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Is that what happened? I think the clock had only stopped because of an officials time out for the chains. If he didn’t take it, the clock would have restarted and Pitt could have left no time.

What prompted this?

Well that didn’t happen. Still a shot thou

Jakeenan grant gonna win this for sure

Seriously he has been so electric

Great trade

Not at all what I was talking about, good god.

I love the talent, but what if that’s the “big” move.

I don’t see Conforto as a white sox move, I see schwarber as a white sox move

If you believe the offense was limited by being too right handed, too many unproductive outs, and too many ground balls (as I do), the here is how conforto fits: - 120 wRC+ vs RHP even in his down year (and he was significantly better outside of an atrocious June where his hammy was injured) - his gb rate is nothing to write home about but better that the Sox average - Has never posted less than a 10% walk rate since rookie year Thats all an improvement, and at 29 with very recent, big success offensively there is upside to getting good power in our outfield. But a big part of this is compared to what? Few additions check off those boxes, and he doesn’t subtract Vaughn or Sheets.

the Conforto thread

This is this year's Smyly signing.

I like Castillo but I would not make that deal. The nice thing is Castillo had a down year, so that helps.

Helpful for sox, sucks for Cincy fans. Timing worked terrible for them

Will lock the mlb thread. We're in the offseason now

I'm open to anything, but I agree with this. Especially Gavin Lux...he has skills I like, but it's still unrealized when it comes to consistent hard contact. It's a bit of glorifying him because he's LH. Can you get a Gavin Lux-lite, keep vaughn, use money toward a viable RF solution? I'd argue you'll be better off and can still find Vaughn a good enough amount of ABs. Now, obviously there are some players that are so good that yes I'd trade Vaughn, but Gavin lux isn't one of them. And he has the talent to make me look silly, but to me Vaughn is paying the "fully realized" price of Lux when he is no sure thing yet.

Well keep in mind there are two ways people talk about things on this board: 1) What they would do 2) What they think the sox will do In general, Soxtalk GM thinks sox should manage things with the overall budget in perspective and worry less about individual price tags. Reinsdorf Owner/Hahn GM have shown very little tendency to set tops of the market, so when people talk about something laughable, it's more likely to be coming from that place.

I think it definitely matters but the pool of infielders who switch hit/hit lefty successfully is so small the tradeoff is easier to stomach at 2b vs. RF. I like Segura because he is also bringing high contact (14% k rate), but also dislike him because he's another groundball hitter. Not choice 1A by anymeans.

This was probably the most helpful part of that. Looking forward to getting some news this week.

thanks for this, I should keep better track of these, none of these discussions have percolated down to my news feeds

I think Segura would also be interesting.

Right, I guess I'm just saying for Hahn if they are looking at upgrading those three positions, they know Reinsdorf feels comfortable paying the rates for the top DH, but doesn't for top outfielder. So it would make sense to go after the DH in free agency and trade there. Still think that puts sox at a disadvantage even though I think Schwarber would add a huge help.

I am still on this bandwagon. I just hate letting this walk for nothing. If Kopech is playing great, you can trade Rodon for other needs. You can also just have him allow a trade - he banked the contract he wanted and I'm sure he'd be open to any place he can start. But to just let him walk is disappointing. But, it's not that strong of an opinion for me, mainly because of health. What I mentioned above gets complicated if they don't think he can pass a physical. And the sox were not quite on the same page on Rodon at end of the year and it felt like Rodon was just adamant on starting (I wonder if Boras bullied them into it). Rodon showed us his peak is a great pitcher. And he may never get there again, but for next year, he could. Starting salaries for pitchers basically start at 11 mill and go all the way up to cole at 35 mill. It's completely reasonable, but absent context, it is pretty difficult to me to be all-in on what was right here.

I find this plausible (not advocating it, though I enjoy Schwarber), mainly because if the sox are going to spend it just feels like they always love targeting the DH/1b and closer markets.

In a weird way, if the Sox were going to break their seal in a record setting pitcher contract, I feel like it will be for someone old as hell.