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I won't say for certain, but I figure Cease is temporary.

Man how awesome would it be if giolito was going game 2. When was the last time the Sox had two interesting pitchers start a double header?

84? Does whoever's getting cut have his number already?

Can't say I blame them

Burdi's further issues were apparently not totally arm related.

Gordon Beckham has 140 at-bats this year. Lordy.

I fear it's indicative of how they view him.

Idk Nova's brand of suck is fine to me. He seems to default to 4 runs over 6 innings, which is bad, but it's watchable enough. God this rotation sucks.

Aquiring Jose Iglesias doesn't give you the same roster flexibility that a Yolbert Sanchez does though fwiw.

It’s going to be Cease and some mish mosh of the other guys.

They're going to spend money on pitching. Just probably won't put all their eggs in one basket. I would not be surprised to not hear their name at all in connection to Cole

It's not that I don't care about 2026, it's that I don't want to punt 2020 chasing it because it's pretty clear to me that they didn't have to punt 2019. And I fully acknowledge there's no way he comes up this year. I'm also operating under the assumption the White Sox would have determined he can come up now, and are holding him down. They very well could be keeping him down for actual developmental reasons.

They were 13th in runs scored that year which was actually below league average. It's in fact an extremely easy case to make, you're just being willfully ignorant.

Jake Burger was the result of a team that still had Chris Sale, Jose Quintana and Adam Eaton on it. Alex Faedo is like the only guy picked after Burger that is worth anything at all.

Whose to say they didn’t determine none of the other bigger bonus guys were worth signing so the used it on Tolbert? We won’t know if it was a failure for like 10 years.

Nothing will ever top some dude very audibly yelling JOHN COUGAR MELLONHEAD at Brett Gardener on TV. It still makes me giggle. https://mobile.twitter.com/backaftathis/status/1027032949252927490?lang=en

They might not even have their eye on cole. They’ve always tried(and always failed) to add big position player contracts. Thats not the case with pitchers. They seem completely averse to the idea. Seems to be the philosophy to not even entertain the idea with pitchers.

Bauers on record saying he will only sign one year deals. I wouldn't put anything past that dude.

Dude nobody hates Abreu (okay one person hates Abreu), some of us are just cautious of using long-term resources on him.

Yeah I corrected myself

They already have him for 2026. Were talking about 2027, a year which, unless they become a talent factory, will very likely not be in a championship window. They have a chance to be really good in 2020, if calling Robert up now helps that cause, I do it every time. Edit: never mind my math was off, but I stick by that being a tough sell to assume it's going to be a good year.

It 100% the same situation, but it's worth discussing whether that's the right approach or not because you're likely not going to be able to strong arm Robert into an extension.

Not necessarily, I bet you could find one or two or three 20 at-bat samples last year or 2017 that were similarly terrible.

And I don't see how a few extra at-bats at AAA is going to make him suddenly not over matched. He's almost certainly going to struggle some out the gate no matter when he comes up. I'd rather get that out of the way now, and have an entire off season to attack the weaknesses the majors exposes that never will show their face in the minors. It's entirely possible that they see some adjustment they still need to see him make, that's fine, but if not all were doing is stalling development for some nebulous idea of sustained success.

I think it's wrong to make this about 21 vs 28 when it's really whats best for 22-24 vs 28. Not going to pretend that I know what's best.