WestEddy

Then who were the Cubs offering?

Both Remillard and Sosa were in the mix for the 2B job, I assume, and they didn't step up.

Yeah, but a random SP doesn't have the pedigree of a first rounder who, if fixed, is a major trade piece. It's like walking out of a casino, and declaring that you'd rather have your $100 back. Getz took a gamble on Soroka and Lopez, and still has a couple of bullpen arms to dream on.

Then you would be paying Bummer $7m, AND another 2B $4 million and another starting pitcher $3 million. What Getz did, basically, was trade $7 million in payroll for 4 40-man spots. In that, they got 2 utility infielders, 2 bullpen arms, and a lotto ticket on Soroka snapping back.

Only if you believe that Alex Spies is more promising than Jared Shuster, or Popeye Rodriguez has more prospect than Braden Shewmake.

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Then I wouldn't imagine they were offering much more beyond a Shuster/Gowens/Shewmake package.

If Fedde calms down and becomes what Clevinger was last year - just a steady guy who can take the ball every 5th day over the last 2 months, paired with a reliever, he could get a guy. He's not Giolito, and there's no myth of Lynn. But if Kenyan Middleton could get Juan Carela, and if Kendall Graveman could bring back Korey Lee, a serviceable Erick Fedde could at least bring back a live bat who could field his position.

Now Bryan Ramos is the person the opposing pitcher pitches around.

Maybe the White Sox are waiting for Jared Walsh to get a hit at AAA so they can put him on the 40-man and bring him up.

TA7 was still seeing stars, so he couldn't really break away and take another punch to his glass jaw.

That's a 4-game hitting streak, and a 6 game on-base streak for Lopes.

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Swinging on the 3-0. I wonder if TLR's going to give him a phone call tonight.

If I drop the amount of qualifying PAs down to 10, Sheets is 11th in the game in fWAR. His defense there is still terrible. He's probably really just a DH. https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders/major-league?lg=all&season=2024&season1=2024&ind=0&type=8&month=36&sortcol=21&sortdir=default&pageitems=100&qual=10&pagenum=1

His RF defense wipes out any offensive contributions. If he were parked at 1B/DH, he probably would have accumulated more.

Did Clev grab his arm, or something? That would be a good development.

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Well, nobody has to worry about Nastrini and Cannon getting their long looks this season.

Just stop. I'm not spending my day reading through all this guy's posts just so I can respond to your pedantic harassment. I've made my point.

At this point, you're just a constant stream of bibbledy-babble, I don't even fault you for not being able to keep track of what you posted.

4/20 Sox @ Phillies 5:05PM CT WhiteSox2023 replied to DoUEvenShift's topic in 2024 Season in Review I didn’t? I said that the acquisitions of DeJong, Fedde, Maldonado, Lopez, Soroka, Flexen, and most of the bullpen acquisitions were all garbage. Nice of you to try to change history but it’s too late. Everyone knew these acquisitions sucked at the time but you. You tried to hype these bums up. Do you really want me to go back and prove it out with your recorded posts via the search engine? You said these things and everyone here knows it. Why do...

People like that guaranteed that "Fedde would suck" because he had success in Korea. I'm starting to think that account is a sock puppet for one of the mods to troll.

Sosa is not the equal of Witt.