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Might as well just go on the IL then and come back middle of next week. No reason not to wait the extra few days IMO.

oh yea nice. figured we were back on a road trip. cool.

Luckily for everyone involved it should be a pleasant evening in NYC. Not one of those sweat rag nights where it's humid and 90 degrees. East coast summers kinda suck.

Narvaez falling back to earth big time the last two weeks FWIW. OPS now below 800 at 798. He's lost about .5 fWAR in that time.

Happ kinda sucks. Problem is, so does Nova. Yankees scrubs are coming back to earth it would awesome to get a win today with Gio going tmr.

Just hasn't had the longevity and has played on bad teams. Hard to really consider him the best of anything in Sox history. He's beloved by many on this forum but I just can't separate my opinion of him from his performance. He's a class act off the field, he's a "clubhouse leader" and all that but he's just a mediocre DH on the field.

I don't see his name very often here for one of the "best offensive players" of all time for the Sox. But hey he's ahead of White Sox legend "Jurassic" Carl Everett in career OPS with the club!

I don't buy into the idea that all ideas are equal and we should appreciate non-sense arguments: in any facet of life, not just sports. Misinfo and disinfo are a big problem and using non-sense like RBIs and ASG appearances to judge a player's future value to the club is asinine and should be ridiculed lest such ideas spread. I'm old enough to remember the initial push-back against sabermetrics in the early aughts. That we are STILL having to refute such non-sense to judge a player's value is disheartening. We should be better by now.

He makes the panties drop for sure.

Hope so. In 2005 it appeared the Sox could make permanent inroads on the relative sizes of the fanbases but obviously things went another way. It appears the Cubs' window is closing and the Sox' is opening perhaps the next few years can create some new Sox fans.

Still amazing the Cubs draw 4x the ratings.

Officially questionable for tonight. If he misses a 3rd day in a row I'd suggest maybe just putting him on the 10 day retroactive to Tuesday.

Fans appreciate a better product.

His job is to more than that as a lead footed, stone gloved "1B". He's a DH. Doing the whole El Caballo in a down year thing of 270/300/500 with shitty defense isn't really that valuable. Hell, Lee could take a walk better than Jose. His BABIB will regress some there's no doubt ZIPS has him for ROS for .300 and (wait for it)... .8 fWAR for a total of a 1 fWAR season. I wonder if ZIPS has some calculation for his batted ball data because .300 is not that big of a regression if you are looking at his exit velocity. Statcast would seem to predict he'd see a higher BABIP: his career is .324. Part of it could be defensive maneuvering as well. Is BABIP down league wide?

Deserved got nothing to do with it, just his time is all. Ironically as I've aged I've come to care less and less about grammar and convention when writing online, especially on message boards. I'm probably older than you are I'd imagine look when I registered FFS.

All star appearences and RBIs? Really?

Yea I agree, he's been a bit unlucky but his future in Chicago doesn't really change as a result.

He's a 2 WAR true talent player. Would you agree?

Could be a blessing in disguise but the process was still bad, which isn't promising for future FA pursuits. I never again want see the "Friends and Family Plan" on the South Side unless it's a ticket promotion coming off a pennant.

I almost blew up my account this offseason and look at me now. Having a blast watching this team and bummed there's no game today. And it's almost the middle of June! How far back to you have to go to where we were having fun in the middle of June and the Sox are worth watching on a nightly basis? 2012? The trades Hahn made that looked mediocre at best 4 months ago are now looking pretty damn awesome. Things can change but with Gio and Moncada and now Eloy emerging into stars and perhaps superstars (on cheap deals) the future is looking pretty good.

We have a league and park and slash adjusted stat called wRC+ that encapsulates a players value at the dish relative to everbody else: Jose has a 104 wRC+. Ironically, your rant cherry picked SLG to defend his value while ranting about others doing it. Jose is stuck at .2 fWAR. He's now at 1.4 fWAR in his last 200 fucking games. That's a 1 WAR PLAYER! I have a Jose Abreu signed baseball and it remains one of my favorite Sox moments when he signed for me in 2014 and then won ROY. But that doesn't color my analysis of his value in 2019 and in the future.

From Jose's perspective I'm not sure what incentive he has to take an option year given that he's hoping for 2020 as a bounceback year into a multi-year deal most likely.

Especially if he finishes with a 260/290/480 line. He never learned to take his walks, and that is going to haunt him as he ages and his average continues to decline.

it's a miracle they split honestly. need some pitchers but whoo boy this position player group of kids is exciting!

All aboard the Eloy Jimenez express! The bandwagon is filling quickly, better hop on @greg775! Feels great to split and finally beat these guys. Off day tmr, hopefully get Moncada healthy and hold our own in NYC.