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If we are doubling up positions it's not outfield I'd want more help where I think Leury/Engel are really quality backups at this point. I'd get La Stella whose approach and versatility (and handedness) would be perfect for this team.

Especially with the NL DH still up in the air.

In dahl's All Star season two years ago he played 100 games.

Dahl had shoulder surgery in September. You won't have any assurances he is healthy if you sign him now.

AD signs long-term with Lakers. One thing I hope the bulls try is make it so players like playing there instead of constantly burning it down every time they leave.

One thing that is attractive of that to me (as someone who even mentioned trading for JBJ last year) is between Robert/JBJ/Anderson being able to really limit what is needed of Eloy. Anderson should be capable to soft hit/shallow left balls, robert can shade more to LF since JBJ can cover more of RF. Of course, that still leaves Eloy's biggest enemy: the wall. But maybe the league would allow us to put an innertube around Eloy since so much of the rest of the field is covered.

I think Joc is a perfect fit and keeps getting docked for being really bad at something the sox are already excellent at. He was bad last year, but still hit the snot out of the ball. His best position appears to be RF defensively. He's performed on a high stage and was great in the postseason, coming off a world series win. He won't be very expensive, he's easy to move off. But I am comfy with JBJ for defense where he could be exceptional in RF, but I keep having to point out that his great year offensively last year was a red hot september. He had a 76 first half wRC+ and a 151 second half wRC+.

former white sox

RF trade? Calhoun as most likely.

I don’t even know where to focus honestly. Still have my crush on Tony McGee. I don’t think it changes affordability of top line guys, but if scouts all like a guy go get em for a nickel

Well good news is it shouldn’t be costly to acquire any necessary middle relief help.

Read some weird stuff that Yanks were looking at Andrelton Simmons for SS and we’re tired of Gleybars defense. So...Urshela, Simmons, Torres, lemahieu, Voit? What gives?

If I was Royals or Orioles I’d be all over that.

Adam Duvall is absolutely the wrong complement to our offense but just throwing it out there that I like him and think he’ll be a good player next year

I would worry about this but Sox did let him throw a ton of sliders and it didn’t matter (even though it was still effective!). He just has awful command and feel. “Bulldog” pitchers seems like a euphemism now for a guy that will be too stubborn to change when it ain’t working. Pass

mmm Fried Tenders

If you remember the 2019 draft, we went big with vaughn/thompson/dalquist/beard then the rest of our 10 rounds were a lot of seniors or budget signings due to those four taking all the budget. Weems was our 6th rounder, a senior our of AZ, but he was ranked 431 by BA, so that inflates a bit where he was pictured to go. He did do great, but he was a 22 year old in Rookie and Great Falls. Here was his scouting reporT: Ranked #431 prospect in 2017 draft An Arizona commit, Weems is from the northern part of the state, in Flagstaff, where he dominated as a prep. As a freshman, he was a midweek starter as Yavapai won the NJCAA World Series, and he made a leap as a sophomore, tossing five (seven-inning) complete games and striking out 12 per nine. He gets most of his whiffs with either an average fastball, which can sit 87-91 mph and touch 92 at times. His fastball has some sink while his breaking ball, a hard slider, can show some depth and flash above-average. Weems has improved his delivery, staying taller, keeping the ball and down and getting ground ball outs when he isn't missing bats. From instructionals, the "unknown" guy we started hearing about was Carranza, so this kinda comes out of no where and I just have a hard time believing this dude is really noteworthy now unless he found a bunch of velocity and...I don't trust BP would have been tipped off on that.

We need to preserve the Lee comp for when our big baby boy Ben Bailey gets here.

BP is trying to do too much with what it has.

I'll admit that seeing players go from Schaumburg to the sox during a playoff run being well prepared may have made me get ahead of myself for Vaughn being ready to go.

Sure Jack, you’ve really proved you’ve given this a lot of thought.

And I do value NPB experience, it's really that he was still just in their minors that worries me. But you never know the circumstances, and I imagine there is never an easy transition but it may be especially difficult to go from Cuba to Japan on someone, if just due to written language.

That's another possibility, good point. Also, even though this wasn't your point, I just wanted to clarify that I have doubts he's close to ready to be an MLB starter, not that it's specifically about RF.

I am hopeful we sign him, pretty much assume he is signed, honestly. But I have doubts he is close to ready for RF. Best case scenario is he is amazing in minors and we have a RF cost controlled for next year, or trade piece.

I really think you need to bundle up the As/Twins as a hypothetical and not dodgers/cleveland. Dodgers and Cleveland, and Tigers before them, had a really great run that just didn't have that luck that comes with winning a championship, but put themselves in position multiple times. The Twins/As were doing the very cautious long-term look to make sure they can compete on their budgets, and that would be pretty brutal. I don't know how I would feel as a Twins fan about all this. I think I probably think more favorably on the 2010 white sox than they do on most of their playoff teams, and that's just easier because it was still in the shadow of an amazing year.