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You have said this every year since I have known you

If Acuna provides plus D in CF then yeah wRC+ of 88 is ok. You can bat him 9th. I hope they scouted him thoroughly when he was playing CF in the minors. ..

Steamer projections for three possible CF options: Acuna: 385 PA | 88 wRC+ | 1.1 fWAR | $0.9M Bader: 436 PA | 96 wRC+ | 1.3 fWAR | $10M Robert: 477 PA | 95 wRC+ | 1.6 fWAR | $20M Offensive projections aren’t too different and fWAR figures above assume Acuna is playing 2B. That being said, if Acuna can provide plus defense in CF, he’s probably around the same fWAR as the other two guys and at a fraction of the cost. I still think Robert will be over 100 wRC+ next year (and possibly by quite a bit), but there is no denying the health concerns.

They attribute it to Bregman and win total of 99.

I've said it before and i will say it again: The White Sox are coming, Tra La, Tra La!!!!

Caleb to the Da Bears, confirmed.

You got to the point in the end. It isn't a "choice" of drafting a star. Even drafting in the middle of the first round isn't a promise that you will get a starter, let alone a star, and you even put a great list of busts together to prove the point. You can go through most teams 1st round picks and find this out. If the Sox get a no bat, defensive whiz out of Billy Carlson at pick 10, they did their job, and came out ahead of expected results.

Yeah I guess breakout is just relative to each team’s situation. Braves and Orioles: Teams going back to being contenders after a down year Sox and Pirates: Most improved losers Cubs: World Series or bust I buy the Pirates way more than the Sox on pitching alone, even though their lineup still looks a little sketchy.

I'm assuming they mean World Series apperance for the Cubs as a "Breakout"? I'm hoping for 72 wins for the Sox this year...maybe 74. God if we don't add a starting pitcher it's going to be rough though.

Yep, he was part of that influx of TJ surgeries last year which sucked.

Haha, strange. They have won 83, 83, and 92 games the last three years. Breakout city!

The Cubs? A team in the playoffs last year? Lol

I saw an article on my phone yesterday that was interesting. It listed the 5 teams most likely to have a breakout season, They were Braves Orioles Pirates Sox Cubs It didn't say anything we already didn't know, but it did predict a 10 game increase in Wins. The Pirates should be interesting this year.

No teams give out info in the offseason.

True, the White Sox don't give out a lot of injury info and when they do it tends to be on the optimistic side (which lately has proven to be very wrong...)

Ending up with an average of average is fine; but the goal of a first round pick isn’t to draft an average player. One year you might draft Fulmer….later that is counter-balanced with Crochet and the math says average. I’ll take a Fulmer and Crochet over 2 Royce Claytons any day. Now we need the offsets for Collins, Burger, Madrigal, Vaughn, Gonzalez, Kelley (paid like a 1R pick) etc.

You won't until spring

He had TJS last spring. Should probably be popping up after June.

What happened to Berroa? (also part of that trade). Haven't see him in a while. Injured?

BA's breakout prospects for the White Sox. Will post the blurbs for two of the three. Aldrin Batista was also listed.

I really wish at this point the bulls would bring Thibs in. Feels like the franchise was cursed as soon as they kicked him to the curb. Donovan has been here longer than Thibs. If nothing else - let Thibs create the culture for a few years and get this thing to turn and replace him with a different coach in 4 years. Or make him the president and let him bring in a GM etc. Anything is better than the clowns we have. I’d rather bring back Gar.

He was training at Davis Martin's ranch earlier in the offseason: https://www.instagram.com/p/DRfcE0uEaC9/?img_index=1

Bonemer arriving right around the time to start considering paying Colston. 🤔

Surgery was in March 2025, so I would think he's been throwing for a little bit by now.