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Sure. But is it 50 60 or 75 cents on the open market in terms of of instant position player impact? At a premium spot in the OF? Those guys don't exactly grow on trees anymore.

His contact information has negative f and b WaR attached.

It’s quite possible that a team acquiring Crochet may have to offer a contract extension for him to lift those innings restrictions in the second half because of the potential of an injury risk. Seem to remember getting pounced on ... for thinking the same exact way other front offices might be thinking with wanting an extension baked in to mitigate rather than add to the risk.

(Montgomery Quero Ramos Ja. Gonzalez) Wolkow Ro.Hernandez Wilfred Veras Baldwin Elko Zavala With the normal Sox bust rate, we would be quite successful with just TWO 2-3 fWAR/bWAR starters from this above list. Three would be absolutely outstanding….considering the falloff after the top tier. That gives you Lee/Quero, 2/3rd’s of the left side and middle infield spots, Vaughn/Sheets…and the need for 3-4 more impact hitters from almost the entire outfield and DH since we know Benintendi isn't going anywhere at this rate. Likely a plus defensive SS, even those guys under 30 are going to cost $75-125 million. So THREE absolute young studs…the equivalent of Robert Moncada Jimenez in 2019. Or two $150-250 million caliber FAs if the hitting talent doesn't come through via trade. At least one as the anchor/linchpin. Lots of room for skepticism…watching Sosa Colas Fletcher DeLoach, etc.

Here’s a sobering fact: only one pitcher has had Tommy John surgery and made the baseball HOF... "That one pitcher was John Smoltz. No one else has made it including the man for which the procedure was named after. Chris Sale was certainly on a Hall of Fame track and now he almost assuredly won’t come close to making it. We know that the median TJ pitcher only pitches 130 innings the rest of his career post surgery. And Sale is older than the median." Justin Verlander will be the second. Crochet all the way up to 94.3 IP as of today...having averaged 94.4 pitches over 91 85 102 91 and 103 his last five starts. Sox should start limiting him to 5 IP to preserve him as much as possible and also due to increasing heat/summer humidity wearing him down. Still would keep him on regular schedule and knock pitch counts down to a much more teasonable 65-80ish range.

And haven’t even really had a consistent/identifiable approach at that spot since Greg Walker.

Bulls have their own Benintendi deal. Impressive! Not!

Including the suddenly forgotten Ramos...

Congrats to former Sox PHP Bailey Horn for recording his first career MLB strikeout with Boston. We hardly knew ye.

https://www.si.com/mlb/padres/san-diego-padres-news/padres-fernando-tatis-jr-could-need-months-to-recover-report-01j18p57ts5e The curse continues with anyone connected to Sox…this writer shouldn’t be suggesting a stress reaction in the leg will have a player out for months, but who knows? Ptac?

Cannon not yet really considered a core prospect....needs to put up similar results the next three months.

PCA is this decade's Brian Anderson.

Ten errors on DeJong. You expected a BIT better than a 20+ error pace for the entire season when that's his calling card.

The axiom about managers only making 2-3 games of difference in the standings....maybe 3-5, over the course of a full season? Well, the freaking SF Giants are right in the middle of the WC race with THAT roster? Heliot Ramos, Chapman and Soler are their three most recognizable players on offense. No way that Pedro would have them more than 10-15 games of .500...just no possible way. Shuster's REVENGE, lol. Actually don't mind 100% penciling him into the 2025 roster. (compared to Lopez, Soroka and Shewmake.)

Somehow, the front office has reached a conclusion that he could somehow assist in selling tickets as a relatively identifiable player, but just not seeing it at all. Everyone knew that Crochet and Robert was all that was left...just as soon as Cease's plane touched down in South Korea this spring.

Not if they don't have any viable replacements...I have a feeling Grifol doesn't have the patience to play ELKO almost every single day when the team's foundering on the rocks yet again in 2025. Or watching Fletcher/Ortega/DeLoach yet again. Sox currently have well over $100 million in the "wasted" contracts salary list...we should ALL wonder why Getz isn't being held accountable for doing anything productive with MOST of that money??? Sure, there's Moncada, Jimenez, Robert and Benintendi, blame that all on Hahn....but there's another $30-40 million that can't so easily be explained away. Guardians +24 Twins +8 -8 GB Royals +6 -9 GB Tigers -6 -15 GB Miami -24 -24 GB White Sox -40 -32 GB At least the Cubs have earned the opportunity to be -8 to .500 and one of the most disappointing teams in baseball this year. So much for Ron's plan to follow them into years of glory.

Julks Benintendi and Korey Lee are the only players on the positional player side likely to be 50/50 returnees or higher. With Sheets, it feels like at least 1/4 or 1/3 odds that he will still be around, NOBODY wants to trade for him, he's one of those salaries like Brebbia, Soroka, Maldonado or Lopez that are adding little to no value and aren't part of the future. Vaughn, even higher than Sheets...they spent the entire offseason hyping it up as a "franchise-level" player and human being....then he ended up having a similar career to Gordon Beckham as yet another busted first round draft pick.

That's WHAT EVERYONE said about Sheets in 2021 and 2022...and yet here we are still. Without a RFer, still....or many left handed at-bats that will still be on the roster. If Vaughn's not going to be terrible expensive in arbitration (why would he be, he hasn't been up overwhelming numbers, nor does he play strong defense, or run at all/well???), they will go along with Andrew, as Pete Alonso's not signing with the White Sox for all the tea in China, as the saying goes.

Sosa has to be getting near the end of all that rope he's been extended... Time to give Ramos and/or Baldwin a shot to prove themselves. Neither of those guys are truly "premium" prospects by any stretch of the imagination, at least not at this point in their young careers.

You're forgetting the history of the White Sox for the last two plus decades pushing up Top 5ish positional prospects that are usually not finished products, but are considered to be so due to their time at the top level of NCAA baseball. That's almost aways been the profile before Montgomery (and Tim Anderson), not wanting to wait a full 4-5 seasons for true preps to take in contributing at the major league level.

If it's Wetherholt, someone who can stick at second. Cags, at least we finally get rid of Vaughn and/or Sheets...allowing Sox fans and front office to FINALLY move on and make a clean break with the end of Hahn's positional players in the next 4-9 months, (to go along with Moncada, Robert, Jimenez and maybe even Benintendi.) The problem is the Sox outfield future looks pretty underwhelming right now. Well, it's WORSE THAN that even.

Robert FINALLY back over the Mendoza Line, now at .206. At least .230's or .240's would be much nicer for Sox trade purposes....reversing his downward trend line.

Underestimated how "average" the Braves' offense was after the Top 3 hitters and ofc without Ozuna. Riley, Olson, Murphy, Duvall, Arcia, etc., were all much much better last season. Same with Albies having a disappointing year...Marcell Ozuna is REALLY carrying that line-up at his age, pretty astounding when he almost looked like he might end up out of baseball entirely.

And Grifol brings in arguably one of his 2-3 worst relievers on the entire roster in Justin Anderson. SIGH.

The Padres have SEVEN original/natural SS's in Profar, Merrill, Tatis, Machado, Kim, Bogaerts and Cronenworth.. The White Sox have only Robert with "up the middle capability," caveator emptor being he's not anywhere close to 100%. Moncada, ONCE UPON A TIME, was considered a generational talent. Ofc, the real problem is that you need to combine Baldwin, Jac.Gonzalez, Ramos and Montgomery into ONE PLAYER instead of 3-4 with various flaws/weaknesses.