Balta1701

So he has a bad attitude, can't take criticism, and escalates situations to physical violence? That's a real bad sign for a player too, although he'd fit well with the White Sox.

My old apartment building missed stuff that burned by about 6 blocks, I don't know about all the other shops and stuff but I think I knew the grocery stores that were lost too.

The good news is that no one with the White Sox has recently had any difficulties with being moved to a more challenging position to fill an arbitrarily created big league hole. By the way man are you ok? From the fire?

This is nearly unreadable. I have no idea who most of these guys are or what teams they are on.

could be, whichever college he went to and it was in the Carolinas.

I'm sure that was part of it, and I'm sure that the White Sox rushing him upwards in 2015 to save their competitive rotation was not helpful either. Back in 2014, everyone knew he was good, but we also saw that the South Carolina coach was having him put everything out that he could. IIRC he had several >>100 pitch outings in the minors. They needed to be way easier on his arm and work with him on good habits, but that could sabotage Hahn's competitive 2015 roster.

https://www.mlbplayers.com/milb-players

As far as I could tell, Rodon was never in good enough shape and was overworked in college. That plus whatever his throwing program was led to multiple years of shoulder injuries. Then, he came back in early 2019 throwing in the low 90s but throwing mostly his slider. Whether it was still his shoulder or something else, it seems clear that this led to mechanical issues. His elbow then snapped. In 2020, they rushed him back because of reasons. He was just terrible. In 2021, he worked with Katz, got his mechanics in order, and got himself in actual good shape in the offseason. That was, aside from the fact that they burned him out in the first half, his best work.

Would this have been exploratory enough where if there was damage to his UCL it would have been obvious? (This one I don’t have a clue).

What was his injury last fall? Did he have surgery?

It's not room for Rojas I'm worried about. It's room for the guy who comes up and struggles for the first few months, then breaks out or even becomes a cheap, serviceable backup once he goes to another team after his opportunity was blocked for a veteran in Chicago. This is the ongoing problem with this signing - with Montgomery's status and performance unknown, shortstop is the position in the infield where the White Sox have the highest chance of needing a warm body. 2b and 3b have 3 different guys who could be playing there on opening day. Shortstop maybe has Baldwin? So they signed a guy who hasn't played shortstop since 2021.

I think the players asked for that when the owners mentioned a salary cap last time. You can tell how much of it happened.

Just to illustrated what this did - in 2024, the numbers you added, $250 million hard cap, would lead to a $110 million payroll cut, while $70 million would get added to payrolls to bring teams up to $100 million, so a much larger salary cut than salary increase. On top of that, you've lowered the luxury tax level from $240 million to $200 million, so you've probably put 3 more teams into the tax penalty and made the other teams much less willing to spend - $200 million would have put the 2022-2023 White Sox into the tax. For those numbers just to get things equal, you probably need the floor a lot higher and to also probably come up with a "low salary tax" - and the players aren't going to be ok with this from the start because the cap and floor cannot inflate faster than league revenues at any point. Unless you can get everyone on board and trust that revenues are being fully expressed honestly, I wouldn't go for that if I was the players either, you've clamped down on the high salary teams and barely tweaked the low salary ones.

Let me know if you can tell which year this is about Bolded my emphasis because it sounds oddly familiar.

Amed Rosario signed for $2 million. Kevin Newman signed for $2.75 million. Kyle Farmer signed for $3.25 million. Jon Berti signed for $2 million. Jose Iglesias is still available. All of them have at least some experience playing SS in the past 2 years, some of them have been as good as average defensively (Newman's numbers actually caught my eye as a "Why didn't we spend $3 million on this guy). Just like Rojas, none of them should be starters on a big league team, but all could work for a couple months alongside Meidroth as tolerable fielders. They paid at least a $250k premium for Rojas.

In one division, the NFL coaches are Reid, Harbaugh, Payton, and Carroll. The only one without a Super Bowl win is Harbaugh.

This is also part of the reason there hasn't been any movement towards an NBA style system - the players shouldn't trust the owners on their revenue numbers, and the owners aren't going to open their books for independent audits.

The other important part of this whole discussion is that the Players Union currently still exists.

Is this only for 2025 or for the future? I don’t think Quero and Teel are there in 2025 but them not being there in 2026 would feel like a development disappointment.

https://bsky.app/profile/profootballtalk.bsky.social/post/3lgepszyxyk27 Bears request interview with Rams assistant head coach and passing game defense coordinator Aubrey Pleasant.

League wide, the average 2b in 2024 had an OPS of .678, while the average 1b was at .726, so the offensive requirements of 1b are a lot higher.

Well, ask the White Sox. They had him playing 2b last year. This offseason they have since traded for a guy who also plays 2b and 3b who already spent a full year at AAA, and then signed a veteran who also plays, get this, 2b and 3b. That's on top of Vargas, who they tried to make into a 3b but who seems somewhat positionless. It sure seems like the people saying he doesn't deserve to start are the ones signing veterans at the same positions as him.

If the white Sox were looking to spend money this offseason, their goal should be guys who can be helpful to them in 2 or 3 years - either because they’re young enough to still likely be excellent then or because they’re have a nonzero chance of being tradable. Soto would have fit into the first group, but well… In the second group, I would have said guys like Walker Buehler who got 1/$21 million possibly coming back from TJS, Yusei Kikuchi who was excellent in the 2 month he spent with Houston’s pitching coaches but only got a 3 year deal because of previous inconsistency, or a 2 year deal for John Means who just had his second TJS this year are the type of moves that could generate trade value. However, Getz also loaded up on previously mediocre relievers in trades, so a big downside of any of these is also that it costs a 40 man roster spot and that means releasing someone with some promise now as well.

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-blue-jays-finally-get-a-free-agent-slugger-to-say-yes/

Santander is projected at 2.7 wins, their current RF platoon is listed as 1.9. Ha-Seong Kim is 2.6, their current SS is listed as Montgomery with a 1 WAR projection, so that is a bigger upgrade but also blocks their top prospect for multiple years. For Alonso, he's projected as a 2.3 WAR player by steamer, which is a recovery over his down 2024 season a little bit, which would be a 1 WAR upgrade over Vaughn. If you believe this team is a 65 win team right now, you've spent what, $50 million to make them a 70 win team, which is honestly about typical.