SoxBlanco

Why can’t Rojas just be a guy who plays everywhere to give guys a day or two off per week? Then nobody’s “starting spot” is really being blocked, and Rojas will get plenty of playing time.

For those who had to look up the names like me: Tyler Gilbert is the guy who threw a no hitter in his first major league start a few years ago. He’s 31 years old. Bullpen piece. Aaron Combs was our 8th round pick in the most recent draft. Also a bullpen guy.

Now we get to look forward to Austin Slater out there. I didn’t realize he was so bad defensively.

I’m firmly in the “over” camp. Just seems really hard to win less than 50 games two years in a row. You would need to be very very bad and a bit unlucky. We know they are very very bad, so I’m banking on a few more things going their way this year.

Best of luck to you. It would be pretty funny if they got to 49 wins with one game left.

Alright, I pulled the trigger.

Coward.

You have to pick one! Or split the difference, assuming he will play half the season with the Sox.

That’s what makes it so fun. It’s tough to predict. Man up and make a prediction! Don’t worry about being wrong. I’ve been wrong with predictions more times than I can count.

Just for fun, I think everyone should predict Robert’s fWAR for the upcoming season. No ban bets. No monetary bets. Just a fun prediction so that we can see who is closest. Obviously everyone is welcome to predict, but I’m curious to hear from @JUSTgottaBELIEVE, @Chicago White Sox, @Balta1701, @southsider2k5, and @Look at Ray Ray Run. It’s definitely a tough thing to predict, given his injury history, inconsistency, and the unknown of which team or teams he will play for, but that’s what will make it fun. Who wants to go first?

They only won 10 of the 33 games that pitcher started. By comparison, they won 9 games that Cannon started, and he only started 23 games. My point is that as good as Crochet was last year, he didn’t have much impact on wins and losses.

We were all told by a possibly senile man that every team would win 60 and lose 60 during a season. It’s what you do with the other 42 that count. Well, we could lose all of those 42, as well as 10 of the guaranteed 60 wins and still hit the over. I think I might put a little something on the over.

But we just acquired a top 8 bat in all of baseball with Meidroth. @Chicago White Sox

I can see both sides of this argument. It’s impossible to know who is right because we don’t know how these players would have faired if drafted by teams who develop players properly. Do you think guys like Collins, Fulmer, and Madrigal would have succeeded if they were drafted somewhere else?

I’m not saying they exist either. I simply pointed out that @Bob Sacamano misread the original post he quoted.

That’s literally not what @Bob Sacamano said. He said nobody is disappointed with the return, which is true. I haven’t seen anybody who is really disappointed with the return. The original post in question said there might be people who are disappointed that this trade is actually good. Those people don’t think the trade is bad. They are disappointed that the trade is good.

I think you misread his post. He’s saying some people are disappointed that the return is good, because some people just love being negative and now they don’t have something to complain about.

Assuming guys like Colson and Quero don’t crack the opening day roster, what will our AAA lineup look like to start the year? EDIT: And what level does B. Montgomery start at?

6 errors in 20 games is pretty brutal for first base. I’d be curious to see the nature of those errors. Not many throws being made unless you are trying to turn a DP or trying to flip to a pitcher. Is he just booting that many grounders?

I do believe teams would give up a strong package at the deadline if Robert has an all-star level first half.

Why are people so worried about getting nothing for Robert if he gets injured or sucks again? A weak return now is not much different than getting nothing for him. Perhaps I should I word it a different way. The difference between a weak return and no return is so much smaller than the difference between a weak return and the return we’d get if he performs well for the first few months of 2025. You absolutely take that gamble and hope for the best. If he sucks or gets injured, I won’t lose any sleep over it. But if we trade him now for a weak return and he explodes on a different team, that’s a nightmare scenario.

I don’t disagree. There’s no need to celebrate this move, and there’s no need to complain about it.

But would Slater agree to a minor league deal this early in the offseason? With the White Sox? No chance. The sad and unfortunate state of our team right now is if we like a player like this as a bench piece, we might have to strike this early.

Love this post because of the honesty. I might not agree with you all the time (although I agree more than I disagree), but I enjoy reading your posts because they are intelligent and well thought-out. We could use more posters like you.

When you’re watching on TV and the team can’t score runs, they will always look dead. I actually did think the energy picked up a little bit when Grady arrived. But then it looked like it faded again because they were terrible.