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That's just stupid lineup construction IMO. I don't see why you wouldn't want Tim Anderson getting more ABs.

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He's got way more swing and miss in his game than Buehrle did as evidenced by the K rate, and less control as evidenced by the substantially higher (though similar to Buehrle's year out of the pen) walk rate. Do they really want to risk starting a guy with 2 TJS already, though?

He got a lot more starts at AAA, and he wasn't effective there, either.

He is 7th, but I don't think they're going to call Kopech up this year, so once they trade Shields, Adams is a Covey pen demotion away from a shot. Also you all keep assuring me that most of these guys are going to bust, so he'll get his shot through attrition according to what most people on this board think.

Yes, another centrist war hawk that wants to make life easier for big banks is exactly what we need in a President. We haven't seen any of those recently.

I'll take the over if the Sox give him the opportunity. He's performed at every level as a young for level starter and while his peripherals may not be great, he records a lot of outs. I could easily see him being a backend to mid-rotation innings eater, and since he's ahead of guys like Cease, Hansen, and Dunning, he'll probably have a season and a half before those guys are pushing him for starts, which is right around 50 starts, and if one or more of them fail, he might hang on to that rotation spot for even longer.

Or if you get Austin Riley.

I know what Not Good Standing means, but since you're a lawyer, you'd likely know this part better than me: I thought that when your entity isn't in good standing with the state, you lose all of the legal protections afforded you by having an entity. That's obviously true for involuntarily dissolved entities, but I thought it was also true for entities not in good standing.

Is Zaleski in AA? He's the guy who got Hansen to have good control in the first place. They need to work together again.

The problem is it's hard to find players that walk as much as he does. Sure, Votto does in MLB, but he didn't in the minors, same for Mike Trout. It's hard to tell how his BB% will be affected by making it to MLB, because you just don't see hitters as patient as he in the minors. That said, in looking at all of these patient hitters, what I have noticed is that their walk rates either maintained or increased at the MLB level. Does that mean I think Collins is going to average a walk a game? Of course not, but it does mean that chopping nearly 10% off of his MiLB walk rate seems misguided at best. Also, the research I've done makes me believe even more that a .240/.360/.460 slashline is a reasonable expectation of him, with career years (with some favorable luck) looking something like .270/.410/.550 because the juiced ball and playing his home games at GRF will probably help his power numbers. ETA: Fangraphs gives Collins the same raw power grade they gave Judge as a prospect.

Collins has not walked in less than 18.5% of his PAs in a season at any point in his pro career. His first partial season in A+, he was at 21.6%, last year between A+ and AA, he was at 18.5%, and this year in AA he's at 21.1%. That's not "just one good season", that's an established trend of ~20% BB rates in MiLB. Obviously MLB pitching is better, so shaving 5-6% off and assuming a 15% BB rate makes sense, but 8-12% is quite a bit of shaving off the numbers.

1) If it were up to the fans, the White Sox would still have Fernando Tatis Jr. 2) This is why I think packaging Soria and Fry is the best trade option the team has.

If they put Stephens on the same rotation day as Shields, that seems to indicate to me that he would be next man up in the event of a Shields trade.

For reference, your slashline assumes a walk rate in the 10-12% range. I don't think it's realistic to expect his walk rate to fall ~10-12% from AA to MLB. Even if we take your numbers, with the exception of bumping the OBP by 20 points to .350 to reflect a more realistic walk rate projection, those are still respectable numbers.

If Collins can hit in the neighborhood of .250, he should be an .800 OPS player, maybe better with the juiced ball. A realistic slash line for him could be .240/.360/.460, that's an .820 OPS, probably a wRC+ in the 120s as well.

Oh, good, he's going to send a bunch of kids to die so he can get rid of the Russia story after using that to get rid of the kids in cages story. Kids are still in cages and Trump and his cronies are still actively conspiring with Russia to defraud the United States. Profit motive dictates that the media chase the latest sensationalist headline, however, so here we are with these things happening and no one covering them.

Isn't the donation from Encounters, Limited illegal since it technically doesn't exist?

His track record is no shorter than Kahnle's, and he's the main reason the Sox got Rutherford. I could see another package deal like that that nets the team a high quality guy and some lottery tickets. Maybe even more considering what the Indians paid for Hand.

That international money must've been very important to them.

Jace doesn't? His K/9 is pretty ridiculous if he has mediocre stuff. He's also a lefty with 6 years of control instead of a righty with 4. Rutherford was also considered top 50 at the time, the rankings that dropped him came out right after. Also Davidson was brought up in a 2 for 3 proposed swap by a Braves beat writer that included Fried, who is ranked higher than Allard. Also Davidson comes with much more control than Frazier did. Another thing I'd be willing to change is send Sanchez instead of Davidson as long as Riley was coming back. I just assumed the Braves would be more interested in Davidson since their beat writer suggested him as part of a trade.

I'd trade him in a package for a package that included Allard and Riley. The Braves would just have to believe that he's that guy, but there's precedent for it (Yankees with Kahnle last year).

I didn't know Waters was valued so highly. Would Kyle Muller make it more realistic?

Fry isn't valuable? I thought he'd have a Kahnle type thing going on, except with 6 years of control beyond this year. He was the piece that put Riley in the deal for me

My crazy idea that people are going to say is too much: RP Joakim Soria, RP Jace Fry, SP James Shields, 1B/3B Matt Davidson to Braves for SP Kolby Allard, 3B Austin Riley, C William Contreras, LHP Kyle Muller, INF Braulio Vazquez I'll wait for the "That's way to much"s and the "They'll never give up that"s. I really want the top three, the other two are interesting looking fliers.