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QUOTE (cjgalloway @ Jan 26, 2018 -> 03:10 PM)
After Thames amazing April/May last year, he was pretty much worthless. I find it hard to believe he is on their opening day roster.

 

He was still a 104 wrc+ player in the second half so not worthless but not a player you don't upgrade from.

 

edit: in the second half, first half he was v good.

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QUOTE (knightni @ Jan 26, 2018 -> 10:09 PM)
I'd be interested in Broxton for Fulmer, but Fulmer may not be enough.

 

I mean if he comes cheap enough sure but he was a 0.7 WAR player last year. He's 27 and his pedigree has been much greater then the results.

 

We also have CF already who deserve play. Tilson looked good prior to getting injured. Garcia has been playing well.

 

I think he makes sense to a team who has no internal options like say the SFG but for me I'd rather see what we already have with the guys on the roster.

 

 

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No thanks on Broxton. I think the biggest takeaway from what Stearns is doing is that strikeouts haven’t been valued appropriately. Dude just traded three prospects with swing & miss concerns for a high contact hitter. He just signed another high contact hitter to allow him to potentially trade two other ones with swing & miss issues in Santana & Phillips. In isolation a K may be no different than any other out, but once you add context in and group a bunch of these players together it can start impacting your offensive production. Still too early to say what our offensive core will look like when it comes to strikeouts, but I’d rather not add a guy who strikes out 30% of the time this early in the process.

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QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Jan 27, 2018 -> 06:56 AM)
No thanks on Broxton. I think the biggest takeaway from what Stearns is doing is that strikeouts haven’t been valued appropriately. Dude just traded three prospects with swing & miss concerns for a high contact hitter. He just signed another high contact hitter to allow him to potentially trade two other ones with swing & miss issues in Santana & Phillips. In isolation a K may be no different than any other out, but once you add context in and group a bunch of these players together it can start impacting your offensive production. Still too early to say what our offensive core will look like when it comes to strikeouts, but I’d rather not add a guy who strikes out 30% of the time this early in the process.

 

This is what Astros did last year.

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QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jan 27, 2018 -> 08:12 AM)
Just how bad is having the worst farm system in baseball, really? Or how beneficial to be Top 3?

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/2214341...baseball-really

 

Year 4 and Year 5 for the White Sox would be 2021 and 2022

 

 

Just glanced over the article, but the numbers might be skewed a bit if the teams with the bad farms were big spenders.

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