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Atlanta NYY Royals Guardians Athletics and Phillies getting disappointing contributions from CF. Harris and Bellinger unlikely to be changed out, especially with Acuna soon returning. Phillies and Dodgers speculated about now for months. Then you have the don't trade with AL Central opponents thing I guess.

The difference is the value/trade proposition for both guys. Especially if Robert can get up to a 750-800 ops by the end of May without missing more than a couple of games.

Should be close to $4.75 million at this point, 30+ games into the season. Guess Getz will run it down closer to $2.5 to $3.0 million. Although fan patience is already running quite thin. You run the risk of aliennating some of your minor leaguers when merit-based promotions are blocked when the player ahead of them is objectively now one of the worst performers on one of the worst teams in baseball for the second or third consecutive year.

And obviously all of last year vs. March/April of 2025 doesn't accurately reflect the best summer vacation months/giveaways/promotions. You have to do it game by competitive game...year on year, to be more accurate except you will have different opponents, game schedules and Monday through Thurs. vs. Fri Sat Sun more popular weekend dates. and obviously the weather is so changeable/variable.

Vargas is on an 8 game hitting streak and Robert just might have turned the corner...at any rate, they're much more competitive than last season, even if the actual record isn't dramatically better. The overall feeling around the team is definitely a different vibe than last year with Grifol.

“I don’t know. All I know is I caught the ball,” said Robert, in English, before returning to interpreter Billy Russo for the remainder of the conversation. “I knew it was a very high fly ball and I knew that I had a chance to make the catch.” “Just kind of a sigh of relief that I was out of it and from there you just go in with your stuff,” Burke said. “I definitely think that catch helped out a ton.” chisox.com

Lol. Not even $80 million....even the Pirates have beaten that, and A's with Rooker Severino Butler long/er term deals burying the Sox. Not to mention Jacob Wilson and Kurtz as well would be next in line with Mason Miller.

Biggest positive surprise Jung Hoo Lee (9 votes) Carson Kelly (3 votes) Pete Crow-Armstrong (1 vote) Rhys Hoskins (1 vote) Gavin Lux (1 vote) Geraldo Perdomo (1 vote) Jorge Polanco (1 vote) Eugenio Suárez (1 vote) Spencer Torkelson (1 vote) Luis Robert Jr. had one vote for Biggest Disappointment...Willie Adames won the voting there https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-executives-on-early-surprises-disappointments-2025

quite common in A ball the sb numbers will all start to slide or normalize once players hit AA

Javy Baez 301/787 Homers in two consecutive games...

True stars would never in million years blame anyone but themselves. Beckham Konerko and Quentin expressed this idea quite consistently, about being their own worst enemies mentally/psychologically. Almost like battling personal demons.

Just like picking the WRONG FA's has been the White Sox special niche talent ever since 2011. JR would probably say... well look where we'd be now with Santander AND Benintendi both still on the books??? It's spending wisely...allocative efficiency... not the unwillingness to ever spend over $5 million again.

Robert staying healthy is the biggest thing for this organization now... except for maybe the Big 3 pitchers and Braden/Teel. If he nets a very nice return, Shane Smith and those acquired prospects help cancel out Colson's fall off a cliff.

60-65% of FA deals go this way. Probably close to 70-75% for Tier B. Santander was never a true star... just had that one great outlying season heading into FA which happens all the time before early the inevitable 30s fall off. It's why Machado or Juan Soto or Kyle Tucker or Guerrero Jr., whoever hits FA at ages 26-28, are so nuch more valuable. Majority are high school and Latin American players.

If you can go full bore for 2-3 innings like Joel Zumaya or Andruw Miller back in the day... sure. Regardless of right or left handedness. Pallette has good stuff but it's not elite. Grant Taylor or Shane Smith as a reliever would be much closer. Oppor/McDougal, too.

Reinsdorf is the only one we want "injured/incapacitated" enough that he is forced to relinquish control to Ishbia, so that this "ship" can finally turn the corner. Not rooting for, exactly, but...

Yes, I know, just like Eder didn't have nearly enough days rostered at the big league level to qualify. WestEddy declared a victory today for OPSing about 650, which is still WELL below average for a legit big league 3B. For the Sox, it makes him the second best player statistically after Matt Thaiss.

Konerko... why not? Delmonico? Palka? More of a RFer...well sorta.

Eder, if he qualified for a big league pension...ala Jamey Carroll.

Vision Quest...whatever, this adventure is coming to an end sooner or later.

Semien won an MVP and Bassitt still is Top Fifteen MLB pitching fWAR all these year later.

https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders/major-league?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&type=8&season=2025&team=4&qual=30 Maton Palacios Amaya Vaughn only negative fWAR guys remaining

Just wait one more month and hope and pray no more injuries...and at least 3-5 contenders become increasingly interested.

Relievers don't belong in the Top Ten of a Top Five MiLB system unless they're going to be the next Em. Clase. Oppor McDougal more upside. Wolkow eliminated by one bad month? Bergolla and Jeral Perez here maybe...slim pickings. Injuries have killed half of #10-20.

Or the old bromide, adding by subtraction and bringing up Elko is just as good or better than expending trade capital.