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Moncada's stats tell a different story. He has the 8th highest fWAR of all 3B since 2020, despite not playing in 2022 at all. If you include 2019 he is 6th.

Yes, because Jake's right handed .230 with no defensive help at all is of a big value right now.

Yoan Moncada is a gold glove nominee.

It's about roster management. Jake Burger can play a passable 3B and 1B. We have like 10 guys on the roster who can play 1st. No room there. Jake Burger is also right handed in a roster full of right handers. Yoan Moncada is the White Sox starting 3B, and the best 3B on the roster offensively, defensively, singingly, and sexily. Yoan is better than Jake Burger in every facet of the game except fairy tail story. Any argument otherwise is trash both figuratively and on any fact basis. Leury plays every position except catcher. Same with Harrison. They both even play 3B defensively as good, or probably better than Burger does. They can also contribute at 2nd, SS, and in the OF defensively. Burger does none of those. Danny Mendick has a gold glove nomination at 2B. They were afraid to let Burger even play 2nd. Mendick can also fill in at SS, and in the OF in a pinch. Again, not Burger. Heck Danny Mendick has put up about 100 higher OPS points or a 112 + number, vs Burgers 87. Gavin Sheets has shown an ability to stand in the OF. Burger has not. Gavin Sheets can provide left handed power. Jake Burger cannot. When you make up a bench, you want to make sure that the guys you have on it do somethings that compliment the rest of your roster. If Jake Burger isn't hitting, which he hasn't since the Slider train showed up, he brings no value to the bench.

That's a paddlin

Watching people do the bullride was something else.

I was actually in Mickey Gillys as a kid. Wild place.

Romy is hurt.

Moncada.

Not just 35% better, but 35 percentage points better. He is about 50% better.

I know you want to rope everyone possible into this, but Jake can't play defensively anywhere other than 3rd or 1st. Harrison, Mendick, and Leury all have somewhere between decent and plus defensive abilities at all of the infield positions. Jake has a passable 3B. Sheets is left handed, and seems to be able to at least stand in the OF, something Burger hasn't been able to do either. Burgers last week has been .235.333.235.569. If Jake isn't hitting, which he hasn't been since about the first week of the season, he isn't going to be able to stick and he DEFINITELY isn't better than Yoan Moncada.

Maybe it needs to be in gif format so he understands? Words are hard.

Try again.

There are those hurt feelings. Take the L man.

Where you all during the great Jake Burger riots of 22?

Burger doesn't help them at all defensively, and was in an offensive free fall anyway.

Only for April

Officially a free agent now

The argument seems to be that Sox fans would have rather had a bad team with a good offseason than a good team with a bad offseason.

Apparently it would have been better to be a bad team with a good offseason, than a good team with a bad one.

Your biggest fear is that the Sox win the World Series and you can still find something to be upset about? Umm, sure. Love to have that problem.

It tells me exactly what we have heard all winter. There isn't much excitement for Sox fans around this team, and it is translating to slow attendance at the ballpark. All thought I am sure the "fairweather" part might be a small part of it.