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With the Dodgers willing to trade some of their big time prospects for middle infield or catching prospects, it will be interesting to see if Bonemer would be a potential flip for a true outfield prospect like Sirota.

I mean, Hicks never had problems hitting 100. He just doesn’t have good secondary pitches and as such his heat gets lit up. he never really has been very good, just a throw hard guy

Sending out 10 expected WAR at pre arb prices to get Chapman and Gray is stupid. We'd be on the hook for something like 30 million including the Gray buyout, and Chapman has a 15 million dollar option that I believe according to spotrac is guaranteed as long as he passes a physical at the end of the year. For taking on all that salary relative to the performance we should be giving up a couple lotto tickets and Adams, not including Carlson and Fauske.

I know everyone is saying Warriors - but I'm going to throw out Cleveland and Heat as well.

Decent chance that situation improves over the next month. Hicks hit 100 several times on Sunday. If he could keep it together (which I realize he hasn’t in ages), he’d be a huge boost. Murphy has some stuff and is effective when he doesn’t walk the world. Lately the BBs have been in check. Overall, the Sox have done a good job with depth…both in assembling it and using it. Still a couple of putative major league relievers in Charlotte (Palette, e.g.)

Unless Jerry is insisting on them picking up these contracts, that is an absurd price. I feel like as perennial sellers for the last few years, we always see the rumors about prices, and then for guys who aren't top tier guys, we always end up disappointed.

This makes me smile and like this team even more.

Fedde has been pitching well enough to earn his spot for now. I think the decision will be between him and Kay eventually. They won't eat Kay's salary but I can see using him as an opener or swing man. His metrics are really bad despite whatever smoke and mirrors he's used to get a semi respectable ERA.

Bronny gonna be the fastest cut in history

Four factoids today: June 30, 1978 – Former Sox outfielder Larry Doby was named manager replacing Bob Lemon. Doby became the second minority manager in Major League history after Frank Robinson. His tenure would be short. He was fired at the end of the season, replaced with Don Kessinger. The Sox record under him was 37-50. June 30, 1988 - After years of saying that the original Comiskey Park was outdated, Sox owners Jerry Reinsdorf and Eddie Einhorn came very close to moving the team to the Tampa Bay/St. Petersburg, Florida area. At the stroke of midnight, the Illinois General Assembly passed a bill allowing the construction of a new stadium, thus saving the Sox. Technically it was past midnight but Illinois Governor Jim Thompson actually stopped the clock in the meeting room since no bills could be passed after that time period and when the final vote was taken it was past the witching hour. But it was a close call. Minutes before House and Senate members walked into their chambers late that Thursday, leaders from both parties predicted that the 150-million-dollar Sox stadium bill would fail, leaving the Sox no choice but to leave the South Side for St. Petersburg, Florida. House Republicans left their caucuses, saying they had only five votes for the package. Their Democratic counterparts said only 50 votes could be mustered. And Senate Democrats said they had only 10 votes in favor of the deal. But a few minutes before midnight, Senate Democrats ratified the measure by gathering 30 votes. The House then passed the measure by a 60-55 vote. Meanwhile Florida baseball fans were stunned as they realized they had been used as a pawn to get a new facility by the power brokers and politicians of Chicago. The new stadium built with taxpayer money would open its doors on April 18, 1991. June 30, 2008 - White Sox outfielder Nick Swisher became only the second player in franchise history to homer from both sides of the plate, twice in the same season, when he hit two in a 9-7 win over Cleveland. Swisher did it the first time a few weeks earlier in a game against the Twins. Only Jose Valentin had ever done that before and he did it three times between 2000 and 2003. One of Swisher’s home runs was a grand slam as he drove in five runs on the night. June 30, 2015 – When Chris Sale struck out the Cardinals Jhonny Peralta in the sixth inning of a game the Sox would eventually win 2-1 in 11 innings at St. Louis; it marked the eighth consecutive start that he fanned 10 or more hitters. That tied Sale with Pedro Martinez for the longest streak in baseball history. The stretch for Sale started on May 23 against the Twins and he fanned 97 batters. Even though Sale was overpowering, the White Sox offense was so weak that his record in those eight starts was three wins, three losses and two no-decisions.

Harper was a generational prospect. I don’t think Emerson is on that level.

For the haters.

I think the club should do a bit of both - get him starter innings in July and maybe even into August and than look at where he is inning's wise and use him in the pen potentially to control things. Feels like that was always the plan - cause there are innings limits - but him getting shut down for part of the year certainly slowed it down.

Yeah, f*** no to that! One Bowden is bad enough when it comes to trade ideas, but two clearly is beyond stupid.

McDougal desperately needs innings so I'm not sure I understand the idea. Couldn't he just ramp up over the next 3 weeks and then take Fedde's rotation spot after the ASG?

Take Emerson. When Mune leaves, we’ll have the same infield configuration we have now plus a budding Bryce Harper waiting in the wings.

he will certainly be up with the big club by august. edit: already on the 40 man so yea.

His slump ended the day after your post:)

Pitching is going to improve from within. Drew thorpe, mason adams shane smith hagen and noahschultz tanner mcdougal. One bullpen guy who fascinates me is the frenchman, LaCombe. As Mr. Burns once said "Sure I'm rich, But I'd trade it all for just a little more"

While the Sox floundered JR was buying as much property around the United Center as he could. Hold onto your property if you own anything in that area. It is only going up up up.

I am going to turn the tables and ask, if you were the opposing GM, what White Sox would you want for... Sonny Gray Michael Wacha Clay Holmes (injured, may come back before the trade deadline, has a player option he probably won't take) Reid Detmers