46DidIt

I wouldn’t mind hanging on to Fedde. Sox could conceivably have a strong rotation next year. Crochet, Fedde, Nastrini, Cannon, Thorpe, Shuster with Inciarte and Schulz waiting in the wings. Sox can still use a couple guys like Fedde and Clevinger to eat some innings with all those rookies. I think Fedde is a solid bet to deliver close to two hundred innings the next couple years

Stiever is a crap comparison, but Lynch and Honeywell were as highly if not more highly rated than Thorpe

They should just start Lee five times a week

Hmm I wonder

Well yeah, but it’s also said that players producing a certain amount of war have a certain value

If anything, he should have been worth like 7-10 million on a one year deal

Yeah, but that Pham would get that much? He was still a little above average player last year, and still has legs

You’re shocked by three million?

Getting on base

I hate to make too much of three innings, but this guy looks like a dude

After the game, he gave him a thumbs up. Wow, what a tale

Flexen wasn’t part of the Bummer trade. Shuster was the only real get of the Bummer trade, plus the role of the dice on Soroka. Lopez, Shewmake and the other minor league pitcher were obviously just filler. Not sure what kind of return any one could reasonably expect for a reliever coming off a 7 ERA season, but if Shuster takes a rotation spot, to me that would be a won trade

Colas’ arm is in the 99th percentile though

It’s only the beginning of his third year. They probably want him to get another 150-200 plate appearances at AAA. Of course, I also thought they probably wanted to hang onto Rodriguez so who the hell knows what they’re thinking

They’ve got to try, if they want to continue playing in the major leagues. These guys are basically at the bottom rung at this point.

You’re telling me you’re half a pizza?!?

They did? I thought they signed him as a complementary player, behind TA, Robert, Eloy, etc

Fraley was out there on Lopez’s backswing

Not many replacement level players put up 32 career WAR. That’s more than Konerko. 17 WAR in five years with the Sox

Yeah but it doesn’t really effect anything. So they are overpaying a player three million in a year when they are going to suck regardless, while operating well below a maximum budget. Whoop de doo. The main reason they brought him in was to coach Lee and work with the pitching staff anyway

Upon further review, I guess that figure was from prior to Fedde signing. So they have 50 some million committed

I’m not worried about four million for Maldonado when the Sox are operating way below their maximum payroll levels and only have something like 40-45 million committed next year. I honestly don’t get why anyone is concerned about that

“Although he fought a courageous battle to the end, the friends and family that knew the ardent White Sox fan best, attest that he died of misery.”

Except it was the holdover guys he was saddled with that are injured