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Brownsville site seems a little small for a football stadium build. The 78 seemed like a bit of a squeeze for even a baseball stadium. AH should just force the Bears to do something with the land. Build something or pass some zoning changes to force them to sell. There's been some insanely impressive development around new stadiums lately all over the country. It just seems like neither the Sox or Bears are truly serious about building unless they can get a massive handout and if anything ever gets built it'll probably be another cheap half assed approach like their current stadiums.

Neither the money nor the playing time is really consequential in Vaughn's case. Bring him back or don't, the $3-6M won't matter and neither will his ABs both in terms of adding value (wins) or blocking anyone's development. Next year is all about getting our young arms reps and developing (or trading) for some positional prospect depth. That's probably true for 2026 too. We need a few years of good drafts, a decent trade or two and a hell of a lot of good luck to even entertin the idea of being less than mediocre (sub .500) in 2026. The lack of positional prosect depth has probably already put us into a second rebuild feedback loop where we'll be forced to trade our pitching assets to restart the rebuid after 2026 in the hope of developing a realistic rebuild plan that puts us on a path of respectability by the end of the decade.

I'm not disputing he wouldn't, but he's still young, he hasn't really made any "real" money by MLB standards and he'd have a chance to lock in a 100M guaranteed and still have a chance at a big deal down the line. If he thinks he's worth 300M and nothing less will do he should absolutely wait till free agency. If he wants to be setup for generations there's probably an offer on the table he can take and feel good about now.

If the Sox offered 100/5 he'd be crazy to turn it down. Won't happen but get paid while you can kid.

I would be very curious to see Eder in a bullpen role. Last few starts he's been 90-92 on the fastball. I've seen him hit 97 on the gun in B-ham, he probably would see his stuff play up quite a bit if he knew he only needs to bring 5-10 max effort fastballs a night and take a seat.

You have to believe Pallette gets another shot at starting, probably at AA to start the year next year.

Nastrini looked fantastic. Was throwing a ton of sliders that had some of the best swing and miss stuff I've ever seen from him. If he can get his fastball over and throw the slider he had tonight he's a legit big league starter.

He's had a decent month but for the season as a whole he's walked way too many guys and his BAbip is way too low to have any confidence on future success. I'll willing to bet Charlotte will not treat him well.

The LMG home runs are fun to watch. If he can make consistent contact the dude is gonna hit a ton of bombs.

Don't know if I agree. Prospect rankings have a tendency to favor unproven lower level prospects. I'd be curious if you took a top 100 list in any given year and did a 6 year WAR avg from those prospects following the year of ranking. My guess is you get more 6 year WAR on AAAA players than top 100 lists. Then apply the same principle to farm system rankings. If you take each teams top 30 and get the 6 year WAR from that year forward I doubt you'll get a huge difference between 1 and 11.

That swing looked like routine flyball. I'd love to get some EV data on him because anyone that can make an opposite field shot look that easy is a somebody.

Jake Peppers numbers don't look great this year but his stuff is legit. If he can't find consistent command as a starter I won't be shocked if he becomes a solid big league closer. Put him in a bullpen and I'd be surprised if he's not hitting 100.

Eder's profiles much better for a bullpen role. I'd put both him and Nick on the Sox pen right now and just cut some of the dead weight. There's no point sending these guys out to get hammered as starters in Charlotte's bandbox. Let's just see if we can make serviceable bullpen arms out of them.

Nick definitely seems like a guy who would be benefit from a bullpen stint.

Watching him today there's nothing that really stands out but he gets a hell of a lot swinging strikes. I swear he waits until the :01 on the pitch clock to throw every pitch. It was driving me crazy.