should have and very easily could have been a massive turning point for the rebuild, direction, narrative, everything to do with this team. Even beyond Machado and Harper. And they not only failed to do anything meaningful, they did it in the most embarrassing, fan murdering way possible, and then proceeded to make things worse by spewing a bunch of nonsense trying to save face and basically insulting the intelligence of what little fanbase remains in the process. It still boggles my mind when I look back at the sheer incompetence and lack of accountability in this entire organization. I realize Hahn isn’t the only one to blame, but he’s certainly one of the big ones. He’s the goddamn GM, not an intern. So, yeah... I’m done giving that dipshit any benefit of the doubt.

Jimenez is learning on the fly to hit the cutoff man.

Nice. Another home run, and caught by some dickhead in a Cubs jersey.