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For me it looks like there’s a consensus top 3 (Leiter, Lawler, Rocker), so the question is who are you looking at at #4. Somebody might go off book, but picking right if they don’t is where I trust Chaim & team’s evaluations.

I wonder how this tracks with length of game… can’t check now, but it really just feels like a lot of the games are done in 3 hours or so. I guess depressing offense will do that…

Duplicitous.

I'm against using faux stencil fonts, but because I've been using stencils in artwork and have noticed a general consolidation in how they get made; there used to be lots of individual manufacturers, but now everybody carries the same thing (go look at your local home depot or hardware store)...

Since it’s not mentioned in this thread, I think it’s worth adding that the pool of teams they could choose from was limited to teams that are away before the AS break, of which the Sox are not.

That's from earlier in the thread/ last year, right? Castig mentioned on today's broadcast that the Sox changed his delivery to be a bit more over the top. He's still similar to Sale, but not quite so exact as he was last year. The radio team were arguing pretty hard to keep him up & in the...

Got an extra $16M, but with $50M deferred. It looks like Lindor was willing to pay $ I’m order to have the value of his contract reported as higher than Tatis.

Under current rules the CBT calculation is done based on AAV (Average Annual Value); neither salaries for individual years or deferrals matter, just the total contract and playing years.

Glad to see he was signed, just sad that the window the Sox need him for doesn’t align with this contract.

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Hi old one was also called up and in. Guess we can't expect Jason Parks to be on this one, but still worth a listen... Edit: is there a new "Up & In", or just KG on Fangraphs?

I think it's much more that they can see what happened with Mookie and see the value to locking him up while they're trying to rebuild the fan base. If the deal doesn't work out they probably figure they're better off going the Arenado route... the downside is much less palatable if his deal...

I could see that being a factor, but not at the expense of getting worse talent back; the Sox are looking to rebuild and are actually signing OFers, so I'm not sure if the talent value of a 40 slot is a cost worth paying when the the potential DFA isn't going to be anyone we'd miss. My guess is...

I'm not familiar with Cordero, so no eye smell test opinions to put forth, but his advanced fielding numbers (FG UZR) aren't good. OTOH the sample sizes of those numbers don't look large enough to be meaningful so far, so...

Well, after his last 2 seasons (even if one of them is only a 14 game sample) it would pretty much have to be. Even a team who is very bullish on him as a change of scenery guy isn't going to empty the farm for him. I think most of Bloom's deals are going to come down to scouting assessments...