WestEddy

I just listened last night. Thanks for posting it. Love how he talks up Coffey and Schoenle. The insider dish on why the Burger trade happened was fun, too.

No. 60 wins would be a major accomplishment. Their win total doesn't really matter as long as they get out of the lower 40's. I don't really get the hand-wringing over "losing the fanbase". If they have a team threatening to break .500 in the next couple years, Schultz/Hagen Smith/Grant Taylor look dominant, any of C. Monty/B. Monty/Teel/Zavala/Wolkow are raking - the fans will return.

That's the guy who thinks the White Sox only have 3 pitching prospects in the minors. It doesn't take much effort to see that the 2025 White Sox could be a replacement level team and win 50 games. But they won't let themselves say it.

It's a 2 hour difference from 9 hours to 11 between Chicago and the West coast. It's not like he's flying home on an off day.

Elko just seems like a guy who will hit even though he takes that slow walk back to the dugout about a third of his ML PAs.

I'm sure it's because Roki thought Dombrowski was mean to Chris Getz in Crochet trade negotiations.

I'll agree that Clevenger's only value would have been in trade. But we already saw that nobody wanted to pick him off waivers just for the price of his contract in 23. His signing in 24 was a pure desperation move to get any innings from a competent pitcher, and he failed at that. I'd love to never hear his name or see his ferret face again.

Sorry. I actually think he will rake and become our 20 HR 1st baseman for a couple of seasons.

Me. I'm constantly too sunny side up, so I say Luis Robert will put up around 3.5 fWAR for all of 2025.

Vargas for sure. I also think this is the year Sosa clicks.

That's the one I heard. That might have been here.

The Padres have never won a World Series, so I'll say the Padres.

old friend alert

Because the player from 6 years ago isn't showing up to spring training. I do believe it's helpful to look back a few years to establish "he's hit in the bigs, before. I do think Robert played injured last year, and is probably closer to the 5 bWAR player than Bellinger is to the 8.9 bWAR player from 2019. I kind of see both sides. I wouldn't be pissed if they traded Robert before spring training, but I really think they should try to hold out for a star. The Cubs dumped Bellinger, and the Yankees were there to take advantage. It's a crazy market.

It's funny watching somebody like you get angry over what is clearly a joke. You must ruin entire evenings over a children's knock knock joke.

Prominently displays his name...... Without a pronunciation guide.

Plus the vig if they did their job setting the line right.

I'm Polish, and my name is mispronounced pretty much every single time I'm out in public. I'm all for easy names being mispronounced at every opportunity. Why is this even a story?

I've only really paid attention to the actual win total for this convo. Twitter "influencers" are talking about "free money" and all. To me, free money would be betting $10 for a chance to win $1k. This is stupid. Why would anybody on Earth take the chance of losing $1k just to prove they're right about a win total? And the fact that they slap caps on anybody who is actually good at this makes it practically criminal. Sports betting is a tax on the stupid.

I don't think Robert will ever "get close" to Belliinger's 2019 8.6 bWAR. I don't think Robert's currently in the same wilderness Bellinger was during 21-22. (I hope.)

Meidroth is an IF (2B, mostly) who walks, has great contact rates, but not a lot of power. Wikelman Gonzalez can't seem to consistently throw strikes over long periods. Only Gonzalez is on the 40-man, so he could be looking at a bullpen spot. Fangraphs breakdown of the trade: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/kyle-teel-headlines-solid-return-package-for-white-sox-in-garrett-crochet-trade/

Yes. Unlucky.

Mad? 2-3 teams are tanking and try to be bad every season. Yet, it's been 20 years since the last time somebody even approached this record. It is rare.

Ridiculous. Again, a random, replacement level team should win about 48 games. I can't stop you from believing that the 2025 team will win even less than 41 games, but that team was so incredibly unlucky. Do you think the 2024 White Sox were the worst, by far, assembly of players in the modern history of the game? Yet they set the record for losses. It's not a stretch to say that even with some regression, this is a 48 win team.

If you're talking about 2 wins at this point, yes he is. I would call the starting rotation "improved" from last opening day. Offense and regression from the catching position and IF will probably add a few wins. And there's people here saying they'll lose 121 again, or worse.