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The White Sox are currently 4th in all of MLB with 129 hrs with Mune, the Babe Ruth of Japan, missing 35 games.

Peters and Braden aren't bad candidates to round out your 9.

As someone with a bad lower back, playing any defense with a bad back is tough. I've never had issues swinging even with the bad lower back, but defense and base running is always what made it flare up. I think there's less lateral movement needed at 3B so it might be a bit easier on the back than SS, where you have to cover more ground and maybe extend your back a bit more to reach for grounders. I can definitely see Colson's recent bad defensive play on mostly routine grounders as some kind of pain tolerance issue. Where reaching down might bother him and it's causing him to lose focus on routine plays he usually makes.

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I have been wondering that as well. I don't think 3B will be any better on one's back than SS.

In my opinion, if anything baseball related is causing the back issue it's his violent swing. Not playing defense.

Worst case scenario he can DH although he would lose much of his value but still there's always room somewhere for someone who is likely to hit over 30 bombs a year from the left side and can also provide probably league average OBP (that's where he was at before this recent slide when it dipped).

Yeah, I think “theater” is a great way to put it. I feel like these conversions actually did happen over the past week, but perhaps they recreated them for the ESPN access. Not trying to knock the Sox for it, but it’s kind of funny. Either way, I enjoyed the article because the thoughts/opinions expressed by our staff were still real.

I find it fascinating that people think you can play 3rd base with a bad back but not SS. Last I checked, you can't play baseball with a bad back.

It's amazing they have hit on all these controlled young position players. At some point things are gonna get crowded as Mune and Vargas get closer to FA and Bonemer and Cholowsky are up. There's also the Antonacci/Meidroth issue at 2B. With Colson likely moving to 3B due to back issues at some point, there's a crunch where at some point they will need to sell high on someone because there's only so many spots when Bonemer/Cholowsky comes up. Beni coming off the books after next year will help but there still will be a crunch. With regard to Peters while there almost certainly will be offensive regression, he provides so much defensive value (OAA etc) there's still a good chance he is a long term 2 WAR player there even if the vast majority of it comes from D and given Getz emphasis on premium defenders up the middle even with a fall off offensively I don't think he is going anywhere especially since he will be cost controlled until he hits his early 30s so if they can get a premium defender for a long time without having to worry about an extension, I don't think they are gonna mess with that and it was nice to see them get another potential premium defensive CF in the draft, who even though the bat is a big project, we have many years to wait for that now. They really have done a great job with the trades/drafting for position players and development. And if Wikelman Gonzalez becomes a key piece of the BP, they could potentially get close to 10 WAR a year from those 4 players in the BOS trade which is insane.

"They expressed Thursday night that they wanted me to be the guy, and they knew I wanted to be there, I felt like things definitely got a lot easier," Cholowsky said. Not that this isn't all theater anyway when you allow this type of "access" in a hyper-insular and competitive environment but it does make this particular detail pretty funny.

Financials have nothing to do with what I’m trying to say. Roch said the Sox told him he would be their pick on Thursday. The first paragraph of this article says the Sox weren’t fully decided as of Friday afternoon. Something doesn’t add up.

Yes it's good to see they are open and not super insular. Props to Getz. This was a great article.

If dude learns to hit the ball in the air more regularly, look out.

Dont even think Lackey can overtake my love of Bonemer but it would have been neck and neck! I might like Bonemer more than I liked Ant, but that might be pushing it!

Braden?

They didn't agree on the financials until Saturday morning. They were still unsure about the final price.

We over rated a lot of those guys and health obviously was a huge problem. Vargas is on pace to put up more WAR this season than Eloy has in his entire career. Moncada had one good season and 4 below avg ones. Robert was always hurt and when he was healthy played closer to a 2 WAR avg regular than a 6 WAR superstar. Those teams had a lot of prospect talent that never really panned out. This current Sox team just has a lot of solid players regardless of prospect status.

They did all play pretty well together when they were all on the field at the same time for like....85 games.

True that's the team he grew up rooting for.

Current core doesn't have quite as many superstar ceilings...but overall possess the higher floors across the board. That said, Vargas/Colson/Mune all have been great at various points this year. And right now it feels like the depth is tremendous everywhere but CF and across the pitching staff. Biggest "worries" positionally are Antonacci vs. Meidroth and the catching spot...at least ATM. Not exactly team killing issues. That said, Bonemer and Roch could be huge movers to push it over the top, and then there's always the Mune wild card, too.

Give him a nice 5-year extension while everyone else is cheap and under control.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/mlb/2026/07/15/mlb-labor-negotiations-mlbpa-lockout-strike-salary-cap

We tracking UDFAs anywhere?