Squirmin' for Yermin Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 After Thames amazing April/May last year, he was pretty much worthless. I find it hard to believe he is on their opening day roster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 QUOTE (cjgalloway @ Jan 26, 2018 -> 03:10 PM) After Thames amazing April/May last year, he was pretty much worthless. I find it hard to believe he is on their opening day roster. He was still a 104 wrc+ player in the second half so not worthless but not a player you don't upgrade from. edit: in the second half, first half he was v good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Chappas Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 Braun at 1B makes a ton of sense as he always seemed to be injured. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eminor3rd Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 They're going to work pretty hard to trade SOMEONE for a pitcher or two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knightni Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 I'd be interested in Broxton for Fulmer, but Fulmer may not be enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrathofhahn Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 QUOTE (knightni @ Jan 26, 2018 -> 10:09 PM) I'd be interested in Broxton for Fulmer, but Fulmer may not be enough. I mean if he comes cheap enough sure but he was a 0.7 WAR player last year. He's 27 and his pedigree has been much greater then the results. We also have CF already who deserve play. Tilson looked good prior to getting injured. Garcia has been playing well. I think he makes sense to a team who has no internal options like say the SFG but for me I'd rather see what we already have with the guys on the roster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenSox Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 Broxton is a K machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrathofhahn Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 QUOTE (GreenSox @ Jan 26, 2018 -> 11:04 PM) Broxton is a K machine. .323 BABIP with a .220 AVG thats pretty hard to do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago White Sox Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 No thanks on Broxton. I think the biggest takeaway from what Stearns is doing is that strikeouts haven’t been valued appropriately. Dude just traded three prospects with swing & miss concerns for a high contact hitter. He just signed another high contact hitter to allow him to potentially trade two other ones with swing & miss issues in Santana & Phillips. In isolation a K may be no different than any other out, but once you add context in and group a bunch of these players together it can start impacting your offensive production. Still too early to say what our offensive core will look like when it comes to strikeouts, but I’d rather not add a guy who strikes out 30% of the time this early in the process. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 (edited) Just how bad is having the worst farm system in baseball, really? Or how beneficial to be Top 3? http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/2214341...baseball-really Year 4 and Year 5 for the White Sox would be 2021 and 2022 Edited January 27, 2018 by caulfield12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Jan 27, 2018 -> 06:56 AM) No thanks on Broxton. I think the biggest takeaway from what Stearns is doing is that strikeouts haven’t been valued appropriately. Dude just traded three prospects with swing & miss concerns for a high contact hitter. He just signed another high contact hitter to allow him to potentially trade two other ones with swing & miss issues in Santana & Phillips. In isolation a K may be no different than any other out, but once you add context in and group a bunch of these players together it can start impacting your offensive production. Still too early to say what our offensive core will look like when it comes to strikeouts, but I’d rather not add a guy who strikes out 30% of the time this early in the process. This is what Astros did last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hi8is Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 Regarding Yelich.... Blake Rutherford has been working with him in a mentor / apprentice type of relationship. There's an article on The Athletic for those interested in reading more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
black jack Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jan 27, 2018 -> 08:12 AM) Just how bad is having the worst farm system in baseball, really? Or how beneficial to be Top 3? http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/2214341...baseball-really Year 4 and Year 5 for the White Sox would be 2021 and 2022 Just glanced over the article, but the numbers might be skewed a bit if the teams with the bad farms were big spenders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dam8610 Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 QUOTE (wrathofhahn @ Jan 27, 2018 -> 01:01 AM) .323 BABIP with a .220 AVG thats pretty hard to do Much easier when you have a 37.8% K rate as a 26 year old. That's a hard pass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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