WestEddy

You actually do. You expect every single waiver wire pickup that temporarily fills a hole to excel beyond our wildest fantasies. The guys who they didn't pick up and you railed on and on over, they all pretty much failed too. Alexander Canario, Canaan Smith-Njigba, Joey Bart's still a back-up catcher. I actually think Getz did a good job over time to collect a bunch of infielders to compete for starting jobs. Out of Vargas, Meidroth, Mead and Acuña, they actually had options for 2B and 3B. Now they have a group of ex-prospects to do the same in the OF. As far as drafting, no, they don't have a top prospect CF in the system, but we will probably see Braden Montgomery and San Antonacci taking reps in the corners this season, with guys like Bonemer and Lodise right behind them. Also, the Sox had a pitching infrastructure in place a full season before they created the ability to work with hitters adequately.

White Sox Opening Day Lineup vs Brewers 1. Chase Meidroth- 2B 2. Colson Montgomery- SS 3. Miguel Vargas- 3B 4. Andrew Benintendi- DH 5. Austin Hays- LF 6. Munetaka Murakami- 1B 7. Everson Pereira- RF 8. Edgar Quero- C 9. Luisangel Acuna- CF

Looking through and being slightly pessimistic, I'd say 13-18 coming out of April. Brewers, Jays, Orioles, @Royals, Athletics, D-backs. They catch a break with the Nats and Angels to close out the month.

OTOH, Murakami will be better than Vaughn, Hays will most probably out-produce Jankowski/Palacios, Monty won't be as bad as Amaya, any DH tandem will blow away Maton.

Korey Lee and Curtis Mead DFAed. Baldwin and Teel on 15-day IL.

Every team makes the announcement, "With the signing of [insert backup catcher here], I believe we have our World Series Championship backup catcher! Talk to me at the parade!!!" I don't know why the White Sox can't do that.

He also claimed I said that. One bottle of wine and 38 pages of my posts read, going back into January, I didn't see anywhere that I said that.

They're going to start out slow. April's schedule is kind of brutal. I'm going to go with James Fegan's 77 wins.

They should have just signed McGuire for 3/$110M, and the entire board would be ecstatic, high fiving each other over clearing that salary threshold.

Is Korey Lee the backup catcher on their next World Series Championship team? If not, why not just DFA him? Do you foresee a White Sox closing pitcher jumping into Romo's arms after the last out of a game 7 World Series victory?

David Schoenfield says right in the article he thinks the Sox will win 79. Strange.

It is funny how McGuire is entirely overpaid, and it's the dumbest waste of money evah, but when having to diminish him, he's "fighting for a near minimum wage contract". And looking at his B-R page, McGuire really hasn't been around all that much for a 31-year-old backup. He's been with two separate teams for years-long runs, which, as RayRay tells us, is the sign of an elite backup catcher. That's short-sighted and argumentative. The Sox coaching staff think McGuire's better and they don't want Lee catching for them, regardless of what anybody who isn't a major league manager thinks. That's great that you're skeptical. Your evidence is...? Nobody's calling McGuire elite. Backup catchers are fungible. They move around. In my experience, catchers who are elite, defensively, are great at managing a staff and produce offensively are starting catchers. McGuire doesn't have to be elite. However, McGuire has been on two separate teams for years-long runs which kind of tells a story of teams who like his tools and keep him rostered instead of kicking him out as soon as any other option comes along. Seby Zavala, he is not. Being skeptical tells me you think that Korey Lee could clearly be a better catcher than one who has been pursued by 4 teams in the last 3 years. I'm skeptical of that. My evidence is that people who have jobs in the industry have expressed a preference for McGuire.

I also don't believe we're starting with 4 obvious holes in the lineup like Vaughn, Amaya, Jankowski and Maton. By May 1, they had it down to just Vaughn and Palacios.

I hope you find the commenter who made that argument and you get to make a real mean face at him.

Everybody would be aghast if the argument against Trajekt machines was that "we don't need them until we plan to compete". Conversely, Venable's a component of this team that also needs to develop his game management skills, even in a non-competitive season. By giving him, Bove and the pitchers a better tool in a more experienced catcher, you're also helping in the development of your pitching staff, and your two young catchers.

Didn't he lose a bunch of money over a recording studio? I remember that being something Ozney Guillen throwing out there in the aftermath of Hurt's leaving.

Nobody seems to have told Mark Polish-UK that Lee won't be making the White Sox opening day roster. Reese Mcguire Rumors - MLB Trade Rumors

And if he trips on the top step during opening day introductions and he doesn't catch a pitch all year, that scales up to infinity. No team should pay a player more than all wealth that has ever existed in the entire history of homo sapiens.

1) and a bunch did. That's the cross-section in b). Some said that McKinven knows what he's doing, others were that this is stupid. Others are "meh". All good. You're even in b. No beef. 2) I actually would rather they kept Lee, but this is fine. The staff seems to feel McGuire's moderately better, that works for me. 3) Okay, now I'm anti. Don't know what the market was, maybe taking McGuire off the market hikes Lee's demand slightly. 4) And I'm fine with that point. I'm pushing back against saying I'm seriously misguided, or part of the front office because my sunny side's always up.

a) The team makes an innocuous move b) there is a cross-section of reactions, both positive and negative. Nothing crazy, just "why are they doing this?" to "yeah, I can see why" c) the afternoon shift clocks in, and months old resentments are dredged up over something some commenter said about an unrelated thing d) people wonder why the big reaction e) the positive people are either insulting everyone by not agreeing with month old argument, or just plain stoopid for not connecting two unrelated complaints

Well, if they got those tremendous break outs, a couple of games bounce our way, and we're at 52-56 towards the end of July, I'd call that "challenging .500". And really, being 20 games off is winning 61 games. I'm pretty confident they're not doing that again. I've been a broken record about 75+ wins this season.

So, this isn't about bad allocation of resources, this is about you being mad about the team generally being cheap during a rebuild. It's actually a good allocation of resources, even for a rebuilding team. I think most here would have high fived each other to have signed McGuire in 2024 instead of Maldonado.

Apparently, somebody here argued they can't cut Benintendi because the Sox can't afford a replacement, and we cannot move on until he gets a victory lap out of that. Maybe he could just DM that guy with a "LoL, told you so", and be done with it.