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Nardiwashere

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  1. I guess it depends on how good he is and what type of returns are possible. Obviously, I'd take very little back in terms of players if it meant we could clear most of his $ and roster spot. He doesn't really line up with the new window. If we are getting an actual prospect, I'd be ok with eating a decent amount too.
  2. I'd love for them to extend Crochet. I'd also like to see a guy like Soroka get an extension if he pitches well. In the future, your rotation could be Crochet, Fedde, Soroka, and whoever is good out of Nastrini, Eder, Thorpe, Cannon, Bush, Iriarte, and eventually Schultz. At some point, you're going to have to lock guys in for 2025-26 and beyond. If there's a market, the guys I'd trade are Kopech, Clevinger, any reliever not named Jordan Leasure, Eloy, Moncada, Benitendi, Vaughn.
  3. Why would today be the bullpen day rather than yesterday? I'd think Soroka would be more able to pitch on a 4 man rotation schedule than Crochet. What am I missing?
  4. Keep in mind this offseason was not like a normal offseason. The two best SPs on the market didn't sign until Spring Training was well underway. It is is possible no one wanted him. It's also possible he was asking for too much and teams moved on and made other signings and he ended up accepting the Sox offer. Michael Lorenzen doesn't have any crazy red flags, right? Did no one want him?
  5. I get it... but if one is taking such a strong stance in support victims of abuse, its very bizarre that they lose their principles or make an exception based on how good the team or the player is. What's the winning percentage that makes domestic abuse tolerable? To me, that's more gross.
  6. I don't remember this being an allegation. I thought she said they got into a fight and he got angry and threw a bottle of dip spit and it got on the baby. Obviously very bad, but it is much different than deliberately taking a lit cigarette and stamping it out on a baby. That's like psychotic s%*#.
  7. I get someone being upset/not liking him due to the allegations. At the same time, I feel like the reactions to him are very extreme. Someone like Aroldis Chapman had more concrete allegations and when the Cubs had him, it was all "Well, sometimes athletes are unsavory characters. Theo wants to win" type vibes. I don't know what Clevinger did or didn't do. I do know that they had him around the team for a season. I find it hard to believe that they'd bring him back if it was as black and white as people on the outside act. I don't personally like the guy but get some innings out of him, hope he's good. Trade him for a piece if he does well. Can't help but think that a lot of the people saying they aren't fans anymore or they want the team to move are being a little performative.
  8. A player has to explain what they feel. A trainer isn't a mind reader. If they say they feel ok and its a lie, what is the trainer supposed to do?
  9. So what does this look like? He pitches half a year until he gets to 100ish innings and then gets shut down? Gaps in between starts? Does 100 IP sound right? If so, whats the target for next year?
  10. I have YouTubeTV and they removed MLB network from their channel lineup a year or so ago. ESPN stopped doing daily Baseball Tonight a while back. I'm looking for a highlight show to watch as I go to bed. Anyone know of an option on another channel/streaming service/youtube? I know MLB does like youtube recaps but from what I see, its just random clips thrown together with no context or anything. Without any host or graphics, its just plays strung together and I can't follow what's happening. I can't believe out of ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN News, ESPN+, FSN, Stadium, FanDuelTV, CBS/Paramount, Warners/Turner, NBC Universal etc. there isn't one traditional highlight show available for MLB. ESPN and Fox is all NFL offseason talk and idiots sitting around tables yelling at each other about nonsense. Has baseball become that niche?
  11. I was just going off mlb pipeline's ETA. You're probably right on those two... but still... there's an influx of guys coming and a lot of money available. This doesn't have to be some prolonged rebuild.
  12. This year they will be bad. I think 70 games give or take a few... so like 67-73ish? The goal should be to find a handful of guys who are in their long term plans. 2025 should be the fun "hey, this team isn't bad!" year. 2026 they should be competing. In 2024-2025, the following players should be making debuts Montgomery, Thorpe, Ramos, Quero, Zavala, Nastrini, Iriarte, Eder, Cannon, Fletcher, Leasure, Berroa, Bush. They also have a ton of money coming off the books. There's no reason you need to be bad for 5 years in order to be good again. Full rebuilds can work (Cubs, Astros) but that's not the only way to build a team.
  13. I can't believe they'd trade for a guy who couldn't hit 90mph. Let's say he is low 90s like everyone says. Is it possible for guys his age/experience to just gain a couple mph or is he what he is at this point?
  14. Bauer was always a dbag. In addition to the allegations, he just seems like the absolute worst person to deal with on a daily basis. I want no part of him. Even if he is innocent of all charges (I'm not saying he is), he is such an egotistical loudmouth.... he'd be blabbering about it all season, flying his drones into scoreboards, and boasting about cheating etc. Clevinger is not someone I would want dating my sister and I personally would not want to hang out with him... but his situation seems different than Bauer. I always saw Giolito and Cease hanging out with him and talking. Those two guys don't seem like the type to be friendly with a child abuser or wife beater. Maybe they were just being cordial because he was a co-worker but from the outside, it didn't look like he was some outcast. They have spent too much time talking about changing the culture and vibes... He isn't good enough and the team isn't close enough to winning to waste money on signing him if he's as bad of a dude as the public thinks. Besides, unlike Hahn, Getz strikes me as a guy who would care more about character. I imagine the team knows more about that whole story than the public. Would I sign him? Probably not... but if they did, they are doing it after having him in the clubhouse for a season and knowing more about him.
  15. Lolololol... so on March 14 of his first season here, you have written off Bannister because he gave some generic "I believe in Kopech. I can't wait to try to get his game back to the next level!" quote when he was hired?
  16. This is absurd. Kopech has been here 7 years. He sucks. Also- show me the quote where they said "We guarantee he will be fixed and turn into a good starting pitcher"
  17. I don't find this surprising at all. I figured he was going to be in the bullpen all offseason.... it was at least a 50/50 thing.
  18. I like this. The goal of this season should be to find a few players that will be on the next good team. If we go into next year with 2-3 SPs and 4-5 spots in the lineup figured out plus a handful of bullpen arms we like, that's good news, right?
  19. That's not the same. Bannister doesn't have the same job as Getz had. If they bring him up and he's good, no one will say "Boy, that Paul Janish really knows how to develop players"
  20. Who cares if Fulmer was on the top 100 list in the same calendar year that Getz got hired? Getz has nothing to do with him. The rest of those guys on your list were in the minors partially for service time manipulation. Like others said, they were all "developed" by other organizations. If they bring up Thorpe in September and he's awesome, is that attributable to Paul Janish?
  21. There's some truth to this but Kopech, Eloy, Moncada, Lopez weren't guys who spent time in the minors and were "developed." I assume you meant Fullmer instead of Fuller. He was in majors in 2016. Guys like Rutherford, Collins etc. also could have just sucked. Also, who knows what authority he had... I don't blame Chris Getz because Ryan Cordell was bad. Maybe I'm wrong.
  22. I wish they would have brought in someone else (or at least interviewed outside candidates)... but I'm willing to give him a shot. I'm not sure how much I blame Getz for the prior front office's failures. I definitely am giving him a shorter leash than someone who has no ties to the previous front office... but I'll give him at least a year or two. I've liked a lot of what he's done this offseason and I like the idea of Bannister doing what he's doing.
  23. I don't mind this trade at all. We didn't get a super high end guy but it seems fair. Everyone was saying 2 top 100 guys plus a lotto ticket seemed reasonable. They ended up with one guy who is a definite top 100 guy and two borderline top 100 guys plus a reliever they can flip in a few months. To me, that feels equivalent. Kind of like a hybrid between a quality and quantity trade. It sounds like its entirely possible that all 3 guys end up being top 100 in near future... and that isn't even counting what you get from Wilson. If they got Kjersted, Ortiz, and a lotto ticket in December everyone would have been content (including myself). From all accounts that deal was never possible. I kind of prefer what they ultimately got... at the very least, its a wash. That deal had the risk of being being two 26 year old who end up as a 1b and a utility player. Even though we don't have anyone coming back as highly rated as Kjersted, I think this deal is more interesting. I cant remember a time that the team had so many viable SP options. Usually they have a few high ceiling prospects and 4 other dudes. There's like 15-18 guys I can see being in the rotation in the next 2 years (although not a ton of ace potential guys). Would I have preferred a highly touted can't miss LH slugger who is a lock to stick in the corner OF? Yeah. But I can't understand anyone saying they will be bad for 4-5 years in this thread and on twitter. A large segment of the fanbase is just pouting because the Hahn rebuild failed. Its over. That pisses me off too... But move on. They have a lot of money off the books (or coming off the books) and the bones are there for the next good team in about a year and a half.
  24. So you're saying they originally planned to get ISFA money to help build at the racetrack but since a significant portion of the board is appointed by the Mayor of Chicago, they would not get those funds unless they stayed within the city limits? Were they unaware of this when they purchased the Arlington site? Still.... if you're only moving next door and not getting new revenue streams, why bother building a new stadium at all? Seems like a waste of time and resources.
  25. Here is what I don't understand about the Bears- The reason they would want to move to Arlington Heights is because they would own their own stadium and surrounding land and be able to profit off of the new development surrounding the park (hotels, bars, etc.). Let's say they do build a stadium next door on the existing parking lot.... they remain merely a tenant and there can't be any new commercial development on the lakefront site. What's the upside? Spending a billion dollars for a domed stadium with a little more seating capacity that you use a dozen times a year (at most)? If the new stadium hosts a Super Bowl or has more events, why would the Bears care? They aren't making anything off of that, right? The current soldier field is only 20 years old and seems fine to me every time I go. That isn't even taking the fans' complaints about difficulty of getting to the stadium into account... those issues would still exist.
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