Chick Mercedes

I guess. But not sure what the point is of Gonzalez if he’s just playing first base.

He looked like Kelenic rolling over second base

The Sox FO having a “rare win” shouldn’t be connected with Hahn or Kenny. The Getz FO is basically executing a textbook dump and pump quite successfully. Sox fans were understandably suspicious and impatient. But aside from having a public hallucination over Acuna, this is a good look.

That can’t be real lol. But Big Frank was probably hitting .290

“Don’t spend money” in general never became popular

Getz was crushed for the trade return. Not fair. I had wanted to play him though, and not trade. I was wrong. Getz played it as well as possible aside from the peak value argument

Cmon guys. Cubs fans overrate their players. Not us!

LOL, we got arrogant fast 😝

At least PCA is still a national punchline atm.

Unfortunately for Sox fans, the process by which the White Sox have done evaluations has been a problem in terms of results. There’s not necessarily any problem atm with the process right now that we are aware of in terms of Roch Cholowski and the rest. Just that the what the Sox like to do historically hasn’t necessarily served us well. Anyway, Roch Cholowski plateaued right when people were asking about the size of his upside. He’s pretty dang good though, obviously. The relative upsides of the guys at the top of this draft are worth exploring as alternatives. When you’re drafting 1-1, are you trying to be safe, sure, or are you trying to reach for the most explosive outcome possible? If the Sox were trying to be safe with Smith over Griffin, this time, many of us will regret the outcome again if it repeats, and the Sox were over consecutive.

Life comes at you fast. Can’t be sitting still at an older age when these young kids are coming up showing out and expect not to be challenged for the top. Even still being the favorite.

I think people just wonder why Roch is not hitting .400 like Lackey is, as noted above, against easier pitching. As I was mentioning, hype is leaking off his previously hyped profile a number of months ago. If Roch had the same physical package as Justin Lebron does, plus Roch’s current production, the hype would likely still be intact.

A “Big three” is not really a baseball thing fyi. Carry on….

That checks out

If someone on this board doesn’t like SA, that account has yet to identify as such. Theres no need! What you have done, is to apply a thread practice used when players leave, to a player still on the team for some odd reason. Or perhaps this was lowkey a nickname appreciation thread? And in that case if it’s going away, that would be great. Not appreciation thread threadworthy though. We never had an appreciation thread for a nickname. But if this one is going away, most people will appreciate that this thread had to happen as the price we all paid.

Jesus, I was worried if they traded him for a second. Is he leaving?

Sure, indeed. Roch Cholowski has and had a degree of hype behind him that is basically unprecedented. So, that’s the disconnect within this discussion. Some air has been leaking from the hype balloon is all. Hype of this kind of magnitude is usually ceiling based. Here , we have high floor hype

Nothing like that scooter ride home brother. Good times

Allegedly we have like a half dozen guys in the minors and college

Yep, not your older brother’s Yermin Mercedes team.