TomPickle

I'm not a Cease believer, but I don't want to trade him right now because SP depth is the Sox biggest issue so getting rid of one of your 3 actual starters seems like a bad idea.

Nimmo has two years before he hits free agency after this year. Eaton had 5 year left when he was traded to the Nationals. Probably closer to 1/3. Dunning+ probably would net Nimmo and Kopech+ makes some sense for deGrom, but I'm less sure about that one. I don't think that trade listed above is the White Sox giving up too much, but that is a lot of different health question marks for a team to be taking on for trading two of their best players. I don't think those exact prospects would be likely to happen in any trade.

In the strictest sense it is absolutely true, which is why this is a player to be named later. Just like you can't trade a player until a year after they were drafted so those players are included as players to be named later and then the trade gets finalized after the following draft. I don't know when the 60 man roster cut off ends, probably after the playoffs are over.

Wasn't Jake Arrietta really bad and then got traded for a bag of balls and then he was really good? We should probably just trade for a bad pitcher instead because I can think of a single instance where that worked out.

Count me among those that would definitely trade Dane Dunning for the 3rd best pitcher in baseball since the start of 2019.

I don't know who that was, but if Stiever was hurt so bad that he had to switch to pitching lefty that's a bad sign.

Kopech can't be traded because he's not part of the 60 man roster. Trading him right now would also be getting the least value possible out of him anyway so it's probably not a good idea on its own. Lynn is probably the best pitcher being dealt and I don't think I would give up Vaughn for him. I guess if they would take a couple guys that are further away like Thompson or Daulquist it could possibly get done.

I guess on the plus side since the Cubs took the lead there is a little bit better chance they are going to their bullpen here? Probably not, but I can dream.

Deadline to come back was July 31st

I enjoy wins

Well it's a save situation now

Zero

Leury is better hitting right handed than left handed

Cheaper to roster 27 healthy guys than to put him on the IL and call someone up.

Depends on whether or not that sign a legitimate starting pitcher in the off-season. I don't think they'll do that, but if they do then you have Giolito, Keuchel, and FA SP as locked into your rotation and then a battle of Kopech, Cease, Lopez, Rodon (?), and Dunning for your last two rotation spots. In that scenario I could see them sending Kopech to the minors for a few starts. It's harder to justify stashing Kopech in the minors if they don't add more pitching especially if Cease and Lopez don't take a step this season.

I don't know why I can't get the tweet to embed, but Jo Adell had an infield single in his first AB and his sprint speed was 30.4 ft/s. I didn't know he was as fast as Robert.

Luis Robert #OnPaceFor 14.7 fWAR in a 162 game season. Ho hum.

Hard to envision the White Sox ever losing a game again.

Good god

Yelich was an extremely good hitter with the Marlins too, he just didn't hit for much power back then. PEDs/pitch tipping doesn't explain this drop off.

It's great that the White Sox won this game, but it doesn't change the fact that the starting rotation is now incredibly thin and we're only 10 games into the season.

It is a virtual lock that the White Sox will never lose again.

Wonder if the 4 day layoff is hurting the Brewers bullpen guys more than anyone else. None of these guys look particularly sharp tonight.

There's been like a dozen pitching changes.