You're right. Your "eye test" and your fact that Lopez has pitched 100 games certainly point to you as the next incarnation of Bill James. I'm sure they will both be perennial Cy Young candidates.

I didn't want to point it out earlier but I never said pitched in 100 games.

You don't have to be Bill James to recognize the trade was not a wash.

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You're right. You just need an eye test. I've been convinced.

Not my eyes. Take a cursory look at opinion pieces on the trade and they will say the same thing. But maybe you have heightened knowledge of the situation.

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I thought this was interesting:

http://www.chicagonow.com/future-sox/20 ... ing-about/

You're right. You've convinced me. The eye test is all you need. Why is Fangraphs still in business?

good recap of what I said

your turn to get the last word

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You apparently need the last word. Have at it. You have seniority.

Thanks for this, never heard of him before.

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No worries. I heard about him a couple weeks ago. This is some good stuff.

Well, they have their #1. Now sign him to a long term deal and fill in around him

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Mac and Parkins were talking to one of the writers yesterday and he was glowing about Kopech. Said a pitching coach down there got to him and convinced him that "pitching" at 96-97 was better than just throwing at 100. Supposedly it is working really well. 11 Ks last time out.

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Actually that was two starts ago, he had another great one since with 9 strike outs.

Bring him up!

OK. You twisted my arm. They have two #1 and a few others who will also be there in about a year

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If he throws good today he has to make his next start with the big club. There would be no reason to hold him back any longer.

He will replace Shields once he is traded.

That would make sense.

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Shields has Cub written all over him.

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And Eloy will be up when Avi's traded.

Rodon has looked better than I've ever seen him. I think at worst he's an average major league starter. Hopefully he can maintain this run and develop into something better than that.

Not after last night.

He needs to be up ASAP. I don't think it has anything to do with Avi. One of them can DH.

If he doesn't have injury issues, he is an ACE IMO.

He needs more than good health to be an ace. He needs to throw his slider and his upper 90's fast ball for strikes consistently. If he can do that, he's Chris Sale, if he can't he's Javier Vazquez.

There was a stat, tweeted out yesterday:

This season
Fastball 43% .235 OBA
Slider 24% .067 OBA
Sinker 20% .310 OBA
Change 13% .143 OBA

Shields is still owed over $5M by the Sox (what an incredibly god awful contract that was). They would have to eat most of that to move him. I would applaud them if they do it but unfortunately i don’t see it happening.

I agree with you on that. Shields is DONE as a pitcher and trotting him out every 4-5 days is a waste of a game in my view.

I watched that game last night on the Angels channel out here. It was painful to watch and listen to(the Angels have always had the shittiest announcers imaginable). Why Renteria didn't lift this guy after the 4th inning was stupid. Shields I believe had something wrong with his elbow or somewhere in his arm and was losing feeling in his fingers. He was constantly shaking his right hand like his fingers were numb.

I'll also say that I lost a lot of respect for Pujols for his standing and watching the homer he hit and then stealing 3rd base while Shields was obviously suffering on the mound. I wanted Shields to drill the asshole or have the next pitcher drill him when he came up again. I hate Mike Souscia(sp?) anyway. He always does the most chickenshit things as a manager.

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If Rodon is your ace that is a bad group of starting pitchers.

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When Rodon is 1) healthy and B) has innings under his belt, an ace. He was an ace under those caveats in 2016, 2017, and 2018.

Of course now I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. His shoulder.

That's a real bad take. Rodon will never have the career Lester has had, but I'd take him over Lester for their next 60 starts.

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