chitownsportsfan

It's spring training. Anybody still on the mound is either ready the fuck to ship north for the real games and throwing at 70% of game speed or is some marginal roster guy trying to make a team. If Yoan hits 300 this season well then fuck me. But nothign in his profile says high average hitter. His bread will be buttered with patience and power.

lol, dude, how old are you? If you're older than 30, just stop. spring training is a joke. the stats don't matter in 95% of the cases. this sox team is going to be at best mediocre offense with a bad pitching staff. I'd be shocked if they win 75 games.

Huge year obviously for the kid. Time to stay healthy and turn that potential into tangible production and progress. You hope he hits enough to move up to Birmingham by July.

I have 100% trust in Ricky to make the right decision.

Imagine being a white Sox exec and thinking the kid you just drafted to play middle infield, currently in low A ball, is so guaranteed to be a good regular that you move a guy that by most metrics graded out slightly worse than league average to a new position. I mean, this is the fucking WHITE SOX SCOUTING AND DEVELOPMENT TEAM HERE. Nick Madrigal has so much to prove before you even CONSIDER this move. It's beyond stupid. I don't fucking care if Moncada turns into Joe Crede at the hot corner this was not good process and bad process, as we've seen time and time again with this club, will lead to bad results more often than not.

That seems like a steal for Boston -- health depending of course. Sale is averaging like 6 fWAR a year in Boston. $29/m a year for that isn't bad, at all.

I'm totally cool with it because everybody knows the Sox' MLB coaching staff and scouting department is legendary and if they think it's the right move you have to trust them.

Never been a fan of ban bets. I like sig bets tho. If he plays over 50 games in MLB I'll make it whatever somebody wants.

I'll take a sig bet that takes the under on 200 career MLB games played for Burger. Hell, I'd feel pretty confident at 50.

I really don't think Pablo Sandaval is the guy you want to point towards optimistically. He basically ate himself out of the league.

You can do a lot of athletic things 30lbs overweight at age 18-21. That doesn't make carrying that weight a good idea long term. There is absolutely no good reason to have 20% body fat as a MLB 3B, or any position other than DH.

just looks like he's training with too much body fat imo. Gotta get disciplined if he wants to stick at 3B. To be completely honest tho I don't see how anybody comes back in pro sports from a twice torn achilles, I really don't care how young.

if he was, he wouldn't be a former guy in baseball now writing about it. He's good at being loud.

Now if that's even close to true then it's grievance time, yikes.

right but couldn't the Union? I have no idea why they would, but it seems like something they might press for leverage because it is pretty good evidence that he was ready, they just held him down for service time.

Eloy's in the union now so I'd have to think that they would respect his wishes and NOT filed a grievance on his behalf.

so the only reason (to keep him down) is to make it appear they weren't going to manipulate his service time? If so, that's...not a reason.

Can someone please explain to me why the fuck he wouldn't be on the opening day roster? Because they'd have to clear a 40 man spot? I thought they had an open spot? I can't even fathom keeping him down because of some stupid ass concern trolling over the appearance of impropriety wrt to his situation prior to signing the contract and service time manipulation.

scouts gonna scout. get back to me when ZIPS projects Robert for a 133 OPS+.

I think it's code for "splitting headache from all the champagne last night". Good for him, he deserves it, now rest up for the opener kid!

so the takeaway for Eloy after signing the biggest contract pre actually playing in MLB deal in MLB history is that he took a discount because of his defense? well, he got paid because of his bat, ya know?

when did Ramirez have his last year over 3.5 WAR? Because that's the last time a Sox SS was worth what Marcus was last year. Whatever, it's a middling move but FFS they've made a lot of "middling" moves the last decade, especially wrt to infielders.

Passing grade!

It's a fine deal but we're not comparing it to guys on the open market in FA. We are comparing it to what he would have gotten in ARB, which if he's good, might be a substantial savings. If nothing else they got an extra year of control and have really solidified the relationship long term with him.

who?