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He was able to return at the end of last year. While hardly conclusive, it's a positive sign.

No. The injury risk is too high for a team with a strict budget limit. Unless it for an AAV under 12 or so.

I hope it's true and forces the dodgers to look elsewhere for pitching. It will drive up the market for Cease.

Agreed, we know they will have a limit. It just that no one knows where it is so it's all just guessing.

This I would agree with. Eloy is not an indispensable hitter. He is a hitter that is better than most of the others they have in the team. If they can trade him for anything more useful include money to sign a better starting pitcher, do it.

Nice keep him away from the dodgers so they can drive up the pitching market.

If you want to cherry pick stats and arbitrarily say the 3 years means more fine. His 785 OPS is still well above the AL average of 730 over the past couple of years. So yes he still has a useful bat for a team that is well below average offensively. If you can say they will replace him with a much better hitter, I would agree. But until they get much better hitters, he is useful to this team.

Yes. He should try to leverage his position to help his team as much as possible. That's his job. If MLB let's him move (which is really what they wanted) and Oakland didn't want to concede ti the ridiculous demands (and they shouldn't) then let them go. This is the way it has always been in baseball. Just look at the A's themselves. They've been in Kansas City, Philadelphia, Oakland and now Vegas. Many people are pushing for the antitrust exemption to be repealed/revoked. This is what the result would be. If the politicians really want to give them the money, it's in them. This wouldn't happen if the MLB didn't really want a team in Vegas. They want to go exploit new revenue markets. The Bay area still has the Giants.

Each individual year doesn't hold as much weight as the entirety of his career. You can spin it anyway you want but his career OPS is 811. The that is a useful bat in the lineup that shouldn't just be given away for nothing.

I do. It would be negligent if the owner didn't do everything possible to help the franchise. The more debt they run the less they can put towards the franchise.

I don't understand why people continually berate owners for asking to have cities/states to build stadia. It good business if you an get someone else to pay for it. Blame the politicians who approve it. They are the one who shouldn't do it. It's an awful thing and they continue to approve them.

Seems like most of his injuries are running to first base. I know he had the pec repair after going over the wall.

Fair point about the splits. Where did you read that no one wants him as an OF?

And..... No one mentioned anything about a position.

And in 2022 he had an OPS of 858. His career OPS, is 811. A bigger sample size than last year.

Agreed. He's probably worth more to the Sox right now than on the market.

Agreed. They should add when there is availability. They can't assume who will be available in the coming off seasons.

The vast majority of fans do not care if the owner is nice to the media and people around them. They only care about winning. They will find problems with the owner if they aren't winning and will overlook them if they are. How many fans actually interact with owners? It really isn't relevant. The media care and will spin it by how they are treated but not fans. Many people inside the White Sox organization love working for Reinsdorf as he is very loyal and takes care of them. I know people here think that a detriment for the management of the team but not for the everyday people in the organization.

That's been the standard for a decade. I've never been a rule follower.

Just because he wasn't nice to you and others doesn't mean he wasn't good at his job. His job wasn't to be nice to people. Neither is Reinsdorf's.

The career. 800 Ops is awfully enticing though. That's a pretty good hitter.

I know. That what I meant. With 3 seconds left it doesn't matter if he misses because it won't help Cleveland. I could understand if Cleveland may get the ball back if there were 30 seconds left. They can't pass up a field goal attempt there.

This is the silver lining. They can't possibly bypass another qb and stick with fields.

This is the biggest question of the day. I don't what the conditions are, a field goal has got to have better odds than a hail Mary with 3 seconds left. A miss does not give Cleveland good field position to score.

That isn't today's game or players though. Now more than ever advanced metrics show that it's more efficient to score runs over the season by just swinging for the fences on every pitch. The downside is that this is on average, against the bad, mediocre and good pitching. Once teams get to the postseason and face good pitching it doesn't necessarily translate. Although with last year's rule changes it may go back some.