Dick Allen

Vargas has a sprained wrist. Placed on the IL. Elko returns.

I have no problem with it, it actually makes a ton of sense. As long as they pick the best one. They know them better than me, but I have to think Teel is the guy I would keep, but Quero should be worth a lot, even more than a month of Lucas Giolito. Even RH fell into a good one once in a while.

It is a talking point because bringing him back makes no sense. Another major leg injury. The only reason they would bring him back is for him to play better and they could get a couple of decent prospects for him. That's best case scenerio That would cost the White Sox at least another $10 million, if everything worked out. Why don't they let him go, and take that 10 million and try to buy a couple of middling prospects? At least as good of result, way less risk. Just because they didn't trade him in July is no reason to have to hold on to him now. To me, THAT is a fireable offense. But there have been many fireable offenses over the years that just came and went.

Yeah, that's what I meant. They were afraid the top of a rotation starter might accept for less than they will have to pay Robert.

This is the team that non tendered Carlos Rodon when they actually were contending. There is no way they pick up Robert now.

His HR prowess has been incredible. It will be interesting to see where he winds up power wise, but if he's at 35-40 homers, a lot of other things can be mediocre at best and he still would be a pretty valuable player.

I think you can get him cheaper. Of course Siroka got $9 million so I'm probably wrong.

Very few major league catchers consistently put up those numbers. To think 2 on the same team will IMO isn’t realistic. But if they can, great.

The issue I have is it's hard to imagine Quero and Teel keeping their current pace, especially the OBP. Colson has been Aaron Judge. Hopefully, the average and OBP go up, but you have to figure he isn't going to keep up his current HR pace. Meidroth is a guy who could put up bigger numbers Personally, i believe the offense will go a little backwards, at least from what weve seen the last month, unless they sign or trade for some more offense, and that doesn't seem too likely. And I still won't believe they will pay Robert $20 million next year until they actually do.

Can Schriffen just stay on vacation? McKnight is much better.

It's not looking good for .500.

I remember when 69 win seasons were calls to clean house.

I would feel much better about Baldwin as an OF if he could actually catch a flyball. He's dropped more than one. Reminds me of a more mobile Ron Kittle. Back in the day I read where Greg Luzinski of all people, played the role of Carnac, an old Johnny Carson bit where he gives the answer then opens an envelop with the question. The answer was Catch 22. The question was what would Ron Kittle do if you hit him 100 flyballs. I feel Baldwin is very similar with the leather.

If Mead does nothing, it was a big win for Getz.

The biggest problem with all his manufactured excitement is he knows very little about the White Sox. I bet before he interviewed for the job, he couldn’t name 5 guys on the roster. Now he’s supposedly a Bill Veeck expert, but last year he didn’t know how to pronounce his name. It really make all his exuberance seem even more insincere.

Even in Wrigleyille, those businesses make nothing off season. Goose Island used to have a place there but lost their lease. The landlord wanted to put them on a month to month, but they wouldn't do it because they would get screwed if he stopped it before or during baseball season, the only time they made money.

I find it hard to believe Houser doesn't go.

Of course it wouldn't, but that doesn't matter to JR. They can use that money elsewhere.

So unless he's Ohtani the rest of the season, JR is taking the buyout.

Does anyone really think the Sox will pick up Robert's option if JR isn't convinced he's almost guaranteed to be a $30 million player next season?

I think they hold on.

The Master is on the move.

I understand the concept of picking up his option, but if they don't trade him and he's not spectacular the rest of the season, JR isn't picking it up. He doesn't like paying good players. He certainly isn't going to give $20 million to a question mark if he can easily avoid it.

If they can get what they got for Slater, that's a pretty big win for Getz overall.

For over 50 years now, I have always thought he was the only guy that looked cool wearing a helmet in the field. Everyone else looked like a dork.