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Eloy go deep.

Craig Edwards is probably so relieved right now

Yeahhhhhhh keep talking that shit about Leury, he keeps doin it

Live your life.

Dang I missed that. That's awesome.

We can't stick him in AAA, he'd have to clear waivers.

People bellyached about market salary to average to below average players because it adds up and can prevent acquiring other players when they become available. If Wellington's salary is used as a basis for not acquiring an interesting catcher who is cheaper and offers longer control options, then that is justified. And this idea that Castillo is a flip candidate, give me a break. Here's your flip, trading castillo for a former top catching prospect who has been injured but might catch on. About as good as you'd get anyway.

His comment was about it being funny that people would hate McCann signing but like swihart. There's reasons for that, which I provided.

Castillo has had one positive framing year and one positive defensive runs saved year and with the sox he's been bad in both. Swihart has had two positive framing years. Castillo is not a good defensive catcher.

I literally placed it in the title of the thread. I don't understand why I should care about absorbing Castillo's salary. We only paid half of it last year anyway.

but he did the same thing in Winston salem.

Catcher? And when Collins is ready you can either have 2 LH hitters that can play C/1b/DH and one that can play outfield, or you DFA Swihart if he sucks and they are better. And what you will have been out is...Swihart's salary. He's a waiver claim.

How exactly does acquiring Swihart prevent any of this?

In BPs fielding runs above average in 2018, Swihart comes in at 63rd, Castillo comes in at 103. I get some people may not be swayed by that, but I haven't seen anything to indicate he's specifically worse at defense than Castillo, who has not been as good of a framer here as he was in baltimore, nor been able to throw out 40% of base stealers.

He may improve himself. He had good prospect stock, then injuries, then inconsistent playtime. That is pretty much the ideal recipe for a team like the white sox that can offer playing time. And again, I care. He's pretty much free. He'd be a really nice second catcher option while we wait for Zevala and Collins because he's cheap, has control, has a good arm, and is a good platoon for RH catchers and presumably Zevala is up first and we currently have 2 RH catchers, and has some nice platoon capability since he plays other positions. Is that going to win us a world series? No, but there's a reason when he was DFA'd a bunch of baseball writers did not believe he'd make it to AAA. He has value. And maybe getting some valuable players is better than not.

A LH platoon hitter for 900 k that can play multiple positions including catcher and allow the smooth transition to our future catchers seems like a good deal. Is paying 8 million for our large bad receiving catcher Wellington Castillo through the year some tremendous advantage? James McCann has a one year deal, consider this a tryout for both. I mean we can drop nicky delmonico for that.

Costs 3x less, younger, more control, plays more positions, hits left handed (way) better than right. Seems pretty straight forward.

https://whitesoxpride.mlblogs.com/mlb-unveils-2019-holiday-special-event-uniform-elements-2ed0a791743e [/img] Man this is ugly,

Lambert getting hit around, but no walks, and keeping them to one run so far. Just 3 ks.

A very good quote that sums up a lot of the discussion on the board with him: That last sentence is really interesting. WHen he fell behind last year, I guess it's easiest to say he should have felt the odds change that it was less likely he'd see a good pitch to drive. Now he's taking that into account and being more aggressive so long as it's in the zone, ideally.

Well put.

Do the yankees grab him?

Hits from left side though, at least.

So here's the pros for claiming him. - Strong arm - Hits better from left side, and currently have 2 RH catchers - is 27 - Can play OF, so if Seby makes a play this year we can move him around if we like him and play him as our catcher when mccann moves on - Makes 900k Cons: - Not a good receiver (though castillo hasn't been with us either) - Not good at blocking pitches.