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    Grifol told Eloy to get some work in RF

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    2 minutes ago, Bob Sacamano said:

    I think people are over-reacting a bit to an off-season fluff piece. Of course he is still going to work on being an OF. He's not going to DH 162 games.

    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. 

    2022-23 NHL Thread

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    8 hours ago, SoxAce said:

    It's not a huge drop off. This draft class is ridiculously deep. The top 4 guys have the best chance to be impact players but there's plenty of guys who can be top 6-9 players.

    Make no mistake though.. this is Connor Bedard's draft. Michkov is the only other player who can be just as good as Bedard but he is a huge risk with the Russian factor.

    Yeah Bedard is just on a completely different level. 

    2023 MLB offseason signings and rumors thread

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    47 minutes ago, Chisoxfn said:

    100 percent - it also starts with the top and JR allows this to continue vs holding his people to a higher standard. Point blank - the bar should always be making playoffs  and with this org it clearly isn’t. 

    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. 

    2023 MLB offseason signings and rumors thread

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    1 hour ago, Chisoxfn said:

    The ownership sucks. More than ever it starts at the top. Reinsdorf is ok with ok/mediocre. His standards are soft and he is fine making money and being okay. 
     

    He has zero aspirations for greatness and will always treat this like a business Vs a hobby (that makes money in long run). 
     

    He is a good man - but as a fan - a lousy a owner cause mediocrity with a once every 50 years 2005 campaign where everything goes right is all we will ever get. Sad but true. Too low of a bar - not the right standard - no willingness to dig deep when it is needed or when you just have to to make a run. It’s sad but true. 

    Great post. 

    Let's make Crochet a starter?

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    1 hour ago, Balta1701 said:

    I think they will try to rush him back by May.

    I think the longer you give him the better it is. There are many examples of people like Severino and Syndergaard who have the surgery in spring training of a year and then barely pitch the entire next year - they threw 6 and 2 big league innings a full year after their surgery, respectively. We saw this with Rodon, he had his in May 2019, tried to come back in September 2020 and he was simply useless in a couple of relief innings. This is absolutely the norm for this surgery right now, guys coming back and trying to throw max effort after 14 or 15 months see poor results and a lot of pain.

    I think simply healing all the way is a 12 to 14 month process maybe longer for some guys. Once that is finished, you need to build your whole body back up into pitching strength, which often takes months or even a full offseason. I think we saw Verlander have success because he had the surgery, had 12-13 months to heal, and then did a full and complete offseason training routine. I think Rodon came back strong in 2021 because he completed a full offseason training routine and had his body fully together and in shape. Just because your elbow is now fine doesn't mean you have strengthened your legs and you have your full mechanics back. 

    I think in reality you shouldn’t count on Crochet for anything this year, you should assume it’s basically a lost season for him. He may well contribute more than that, but pushing him to do so isn’t likely to produce world beating results and may backfire. If you are counting on him to save the bullpen, look at the guys who threw 6 innings before winding up on the IL again and let me know what your plan is if that happens to Crochet.

    So personally, I’d bury him in Birmingham and bring him back super slowly once he was ready to see live hitting, and I’d just keep him there, I’d burn an option and not try to count on him for the big league bullpen at all. I would take any innings he could give and try to turn them towards long term development, rather than desperately trying to save the big league pen. This is way more consistent with how long the recoveries have been from TJS over the past 5 years. If there was a spot to call him up in September and his body was in good shape, fine, September callup when the rosters expand. 

    I don’t expect the White Sox to do anything other than try to desperately pull every inning out of him that they can for this years’ big league pen.

    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. 

    Let's make Crochet a starter?

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    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. 

    Let's make Crochet a starter?

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    3 hours ago, Balta1701 said:

    I have found 0 guys recently who had TJS and reached an active roster in less than 14 months. That means early May would be extremely aggressive with his return.

    Didn't you say August was most likely for a return for Crochet? 

    It was 16-18 months, right? 

    The problem with the White Sox is not 2B and RF, it's their "superstars."

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    11 hours ago, Tony said:

    He is a major part of it, yes.

    There are plenty of organizations much more successful than the White Sox that have done it with a much smaller payroll, consistently. I’m not saying there are serious limitations ownership has set on this FO, but let’s not pretend it’s an impossible task to build a winner with a $180 million payroll. It’s done every year. 

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

     

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    The problem with the White Sox is not 2B and RF, it's their "superstars."

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    58 minutes ago, Eminor3rd said:

    Right, they're almost forced into a rebuild after this year, regardless of results, because they changed absolutely NOTHING about how they operate from the previous failed "window" -- they developed almost no talent at all (practically the entire core is made up of prospects they traded for), invested in nothing whatsoever into depth or the production thereof, and spent their payroll budget like they have no idea how baseball works.

    I mean, it's crazy to think about but, even if they get to the World Series this year, they essentially STILL have to rebuild. Are they going to expand the payroll enough to re-sign their departing pitchers? Not if they actually have good platform seasons. The talk about building a system for "sustainable competitiveness" was either never serious or this is an utterly historic failure. Absolutely unbelievable that leadership hasn't been fired. I mean really insane.

    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. 

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    The problem with the White Sox is not 2B and RF, it's their "superstars."

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    24 minutes ago, Jose Abreu said:

    Isn't June of 2021 when the team was 43-25 (the best record in baseball) and all the (healthy) core players were having good to great seasons?

    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. 

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    The problem with the White Sox is not 2B and RF, it's their "superstars."

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    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. 

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