Dick Allen

Probably cost them a WS.

A guy on MLBN said LaRussa was the driving force in the Kelly signing. Tony was working for Boston when Kelly was there.

What do you think about Gavim moving forward?. Obviously defense isn't his thing, but can he be a nice platoon left handed DH type, who you hide on the field occasionally and hope it's not hit his way? Or is he a Palka, Delmonico type, never really highly regarded but had some early success before the league adjusted? I really have no idea myself. I was quite surprised with all the big hits he supplied last season.

Looks like there will be expanded rosters at least for the first couple of weeks. Chances are he spends most of the 2022 baseball seaon in AAA.

So far NSC is 0 fer on the Sox moves even though he tries to make ir seem hes in the room.

Especially this year with the short spring training. The starters their first few starts are glorified openers.

Especially these days with fewer balls in play. You have to figure the team will address its lack of LH hitting pretty soon. They are more RH now than they were at the end of the season.

Trading for the highest performing reliever on the market isn't a bad idea. I didn't like what they traded but that is over. We will see what they get for him. If it's a token return, they compounded their mistake by picking up the option. Think of all the time the Sox FO I'd spending on it right now when it should be spending that time on other things.

BtW, the numbers you use for Pods are very similar except for a lower UZR rating as Carlos Lee when he last played LF for the Sox in 2004. Would you say he was excellent?

He was a 1.9 WAR player. Even with his bad glove, I think Eloy will pummel that number if he plays the sane amount of games.

I Expecting guys just returning from TJS to be nails isn’t a winning formula.

Might want to look again. He wasn’t awful, but not excellent.

Yates will miss at least half, if not the entire season.

Pods wasn’t exactly a Gold Glover.

No he wasn’t but he wasn’t good. In fact, fangraphs had him worse than Vaughn last year.

That’s what I am thinking. They have Stone mentioning every time he makes a media appearance how Eloy misses cutoff men. I’ve seen him miss cutoff men, but Stone makes it seem like it’s 5 times a game. Again, I hope I am wrong, but I just have a feeling.

I have never met him, so I have no idea, but even if he is an oddball, it didn’t seem to effect the team when he was on the roster.

I’m not too concerned with RF defense. The Sox won the WS with a bad defensive RF who was the WS MVP. With Robert in CF and Engel for late innings, i doubt A poor defender in RF, as long as the bat is really productive, is going to cost you wins.

For some reason, I have a feeling the Sox are thinking of trading Eloy. I hope not. I think if he can play 150 games, he’s a 40 homer guy, easy.

The one concern with Madrigal, and it is legit, is health, but even if he plays half the season at this point, he is far more cost effective than what he was replaced with. If JR starts throwing money around like he just won the Powerball, OK. But a Harrison signing tells me, he’s still looking for a bargain at TJMaxx.

The team is still stacked and should win the division , and if not win the division, make the playoffs pretty easily. I would just like then to go for the jugular once in a while, instead of always settling for the just good enough.They have such an advantage in their division. They are the only team that doesn’t qualify for revenue sharing dollars. They should dominate year in and year out.

You’ll be happy to note Stone mentioned a back up catcher several times during his Score appearance yesterday.

Not really. They had Madrigal, a minimum guy doing a good job. Replaced him with a more expensive , less productive guy. Then replaced him with an even more expensive even less productive guy. I had no issue with the Sox acquiring Kimbrel. I did have a problem with them giving up Madrigal , and I mentioned it right away. It was going to cost you a lot more to get what he brought. It’s costing them a lot more for lesser players. I am assuming the Kelly signing means they have found a Kimbrel taker, but I would never have thought Harrison was their 2B solution, so that assumption may be wrong too. Except for2005, the only year the White Sox ever won a playoff series in 99.99% of the living populations lifetime, these type of signings have mostly blown up in their face. And it seems likely it will happen again. It would have been nice if when it was time for the rebuild, JR realized part of the problem was the guys whose decisions hardly ever seemed to work out, and hired someone else to give it a shot.

Has Brett Lawrie’s feet healed yet?

I'm pretty sure the Sox has something else in mind for 2B or they probably would have kept Cesar.