wrathofhahn

I mean the whitesox love flushing money on washed vets.

If we get a top 50 for him I would be thrilled. What is more likely is we get a fringy top 100 prospect and an interesting prospect that is well outside their top ten.

Meh, for me the main reason to bring back someone like Tim Anderson would be to pump and dump him at the deadline. Four weeks isn't enough to accumulate any value so why bother. I don't really care if he is brought back and honestly why would he want to come back and play for this shithole of a team? Let him latch onto a contender who has an injury or a spot open and let it go

Sure whatever. People just want an excuse to hate on TLR. The dude is a baseball lifer. He played six seasons in the majors. Fifteen in the minors. In addition to two seasons in minor league baseball, he oversaw thirty five MLB seasons. He led the Diamondbacks as CEO for five years. He worked for the Angels for three years as a senior advisor. He has won three world series and four manager of the year awards. He is already in the HOF. He clearly was too old to manage when he got here and physically couldn't do it anymore, but after he was reassigned, nothing changed; in fact, this team took a step back. He wasn't the problem. Hahn, FO, and the ownership who put together the roster were. It's weird to me that knowing everything we now know including what the team looked like after he was reassigned people still blame the HOF manager with health problems instead of the incompetent boobs in our FO

If they are good then yes if they are trash then no. I would have preferred for this year to be exclusively used to try and find veterans to pump and dump at the deadline. There will be plenty of time to figure out our prospects this is going to be a long painful rebuild

We honestly should. Why burn through their service time on a lost season? I mean we arent and won't but we should.

He still has good stuff and if he puts together a season like 2021 or 2022 we would get an interesting prospect back. The way he is playing now we will get trash. If he doesn't figure it out next year that is fine nothing lost as far as I'm concerned but I'd much rather have him as our fifth starter than guys like Michael Soroka

The dodger are all in. I think they'll want someone better than that

Yes but I doubt we get anything more at this deadline then we would at next years deadline. Throw him in the rotation next year and see if he can put it back together. If he can't the offers probably won't be that much different. I'd rather hold onto him

If we trade him now when his value is at his absolute lowest we are morons of the highest order.

I'd rather keep kopech and move him back into the rotation then trade him for trash. We still have next year to dumpster drive if he doesn't put together a decent year. We should be looking for reclamation projects not trading them

TLR gets so much undeserved s%*# on this board. He deserved to be fired but was never the real problem.

If the Orioles are already thinking that far ahead they are morons. Leave him at catcher you can always move him around to 1B at the MLB level. Also even if everything goes right. He is probably three years away at least. Rutschman is a FA after 2027. Even if Rutschman is extended he is probably going to play around 95-100 games at catcher less as he continues to age. Which means you have 62-67 games for Basallo and can pencil the rest in at 1B/DH. I mean backup catcher is one of the worst performing positions in all of sports. The average catcher has around .677 ops backup catcher regularly have sub 600 ops. James McCann their current backup catcher is on pace for around 70 games with a .508 OPS. You can't tell me there isn't premium value in having a really good backup catcher particularly one with a good bat. You look at what the Blue Jays were able to do for years with Jensen and Kirk why wouldn't you want to replicate that as an O's fan. Or a whitesox fan. Why would you want some stiff playing backup catcher like Maldonado or McCann and to be clear you are not going to sign any good catchers and convince them to give up catching fulltime. That will only happen with players who have control.

Man Heyman. I have never wanted him to be more right but he is wrong on pretty much everything so him saying that about my Sox worries me.

Yeah no we are unlikely to find young talent floating the DFA waiver wire. Baggio does have a couple of things going for him. He is patient at the plate. He does have another year of control if he plays well. He is better than what we have internally. The only reason not to claim him is he makes 4M. If the Jays think noone claims him you can work out a deal maybe have them eat a bit of that contract but if they feel he'll be claimed then you sort of have to make a decision. I mean he makes essentially Lopez money and he is better so why not if he plays well he'll have a bit of value at the deadline if not then you really are not losing much other than a few million.