JuliusO1274

The only positive I can see about the White Sox having another awful season is Renteria potentially getting fired. If we had a good team and were winning Renteria would still be an awful manager but people would ignore it. I'm not someone who uses managers at scapegoats for bad teams. Robin was hated as a manager by fans but I never as many issues with him as with Renteria.

I see people say this a lot but the Cubs already had the best record in baseball without him. They didn't need Chapman. People also seem to forget he blew 2 leads for the Cubs in their playoff run.

This lineup is much better with Rondon, Castillo, and yes even Engel. I wonder if Renteria will be smart enough to play that line up more but I doubt it.

Eloy's career in the MLB started a week ago.

You think they traded Omar for trade bait?

This team will look better if we can replace Palka with Jon Jay. What are the chances of Madrigal up by the end of the year to replace Sanchez?

He already showed he can handle AAA. The only way for him to get better now is to face major league pitching.

He should be pushing Palka to a sub role or AAA.

Omar with another home run today.

Hopefully once Eloy starts raking we can get Alonso out of the 4th spot.

We have some reactionary fans. Yolmer has been good and so has Leury(who many seem to already forgotten had an RBI double today), Palka however has always been overrated by White Sox fans. He is just a worse version of Matt Davidson.

He was really good for Washington a year or two ago.

Baseball Reference has Yolmer with a 3.5 WAR in 2017 and 2.6 WAR in 2018.

Yolmer actually has been that or better the past 2 seasons.

Yolmer has been league average or better.

Eloy hit too good in the minors to think this is an accurate representation in the way he handles major league pitching. He has never been a big strike out guy. It's just nerves. He needs to get his first hit or just put the ball in play so he can relax.

Why wouldn't they at least wait a few weeks to not waste an extra year of control?

72 wins. I think the offense has a chance to be decent but the pitching will be awful with the chance of being the worst in baseball. I wouldn't even be surprised if Rodon is bad this season as he seems to be regressing. His velocity was down last year and his K rate way down.

He has actually been significantly worse ever since his debut season. He may walk a tiny bit more now but his debut season so far has been his best. Hopefully that changes this season.

No, he didn't. Leury has always been a better player and the stats have shown that. Engel's defensive has never been good enough nor has Leurys defensive been bad enough for Engel to be considered a better player.

I'm fine with them giving Jay the role to see how he can do but I don't like Engel getting the role over Leury because has never earned it.

Just want to mention Leury's got the 4th most at bats this spring (48 ABs) and is batting .438 with 1.119 OPS.

Why did they send him to AAA if they were working on this deal. If he is going to be up opening day he should still be getting at bats in Spring Training, especially considering how rusty he looked.

White Sox would have tried to offer 250M but 450m with incentives.

Leury is a much better hitter and overall better player. Engels defensive is not good enough nor is Leurys defensive bad enough to rationalize any argument of Engel being better than Leury, Just look at Leury's WAR numbers he has put up in his limited playing time compared to Engel. It is shame both the White Sox fan base and the management have yet to realize this and we have to deal the false perception that Engel is our best option for CF.