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The only thing that makes ANY sense is moving Lux back to SS...which still only makes sense to the White Sox. That still gives you Montgomery/Ramos at third, Vargas/Sosa at 2B and not sure what you do with Baldwin. Probably put him at Charlotte and wait for his health and bat to return. In theory, Ramos at 1B/DH saves $6 million on Vaughn, and with a Benintendi/Crochet trade...you put Vargas in LF How that's ANY better than 2024???, well...it's definitely NOT. Because Lux isn't a SS, but neither is Amaya, because he simply can't hit his way out of a wet paper bag.

Fine for the Braves, but that's the BEST, ultimate example of success. Out of 30 teams. 2% growth isn't even keeping up with inflation. Certainly going to see a lot more than 2% growth in the average MLB contract for players in arbitration and FA in terms of a year on year comparison.

At $110 a year that's only $4.4m in revenue. Very, very long way away from replacing the cash flow the RSN deals provide. Fangraphs in 2020 estimated that the Padres made $46m from their RSN deal (not accounting for the Padres 20% ownership stake). They'd need 800,000+ subscribers to make back the RSN money at the current price point, which would be like 25% of the metro population (or they'd have to set the price point at $95 a month which consumers obviously wouldn't tolerate). What's truly crazy is that the Padres are STILL #1 in all of MLB considering SD is one of the smallest media markets for a professional sports team in the entire country. But still only a drop in the bucket compared to the $46 million they were previously receiving through their RSN deal.

Hostetler said he would have taken Collins at 1-1, lol.

So they barely improved with one of the best built-in markets in the US and coming off the 2023 season where they looked like the best team in baseball with Acuna Riley Strider all of the way...

Why? He's already in arbitration...because they can't afford a FA shortstop? To play second? Then there's no place to play Sosa, unless he's going to third and therefore blocking Montgomery and Ramos. He's definitely not a SS. Just like LA decided Grandal wasn't a catcher before we spent almost $70 million to determine that for ourselves.

Two years…

Marketing value of non T30 really grasping for straws.

Cleveland or Milwaukee...

Probably will be eliminated completely by AI when Musk buys the Sox and reinvents bureaucracy in one fell swoop.

He's worth more than T30 because he went to a local university. We can argue that, I guess.

$24 million salary plus the $5 million buyout to be precise...

Good luck getting $60-75 million for ANYONE out of JR...he is heading in the direction of selling. There's just no way the political winds shift in his favor with such a diminished, almost crippled, franchise.

2016 lol.

Braves=too good, roster and payroll crunches White Sox=too bad, needed bad players who were excess baggage on Braves on Sox major league roster to cover for even worse in minors that clearly weren't ready (except Romy Gonzalez apparently)

JR won't give an extension to a pitcher with one TJ in his history who throws in the upper 90s....might as well wish for Jason Benetti to return to the Sox under new ownership at some Indeterminate point in the future.

If they don't get a great offer...every start is one step closer to getting nothing back in return if he gets hurt again. That's the talking time bomb that can't explode while the ball is in Getz's court.

Now if we could only have even 50% of the Orioles' young hitting talent...

https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/10/31/chris-holt-leaves-role-as-orioles-pitching-director-forrest-herrmann-promoted/ Forrest Herrmann pitched collegiately at two schools. As a freshman he pitched at Southwestern Illinois College, splitting time between the bullpen and the rotation. He then pitched at the University of Evansville from 2013-2016, appearing in 27 games out of the bullpen. Herrmann earned a bachelor's degree in business administration and management. After college Herrmann worked at Premier Pitching Performance from 2016-2018. The Seattle Mariners hired him in 2019 to be one of their pitching strategists. The mission of the strategists was to do everything from analyzing technical and bio-mechanical data to help further develop players at all levels of the Mariners' organization and to use that information to discover unique traits to target in players from outside the organization. The skills he acquired in these roles appealed to the Cincinnati Reds and they hired Herrmann in 2020 to serve as the pitching coach of the Billings Mustangs. Unfortunately, COVID-19 interfered with this plan as the minor league season was cancelled. In 2021 Herrmann was appointed pitching coach for the Daytona Tortugas. Herrmann moved to the Baltimore Orioles' organization as pitching coach of the Aberdeen IronBirds in 2022 and Bowie Baysox in 2023. After the latter season he worked as a pitching coach for the Mesa Solar Sox in the Arizona Fall League. The Orioles named Herrmann their Minor League Lower-Level Pitching Coordinator in 2024. https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Forrest_Herrmann

Cue Eloy "Hi, mom!" GIF. Jimenez headed back to the Southside to be fixed up.

If we acquired all five of those Braves' guys just ASSUMING THEIR EXISTING CONTRACTS (or any combination)...it would have been TERRIBLE, just from a cost/fWAR perspective. The only thing JR did was saved himself the money remaining on Bummer's contract. Yay....winning. Then we turned around and wasted all those savings on terrible FA's...other than Fedde. Then we managed to screw up the positive asset we had in Fedde, even.

If the White Sox had a decent farm system at the upper levels (who was responsible for that???)...they wouldn't have needed to take the Braves' oveepriced mostly garbage, especially Lopez and Shewmake.

His main asset on the baseball field was speed/quickness on the basepaths…didn’t use his frame/leverage to hit for any power.

Then they better not keep Vaughn or Sheets because neither one of those guys came close to putting up Burger's numbers of homers RBIs or OPS. He finished almost 75 ops points ahead of all the hitters who ended the season with the Sox. https://www.fangraphs.com/players/jake-burger/22275/stats?position=3B 1.4 fWAR in 137 games...and wasn't healthy the first 6 weeks playing through an oblique...gives you much closer to a 2 than a 0 when projected over 162. And still much more cost effective than Jimenez or Vaughn. It's one of any reasons the Sox have gone from 12th to 30th in fWAR in the last 2-3 years. If you trade Kopech Fedde Burger for Eder Vargas and two limited tools middle infielders...you tend to get worse.