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Wow that’s surprising and good for the White Sox. Probably wanted to run away from the clubhouse mess!

Sounds like got halfway through that answer before he realized he wasn't supposed to tell us Abreu is a goner.

He needs to finish his own "hole filling" by reinserting his head in his rectum where it belongs.

So what shitty 33 year old bullpen arm do they spend these "savings" on?

The White Sox should take this opportunity to reset things with him. Coming back from TJS he isn’t likely to be fully effective or at full strength right away. Burn a minor league option on him and try him as a starter when he is back and able to go, it probably won’t be a full season either way. Try to see if, starting in May or June, he can get 100+ minor league innings on his arm. Giolito and Lynn are both likely free agents (expensive option on Lynn) after 2023 so having Crochet as a possible option to step into the 2024 rotation would be a godsend. I don’t believe they will actually do this, of course.

Figured this may deserve its own thread. Now go get a lefty OF plz and thank you

That would suck.

How to say nothing by saying nothing

Nah, Vaughn’s days as an outfielder are done. 1B or traded is all I’ve heard.

He must’ve really fucking hated playing for the Sox

Alright, let's go get the Judge.

Because that is what we do, instead of just signing someone to fix the hole we need, we try to trade the little assets we have for them because Jerry doesn’t want to write the big check

I’m pretty sure we were closer to $196M give or take.

Benintendi would have a connection with grifol from shared time in KC right?

I’m so done with these quacks ?

Hahn will have almost $40 million to spend again. Let's hope he doesn't f*** it up like he did last off-season.

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The extra $8mill to spend is big.

Can all Chicago teams just stop acquiring Domers!!

With Pollock gone, Conforto is well within reach I think. I just don't know how good he'll be after he shoulder surgery.

Gotcha. Opt in if you want, but you're a back up either way. If so let's hope they have an actual plan that doesn't include Eloy, Sheets, and AV in the OF every day.

For sure possible, but not even sure that convo needed to be had, think that writing was sort of on the wall. The guy has played his entire career on the West Coast. He's also made over $70,000,000 in his career counting the buyout he just got from the Sox. He was in line for 13 mil and took 5 million to get bought out, so even if he signs back with the Dodgers or D'Backs for like 6 million, he's costing himself 2 or 3 million and in the grand scheme, I can understand wanting to play where you want at age 35. BUT...there is a reason he declined an extra 8 million guaranteed dollars, and my guess is it's not just playing time, especially given he received nearly 500 PA's in 2022 and put up a 0.6 WAR..there isn't going to be a ton of OF starting jobs up for grabs for a 35 year old Pollock.

He lives in Phoenix and has a 12yr old at home. Perhaps just wants to be closer to home. Let's see where he signs.

Really hope this doesn't mean Engel is back. It really is time to move on.

It honestly seemed that way when I saw his first interview here. The fact that he straight up turned down $8 million when he probably doesn't get more than that anywhere else tells you how much he didn't like playing here.

Kind of my first thought, honestly. He's going to be 35 in December so it's not like he's in line for a huge payday...he wanted to get out for a reason, other than money.

He must've heard Pedro Grifol hates white players.

I think his second half fatigue has a lot to do with him playing out of position.

Since the debacle last season.

Go out and run a Ironman tomorrow and tell me about correlation to conditioning mattering again.

The problem is Crochet has zero innings history going all of the way back to college. Even a guy like Kopech had thrown 120 innings in the minors. Garrett has none of that. EDIT: Severino's history has him over 190 innings twice. Garrett has never been over 65 innings, even in college. You will need something like two years before he could push out to even 150 innings, assuming no real injuries.

If he is willing to pitch in the minors for a couple of years, sure. But if he wants to be in the majors, there is no real way.

Like one of the 4 young players/major league ready prospects they have and accept below par hitting, if necessary. Meanwhile, they have 1 real outfielder on the roster.

Um…good? That’s exactly what they should do at that position? Maybe tell the coaches to go work with them and help them improve?

It's to late to let him become a starter. That time has passed due to rushing him. He will just be middle relief

You’ve done this “the Sox are old” thing before and it’s misleading. The Sox core is not old, and most of it pretty young. Grandal is showing his age, sure, but dragging up the “average age” with a bunch of peripheral players doesn’t really tell a meaningful story. There’s no requirement that we ding the Sox on *every* possible metric.

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I am OK with that combo at 2B if they figure out the corner OF positions.

I’d love 2-3 dominant innings every 3 games or something like that. Sounds cool in my head

Adam Maloney = ComiskeyFootlongDog confirmed

The Sox are basically going to run the same team out there. FA signings will be marginal at best. If anything significant, which I highly doubt, will be through trades.

The best ones realize what motivates a 17 year old high school kids living with his parents is different than what motivates a 25 year old millionaire with a family to support.

I think there could be an argument had that the Dodgers need premier bullpen arms after what happened to them in the playoffs. They had nobody that was elite. All their relievers were good and that's fine for the regular season, but they collectively choked in the playoffs. Jansen or Efflin does nothing for them. They already have a handful of those types of relievers. Hendriks is a clear upgrade in the 9th inning.

Also a potentially really important hole to make. The White Sox record in 1 run games this year was really, really good. 27-16. Houston, Seattle, San Diego were a tiny bit better, Cleveland was 28-17, so effectively tied for 4th best record in 1 run games. This was the big factor that allowed them to be .500 despite having a negative run differential. At least in part, this is because the White Sox's back of the bullpen was quite reliable for much of the year. Their bullpen had crappy depth, so if a team got into the White Sox's middle relievers, they gave up a 5 spot or something like that and it didn't end as a close game. But, if they got to the 7th or 8th inning in a tight game and handed it to their top 2 or 3 relievers, they didn't give the game up very often. Take that away, have to rely on the nonexistant bullpen depth even more, could have an outsized impact on the results.

3 WAR for Lux with those numbers looks straight out of the WAR factory (Eaton is a proud graduate).

State of the White Sox

If Lux was going to start hitting for power, I think it would have happened by now. He's a fine player, but you can find ~100 wRC+ 2nd basemen with a decent glove available for practically nothing. The Sox just declined a reasonable team option for one today. I just don't really get the Lux appeal. He's fine, but I think his prospect pedigree is still affecting how a lot of people view him.

And he skipped AA and AAA.

I have never actually hated a sports team before, with the possible exception of the 86 Packers, but I truly just cannot stand the Astros . I always wish the winning team well, but this year I just feel, **** them.