Balta1701

If we are, you've still got to play him for 2-3 months to see if that's what's happening or it's just a 2 week slow start, it's not exactly uncommon to see guys start off poorly for all of April and still hit 40 home runs in a season. But yeah, it should be at DH.

Palka shouldn't be playing RF but a guy who put up his power numbers last year as a literal rookie deserves a spot on a roster somewhere in the AL, to either see if he can continue it, improve, or crash out.

As I'm fairly fond of pointing out - counting Alonso this year, the White Sox will have spent over $90 million on their DH position over the last 10 seasons, and over $200 million to cover DH/1b over the last 10 seasons, and about half of that money has been abjectly awful spending. If all Palka does is "bat 6th, hit home runs against righties, and be cheap for 3 years", that's a far better result than throwing $10 million a year at that position again.

They weren't going to that dollar amount because they needed to keep funds free to waste on players like this.

That $6m specifically? Maybe, maybe not on its own, but along with a few other moves? Definitely. They spent $44 million in new money this year, not counting offering arbitration to Abreu, and I can think of at least 1 player they missed on by exactly $50 million.

in OPS+ Cargo is slightly higher last year. But if your point is that Alonso isn't that good of a hitter, I agree. But you described Alonso as a "Fine one season addition" above, isn't CarGo also a "Fine addition" for far less money?

And yet last year he out-hit 31 year old Yonder Alonso (including park adjustments).

He hasn't arrived yet because he signed late and they're working him in the minors as a spring training, but they signed Carlos Gonzalez with about 1/3 of that money.

Abreu is going to play there most of the time. I think he just prefers to not DH, and the team is ok with that.

Interesting result of this is that it seems like creating a winning ballclub through any means other than drafting, signing international FA, trading for minor leaguers, and developing them - that's on the verge of becoming even less possible than it was a few years ago.

And if all doesn't go well, that is also the answer to the question when the rebuilding stops.

When the pitching staff is ready. Watch Giolito and Lopez this year, that'll answer your question.

Had it not been for contract details that the Sox used to save money it would have been without a doubt the right thing to do to call him up in August of last year.

I'm usually conservative about money matters, but no, I wouldn't take that ever in Yoan's position. Not with $25 million in the bank. If I'm Yoan Moncada, I play out the next season, or several seasons if necessary, and I become willing to talk a 9 figure extension once I've made an all star team, not before. If he does ever break out, he's a guy who could be talking about a long term deal 3-4x as lucrative as the one you just wrote. With everyone else, you're talking about guys who have $2-5 million in the bank, maybe less, so a $25 million guarantee is life-changing money. For Moncada, $25 million is already banked, so you're not giving him enough security with that deal, he can afford to wait until he earns something higher.

"Never proven to be dependable" is a good description of 80% of the White Sox's current roster and probably 75% of the players who have played for Rick Hahn, total, over the last 6+ years. If you want guys to be dependable you have to work them at some point. And like it or not, putting Covey in yesterday wasn't the set of moves that will make them lose games - it was the $44 million spent on dreck last offseason, and the sacrificing of several years to come in order to build the strong 2015 and 2016 rosters.

Who takes over 3b until then?

Took me more than 20 minutes while having breakfast, some people on fandango showing wait times of an hour.

I believe Marvel just DDOS'd every movie theater, but tickets are now on sale.

Now that was a big loss. Come on Phoenix we need you to keep being terrible! edit: Phoenix currently winning by 16. Sigh.

it's a shame yolmer doesn't have like 8 hits in his first 4 games or something like that because we're one team that could readily part with a tolerable fill-in infielder.

Even I think that's over the top.

This is a discussion we've had ad nauseum before, so I'm just going to say this one time and you can rip me all you want for it in replies. In 2012 we saw a fundamentally sound White Sox team that, in many cases, featured the same players who in 2011 and 2013 were fundamental disasters. They spent 2012 throwing to the correct base, and in the other seasons those same players had no idea what they were doing. In my opinion, that was the difference between that team being above .500 and far below .500. Furthermmore, in my opinion that was attributed mostly to a manager who, in 2012, prioritized players making proper decisions and proper throws as something that was practiced heavily in the spring and not just assumed to be something that players were familiar with and ready to do.

The fact that you are correct and based on what we know the decision to drop the charges makes no sense could also make one wonder whether there is some other detail in this investigation we are unaware of, something that calls into question the CPD investigation that would be exposed if this case went to court, and that might also be part of the motivation.

Given that guys like Keuchel and Kimbrel have gone unsigned and it might only cost a 2nd round pick, if I had to guess, I'd say teams are over-valuing those picks rather than undervaluing them, but would be open to examples to counter that.

I can't quite tell what you're saying here so forgive me - does this mean that the White Sox should trade for a comp round pick and then if they signed a free agent with a QO, the comp pick is the one they'd lose for the signing?