SoxBlanco
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3 hours ago, Dick Allen said:
The ball isn't dead with IFR is called. Runners can advance.
I know. That’s exactly what I said in my post that you quoted.
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7 hours ago, CaliSoxFanViaSWside said:
The batter was out automatically on the infield fly rule.Vaughn was called out for interference .
Yeah, I understand what was called. It just seems like a strange rule to me. If the batter is automatically out on the infield fly, then what is Vaughn really interfering with?
I guess you need that to be the rule to avoid an unrealistic scenario where a base runner shields the fielder from ever getting to the baseball on an infield fly and a different runner scores from third or something like that.
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Also, I didn’t realize the batter and the runner are called out during an interference call on an infield fly. I just had to look it up to confirm. Isn’t only one guy ruled out during a regular interference call?
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14 minutes ago, fathom said:
Yep, infielders should purposefully run into runners on every pop up now
Exactly. I might (key word “might”) be able to get behind the call if the catch happened right after the “almost” collision. But he ran around Vaughn, ran forward another ten feet, and then camped under it for a bit. It had no effect on the play. And it was an infield fly rule. It’s baffling.
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The more times I see this replay, the more I think it might be the worst call of all time.
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1 hour ago, caulfield12 said:
,220/.729
At least he's over .700, there's that.
This would be a much more informative post with a name attached to it.
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4 hours ago, Chicago White Sox said:
Having him spend the first 45 days of the season in AAA and gradually work up his innings makes much more sense to me. First, it helps protect your bullpen to open up the season. Second, it claws backs a year of control which is very important in the event he wears out in June or July.
Why do we care about protecting the bullpen? Honest question, as I might be missing something.
The way I look at it is that either...
- Our team is so bad that it won't matter if our bullpen is taxed. It's a lost season anyway, so why worry about the bullpen?
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- We do care about the bullpen, because there's always an outside chance we could compete in our division. And if that's the case, then I'd want Crochet making his starts in the big leagues to start the year.
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6 minutes ago, Jerksticks said:
There’s like 1500 innings that need to be thrown this year. If him and Kopech get over 200 of those I’d call that a major success.
Did you remember to subtract 81, since we won’t need a pitcher to cover the bottom of the ninth for any road game this year?
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Lost in the Cease drama tonight was Nastrini pitching 3 scoreless with 7 Ks. Not bad.
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2 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:
5-13 and still last by far RS/RA this spring.
-24/-26 two worst teams after Sox.
Still looking at mid -30s for that category after tonight.
Did you think I was being serious?
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We’re so back. At least 95 wins this year.
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1 hour ago, SoxAce said:
Not that I think Thompson will amount to much (I am much higher on Mena) Getz trading younger prospects for 26 year old AAAA players is getting annoying.
If the Sox are very confident that Thompson will never amount to anything, the time to trade him is right now. However, you aren’t going to get a young prospect for him straight up. So you make this trade, hope Horn pitches well enough, and then you flip him for a young prospect. It would basically be flipping Thompson for said prospect, but the only way to get there is this indirect route.
I have no idea if that’s the actual plan here, but that’s what I’m going to tell myself to feel better about the trade.
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6 hours ago, Balta1701 said:
I would suggest skepticism over anyone claiming that this is knowable for certain. Daniel Hudson was a guaranteed injury risk, the White Sox gave him up because the pitching coach said so, he pitched well for a year and then got hurt...and since then has had a 10 year career and made over $40 million as a reliever.
Totally agree. You can never know that for certain. You can feel strongly that somebody might never become a major league player, but you can never know for sure.
However, the job of the front office is to make moves like this if you feel strongly. The person I quoted says it makes zero sense to make a trade like this. I was simply pointing out that the trade DOES make sense IF you feel strongly that Mena will never amount to anything.
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1 hour ago, T R U said:
The White Sox today have exactly 1 quality starting MLB pitcher and they are trying to trade him. It makes zero sense to me to trade a potential future option for a low ceiling outfielder considering the state of the franchise.
Unless you are confident the pitcher traded will never amount to anything.
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10 minutes ago, Chicago White Sox said:
What in the f*** are you talking about? What assertion have I backed off of? I just don’t think that this group of pitching prospects represents some sort of surplus when our major league rotation has zero guys controllable beyond the 2025 season. Never once referred to them as “laughable”, but misconstruing statements appears to be par for the course with you.
But for perspective, we kicked off our previous rebuild with basically eight 50 FV and above pitching prospects. Several of these kids peaked out at 60 FV type prospects. The talent gap between that group and this one is tremendous and that previous group didn’t exactly provide us with a surplus of pitching. That all may change after potential Cease & Robert trades, but the current group is not nearly deep enough IMO to be trading from and feeling good about it.
Again, this is just my opinion. It’s weird that my opinion is so triggering for you, but I can assure you I don’t complain about trades for “engagement”…lol.
I think what he was trying to say is that you claimed Mena falls into the category of pitching prospects that we have quite a few of. So in that regard, we do have a surplus of those types of guys. So why not turn one of them into an outfielder when we have very few OF prospects?
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Pretty crazy that about half of our opening day 26-man roster has been acquired in the last three months. I like it.
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Hypothetical (unlikely, I know):
Sox are at .500 record wise and hold a 3 game lead in the horrible division in July. What do they do with Cease?
I'm not asking what YOU would do. I'm asking what you think Getz will do.
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24 minutes ago, ron883 said:
And Grizzly Adams had a beard
Grizzly Adams DID have a beard!
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Do “inside the box” ideas go in the regular Cease Trade thread and “outside the box” ideas go in this thread?
Just wondering in case I have a trade idea in the future.
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35 minutes ago, Sambuca said:
His entire Twitter timeline posted and taking 20 minutes to scroll through on my phone is obnoxious.
I saw that and thought, "This has to be caulfield."
Sure enough, it was.
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14 hours ago, Timmy U said:
Balanced. Schedule.
Are you trying to claim you don’t play against your own division more than the other AL teams?
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Luery is the utility man.
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Just now, Sports Guy said:
Has any team met Getz’s price? If a team had met his price, do you think he would have traded him?
Just out of curiosity, if Cease was a free agent this offseason, what do you think his contract would look like? Just looking for your best guess.
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53 minutes ago, Tnetennba said:
Former Royal>>
I watched plenty of Whit with the Jays last season. He's just not good anymore. Don't the MLB INFs they've already acquired check enough of those boxes?
edit - With Pedro at the helm, I doubt Whit would simply be a UTIL, he'd likely play almost every day.
Agreed. He’s not good. But I don’t think we are trying to sign good players.
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5/28 Games
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Good to hear. I was just reading about how he isn’t going to make it.