RMR
1:07 Am I missing something with these reports of the White Sox being in on Robert? Seems like they would be less likely considering they're the only of the rumored teams to have not blown their pool amount already.
Eric A Longenhagen
1:07 They're on him and have more or less set the market at this point

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/eric-lon ... il-finale/

Tucker/Moncada/Robert the 2020 rebuilt OF awakens this sleeping giant.

How are the Sox going to get Kyle Tucker? For Quintana? he's about worthless now. Sox could have had Tucker but greed got the better of them. I would also abandon all hope for Robert as well.

Thought I read that Jerry gave Hahn a blank check for this guy.

So you know how silly you sound?

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

He's toast. ERA of like 8 in his last 10 starts. The contract doesn't matter if the player isn't any good.

Realistically he's worth a fringe top 100 guy or two for a team looking to buy a bounceback. His value is already half what it was in December when Rick Hahn and Kenny decided they were only going to trade him for a Sale-like haul.

He needs to string like 6 good starts together. he's been shit like America said. I wouldn't touch him now.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

Every guy in big league history has had bad four game stretches. You guys are ridiculous. Quintana's value is no different than it was during Spring Training. Weren't you talking about how Robertson was done too? I remember when Gio Gonzales was "finished" too. Now he might be the best pitcher in baseball.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Quintana sucked at the end of last year too. figured he was just fatigued. nope. he looks worse than his numbers this year. probably wrecked his arm with that big bender he used to have.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

Beginning of the season slumps are always overblown, because they create dumb, inaccurate statistics. For example, a RP giving up a 3 run homer in the 7th inning of his first game (but then recording 3 outs), has an ERA of 27.00. People get all bent out of shape. In June, that same 3 run homer moves the guy's ERA from 3.74 to 3.91. And nobody cares.

Same goes for SP. A tough 3 or 4 game stretch results in "Player X is broken" at the beginning of the season. But in June, it's "he hit a rough patch with some tough opponents, maybe a tired arm."

Gio's not close to that.

Anyway, after the first start it was "oh, he just had one bad start". Now it's "hey, everybody has bad four game stretches." He's certainly trending downward.

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Its a comprehensive failure to self scout and anticipate Quintana's fall, not to mention the willful stupidity of demanding their (outlandish) price be met and then acting like toddlers when its not. The handling of the Quintana situation alone should call into question the desire of the front office to rebuild and even more their ability to actually pull off a rebuild correctly. Its a staggering amount of incompetence. It made no sense to hold onto him this offseason and now they are paying dearly for their stubborness. The guy isn't even helping them win games this season.

So already, less than one baseball month into the rebuild, they have cost themselves at least one highly regarded prospect by holding onto Quintana past his expiration date. When they miss out on Robert, which knowing Kenny and Jerry I very nearly assure you will happen, they'll also blow their mulligan on making up for lost ground by botching the Quintana situation.

The most frustrating part is the success of Gonzalez, Holland and Shields (plus Robertson! Who saw that coming?), provided it can be sustained another month or so, would've put them in a tremendous deadline position to stack even more talent into the system. But that really doesn't matter much when the MLB roster is too good to get a top 5 draft pick in 2018, the front office inexplicably reviles the international FA system (their lack of participation in it is bizarre) and massively important player assets are mismanaged and wasted. Once Robert signs elsewhere that will be three blue chip cornerstone pieces the Sox just let pass by for no good reason. They honestly could not be fucking this up more even if they were trying.

You must have missed him dominating in the WBC.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

If we're going off of 4 starts this season he certainly is.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Even then he isn't. Ervin Santana probably is.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

You know how I feel about Quintana. His W/L record is gonna be a game or two under .500 on a shit team and a game or two over on a good team.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

You're giving Santana too much credit for shutting down the White Sox.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

It's not just the Sox. He's off to a tremendous start.


I'm beginning to think you might just like to argue. The last four years you argued with everyone except brogue and I that Quintana sucks. Now that everyone is starting to agree Quintana's pretty damn good actually!

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

The guy's a good pitcher. He's locked in right now. But he did shut down the Sox in 2 of his 5 starts so far.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

This may actually happen. First time I've felt like the chances of signing him are substantial. Still think St Louis could easily swoop in.

I've heard they are the favorite to sign him for months now.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

When we gonna find out?

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

He has 8 starts this year and 5 Quality Starts. On top of that, he's only had one truly bad start in his last five. He isn't consistently dominating offenses in the way he has in recent years, but we're talking about a sample size of 8 at the end of the day.

This is about the Cuban not Q!

Jeff Passan wrote that Robert may have already made his decision and it'll be announced tomorrow. Popular opinion is that the White Sox and Cardinals are the two front runners.

I'll believe one day after I see him in a Sox uniform

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Yeah, Red Sox.

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According to CiberCuba White Sox ready to sign Cuban prospect Luis Robert

BUST

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Jon Greenberg of the Athletic is calling the White Sox offer "phenomenal"

Jerry has no problem with paying when he thinks it's worth it.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!