WestEddy

How about .1 players that make $7 billion?

I wonder if the airplane tracker dudes can confirm this.

I feel like Hahn gave up, and KW fought with any actual direction he wanted to take. I'm glad the two of them are gone, and am excited to see what kind of rebuild Getz pursues.

No, the old WSCR - 820.

We made the store we worked at put on sports talk so we could hear news about it. No real internet, then.

People were yelling for the Sox to DFA about 6 or 7 the day of the Rule 5 deadline. These guys probably sneak through waivers right now.

Sounds like Blake Snell needs a peripherals trainer.

That was the trade for Reinsdorf keeping Kenny Williams.

Surely, the Dodgers can just declare that they're signing Ohtani, also. If enough people start to believe that, who can really say what team he's on?

What kind of private jet does Whit Merrifield fly on?

MLBTR now tells us the Red Sox have interest in Merrifield. Maybe we get Avisail back to play RF.

Sox fan to wife: Oh, come on, now. I'm sure my mother didn't assign you this ethnic dish to make and bring to Christmas Eve dinner to humiliate you. It's her way of including you in our family's traditions. You women just make up things to worry about!! Headline: Reinsdorf Meets With Nashville Mayor Sox fan: OMG!!! What if he just springs this on us next June, and we wasted 6 months where we could have been worrying about this 24/7?!?!?

The question posed was whether Jerry R. had the "stomach" to spend in the right areas. I'm sure he's not trying to lose. And I'm sure that if he had a trusted GM telling him he needed a larger stats department, he would do that. We act like JR won't let anyone in his organization use cell phones, or whatnot. Atlanta sees themselves as competing for a World Series in 2024. There's no room for Soroka. The Sox are rebuilding. He fills a hole nicely.

Everybody here thinks Rick Hahn and KW were the biggest idiots on the face of the Earth. When they were "desperate", they traded Steele Walker and Konnor Pilkington to fill holes. I'm not sure why everybody thinks other teams will be dumber than the dumbest organization on Earth when it comes to filling holes on their roster.

They spend their entire domestic pool every year. Depending on the 1st rounder, they go right up to the "lose next year's 1st round pick" limit. I don't know if you're referring to Atlanta or the White Sox buying long term assets for short term costs. The Sox get two rookie pitchers and Soroka for Bummer.

I'm not sure what course they're staying. Their starting pitching is wanting. Rick Hahn didn't trade off all the dozens of top prospects to try to compete. We planned on one guy for each of about 7 positions, then never filled the rest.

Obviously for his nurturing relationship with Cease.

Of course. More often than not, though, I think he was stealthy, with the odd message being sent through Nightengale. If this is a different style, I love it. I hated the lack of info.

Link?

All the "opposing GM's are waiting to take advantage of Chris Getz" talk aside. I really don't have a problem with his approach. Even if he signs Whit Merrifield and trades garbage for Salvy, it sounds like he's doing a normal job. The thing I wonder, however, if all this leaking is other GMs "taking advantage" of his lack of reputation. Rick Hahn somehow pulled off his work without a lot of leaking from any side. Maybe his tight-lip conduct inspired the same respect from other GMs, where Chris Getz has no rep, and nobody cares what he thinks, yet.

For the player to suit up and play a AAA game, he'd have to be on the AAA roster. He can't be on multiple rosters at a time.

Well, yeah. Once one of them establishes themselves as the major league starter, trade the other.

Because teams have scouting departments who can see that the slight loss in velocity may be related to mechanics, and not injury or age? And even with the off year, Cease was still an above average pitcher. Just like teams won't be imagining that Blake Snell will win the Cy Young for the next 7 years.

Of course, but Cease held his own in 13 of those games. Or so. I can't seem to make B-R work, and maybe because I won't pay, But Cease isn't a worthless piece of human garbage who we should be sending a prospect along to move his money. I hyperbole. He's a significant starting pitcher in the game, right now. No, not Randy Johnson in his prime. But Dylan Cease has value. Perhaps the most of any available starting pitcher either a free agent, or being offered by his controlling team.