Balta1701

So you cannot give such an example. I rest my case.

Oh I love this one. Giants sign Judge... Lucas Giolito for Luis Gonzalez.

McDaniel's projection had $120 but he noted he thought it could go higher. The insider projection Heyman showed last week was like 7/$145. I would not be surprised to see that level.

Fine. Give an example of the type of deal you think is available for Giolito and that the White Sox should do.

Both of those still seem low?

Why is a team that thinks they're ready to compete this year (taking on a guy on a 1 year deal) giving back something that fills holes on a team like the White Sox that also thinks they're competitive this year? You need the rare situation where the returning player happens to be blocking a top prospect that the team also wants to play, and that has to be at one of the positions where the White Sox have a key need. Not likely.

The largest city in Ukraine captured by Russia, Kherson, was taken in early March. It was announced as "Forever Russia" and annexed by Russia in their fake annexation. For the last 4 months, Ukraine has been pressuring this city and the surrounding area by shelling defensive positions and hitting supply lines with rockets. Starting yesterday, the Russians pulled out from the entire surrounding region, back across the Dneipro River. Today, Kherson is being liberated, with the city still mostly in tact and with devastating urban fighting having been avoided.

If you want to take that as a tiny positive sigh go ahead, but golly that’s small.

He actually had more walks in September than August, and his 1.33 September WHIP is not obviously different from the 1.35 in August. His K rate was higher but that’s it.

How is this surprising to anyone? That this offseason was going to be a messy one should have been obvious to everyone months ago.

Missed this last night. Kelly’s worst month of the season was August, where he gave up 8 runs in under 7 innings. His 2nd half ERA after getting healthy was 4.87. That is “fine”?

Carlos Rodon had his surgery in May of 2019. He next threw a competitive pitch in late September of 2020, and he was really terrible at the time. That 16 months isn’t a totally unreasonable schedule, it’s 12 months or more just to heal and then several months more to build back strength on average. You should be prepared for him to not be fully effective until towards the end of the season, if not longer, as it would be unexpected for him to be 100% after only 12 months. 27 year old Luis Severino had the surgery in February 2020. He threw 6 innings in 2021 because a few other things kept being sore. Syndergaard had it in 2020, threw 2 innings in 2021. Tyler Beede, March 2020, threw 1 inning in 2021. Chris Sale, March 2020, still hasn’t avoided injury, came back Mid August 2021. The only guy I can find in recent years who was back in 14 months was Glasnow, who pitched in 2 games in September and October of this year 14 months after the surgery.

I would agree he is movable, but he was also worth so much more at the trade deadline last year based on his first half performance. Does saving $8 million really make that big of a difference, when it also does remove a guy who can contribute? If $8 million barely buys you a decent reliever, does that really reshape our plans? Hold Graveman, sign Kiermaier and Gallo, sign a back of the rotation pitcher or use that as the spot you trade for, and call that the best you can do with only $20 million to work with. That $8 million isn't going to make or break your free agency plan this offseason, and Graveman here or gone won't determine whether this team can come back legit next year - that will still be up to Robert, Moncada, Kopech, Giolito, Jimenez, Anderson, Grandal, etc. Worst case scenario, you decide to be more aggressive moving people at the trade deadline this year.

Remember how the White Sox had a QO on Abreu and like a couple of days after the deadline they had a contract extension for him done? I wonder if Boston will just use this to get him locked into 2/$30 or something like that in the next couple days.

Spoilers. Andor #10. Bravo.

Yesterday McDaniel had Pederson projected at 2/$24 and Perez projected at 2/$25. Anderson, Eovaldi, and Rizzo were all just over $30 million. With a draft pick attached? Taking 1/$19.65 seems pretty good for the low guys at the very least.

Well, they also brought up and got contributions from 16 rookies too.

https://twitter.com/soxmach_pnoles/status/1590734059097161728?s=46&t=BFjGE_zP8OeX4wpj_OcRew the Twitter embed is working about as well for me right now as you’d expect from a company that laid off half its staff but this is rather funny.

With the White Sox sure, I’m talking about actual franchises there.

If he gives you two 7 WAR seasons in the next 3 years, isn’t that half of what you’re paying for?

He turned down $200 million to start the season IIRC. wdit: https://twitter.com/jeffpassan/status/1512451052855078924?s=46&t=7OemjzSwXtzyF0yhQHVlOQ

I’d say Houston plays them to open the season but “the White Sox don’t have to play Houston in October” pretty well tells you how the season ended.

But we really don’t have anything that fills that role internally. A guy who had TJS in March of the previous year who wasn’t that dominant anyway is the only new addition right now. The rest of it made up a bullpen that was very top heavy, with a couple reliable guys and a very weak backside. Promoting the backside as a strategy to make them better?

Seriously, if you’re selling off Hendriks, he shouldn’t be the only piece you sell. You are creating a genuinely bad bullpen.

An an ERA over 5 in the second half. I like this concept less every time someone writes it.