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  1. It doesn't need either one of them.
    4 points
  2. After years of witnessing horrid defense, wanting Burger to start at third over Yoán because of his bat makes my head hurt. Anything Jake would provide on offense would be entirely negated by his inability to play a moderately passable third base. For reference, Burger played 326 innings at third last year, which was roughly 38% of the number of innings Moncada covered (859.2). Burger in that time frame was a -5 DRS, -7 OAA, and -2.4 DRP (Moncada had a 2 DRS, 4 OAA, and a 8.3 DRP). If you couldn't tell, Jake's numbers are quite abysmal at the hot corner. Hell, Jake has even played more first than third in spring games. With that being said, Moncada HAS to improve his offense from last year (which I believe it will improve). Nobody will disagree or argue with that statement. But at this moment in time, this whole premise of benching or moving Yoán off third for Jake is wild stuff.
    4 points
  3. It sure does seem like he is pushing to cut ties with Leury behind the scenes.
    3 points
  4. Burgcata sounds like the sequel to Gymkata that takes place at a Wendy's.
    2 points
  5. The White Sox DFA'd Keuchel last year when he was an expensive batting practice pitcher, DFA'd Danks when he was clearly an expensive sunk cost, and sent Keppinger packing with multiple years left. Let's at least acknowledge that the Sox are moderately competent (at times) to know when it's time to move on, regardless of how much money is owed. A Leury DFA wouldn't be uncharted waters that they've never swam in before, which is an entirely separate and sad rabbit hole to go down.
    2 points
  6. Looks like a "make your case for a bench spot" lineup...
    2 points
  7. 2 points
  8. Sox up 2 - 0. Moncada oppo HR. Hope yall can enjoy it haters of style, music videos, and dreamy eyes. 🙃
    2 points
  9. I will go out on a limb and opine that the posters champing for Burger at 3rd and or moving Moncada off 3rd do so for other than rational baseball reasons. Both the eye test and the stats say that Moncada is quite good defensively, and that Burger isn’t just bad, he is abysmal at the hot corner. We also don’t know if Burger’s bat or body hold up over a whole season at 3rd. So the idea espoused by and argued for vehemently by a select few is not based in anything substantive or provable in the data. It is both farcical and fantastical. If Moncada is not the answer at 3rd, Jake Burger sure as hell isn’t either.
    2 points
  10. I don't really think its fair to say "Vaughn is always hurt". The Sox stuck a lifelong 1B in the OF everyday. That is really hard on the body, especially one that isn't super long and lean like a lot of OFs. I think we'll see AV be much healthier this year, though I certainly understand the concern with a back issue already presenting itself. Andrew Vaughn has the ability to be an elite offensive player. Gavin Sheets has the chance to be a useful platoon bat. One will be a big leaguer for a very long time, the other has a good chance to be out of the big leagues before his rookie contract is even up. AV needs to play damn near everyday.
    2 points
  11. Let’s speak this into existence already
    1 point
  12. Leury may have "earned" himself another contract from the Sox with his play in 2021 (a career year for him essentially), but what he was given (3/15.5M) is/was a definite overpay and shouldn't have happened. Both can be true in this case. Why couldn't Leury be toast after his injuries though? He's a dude on the wrong side of 30 now after all. Leury has only been above league average with the bat one time in ten major league seasons, so it's not as if that bar was set all that high to begin with. But I also don't really understand the meaning of this, however I do think Romy could offer Leury levels of output at the major league level for league minimum if that's what you're asking. Out produced Moncada how and in what ways? A quick glance would indicate that Moncada has been a better hitter (wRC+) than Leury in all of his major league seasons with the lone exception of 2020, where Leury only played in 16 games and Moncada appeared to be quite afflicited by COVID. Moncada wRC+ 2017-2022: 105 (54 games/231 PA), 97 (149 games/650 PA), 139 (132 games/559 PA), 94 (52 games/231 PA), 120 (144 games/616 PA), 76 (104 games/433 PA) Leury wRC+ 2017-2022: 98 (87 games/326 PA), 86 (82 games/275 PA), 82 (140 games/618 PA), 106 (16 games/63 PA), 97 (126 games/474 PA), 39 (97 games/315 PA) For his career, Leury is an even 0 in OAA when combined across all positions played dating back to 2016, so he seems to offer generally average defense with a below average bat whereas Moncada offers above average defense at third (he was pretty terrible at second) and avg/to slightly above avg offense at the plate. Leury's sprint speed ranking has also been declining since 2019 (2020 season notwithstanding), speed doesn't tend to stick with you as you get older, and it appears it may be escaping Leury as well. It seems as if Alberto has played his way onto the team, Pedro seems to dig him.
    1 point
  13. Longish inning, maybe pushing a pitch count. He'll be back for the 3rd, I assume.
    1 point
  14. I do too. Just a gut feeling. What it means for who fills the other spots, that I can’t tell.
    1 point
  15. Concerned about everyone staying healthy tbh. If we do, we are the best team in the division. If not...will be a long, disappointing season.
    1 point
  16. Bradfield is heating up. 🔥
    1 point
  17. Leury’s time on Southside should come to a end very soon. Hahn was foolish giving him 3 yrs for no reason.
    1 point
  18. For sure. It feels more likely than ever he’s wearing a different uni this season.
    1 point
  19. Don’t all the candidates to backup second also play short though? This really doesn’t answer anything in my mind
    1 point
  20. March 25, 2021 – Injuries can happen at any time, but needless injuries, in spring training to boot, can take the heart right out of a club, the fanbase and completely change the fortunes of a season. On this day the White Sox announced that Eloy Jimenez, one of the best young sluggers in baseball would be lost for most of the season, because of a ruptured left pectoral tendon. He suffered the injury when getting hung up on the top of the fence trying to catch a ball hit by the A’s Sean Murphy the day before, a ball that wasn’t catchable. Sox broadcaster Steve Stone was particularly critical of Jimenez even attempting to try to catch a meaningless home run in a spring training game and putting himself at risk. Since getting called up in 2019, Jimenez had been injured multiple times when dealing with trying to play left field. His injury was more common in football and most likely happened on impact when his left arm hit the top of the fence. After an intensive rehab lasting four months, he returned to the team on July 26 but injury issues continued to dog him.
    1 point
  21. He's really quick out of the shoot w/excellent footwork and accuracy. Have I mentioned he's starting to grow on me.
    1 point
  22. Go cheap on a contract and take a flyer. You can never have too much talent at offensive line.
    1 point
  23. I will always think Greg Walker changing GB hitting style really was the beginning of the end.
    1 point
  24. Opening Day needs to get here ASAP. Some of these hot takes are just too looney tunes.
    1 point
  25. Why didn't he do it with the bases loaded?!
    1 point
  26. Ten MLB Players Poised To Break Out In 2023 https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/ten-mlb-players-poised-to-break-out-in-2023/
    1 point
  27. Another 5 win season is incoming for Yoan this year. I can feel it.
    1 point
  28. More than anything, I just want this board to admit that the goal posts just never stop moving for Moncada compared to other players. Many want Eloy to stop playing his natural position at all so he can stay healthy, take a zero or negative number with defense, but Moncada can play the best defense of anyone on the team but it’s not enough because…well, I’m not sure why. Many are willing to gloss over TA’s lack of OBA, injury history, defensive lapses, off the field issues while holding Moncada to an impossible standard of “looking like he isn’t wincing” or not doing music videos or whatever. I bring up in this thread that Moncada has actually played 82% of his games since 2018 and that’s not really enough because…. we can cherry pick a list of starters who have played 90%+? or he’s “soft” because we don’t like his facial expressions or amount of the time he’s spent on the ground after a collision, or that his effort isn’t completely there for some people when he’s in the game despite his career numbers? where are the goalposts, folks? He had a bad year. 104 games coming off an injury and long COVID is not a sample size to descredit the preceding 530 games where he has proven himself, 25 year olds who play at this level don’t suddenly go downhill at that age. I predict a big year, personally. but what are the goalposts? 6 WAR or he’s a bust? How many players in baseball do 6 WAR a year? Like it or not, remember it or not, Beckham was very highly touted, did have tremendous support in the organization and fanbase and I recall him having a very long leash. Moncada had long COVID, one bad year, and people want him to be a bench player. It’s unbelievable frankly.
    1 point
  29. 1 point
  30. Probably just focusing on a return helps Liam cope better with the whole treatment for cancer. Whenever he comes back or even is he doesn't, I just hope he is healthy in himself.
    1 point
  31. 1 point
  32. Hendriks said he thought he could be back in May, Lance scoffed at that in the podcast interview and threw June out there. We know Liam is super competitive, but i think it would still make sense to place him on the 60.
    1 point
  33. These guys aren’t playing 162. 125-130 from Eloy especially would a huge step in the right direction.
    1 point
  34. All of this could force a decision on Leury. Is he part of their best roster?
    1 point
  35. THANK YOU Very well said and really nails it. Yes Moncada needs to be better offensively. We know it is in there somewhere. If his WBC performance is an indicator of anything, I think he has a monster year. Will it be enough for some? Probably not, but honestly who cares any more. Some dudes are just gonna hate because of the music video, or his rumored party life off the field. Or that he doesn’t put on enough of a tough guy face when dealing with pain on the field. None of that s%*# is really relevant. If Mondada performs like we all know he is capable, his play will drown out the childish noise. Or at least that is my hope.
    0 points
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