Jake

Amazon workers have been f***ed up and down in all kinds of ways and the only reason it hasn't been as publicized is because we don't interact with those workers while we shop. They have tried to unionize and been shut down, have had several instances in which they have been made to work overtime with no pay, and all kinds of other ridiculous things. The trick with our economic system is that we can't do s*** about it. Shopping elsewhere means cutting off our nose to spite our face.

Assume Samardzija won't sign for a discount. Then it doesn't matter whether he's going to sign an extension before you trade for him. You trade Player X with no extension for him, you sign him for whatever he's worth. or... He signs for whatever he's worth, and you trade Player Y. Why would the player change? The only way you pay more (in talent) for an extension now is if you think his value is likely to increase dramatically between now and the end of next season. I don't see why it would.

I'd rather pay market price for Scherzer than trade anything of value for 1 year of Shark and then having to pay him market price

I'd also like to point out that this guy will be 30 years old by the time he could put on a Sox uni

QUOTE (Knuckles @ Nov 29, 2014 -> 01:49 PM) Then you hang up the phone. Obviously we're not giving up Q, but when you consider his production and his contract situation, he is worth relatively little in terms of what we ought to be willing to trade. Give them Carlos Sanchez and you might even lose the deal - though I'd probably give them Carlos Sanchez.

All I'm saying re: Shark is you're going to be forced into paying in talent and dollars as if those WAR figures are 6-7 each year when in fact he's relatively unproven as a front-of-the-rotation starter. His talent is the main thing garnering him this attention. Jose Quintana has been a better pitcher at least each of the past two years and I bet Billy Beane is asking for him in return

Samardzija WAR by year: 0.5 -0.4 -0.5 0.6 2.8 2.6 4.1 This would be like trading for Gavin Floyd in 2010/11, except Floyd was better

Samardzija isn't even that good, for Christ's sake

And since we're talking about Semien, I'll add that he was far better when he was called back up later in the season: 6.8% BB%, 17.6% K%, .273/.333/.485, 129 wRC+, .300 BABIP

QUOTE (Jose Paniagua @ Nov 29, 2014 -> 10:41 AM) What Semien has going for him is some BABIP-fueled minor league stats. First full MLB year was a failure. Beane will not pay us for 2014 Clutch Moments. Semien did walk in the minors, but not here. He's 24, the farm thing is done. The defense is considered limited besides his speed. Because of the minor league stats i'd see you getting a decent cost controlled reliever-type basically at this point at the absolute most. Semien is not a prospect. Semien is at least an adequate defender around the infield and has the best offensive chops of any of our minor league infielders. The first rule of baseball is not to freak out over small MLB samples. I also have no clue where you get the idea that he's had BABIP-fueled MiLB stats. He's generally had fairly low BABIP numbers. He's a middle infielder with solid defensive skills, a great batting eye, production at high levels, and back-to-back 20 HR seasons between MiLB and MLB. That's a big deal.

That Donaldson move is a head-scratcher.

This is a 2-pitch pitcher who lost 3 mph on his main pitch last year, all while pitching like s***. There are a bunch of pitchers I'd like to try before him.

Fuller has become a below average corner with more exposure at this point. This is probably why we had two starting CBs in front of him so he could develop.

Gift TD for Detroit after failing to call pass interference and drumming up the roughing the passer call

Truly awful "roughing the passer" call. Grabbed him by the jersey

Offense every bit as disappointing as D so far. Nothing worse than giving the opponent 2 minutes to score after you get the ball with 3 minutes. Offense has earned itself 7 points so far.

I'd give him a NRI

Well we should definitely demand that he comes back sooner

I would have loved to sign Hanley at that price for the corner OF

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Nov 25, 2014 -> 07:40 PM) This isn't necessarily correct. As far as we know Carroll has not been waived, he's in purgatory for the next 10 days by the end of which the Sox must release or trade him they may also place him on waivers within 7 days with the intention of outrighting him to Charlotte. It's a minor distinction but possibly an important one, designating a player for assignment simply buys a team time when they need to immediately clear a spot on the 40 man roster, nothing more, the other options come after the DFA. If the Sox feel he has some value and may be claimed on waivers they have 7 days to find a trade partner before waiving him. Suppose we execute a trade that opens up spots on the roster before those deadlines pass. Could we add him back to the roster without risking him to waivers?

To summarize PFF's findings for yesterday, the defense played fabulously well and the offense was dreadful - in case your eyes didn't tell you that. Overall, PFF's grades indicate that we have a league average offense and a league average defense. Maybe more excitingly, the Bucs took our crown as league's worst special teams

I love Anderson and I was mostly thinking of the guys who might play in Chicago next year, though I will add he's far less sure to be a MIF than anyone else being discussed.

Seems like there was a key breakdown in communication in which 911 operator did not lead cops to believe there was any doubt whether the gun was real.

Semien is 100%, without a doubt, the best MIF prospect in our system.

Seems like the problem with Kemp is that he played atrociously, unfathomably bad defense last year. Like, Adam Dunn kind of numbers in the advanced fielding metrics