Dick Allen

Our Chuck really likes Adam Eaton Chuck Garfien @ChuckGarfien · 15h My favorite Adam Eaton moment was when my dad was dying in the hospital, he had an old Corvette I needed to sell, Adam drove with his wife to South Holland on his day off to help me get the car started. Stellar human being.

https://www.nbcsports.com/chicago/white-sox/mlb-free-agency-why-white-sox-should-bring-back-adam-eaton-right-field

For the White Sox situation, there are no great options at a $7 million guarantee. IMO, they took the best one. Yonder Alonso cost $9 million and people were saying it was nothing, and he was a perfect fit even though he had only once in his career posted better than a 1.0 WAR.

Not really. Read our Chuck on Adam Eaton.

I don't get the utter lack of power at the bottom of the order line. It appears NSC got that from here. Seriously, Eaton hit 15 homers in 2019 . He is a 12 to 15 guy. Madrigal doesn't hit homers,, but you could put either one of those guys second in the order and you have big power 3-8.

Thank God he isn't on the committee because he is clueless. He had 8 years of a .900 + OPS that was when it wasn't HR or bust. The guy has the same career OPS+ as Frank Thomas and Willie Mays.

The lawyers that sign on to these cases should be sanctioned. It will just take one being disbarred before it stops.

Jenna Ellis has coronavirus. And she was at a big party Friday at the White House. Yet another 1600 Pensylvania Super Spreader Event. The sad thing is all these Trump people will get access to the antibodies treatment that seems to work really well. The same people whose failure to wear a mask or at least encourage others to wear one and has probably cost lives in the 6 figures get a sort of get out of jail free card while their cult members suffer and die. At least Chris Christie had some regret.

I don't think White Sox fans are falling for it anymore. We know where they shop.They give you the cashmere sweater with the red dot in the middle of it.(That's a Seinfeld reference)

Before giving an opinion, you would need to know the circumstance. He might have told them he doesn't want LaRussa questions.

Remember when some "insiders" thought the Sox would sign Machado and Harper? That was after they already traded for Alonso and signed Jay and Herrera. That was awesome.

I think he requested no Tony LaRussa questions. So they gave him a Tony Larussa question and he's the jerk.

If he played a full season he was on a 3.2 WAR pace in 2018 and put up a 2.3 WAR in 2019 and was good enough to be a regular on a WS winner. The decline isn't so massive. A couple of the players they were looking at were not as good as Mazara in 2020.

Unfortunately, the White Sox budget doesn't allow them to shop for players without warts.

I figured Springer was the elite. Then you had a tier of Joc, Eaton, Rosario, and Schwarber. Joc is probably the best one if everything goes right. He is also the most expensive, and even as Eaton's defense has declined, its still better than Rosario or Schwarber playing RF.

He's not coming off a bad year, but he's old and he's a friend, Soria.

He was a 2.3 wAR in 2019, and a 1.9 WAR in 95 games in 2018. That's not bad.

I get Joc might hit 40 homers, but he is the type of guy who seems to really struggle when he gets to the Sox. Switching leagues swing and miss guy. Plus, this way, JR has a couple more million to take with him to the grave.

So was Joc. At least he has a track record of hitting, and he hit pretty well in 2019 and in 2018 although he got hurt in 2018. But he is 9 months older than Springer.

Adam Eaton and Lance Lynn cost only $2 million more in total for a year than Alonso and Jay.

I'd put Eaton 2nd and Moncada 5th. Robert 6, Grandal 7 , Vaughn 8.

So they basically got Adam Eaton for stlightly more than Mazara's arb number.

Like Joc?

It was a little obnoxious, but I really think the guy was just sticking up for the kid who was stuck in the middle of the mess. The kid did nothing wrong.

I think what it means is as much as Frazier blasted Eaton, at least some who haven't been heard don't pin the entire problem on Eaton. If he was that much trouble, they wouldn't have bothered bringing him back.