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You're going to have a lot of time on your hands when this vaccine is created.

There are definitely some similarities. They're both tall left handers with nasty stuff but they do it different. Sale's delivery is much more violent than Crochet's. Sale is more across his body with a low 3/4 arm slot that makes his already great stuff play up because he's able to create crazy angles on his pitches. Crochet does it easier lands closed and has a more traditional 3/4 arm slot. Mechanics wise Crochet is closer to Andrew Miller than Chris Sale. I'm not sure you can ever comp anyone to Chris Sale. The guy's a freak.

I think that's honestly a conservative estimate. I think it easily could be 50% of the pitchers. They only have so many years available on their arms. Why waste one of those years in a year you might end up making 30% of your contract? Expect a lot of AAA pitchers to be on big league rosters this year if a season does take place. You'll have a lot of 14-12 type of games and multiple players finishing the season with a batting average of over .400 if this season is played under proposed terms. It will make a mockery of the game and I really don't want to see it.

I read in The Athletic, the new spring training will be held at each team’s home ballpark. And that there will be up to a 30 man roster and 20 man taxi squad. It will be interesting to see how teams use the taxi squad. Probably will include keepimg several top prospects they have no intention of playing around for at least some development. If you are willing to take on some cash, there are going to be a lot of opportunities to improve your team.

On the other hand, there will be all those veteran hitters like Josh Donaldson and Encarnacion that really can’t afford to sit 18 months and then get out of the gate slowly in 2021. We know how all the players that signed in May/June the last 3-4 cycles struggled mightily. With pitchers or anyone coming off an injury, this is the ideal time to get that extra rest and rehab in...as if the case with a number of young pitchers in our organization. Then you have the free agents risking a lower deal by sitting out the cycle and going into an even more uncertain economic environment in terms of doling out megacontracts, t.v. deals perhaps having peaked, owners crying poor/collusion. For example, the Cubs’ carriage deals for Marquee, even less likely to come to an agreement with advertising spending down across nearly industry.

On one hand, I agree. It doesn’t make sense to me to break the windows of a business or loot stores. On the other hand, Colin Kaepernick tried to protest the same issue silently by simply kneeling, and he was vilified. Im not really sure what alternative form of protest will actually make a difference.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/18/coronavirus-vaccine-266679 Probably not....it will take 2-3 if not 3-5 years to fully distribute, and then there’s going to be global political/economic battles if it comes from either the US or China. Maybe it’s better for the world if France, UK or Germany gets there first...or the Gates Foundation.

This isn't feasible though. Hospitals are in good shape. We have to figure out how to live with this thing until there's a cure/treatment. Cook County has the most positive cases in the country and due to increased testing, our infection rate statewide is like 6%. We can't shut everything down because 6 out of every 100 people tested have this thing.

It's disappointing to see a Law quote in this thread about draft philosophy still coming from the top. The reinsdorf/williams regime just cannot ever go away. And for all of the crap Law gets here including for his criticism of Sale as a prospect, for the most part I think he's been very correct about our system, and I think he has also proven to have some of the best or most reliable sources about our organization. I remember when it was Phil Rogers just spouting whatever line of bullshit Dave Wilder was feeding him, for a while.

I think Stacey King once said, "If you're scared, buy a dog." If they end up making a safe pick here instead of a high upside risk I'm just going to go ahead and call the guy Lance Broadway regardless of whatever his name is. Then I'll wake up from this trade players for prospects / draft high / sign INTL FAs dream I'm having and realize I'm still a White Sox fan and it's still 2007-2015 or whatever.

It's more about the Stuff+6-6 LHP+ low 3/4 delivery+reliever risk coming out of college. When we make that comparison, we're talking about Sale, the amateur prospect in 2010, not Sale, the MLB pitcher on a HOF trajectory.

At least one person who was at that Lake in the Ozarks pool party last week has the virus. Look for quite a few more soon. Dumbasses.

Rob Manfred is the dumbest motherfucker on the planet. He's squandering a once in a lifetime opportunity to showcase baseball. He is going to kill the sport.

DeGrom was a SS in college who couldn't hit a lick. He didn't start pitching until his junior year and wasn't very good. He was drafted on arm strength and developed into one of the best pitchers in the game. It's a great story.