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After COVID and the start that Grandal has been off to? I don't buy it.

There is no question that this season the Sox pitching depth, specifically their drafting and development, as well as their minor league scouting, has saved the asses of this team so far. With injury after injury, they have brought up pitcher after pitcher who has contributed to this start and they have largely been one of the best bullpens in baseball from top to bottom.

Who is going to be willing to take on that deal right now?

First off, if you don't make the playoffs, you get nothing. So for half of the league this year, and 3/4 of the league in a normal year playoff money means nothing. For anyone who is in the playoffs, they don't get their salary. All players get the same amount as all of the other players as they all share a pot of dollars based on how far you team makes it, that gets divided up evenly between everybody with a share. Owners keep that difference. Last year a share of the wild card round was worth about 14k. Remember the lowest paid players make around 100k a month for the regular season, or about 3k per day. A guy like Mike Trout is making about $6 million a month. Teams that lost in the division round make about 35k each, or about a week and a half's worth of pay at the minimum rate, which when you add in the wild card games, is about how long the first round would take. The average mlb salary is about $4.5 million, or 750k a month, or about 200k a week. So a guy making an AVERAGE salary is probably taking around an 85-90% paycut on his normal salary in the playoffs. The losers of the championship series got about 115k for a few weeks worth of play, or around 1.5 times the MLB minimum rate. The World Series losers got $250k, for a months worth of play, or about 3X's the MLB minimum, working out to a paycheck that a guy making about 1.5 million a season would get. The World Champs got 380k for a month's worth of play, or the average paycheck for a MLB player earning about $2.5 million a season. Again, the playoffs are all about the owners when it comes to dollars.

I still don't see why the Sox would offer him top dollar to be a part time player when they have other holes to fill and no starting position to use McCann at, especially when they could well be looking at filling RF and SP at a minimum this off season. Also why would McCann sign a deal here, when he could pick his own team in the off season?

But what does his carry rate look like?

Actually on this topic, I do have to say, that the Sox took a guy who had been pretty awful in his career. He had been a pretty medicore to bad player for his Tigers career. He came to the Sox and got turned into an all-star, and seems to be repeating those successes this year. This is a pretty nice success for Sox in terms of major league scouting and player development.

Not even 2 months. We are talking 4-6 weeks depending on when a deal happens. We are already at 34 games left in this season for the Sox.

5 weeks of James McCann isn't going to get you a "young starter" unless you mean a very low level minor league starter that isn't very highly ranked.

I agree fully, and I don't think there are really questions about it. McCann will finish this season as a White Sox McCann will begin next season with a lot of money to be a starting catcher for a team other than the White Sox

And punt on this season? Seems like an awful idea when we are in position to make the playoffs for the first time in how many years?

Dude has been here for years. Can we at least spell his name right? It isn't even that hard of a name either.

It will take a player/coach/umpire death.

The other part of this is if we bring back McCann for years down the road, we also block Vaughn for a longer period of time, by pushing a lot of McCann ABs into the DH slot. You still have Jose Abreu on this team for another couple of years, and he will need somewhere to play. Even if you think Vaughn should play 1B, he isn't going to come in and shove Abreu out if he has no where to play. Abreu might end up going to DH, but they aren't going to bench Abreu for McCann or Vaughn, which means Vaughn won't have an open slot.

Then why would the Sox shoot themselves in the foot at the deadline by weakening a probably playoff team?

Last I heard, no QOs this winter was the rumor.

No one is giving that up for 5 weeks of Jim McCann. You might get a teams top 75 player, but not a league top 75.

You are throwing around "stats" like it has some meaning at this point.

That is waaaay to simplistic.

Yeah, just for the record, Gios worst start of the year was against the Twins. I really don't think having Pudge himself catch that hame would have made a difference. He has a 5.34 career era against them, so it isn't like this was a big outlier. He was great against Cleveland, Detroit, and a depleted Milwaukee offense. Again is there a real difference to be made there? It's not like shut down the 27 Yankees there.

Play out the string and thank him for helping us win a title.

Bulls pull down the #4 pick

9-1 so far against Detroit and KC. That will win you a lot of divisions.

Line dancing? Sorry, McCann has to go.

It was, thanks Detroit!