caulfield12 Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 On 8/3/2024 at 9:27 AM, Johno said: I’m being totally serious here, does MLB jump in and decide the White Sox will get the first pick in the 2025 draft just because they are so bad? I know the best slot they can get in the draft is the 10th pick, but this just seems criminal considering how bad this entire organization is. “Best interests of baseball” clause. White Sox more or less handing Royals and Twins their WC spots right now. That won’t go over well in AL East and West owners’ boxes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold's Leg Lift Posted August 20 Share Posted August 20 Damn this dude made Ethan Holliday look silly. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold's Leg Lift Posted August 20 Share Posted August 20 Fauske has a real pretty swing. He's not looking real good behind the plate but he's athletic enough to find a defensive home somewhere and the bat will play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold's Leg Lift Posted August 20 Share Posted August 20 Bauer is a fascinating follow. The pure arm talent is extraordinary. He's 91-95 w/life from as clean and an easy arm action as it gets. He also has a fantastic pitchers frame. Lean, athletic and ultra-projectable but he was so bad during the spring he was unusable at the end of the season. It's been a little better this summer but still not good. He sprayed the zone again in this outing. He lacks pitchability and his mechanics are a mess that results in 20 command w/wild misses. It will be interesting to see if a team buys the outstanding ball of clay and hopes to develop him into a more consistent strike thrower or if they will let him go to college and hope he figures it out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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CaliSoxFanViaSWside Posted October 9 Share Posted October 9 On 8/13/2024 at 5:11 PM, caulfield12 said: “Best interests of baseball” clause. White Sox more or less handing Royals and Twins their WC spots right now. That won’t go over well in AL East and West owners’ boxes. Highly doubt it. It was a stupid rule to begin with. The highest pick the Sox got during the rebuild was 3rd I think and that was Vaughn.Its not like their draft picks helped them at all like some of the Astros picks did. But the CBA didnt want teams celebrating mediocrity with hoardes of high picks as if picking talent was as easy as the football and basketball drafts. I understand creating more interest with a lottery but bad teams are punished enough with years and years of bad baseball without collectively bargaining in more embarassment. Can you imagine in any other sport where a team as bad as the Sox has a league rule preventing them from having a top 10 pick just because they are so bad multiple years in a row ? It's asinine. Imagine if there was some disaster like a plane crash and a team being punished like that. What's happened to the Sox franchise is kind of like that. It takes a lot of bad luck and bad ownership to trash a franchise so thoroughly after the first rebuild had to deal with multiple years of a worldwide disease and labor strife as if their incompetence needed any help to be worse than it already was. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Balta1701 Posted October 9 Share Posted October 9 4 hours ago, CaliSoxFanViaSWside said: Can you imagine in any other sport where a team as bad as the Sox has a league rule preventing them from having a top 10 pick just because they are so bad multiple years in a row ? It's asinine. I believe in some of the Briths soccer leagues they just demote the entire franchise to the minor leagues for being that bad. In general, yes, I think punishment for this level of failure to perform is a good thing for the league. It is a bad thing for the league if teams refuse to spend money and just sit around as parasites, losing 90+ games every season while their owner rakes in money. This doesn't build the league and it doesn't build fanbases. This behavior shouldn't be rewarded. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaliSoxFanViaSWside Posted October 10 Share Posted October 10 (edited) 10 hours ago, Balta1701 said: I believe in some of the Briths soccer leagues they just demote the entire franchise to the minor leagues for being that bad. In general, yes, I think punishment for this level of failure to perform is a good thing for the league. It is a bad thing for the league if teams refuse to spend money and just sit around as parasites, losing 90+ games every season while their owner rakes in money. This doesn't build the league and it doesn't build fanbases. This behavior shouldn't be rewarded. Rewarded ? Baseball created this mess with less than 2 handfuls of owners willing to bid on the top free agents and creating a system among the owners and players of the ultra rich and where ever everyone else falls after that. The Orioles finally did some good drafting and, development to get to the top but so far they lack a way to finish it off. The Astros decided to spend a bit and not only finished it off but cheated their way to the top and stayed there for quite a while. They weren't punished until after they won a World Series. Tampa Bay despite great effort to work far below the payrolls of just about every team and still succeed cannot reward their fans with a Word Series win so far or keep their good players . While spending great deals of money doesn't guarantee rings on a consistent basis it usually keeps you in the playoffs. All of a sudden after years of the worse teams getting top draft picks now MLB decides they were wrong all along and it was a bad thing for rebuilding teams to win once in a while. It only took a rebuild for the Sox to make the playoffs 2 years in a row for the 1st time in franchise history before they sunk lower than any other non expansion team in baseball history with years of losing ahead and they need the league to spank them as if their own foibles aren't bad enough or picking higher guarantees championships when we know it doesnt. Incompetence and stagnation is it's own punishment.For ove For over 125 years the Sox didn't need MLBs help to continue being losers. But sure pour salt into the gaping wound . Fucking sadists . Edited October 10 by CaliSoxFanViaSWside 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quin Posted October 10 Share Posted October 10 While the NBA doesn't expressly forbid teams from winning the lottery, the Pistons have been horrid and kept getting the #5 pick in a league where superstar picks matter much more than MLB. And it's also a league where you can't spend infinite money (many teams have to hire guys dedicated to navigating the cap) and doesn't have nearly as robust of a farm system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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caulfield12 Posted October 11 Share Posted October 11 (edited) On 10/10/2024 at 9:47 AM, CaliSoxFanViaSWside said: Rewarded ? Baseball created this mess with less than 2 handfuls of owners willing to bid on the top free agents and creating a system among the owners and players of the ultra rich and where ever everyone else falls after that. The Orioles finally did some good drafting and, development to get to the top but so far they lack a way to finish it off. The Astros decided to spend a bit and not only finished it off but cheated their way to the top and stayed there for quite a while. They weren't punished until after they won a World Series. Tampa Bay despite great effort to work far below the payrolls of just about every team and still succeed cannot reward their fans with a Word Series win so far or keep their good players . While spending great deals of money doesn't guarantee rings on a consistent basis it usually keeps you in the playoffs. All of a sudden after years of the worse teams getting top draft picks now MLB decides they were wrong all along and it was a bad thing for rebuilding teams to win once in a while. It only took a rebuild for the Sox to make the playoffs 2 years in a row for the 1st time in franchise history before they sunk lower than any other non expansion team in baseball history with years of losing ahead and they need the league to spank them as if their own foibles aren't bad enough or picking higher guarantees championships when we know it doesnt. Incompetence and stagnation is it's own punishment.For ove For over 125 years the Sox didn't need MLBs help to continue being losers. But sure pour salt into the gaping wound . Fucking sadists . Brewers also come to mind here. You’re going to have LAD or the Padres, who were up over $250 million two seasons ago and have had to cut like mad and were still Top Ten spenders. NYM, who started the 2024 right there with the Dodgers and were “accidentally” competing. NYY. Then the AL Central…50% there in the postseason due to the anomalous White Sox ineptitude, or it would have been teams like Boston or Seattle. And the NL Central has been the worst of the six divisions in terms of recent playoff performances. https://boardroom.tv/mlb-payrolls-2023-highest-lowest/#:~:text=The Highest %26 Lowest MLB Team Payrolls of,2023 Washington Nationals%3A -31.09% Cincinnati Reds%3A -29.08% Mets Yankees Padres Phillies Dodgers Blue Jays…rebuild fail barring Bichette Vladdy Springer miracle next year Angels … White Sox 2 Braves…almost as successful as Houston, attempted to overcome losses of Acuna Strider Riley etc. Rangers…World Series winners Astros…8 consecutive playoff appearances Edited October 11 by caulfield12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bobbydanks Posted October 12 Share Posted October 12 On 10/9/2024 at 8:46 AM, Harold's Leg Lift said: lol wtf that strike zone is larger than the midget batting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Boopa1219 Posted October 14 Author Share Posted October 14 I really hope this guy falls to 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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