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Yep but in the trade thread nobody seems to want to trade anyone for them.

Ok33 he's still a catcher coming off an injury and you are moving the goalposts. We were talking about his recent performance not how badly he sucked before he was IL'd. If my take was so bad how come Stone said the exact same thing about finding your stroke 1st and then the HR's come. I guess his take was terrible too. The Sox have 1 double in Coors Field so far and hit into multiple DP's. ANyone actually getting a hit with runners in scoring position would be great and God forbid anyone gets a double or hits a HR with people in scoring position and the 1 run the Sox got was on a DP ball that was booted.

Lol yea and complaining about how a 35 yr old catcher runs or because he's hitting .500 in his last 20 ABs is a great take. What a maroon ! If anyone else could hit a HR on this team there would be no problems.

If everyone had as many hits as Yas does in their last 20 AB's we wouldnt have trouble scoring. Yaz is a 35 year old catcher on bad knees and trying to find his stroke. If you have no patience for that and can't accept the singles possibly proceed finding the HR stroke you know nothing about baseball at all.

Me neither but patience is not a thing here when the SOx turned into a .500 team

LOl there's Pearl clutching on everything. Yas finally hitting and now it's all about he isn't hitting HR's and he's slow.

LOl at least Yas is hitting but still need an extra base hit so bad.

1 for TJ and 1 year in 2020 opting out for Covid

WOW caught a big break there

That was the pitch and AJ fouled it back

Yep real nice

So he subscribed to the Menechino school of hitting lowered his hard hit rate and K's , hits less HRS now. Happ is coming here lol !

Sure they can extend it but who will be missing from the team in that extended time ? Who will be the starting 5 besides Kopech and Cease? Giolito is gone after 2023. Lynn likely gone also after 2023 unless they pick up his option when he's nearing 37. Will Eloy and Moncada be earning their money? Abreu might finally start showing his age by then. Cueto gone after this year. Then there's the mystery Robert illness to contend with. I mean that can end in less than a week but what if it doesn't ? We're supposed to be at the height of our window right now and we have a club full of DH's ,under performers and guys who cant stay on the field,and playing .500 ball.

He has to make an impact very quickly because the window is closing very quickly if we aren't seeing the end of it right now already.

if you think he can become as nearly good as Reynolds or better you don't trade him. Just not sure how likely that is . He'd have to make an impact very quickly. That means the Sox fast track him through the minors based on 100AB sample sizes if they are very good at AA and AAA and then he has to just be better than what they already have next year. It's not a high bar to clear but the steps along the way to get to that point are bound to have some glitches. Just a 20 AB slump will have people freaking out about him.

I assume you're talking about this one: The Chicago White Sox acquire OF Ian Happ from the Chicago Cubs for P Jared Kelley, OF Oscar Colas, and P Norge Vera Yea that one sucks !

It's ok I don't expect Hahn to trade Montgomery or Colas. He'll likely work around the fringes as usual if they do anything at all. Quintana, Naquin and a relief pitcher and we all should just enjoy the mediocrity going forward for the next 7 years. But we'll still have Montgomery and Colas during our mediocrity. And don't get me wrong I love those 2 guys but if they are surrounded by a bunch of crap it doesn't do the Sox much good. I guess we're stuck hoping Pollock ,Moncada, Giolito and Lynn and Eloy all can stay healthy and have much better 2nd halves and win enough games to win the division while Minnesota and other teams make better moves.

Burger , Sheets and Crochet for Reynolds. That is delusional at best. A 3rd baseman who can't field, a 1b baseman who can't hit and an injured relief pitcher.. Oh thank you white Sox for such a wonderful package for our declining OF who will only surely get worse through all the years he has before he reaches free agency What a deal !

Well other teams do give away youth for rentals this time of year. But , its cool and the Sox can miss the playoffs this year and come back strong next year without Cueto and Lynn another year older. Welcome back to mired in mediocrity but we've been just that since the All-Star break last year with the great players like Crochet , Eloy , Grandal ,Sheets, Moncada, Pollock, Harrison and Burger and our wonderful minor leaguers no one wants to trade.

His defensive numbers aren't great because he's playing CF where he shouldn't be. He's not exactly a RF either with his throwing arm but he can run down some balls at least out there unlike Vaughn, Sheets and Pollock. Go look at the lineups of the best teams and see how many .800 OPS guys some of them have. Without Robert the Sox have 2 and Robert has the same OPS as Reynolds .795 . Edit: Even the pitiful cubs have 2 legit .800+ Ops guys in Contreras and Happ and 2 more if you count the 58 and 59 games of Morel and the .793 Suzuki has

You can't keep giving away youth for rentals. This team needs some permanent fixes. I'm fine with rental pitchers but the need in the lineup for what Reynolds provides is HUGE.

SO you're going to count the 60 game season as a full season. Got it. Nevermind he is considered one of the best in the game who has 4 years left of eligibility and probably 8 teams would love to have who Pittsburgh probably doesn't even want to trade. Is a 795 OPS considered bad to you? The Sox have only 3 guys with an OPS of .795 or higher. Vaughn , Robert and Areu and are in desperate need of a bat that can do that from the left side and they also are in desperate need of a HR hitter and an OF who can run and field. Plus we have no idea how long Robert is going to be out.

Exactly .He hasn't changed his M.O in a few years and it became even worse with TLR and his wrinkly pair pulling the strings maybe more than we know.

Growing a pair is not paying a 90 yr old relief pitcher $16M, maybe it is to Hahn idk.. As always the Sox need young talent and LHH talent and better roster construction. Growing a pair would mean getting rid of our many DH's and trying to get a very good LHH hitter who can also miraculously field his position.

You apparently don't want to trade anyone unless you think the Sox clearly win the trade even though the idea is to help the Sox win the division and win in the playoffs. The Sox still have shot at being a very good second half team but changes must be made and minor leaguers and Burger aren't going to help with that. Changes are coming and if you expect the team to be better next year good luck with that too.