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One year with a vesting option and buyout makes a lot of sense. Something like 600 PA maybe and a 3 million dollar buyout on top of 1 year 12 million. Unless there's been a dramatic shift in how mid 30s DHs with good but not great bats are evaluated he should be more than happy with a deal like that. Frankly I feel like if the Sox don't make him an offer he's unlikely to even get that.

I have an Ozzie Guillen autograph and a Jose Abreu autograph. That's it. Really doesn't change my feelings about either. I root for the laundry ya know? When Ozzie and Jose are no longer assets to the laundry I move on. Sentimentalism has little place in sports or life. Except perhaps for newspaper columnists and hagiographers.

If you told me Jim was Greg I wouldn't bat an eye. They both have a lot of the same myopic viewpoints despite watching a shitload of Sox baseball. Good players can have weaknesses.

Well we should just him by the entirety of his season and by that measure he is the definition of inconsistent. Every player looks better when you cut out the bad parts of their year.

You can only look at his position in each stat relative to others. He's not had a great year by any stretch, in fact it's been a pretty bad year for anything other than a 5th starter. But at least he's managed to eat some innings and turn things around a bit in the 2nd half. He's 11th from the bottom in SIERA he's 2nd from the bottom in xFIP. The difference really isn't worth discussing as at this point his path to improvement is clear and that's less walks, better command, better secondary offerings.

I think Fangraphs has said as much and that it's badly in need of an update to reflect the new HR rates. I like SIERA it's the best. https://library.fangraphs.com/pitching/siera/

I was briefly conversational in college and it was always much easier to speak in language lab with the native speaker peers than trying to talk to the Professor in class. I'd think a lot of these latin guys are conversational among their team mates but just don't feel comfie in front of the reporters, don't blame them.

There's a lot of red flags in his profile including those. But he's held it together and hasn't completely imploded which should give him a foundation to build on this offseason. The most important thing is to cut the fucking walks out. And in order to do that he's going to have to find his command. Similar to Giolito you can live with solo shots. You can't live with three run bombs after walking the leadoff guys.

No it will be Wander and rightfully so. Toolsy SS putting up those numbers in high A at his age is insane. Tatis 2.0

increased offense + the Sox' sieve like defense helps him relatively. He hasn't been great, but he's been an alright 5th starter. At least he's serviceable heading into next year. You can squint and seeing him improving to a solid 4 or even 3 in a couple years.

I'm a little worried Yolmer is playing himself onto the roster next year.

He seems fairly decent on the bases.

Eloy turning his season around is massive. Great to see. Same for Collins keep it up guys.

I dunno but DFW wrote that about Federer but he could have wrote it about Robert. Looking forward to him next year. Great sig!

White Sox FO: Nah, we signing him to play 1B until 2024 at an AAV of 15 million. That's the worry from the 3rd camp.

Ashley Schafer needs some new sales staff.

Well deserved, kid has had a monster year.

Yea it's a bad habit and I don't think he'll ever be that reliable with his arm until he learns to set and throw consistently. I love TA, huge fan of his, but his problems in the field need to be corrected for him to be a star.

I think ZIPS had him at like 270/330/480 before the season started. He's had a bit of a down year so far but if he finishes strong he'll be right there where he was projected. Going forward though he has to be something like 280/350/550 to be a superstar bat and a 4-5 WAR player in LF. Sox are going to need his production.

There's the growing possibility (as horrifying as it is) that they like what he's doing as manager.

Oh I'd love it. Given how much of his value is tied to his BA it would really be meaningful. He's never going to take many walks so he needs all those hits. He's had a pretty damn good year. Fallen off with the glove but he can improve on that. It's going to take more mental focus and good fundamentals. He's got some bad habits that his athleticism allowed. Fielding the ball off to side when coming in on a ball should be a habit he breaks this offseason.

prayers up fam.

Eloy approaching 800 OPS, he is finishing strong.

There isn't a snowball's chance in hell of the Sox being the org to finally tap into his "raw power". If it even exists. Just like the Sox couldn't do much with Avi other then the year he rocked that .375 BABIP. Mazara is the type of guy that goes to Houston and suddenly hits 270/330/520. He'd be the same shit 740 OPS hitter in Chicago.

Avi 2.0.