chitownsportsfan

That's a bad idea because the draft pick is fool's gold and that AAV is 200% too high even at 1 year. Teams will just wait like they did this year until after the draft to sign him. And Jose and his agent know that. Oh, I see you just posted that as a follow up. This is the most obvious team friendly low ball scenario imaginable. Offer him 1 year, 1 option year. AAV around 9-11 million. He won't get better than that on the open market.

I'll be at one of the games front row behind Sox dugout calling for Rickie to be shitcanned. Can't wait.

He's played himself out of anything other than a super sub role. His 2nd half has been a bummer.

He's put up almost 9 bWAR in 4 seasons and is still young enough to where a breakout is possible. He's lefty and can play RF a position of obvious need. The comparison would be Adam Eaton if you want to somehow link it to previous Hahn moves.

Engel now has a higher OPS (644) than Yolmer (641) yikes.

is palka going to set the record for lowest BA ever for more than 100 PA?

We should be looking to trade for him this offseason.

The guy with an 890 OPS is bunting. Rickie you are a real piece of work.

Hate is a strong word and one I don't like to use but I"m approaching that with Rickie.

wow, not every day you see a record like that broken, congrats gio!

lol, I threw you the softball.

Careful you can't dare point out that there's more to player value than RBIs and HRs without the peanut gallery coming to white night him.

Yoan wants that 5 fWAR. He can taste it.

On the 2002 White Sox maybe.

overall team defense this year has just been bad to mediocre instead of horrendous. Baby steps. It helps having Moncada and Yolmer in the lineup every day as both are plus defenders at their positions.

If Moncada ups his walk rate to like 13-15% he's going to be insane.

just stop with the "pitch selection" excuse for Lopez. He's a mediocre at best 5th starter who hasn't developed a lick since he came over. He's the same fucking guy he was in Washington plus a more furrowed brow. Maybe the light goes on next year but he's looking like a 5th/6th starter and bullpen guy long term.

Hi I'm Reynaldo Lopez and I have no secondary pitches.

Is there a game going on or to we have to wrap ourselves in 9/11 horse shit so Jason and Chuck can virtue signal all night? FFS. SPORTS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE A DISTRACTION FROM THIS SHIT.

Jason already annoying me.

Leury is basically a 1.5 WAR player. He'd be fine as a stop gap in RF next year. I'm not advocating for that either but it wouldn't be the end of the world.

I can see Puig coming here and putting up the same 1.5-2.5 WAR season he's put up for 5 of the last 7 years. Dude had one year where he was a star and it was 7 years ago. If we're signing 1.5-2.5 RF we're wasting money. Go big or go home. We can fill RF internally for free basically at those WAR values.

In another month CFB and NFL seasons will be in the thick of things, same with Euro Soccer and the NBA will be just about ready to tip off. Then, just as we're getting antsy for baseball pitchers and catchers will report and then just as we're anxious for real games march madness will entertain us and then it's the best time of all the start of April with the Masters and MLB again. So the sports calendar offers some comfort. The most boring time of the year is probably July for sports.

Kid has had a helluva year. Scary thing is he might only be scratching the surface. If he can boost his defense up another level (or avoid the early season errors he had this year really), add in another 10-15 steals and stay health he could be looking at a 6-8 WAR prime. It really won't take a lot of improvement. He'll regress some with BABIP but I expect his walk rate to increase next year as he gets avoided more often and his approach continues to mature.