Dick Allen

The thing that sucks is when the Sox were bad they weren't signing the better players. They either came up short or were not involved. Obviously it's still early, but now they are good, but flawed, and still there is nothing to get excited about in the rumor mill.

I can't think a set up guy is going fot the jugular.

How pissed would people be if the Sox signed Joc? He was basically the Soxtaljk Conforto the last couple of years.

Didn't the Braves make a $100 million + profit last year?

The only 1b that are better than him are Freeman and Vlad Jr. The Braves must think Freddie is going to Pujols. It's hard to believe they didn't pony up.

There isn't a chance in hell it was the White Sox.

Again, he makes it sound like he's on the line with KW and RH, yet hasn't broken a signing yet.

The problem is when guys sign really late, like after the season has already begun, they usually have crappy numbers.

Except for Atlanta, yes. If Bauer was around, LA probably wins. If Glasnow pitches, the Rays have a better shot. I don't understand why you think losing major players shouldn't hurt teams if they are built properly. You cannot stash away All Stars in AAA. If McCullers gets hurt a week earlier, the Astros probably don't get past the White Sox.

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.