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The lack of fans in attendance (which erases not only ticket and concession revenue, but the majority of merchandise revenue and nearly a majority of corporate revenue) absolutely brutalizes the bottom line, whether or not you include parking. Every team is hurting badly, every team is afraid of not being at full strength next year, nearly every team is afraid that "normal" will never again be realized (potential for a very different and permanent set of policies on entry procedures and capacity limits for public events) and I believe that will lead to a very risk-averse offseason in terms of spending.

My criticism applies equally to your proposal.

I don't think the team is in a position to trade starting pitching for a position player anywhere on the diamond, even if that position has to otherwise be filled by "Larry" Garcia.

I don't think it's cut-and-dried these days. As more and more pitchers run into UCL issues, it seems to me that we've seen both (1) an increasing number of pitchers able to get back to 100% using platelet-rich injections and related therapies as an alternative, and (2) an increasing numbers of pitchers fail to get back to effectiveness post-Tommy John, either at all or within a short-enough time frame to avoid significantly lowering their ceilings. The cost of losing six months to waiting and finding out you need TJS anyway seems like a significant cost to us in the short-term, but when you compare it to the risks of the procedure and the built-in costs of loss of physical-prime development time that comes with the rehab, and try to put yourself in the shoes of the person who is taking those risks -- all of a sudden six months can seem like a reasonable or even barely significant price to pay for more information/certainty.

I love Abreu and understand his aversion to the DH, but the right thing for the team in the short and long term is to agree to a 50% job share. Everyone has got to make adjustments in their game as they age (including learning to be comfortable with different routines), and the sooner he learns to do it, the longer his career can be.

I do

After seeing how Sandy Alomar managed their elimination game the other night, I am way off the Alomar train.

No

Tomoyuki Sugano finally bullies the Yomiuri Giants into posting him, on the backs of an undefeated Sawamura Award season and a Japan Series championship. His gaudy numbers make people compare him to Masahiro Tanaka. Scouts of teams that do well in Japan know that he is, in fact, NOT Masahiro Tanaka, and they let other teams bid him up instead. The White Sox, who are are always eager to pay medium money for what the fans perceive to big a superstar, and who never think twice when no one around them seems to be seeing the same thing as they do, end up getting him. And he ends up being a solid #3 command and control guy, which is fine at what they paid. If he learns that he won't get away with high breaking balls in the States.

Utter dogshit performance all around the diamond.

f baseball

Been playing every day for like 6 weeks

Yolmer is gonna get the 7th at this rate.

lol @ literally every ball in play going to Laureano. Hope they don't mic our guys up, haha

Had the same thought when the ball landed. Canha got it in quick

He would have been toast. Relay began the moment he pivoted.

yes

Wait wat

This team can score 5+ runs easily, and they are too young to get precious about the moment, which is good. But Keuchel needs to gtfo right now.

Sometimes her analysis is really poignant, actually -- like with her talking about Giolito's transformation yesterday. You can tell when she doesn't actually know anything about the player she's talking about when she starts to resort to hyperbole -- like how Leury Garcia "doesn't need timing to be succesful" and how Bassit just threw "the best tailing change-up I've ever seen".

lmao at what Mendoza is saying right now.

Tough play; shoulda made it.

Great stop by TA

You know what, greg? Touché

Even those of us who were in support of this extension (myself included) did not see this type of year coming. Even Jerry Reinsdorf did not see this type of year coming.