caulfield12

The quest for LH hitting knows no boundaries.

Pretty soon we can have our own Crime Scene Investigation program...

The White Sox have no clue how to go about signing lower budget guys. Historically, the overall value in terms of $/fWAR for superstars has always been better than for the next level or two. Of course, that’s only about 2-3 players every offseason, this year, Cole and Rendon. But I guess we’ll have another 38 games to watch in 2020 and see firsthand if the Twins and Indians can pull off the trick of competing with limited/mid or small market budgets. It took internal guys like Kepler and Polanco stepping it up to really turn the Twins around. We have six positions theoretically covered, so simply need 1.5-2.0ish contributions from RF, DH and catcher. The pitching staff is the much bigger question mark.

Fine, then be the Twins in 2019. The problem with that is coming up short in the playoffs and who’s capable of actually picking 2nd/3rd Tier free agents like its 2004-2005 all over again?

Colome was a trade...

2.4 fWAR with a -15.1 on defense

B-/C+ because of the lack of progress in the minors beyond the obvious top guys. If Collins is actually for real, it COULD become a B. That said, we still have major questions about every aspect of pitching beyond Giolito and still don’t have a very solid RH bullpen option other than Colome, who will be gone after next year. Everything rotation-wise hinges on Kopech and Cease. And Herrera is the Amazon rain forest. As for position players, Anderson’s defense this year is partially negating his nice offensive breakthrough in what projected as another 20/20 season. Same thing with Jimenez. Unless we go back to GregStats, he will struggle by ANY type of WAR measure. And how much of McCann’s offense is sustainable? The clock is ticking. The scary part is the Sox have consistently failed at finding even replacement level hitting out of RF and DH for seemingly a half decade or longer. That’s supposed to be the easy part. Up the middle of the diamond and 3B are the premium positions, which should be covered for the first time with the delayed arrivals of Madrigal and Robert.

https://www.mlb.com/news/mike-shirley-named-white-sox-amateur-scouting-director https://sportsmockery.com/2019/09/the-white-sox-have-a-new-director-of-amateur-scouting/ “Mike Shirley, in addition to being a White Sox crosschecker, has been a personal hitting instructor for kids (11-17 year olds) in the Indianapolis area. He knows his hitting. Let's see if that influences his future picks for the White Sox.” joshnelson You won’t find much better job security than working for the White Sox. Shirley’s been with the organization for 20 years. Here’s Hahn on the promotion of Shirley. “We are incredibly pleased to be able to promote Mike as the new director of amateur scouting. Mike has spent two decades in our organization, serving in just about every capacity within the scouting department. He is a very well-regarded and versatile scout with a substantial evaluation track record and a facility with objective analysis.”

Valentin was the best baserunner in recent Sox history for someone lacking blazing speed...very instinctual, like Kris Bryant.

Jose Valentin, who learned elsewhere.

NO NO NO. He finishes hot and then he ends up being penciled into the 2020 roster again.

In the end, you have to get two stud players out of those deals instead of merely saving on payroll. We all knew how volatile the ceilings and floors were with Kopech. Lopez is likewise proving to be an enigma, and then there's the debate about the back-end of the Sale deal being way too weak (should have held out for a better 3rd player instead of taking two wild cards back.) Someone like a Chavis who at least had the ability to hit.

Felt like Belle had most of his big numbers in garbage time that one prolific season he put up for the Sox... Abreu is what he is at this point. A decent value for $8-12 million, but a waste of resources at anything over $14-15 million.

The worst part is they thought Palka (defensively) or Jay were legitimate answers...or Cordell/Engel/Tilson. Just more bad talent evaluation.

We couldn't have offered him that amount...but he's definitely contributed positively to their wild card chase when healthy. With Hahn/KW basically admitting they don't have enough money to keep all their guys internally (like Moncada or Giolito) and spend huge in FA, it would have been shocking had they shelled out $40-50 million for a 3-4 year extension...especially with 4.5 prospects (if you still include Basabe) stacked up at that position in Adolfo, Walker, Rutherford and Gonzalez.

Jimenez about to pass McCann on the OPS charts... How many times in the last, oh, say decade...has everyone written how easy it is to find "acceptable" hitters at the corner outfield spots, 1B and DH. The White Sox, other than Jose Abreu, have spent a decade whiffing at this seemingly simplest task of all. In an era when every hitter's putting up 25-35 homers, that's inexcusable. Pitching, well...everyone knows how much volatility there is in that area, at least in terms of bullpens. Yet we choose the one reliever who anyone who followed the Royals from 2014-17 could have told you wasn't the same pitcher. He was broken, just like Carl Edwards, Jr.

Yes, the Reds were the only team he played for after LAD. Yolmer should not be a fixture as anything but Gatorade Midwest Regional Sales Associate.

Be careful, the "unprecedented financial flexibility...we competitively offered Tanaka/Machado/Harper...and signed Robert over StL" brigade will come after you with pitchforks if you suggest anyone is priced out of our market.

They're not going to give Rendon the biggest contract in free agency this year, then stick him at a position where he's not even that confident compared to 3B. If that's the plan, might as well make him a corner outfielder, but that doesn't make much sense, either. (And no, we're still not going to be able to trade Madrigal for a TOR until he's a proven 3-4 fWAR player at the big league level...still a number of skeptics out there.)

Gordon won’t move to RF for just one season...just to keep his career going with the White Sox. He’d retire or become a coach...something like the Thome role.

The Mets aren’t going to just give Nimmo away. Haniger is the better bet, because of the situation Seattle finds itself in...comfort in AL, price tags is way down from previous years but there’s still X amount of risk that will never go away when you’re looking to add difference makers instead of complementary players. You can make the same risk/reward move with Wil Myers and take on a salary subsidy from SD if you believe in his talent and your overall scouting. He didn’t respond well to inconsistent playing time and being forced into CF for much of the season, which is one of the main reasons they traded Reyes at peak...

Wasn’t Piscotty traded specifically so he could be closer to his family on the West Coast? On December 14, 2017, the Cardinals traded Piscotty to the Oakland Athletics in exchange for Yairo Muñoz and Max Schrock.[40] The trade came at the request of Piscotty who wished to be closer to his mother, Gretchen, who was battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).[41][42] Gretchen would pass away on May 6, 2018. Still think, overall, he’s probably a better fit for the A’s.

Wanting to go with Micah Johnson as a major league starter is indication enough of the talent evaluation problems. Two years ago, it was thinking Jacob "Poor Man's Jerry Owens" May had a big league future. We can't even get the back-up catcher thing right. We're paying Welington Castillo millions to record a -1.1 fWAR this year, while Phegley, Dustin Garneau, Narvaez and Tyler Flowers have been worth +4 fWAR. If anyone on this board projected Johnson to be a long-time starter and Semien to be merely a AAAA player, then would be ridiculed or more likely flambéd.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/sounds-luis-robert-season-over-234206618.html Luis "Roberts" (see the misspelled Dash jersey at his IG) says SEE YOU NEXT YEAR! Seems he deleted it because he was afraid it would seem he was criticizing either an affiliate or someone in the Sox front office, lol...

Apparently you've never read The Catcher in the Rye...or you wouldn't be making the same spelling mistake over and over again.