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Right, but that doesn't really answer my question. If teams never confirm when a player is placed on waivers, and only confirm it when that player is formally removed from the roster, then why would Merkin feel the need to add that sentence with the word "although" in front of it?

Then what was the point of Merkin adding this to his article?... "Yolmer Sanchez was placed on outright waivers by the White Sox, as first reported Monday by The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal, although the team has not made any announcement or confirmed the news."

Check out my post above yours. The Sox actually haven't officially announced the Yolmer news, so that could be the answer right there. They might be waiting for something else to be official.

I just read the full Merkin article, and I may have answered my own question. He says the team has not made any announcement or confirmed the Yolmer news yet. Perhaps they are waiting for the Wheeler deal (or some other deal) to get finalized before confirming the Yolmer news.

It certainly seems that way, but why wouldn't the Sox just wait until a deal is official before pulling the trigger on the Yolmer thing?

That's how I read it.

Yeah, he does. He's been posting off and on over the past month. @raBBit, you like our chances at Wheeler?

Is this Bilek's way of saying this was a plant with the White Sox as the target audience?

So you’re gonna move your potential superstar CF to RF because there doesn’t happen to be a perfect RF candidate during this one specific offseason? I’d rather they just sign you to play RF instead of moving Robert off of CF.

If a tweet is twittered in a Twitter forest and no one is around to see it, did it make a tweet?

Because some people were frustrated with that trade and thought we could have gotten more. Then they take their frustrations out on Rutherford when he isn't performing. I personally liked the trade, but I really think that is why Rutherford is an easy target for people. Let's say Basabe was the second main piece of the Sale trade and we didn't get Kopech. People would be furious with Basabe right now and he'd be getting similar treatment that Rutherford is.

Good call. I don't expect it to reach Corbin territory either. If it does, who is going to pay him that? Minnesota? I think the Angels are hoping for one of the big two.

True. And his injury history doesn't scare me as much when we have Kopech and eventually Rodon coming back during the year.

We always say that players will sign with whichever team pays him the most. Do most players just want the most guaranteed dollar amount? For example, if all other things are equal, would Wheeler prefer a 5 year $100M contract or a 6 year $108M contract?

Yeah, we're on the same page. The good news is that there are a lot of options. Like we've said before, all of the options have flaws, but we will be able to upgrade the RF position one way or another. That's what makes landing Wheeler so important. If we miss on him, I'm not going to feel good about our rotation.

Yeah, you might be right. I would be completely find with either guy.

You make some good points, and I agree with most of it. But if you were a betting man, who would you say has a higher wRC+ next year between the two guys?

Haha, gotcha.

Exactly. I was on your side when I made that post. My question was for the people who say he sucks defensively.

Have people actually watched Castellanos play defense? Or do they just look at the defensive stats and say, "He sucks!"

With my breakdown, I have Collins and McCann both getting somewhere between 80 and 100 games. I think if one of them gets hot early (like McCann last year), that guy will start to take at bats away from other one.

I posted this in the Collins thread, but it kind of got lost in the shuffle. What do you guys think about this as a breakdown, assuming we don't sign anybody for DH? Games played at that position are in parenthesis. Catcher: Grandal (90), McCann (50), Collins (22) DH: Collins (60), Abreu (38), Grandal (32), McCann (32) 1B: Abreu (120), Grandal (30), Collins (12)

Did you get the idea for this thread from this tweet?

I certainly wouldn’t mind Castellanos. I liked him more when I thought he could move to DH after a year, but Abreu’s deal makes that difficult. And I actually don’t hate his defense as much as others. He’s only played RF for two years, and he showed improvement in the second year. He just seems like a guy who will continue to improve defensively.

Let’s say each of our five outfield prospects (Micker, Gonzalez, Basabe, Walker, Rutherford) has only a 15% chance to be a solid regular. That means there is a 56% chance that at least one of of them will be a solid regular. If you think each one has a 20% chance of panning out, that means there’s a 74% chance at least one makes it. Point being, I think it’s likely that at least one of them could be our long term solution. I would go after a one year stop gap option and then reevaluate the prospects. We’ll have a better idea next offseason, and if it seems like all five will flop, then we can sign somebody next year.