Seems like they picked up additional roster options because they need bodies and aren't going to be spending big in free agency (with rumors that they are going to be cutting payroll).

Not very excited about the return, but they seem to want to add options for the rotation/middle IF.

Yep, Atlanta was likely going to non-tender a few of these guys so they jumped in and grabbed them.

I'm guessing Nas is/was a HUGE Bummer fan

I'm most excited about never having to see Bummer pitch again.

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Communists are just people who are terrible at capitalism.

what about Lelia ? Her and Stone would be a good pairing

Too gay (both of them)

I can't believe there are so many Sox fans lamenting the departure of Benetti. I couldn't stand that fucker.

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Communists are just people who are terrible at capitalism.

Is Frank C dead or something? He hated Bummer. I thought for sure he would be here delivering a parting shot.

i hope you aren't referring to me, i could care less. He sucks.
bring Hawk back.

Hes not dead. He's busy.

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http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

Getting things lined up for the Cubs convention. Give the man some room!

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

the Sox one is cancelled right ?

yeah for 5 years minimum

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Braves rejects for Bummer. Minus last year Bummer's era is 3.03. Watch the Braves straighten him out.

Simple couldn't understand that Bummer was very difficult for lefthanders to hit. Forcing him into situations where he had to face often multiple righties (3 better minimum) was the death knell for his effectiveness.

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Communists are just people who are terrible at capitalism.

I really don't think there are. I think this is a case of the media loving him and a small group who took to the internet with their grievance.

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

Well we know that Katz isn’t straightening him out so there was no need to keep him. And any hope that Katz will fix Soroka is just idiotic. He has ruined more pitchers than he will ever “fix”.

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Mulli is Howard Stern in his prime compared to Haugh.

Hard to expect him to do so. Not sure how he still has a job here.

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yeah have to think the Braves are not letting a SP go that has any upside left. But strange things happen at times and guys find a lucky horsehoe

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

No, they had it last summer.

Which one is Simple Frank and which one is Good dolphin?

Nas is ripped.

I think that Bummer left himself way too open on his delivery and got hit because of it. The fact that he was never straightened out is an indictment on both his pitching coaches and himself. Pitchers need to try and hide the ball through their delivery no matter how good their stuff is. He had very good natural stuff but it was easy to spot what was coming and to some extent where it would finish.

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

I know where it finished. 36 BB, 5 HBP, and 6 WP.

That is true. A lot of hitting requires the hitter to spot the ball out of the pitcher's hand. If a pitcher can hide the ball and its release point, his brain then the hitter can't calculate where the ball will be when it reaches him. Its a false notion that hitters need to "follow the ball" to the plate. You can't do it and still hit the ball. Instead hitting is about reading the ball and swinging for a collision between the ball and the bat or not swinging at all because of the pitch not being a strike.

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

Bummer allowed the first hitter he faced to reach base 34% of the time in 2023.
In 2022, he allowed 47% of the first hitters he faced to reach base.
He's had a 1.52 WHIP over the last two seasons.

If Jorr thinks this is good or somehow worth the $20 million he is still owed, he might as well do the world a favor and ride his bike into oncoming traffic.




The fact that Getz was able to acquire 5 players for one shit reliever is awesome. If if only one guy halfway works out, this is a great trade for the Sox. Cannot be argued otherwise.

Bummer is also a guy who pitches to contact so a better defensive team like the Braves is likely to benefit him.

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Paul DeJong, come on down... you're the next shitty MI on The White Sox Price is Right!!

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

savage.

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http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014