WestEddy

And most of those players are guys you screamed that you want getting at bats. Meidroth, Quero, Elko, Vargas, Baldwin, Sosa, Taylor. I'm sure Chris Getz would just say, "You're welcome".

I did call the 2024 opening day bullpen lockdown once or twice. Yes I did. I will not deny that. You did want Michael A. Taylor, and screamed about it all last year. Now you finally have him on your team. I'm sure Chris Getz would just say, "You're welcome". And while we're on silly things we've said, have you accepted that Luke Keaschal was never on the table for Fedde? Or are you still living out that fantasy?

Well, you can get MLB.tv, and watch Canario ride the bench for Pittsburgh, then strike out when the team needs a hit. Then you could turn on the Sox game and see the whole starting lineup hit better than Canario. Best of both worlds. I'm sure Chris Getz would just say, "You're welcome."

Jones was AAA CF depth who offered elite defense. There's nothing to "try", or "defend". It was a fine pickup for what it was. Maybe Pittsburgh just fired their manager because he wasn't highlighting Canario in their new high-powered offense. LOL.

And Julks is killing it offensively, right now. About as good as Tim Elko was. It's a rebuild. If you guys are laying down on the sidewalk and crying because Gage Workman didn't get more at bats, then I don't see why Corey Julks couldn't get a month on the parent club. See here's the difference. When pressed, I said I'd be fine with Corey Julks as the weak half of a platoon. I didn't post multiple times in multiple threads every day that Julks was the answer to every question in baseball, then screaming that Getz sucked for not doing the thing I just made up that I was demanding. Canario sucks. Admit it, and move on. Seriously, you should be writing letters to Chris Getz thanking him for his wisdom in not acquiring Canario. I don't think you could take watching one of your weird, off-the-wall, designed to suck moves night after night.

Now imagine an absolutely worthless Greg Jones that you had to keep on your 26-man roster forever!! LMFAO!! That's what the Pirates have and that's what you wanted us to have to watch every night. I'm sure the Pirates are too afraid to admit a mistake to DFA Canario. At least Getz was brave enough to take the heat and move his mistakes off the 40-man.

Canario was the only "savior" on the horizon for many here for a long while. A couple still speak longingly of him, as if he's still the key to a winning season. I think that if Getz was foolish to offer any of Fletcher, Colas, DeLoach or Julks for Canario, the Pirates would jump at the opportunity to dump Canario. Weird how he's not leading the league in HRs.

Who knows? Maybe in his first batting cage session, Workman Face-timed his agency coaches, and they were too argumentative to get anything done. We've seen meddling agents mess up a player's development before. Besides, you're making fun of the White Sox for moving on too quickly, inferring that they can't coach the players they have. Why do you want them to take on a bigger problem and throw hundreds of at bats at it?

Then it's a good thing they didn't pick up Canario to take on 120 strikeouts and lose even worse than they're already doing. Who's the next piece of garbage you want the White Sox to start for the next 120 games while you scream he was the worst pickup in history? LOL.

If that's the case, then a Rule 5 pick who has strike out issues and gets hurt making errors certainly wasn't going to turn the franchise around. Good thing they figured him out quick and moved on. I sure would hate for Workman to be taking Trajekt machine time away from the next minor leaguer that everybody's going to start screaming needs to be up on the majors now.

I don't see that as a "problem". The heart of the problem is that they don't have scores of prospects at the higher levels to fill the rolls. So they're piecing together a team from the waiver wire, cheap free agents and low level trades. The fact that it's seen as a problem has people screaming for slugs like Canario to come in and strike out every at bat so they can scream about what a horribly scouted move Getz made. It's a rebuild. This is what a rebuild looks like.

There's a bunch yelling for the Sox to pick up waiver dudes, try them, and if they can't cut it, DFA them. I agree that from what they saw, it may have looked like too big a jump from AA to the bigs, and Elko kind of forced their hand. Maybe they saw an opportunity to sneak him through waivers, and knew Detroit wasn't interested. Who knows?

Sure, they can roster "anyone". They can't roster "everyone". Everybody gets a wild hair and declares they could DFA 10 different players to roster the one guy they want. It's fanciful.

Amaya plays above average MLB defense at shortstop. They're not rostering him for his bat.

I thought that a player can only be outrighted once, then he can elect free agency. Maybe he was released the first time, and re-signed as a minor league FA.

I think the way it works is that the Cubs paid $100k to draft Workman. That money's gone. They put him on waivers, the Sox claimed him for whatever waivers cost. If he clears waivers, the Tigers get to buy him back for $50k. If they decline, the Sox keep him and assign him to the minors.

I think SoxMachine wrote about how in over his head Workman was. AA 3B trying to play SS in the bigs didn't work. It would have been tough to roster him all season, and that would have most probably been at the cost of Amaya, the best pure SS on the 26-man.

Maton loves his Trajekt machine in Charlotte...

He came with big defensive hype. He started one game, made a big error, hurt himself in the process, and Will-V's like, "Uh-uh. Gimme dat .240 OPS!" I would have taken Workman, too. Amaya's ceiling is also his floor. His future in the game is a rhombus.

Well, that's that. Maybe he slips through waivers, and the Tigers don't want to buy him back, but Amaya lives to fight another day.

Thaiss is the key to contending, we are told.

It's good they lost the lead then got it back, then got the save. I don't know if they start down the road of self-doubt after a while, but maybe they can start to build a little confidence that they do have some bats in the lineup, and they do have some arms in the pen to battle with.

Ouchy knee. They're giving him and Vargas (ouchy calf) a couple days off around the off day tomorrow to get them right.

Too clever by half. Why not just leave Leasure in while he's seemingly doing well?

Third largest home crowd of the season.