Balta1701

Bring it guys in the crowd!!!

Right now he’s at .167 career. If he’s up in the .500 range before Grandal comes back that’s ok. Not sure how long you give at sub .200 OPS.

Can he give a .600 OPs?

You find a list of the worst trades in MLB history, make sure it includes the Lou Brock deal on there somewhere because if it doesn't then it isn't a good list (the ones I just checked...didn't?), and say that teams have been doing really stupid things in baseball for its entire history.

First couple posts clearly indicate Cubs will be sellers. That's it.

Dylan Cease's K/9 IP in games prior to the Houston Series/prior to the sticky ban: 11.475 Dylan Cease's K/9 IP in his last 4 games: 11.5082.

5 likely playoff teams have between 50 and 54 wins. I'd say it's likely your playoff seeding isn't locked up until Thursday or Friday of the final week of games, if not later.

That works for me.

What are the September call up rules now? Are rosters fixed at 26 in September?

Texas should be fine financially so there’s no reason to expect they couldn’t sign Gallo if they wanted to. He has 1.5 years of control so they don’t have to be in a hurry either. Out of our system, it would be totally fair to ask for one of those three as a headliner and I don’t think it would be wise to accept a deal from us without one of them. I would imagine it could be done with Crochet as a centerpiece if you were ok with that.

Who are you imagining that it will take to get Gallo? As noted above the issue with him is that it almost certainly costs one of Vaughn, Crochet, or Kopech, at least in this system. There’s a case to be made that Fry and Bummer are good enough for lefties out of the bullpen, but adding Gallo while subtracting Vaughn (and hey now Eloy is playing the field every day so he’s hurt in September) or while losing Kopech who can give very high quality fillin starts in August seems like a rough path to home field advantage.

Imagine for a moment that there are people in those states who did everything they were supposed to, stayed indoors, survived the last year, got in line to get vaccinated as soon as they were possibly allowed to, but they have some condition that screwed up their immune system so they can’t guarantee it will respond normally. There are basically no studies or statistics out there on what fraction of breakthrough cases also had immune system issues, in every article it is just given a sidebar saying “the vaccine is fully effective in everyone except maybe people who are immune compromised with no more details.” So someone like that will have survived the last year, done everything they could, gotten both doses, but they still know they might be at risk if cases stay elevated.

Right now the White Sox are 31-14 at home and 20-21 on the road. No other AL team has such huge splits. They are also 2 games behind Both Boston and Houston for home field advantage. Right now, if the playoffs started, they would have games 1-2 on the road in one of those parks. Maybe everything is wrapped up by a point in September where you can skip a start for him, maybe his arm gives you no choice as it breaks down at some point and you have to give him a few weeks off, but aside from that, shutting him down for an extended period creates a good chance of a first round loss.

Then all-star quality players like Gallo are probably beyond the price range you're willing to pay. Doesn't mean it's a mistake to say that, just a reality.

Don’t only think about Cleveland. Think about that first round matchup against either Boston or Houston, where the White Sox go in as underdogs and the other team has home field advantage, as well.

…and you have to for some reason expect that nothing else will go wrong and no one else will get hurt in August and September.

Looks like he’s throwing 94 to game day.

Carlos Rodon has turned his career around and is seemingly the only guy on the pitching staff I have no reason to think might have been breaking the ball doctoring rules. He has fully shown me up in the process. I would be very disappointed if he didn’t get to throw.

The insiders who are totally not Rick Hahn insist that Rick Hahn could not be working harder at it.

Collins should have 1 minor league option remaining.

I mean, a 10% increase in runs seems like exactly what MLB would want out of this.

lol no. The argument is that getting one extra strike for your pitchers per game out of more than a hundred pitches thrown...makes a big difference over a season. If there were no differences between catchers, and it was all "umpires, situations, pitchers, etc." like you just alleged, then over a season you're talking about a guy catching 10,000+ balls if he catches 100 games, Over a couple seasons, tens of thousands of pitches. If there was no difference between players framing, then the numbers would average out for everey catcher to about the same given how big the sample sizes are.