WhiteSox2023

Robin Ventura reborn, but he now plays SS instead of 3B.

Lefty-lefty. Impressive as f***.

Dude is a beast.

Also, 8 walks and only 9 strikeouts with the Brewers. Still a small sample size but what an insane hot streak.

Jesus, this is getting ridiculous. EDIT: He is now 3-5 with a HR, 3 RBI, and a BB. His OPS on the season is now up to .698. His numbers with the Brewers are Bonds-esque.

Let Tauchman go on the bereavement list to stay with his family. “Rest” Benintendi a lot. And play Mead and Baldwin.

I guess it’s just one game. Maybe they just want to see how his arm is. I read that it’s pretty bad in his scouting reports. The Sox have a hole at 1B so I just assumed they would move him there. I wonder if they see him as a starter somewhere or just as a utility guy a la Ben Zobrist?

Yep, Getz should jump on any 24/25 year old formerly hyped OF or 1B that somehow makes it to waivers. Based on the news that the Cubs were almost close to trading for Houser, I wouldn’t be surprised if Getz was trying to get their 1B prospect Jonathon Long that was discussed a few times here.

Hopefully he finds his way to another team’s AAA roster next year.

He ended last season with a .652 OPS against lefties. He got worse with more playing time. He’ll also be 30 before next season starts. I think his time has passed and I’d rather see the playing time go to a younger outfielder.

Annoying. I wish they would just play him, but I assume Venable didn’t want such a lefty heavy assortment of outfielders? No idea, but Rojas needs to be DFA’ed yesterday.

I also hope he continues acquiring younger position players around 24 like Mead rather than 27/28 year olds. Teams aren’t giving up guys in their early 20’s but 24/25 seems to be the age teams are finally willing to give up on their once hyped prospects. With the 27/28 year old guys, time flies too fast to get them MLB at bats and properly evaluate them — see Fletcher, DeLoach, and now probably Robertson.

Rays DFA Matt Thaiss…

I assume he was called up because they wanted a righty outfielder but can we just end the Julks experiment?

Seems to me like Getz got more return for much less this trade deadline than last year. I realize the 4 players he acquired could end up being nothing but he really didn’t trade much of value — a righty platoon OF and a mediocre starter he picked up off the street for $1.35 million on May 20th that pitched out of his mind for 11 starts. Perhaps he learned from his dealings last year and improved.

I would assume since the conversation was around Robert, it’s that Getz was asking other GMs for a ridiculous return for Robert, which matches another report before the deadline that he was asking for one major leaguer and two highly rated prospects. GMs are probably frustrated with Getz because he wasn’t willing to come down on his ask and be a bit more realistic considering Robert has been mediocre to bad for 1.5 seasons and has missed a lot of time in his career due to injury. Getz was trying to sell high on a player that didn’t deserve that type of hype and return. If he was hitting like Eugenio Suárez that would be one thing, but he’s not even hitting as well as Benintendi on the season.

Jerry apparently picking up Robert’s option is a close second. 🤣

I just remember watching it live and laughing my ass off. Hawk always blowing up and yelling over his partner. Hawk basically saying Wegner should be fired or at the very least suspended and sent back to umpire school. 🤣

It was fun when they were telling us exactly what Sox players should be worth prospect-wise as if they were the experts. Then they would re-post conversations from here over at Orioles Hangout to get an even more biased reaction.

Shane Smith, and eventually maybe Martin Perez will be back. Maybe they will finally banish Clevinger forever. Also, perhaps Thor gets some run to bring da ladies to The Rate.

He may be the only one left after Harold left the building?

I do get a stiffy at the thought of all of these young guys including Mead panning out. Just not realistic unfortunately. Just keep acquiring position player castoffs in their early 20’s and maybe a couple will pan out.

Agreed, but we are still like two veterans too many aren’t we? Benintendi would have to sit more to see all the young guys. Also, we would have to bench Tauchman more to get Danger Will in the lineup. Can’t really platoon them both in RF since they are both lefties. Damn Benintendi contract. Like @Chicago White Sox has said, this is probably the next obstacle that needs to be tackled. When will Jerry eat his contract? He is blocking younger players that we would rather play. 1B Mead 2B Meidroth 3B Vargas SS Montgomery LF Benintendi / Sosa CF Robert RF Tauchman / Danger Will C Teel DH Quero