Jack Parkman

With the universal DH, there's no reason to him ever to play anywhere else. If he's playing the field it should be when Benintendi has a day off.

And then he throws out his back trying to throw to 3B......

Salvy for Grandal?

Yeah Bedard is just on a completely different level.

I also think the restrictions JR puts on the org in the international market holds them back. What goes on in the DR and Venezuela is shitty, but if he wants to do that he has to make up for it with great scouting in the draft eligible areas and Asia and he doesn't.

Great post.

At this point, just trade his ass.

This seems like it has the potential to be 2016 part deux. A full rebuild, trading everyone just to be right back where we started. That's the White Sox for ya.

Yeah so you save 2 months service time? Do they get an extra year of control for that? IIRC since he got injured in ST and was on the 25 man roster in 2021 all of his time on the IL counts toward service time.

Yeah it's kinda bad news because there's a big drop off after the top 4.

I think the best choice for GC is to try to turn him into early career Josh Hader at this point but even when he was throwing 101 mph he had issues holding it for more than one inning. If they could bring him in for the 7th and go straight to the closer without having to use another pitcher that would really help.

Eloy, there's not 1 MLB team that thinks you can play the OF. Get used to DHing.

Bringing Crochet up in 2020 is right there with having Peavy start in September 2009 as some of the most myopic s%*# the Sox have pulled in the last 20 years.

Didn't you say August was most likely for a return for Crochet? It was 16-18 months, right?

They're better at talent evaluation.

The White Sox are exhibit A on how locking up young players early can go wrong.

They're only obvious and necessary because of the owner.

Based on the actions of the FO and ownership they were never serious. What Jerry/KW/Hahn have done from 2017-present is just like what the Hawks did in the mid to late 90s. They have pissed off the fanbase to the nth degree. When they trade players next winter the fans will hold a similar grudge that the Hawks fans did to Bill Wirtz. Sox fans are not coming back to the park until there is new ownership. It's already started.

Yes. And it was still blatantly obvious that Houston was on another planet. In 2021 the players all had good years and even Eloy/Robert were productive after their injuries. They still got pantsed by the Astros and it wasn't particularly close. As many players put it all together that year as you could possibly expect and they still failed. 2021 was the peak for this group and they couldn't win a round in the playoffs. If it wasn't obvious there was no window in June, then it damn sure was in October. I said it last winter, there was no realistic path to contention for the Sox without Jerry pulling a Cohen. And there is more of a chance of me both winning the powerball and getting struck by lightning on the way to turn in the ticket.

Go look at the receipts.

This has been obvious since June of 2021. The core isn't good enough. All 2022 and 2023 are doing is wasting time and team control and delaying the inevitable. They missed on the players. Not enough high end talent. It happens, time to tear it down and try again. I don't think these guys are ever going both stay healthy and put it together for a whole season. It will always be some combination of injuries and underperformance. I hope they're mediocre enough this year that they pull the band aid off in July. There was never any window.

Lol.