Dick Allen

Wearing their alternate pinstripes tonight.

There has never been a player who hasn't struggled.

This is exactly how I feel. It is not like the money had to be spent this past year, and from those who say it does, then what are you clinging to thinking the White Slx will have massive payrolls down the road? They have been banking money to use down the road, and it's already a shit show.

$25 million a year 9 years from now seemed to be a big deal, The $9 million is still money that could have beeen spent on something else, just like Jays money and Novas money. Eventually it all adds up to a very significant sum. If you buy The company line that every dime that comes in gets spent, these misses take its toll because they cannot spend it on something that would have been worthwhile. Hahn tried to sell it as a solid baseball move. Some actually bought it. There is a whole thread about how he changes the line up, and when the trade was made, more than a couple gushed about how good he was. He has put up better than a 1.1 fWAR once in his life. He has a 5 career fWAR in over 1000 games. He just isn’t very good, and really never has been.

Coop will fix em. I have the weekend split package which as of a couple of years ago no longer included all the weekend games. However, It seems this package used to get a bloated number of James Shields starts, and now that he is gone, it seems we never miss an Ivan Nova turn. as much as we know no matter what is ever said, that Alonso and Jay were White Sox because of Machado, I wonder if Nova is as well. The Sox could have waited and saved some money going after a pitcher or two or three with similar expectations except for probably Innings, but maybe they wanted to have someone in place to make Machado think they could actually do something this year.

I am pretty sure it is a photo from last season.

Not really. They have another year of control, and he is currently sporting a .413 BABIP. That won’t be sustainable.

I know it is now hip to hate Jose Abreu, but the new narrative that he won't DH is a bit ridiculous. He has done it 22 times, besides there is nothing that prevents Collins from doing it.

Everyone has a nice OPS in Charlotte.

Whatever. I would have preferred an infielder, but Leury at SS for a little while could be interesting to watch. Palka sucks, but so do all the others they would have called up. I just hope Collins gets his ABs while he is up, or calling him up was stupid.

If Collins is a building block, you either have to play him or send him back to Charlotte. Having him play infrequently does no one any good.

Fegan said that Collins was taking reps at 1B every day in Boston, and the plan seems to be to catch him once or twice a week and have him 1B/DH the rest of the time.

You post replies like this and someone else is the weirdo?

Yeah the Sox may take a PR hit here. Maybe waiting a couple of days avoids that, but it was overdue and no one could justify his roster spot. I am sure all of his now ex teammates will still be at his event, and unlike most humans losing his job isn't going to hurt his bank account.

I am not a Hahn guy. I think he is smart, seems like a good guy, but if I had a team, he would have zero chance of being the GM. That said, at least he cut bait on this mistake. I just wonder had they signed Machado would Yonder had a job no matter what?

Probably.

Rick once put together a Major League team that finished as close as 16.5 games to winning a division. This guy is a baseball savant.

What is the fascination with Mendick?

They did give him plenty of opportunities to snap out of it. He never did. This was going to happen one way or another anyway, cut bait and let Collins strikeout for a while. Maybe he can figure things out.

Taylor St. aka Rick's kid would probably say he's killing it. Only paid $230,769.23 per hit for Yonder.

Probably bring up a pitcher and an infielder for him and Anderson. Give Collins Yonder's ABs. Or since Leury is playing SS, maybe the return of Engel.

You watch the replay, and it doesn't look as gruesome as a lot of them, but who really knows what happened inside.

The guy is on pace for over 80 extra base hits and he is driving in lots of runs.

WTF?

Reliever WAR is a bit crazy to use. Mariano Rivera, who was a no doubt first ballot HOFer, made it to 3 WAR a couple of times, but was generally a 2-2.5 guy. So using a reliever's WAR vs. a position player's isn't really accurate.