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No way, take your wildcard now. Tauchman is having a nice season we all agree, and he's still probably a sub 2 WAR player when its all said and done. A 35 year old Tauchman at ~$4Mish who turns into Josh Rojas will get you nothing at all. And if he's the same player, do you see anyway he has more value than he does right now? I don't. Get him out of here and give Julks, Fletcher, etc. those AB's rest of the way.

I think Robert, Houser, and Tauchman are slam dunks to be moved. Slater is back to performing against lefties so I think you're right that he may get some interest. There are numerous relievers that could be moved, but not sure we get much of anything in return for them. I would expect Civale has more value eating innings the rest of the year than he does on a return, so I would expect to see him stay.

He's been worth -1.2 bWAR and has a .483 OPS. He signed a 1 year $3.5M contract so he's probably still owed somewhere around $1.3M or so? I would be absolutely stunned if anyone had any interest in trading for him.

The very first post in this thread had trade expectations for Josh Rojas, who has been somewhere around the 8th worst player in ALL of baseball. If you throw chum in the water, expect sharks.

Fun fact Andrew Vaughn has more bWAR in 16 PA (0.5) for the Brewers than he did in his entire White Sox career (-0.5)

Vargas has now put up a .192 / .283 / .624 line across 971 MLB plate appearances over 4 years, its completely justified to have given up on him at this point. That doesn't mean he can't improve or get better, but this is a large enough sample size to say im out without criticism. Were going to need way more than sub .700 OPS numbers from Montgomery, Teel, Quero, and Meidroth. They have 3 homeruns combined in 542 AB's. They all still have plenty of room and time to grow but were cooked if they are all just 1-2 WAR players with no power.

You just have to hope the kids develop. They’ve all been largely disappointing so far, no power what so ever, and it’s alarming.

Would have rather gone Arnold there

MLB draft is so dumb.

Just get impact talent, I don’t care at all if they hit or throw this team just needs talent everywhere.

Sox gotta go 18-48 the rest of the way to win the over crowd money. Going to be a real nail biter when they strip this team in the next two weeks and start shutting down pitchers.

I think he was referring to Teel specifically

Holy crap that's wild, you would extend this guy $20M a year based off 9 starts.

I go all out for Kyle Tucker. A nice offensive piece who is young enough to still be good into the team getting to contention. Same goes for Bo Bichette, slide Colson over to 3rd and Meidroth at 2nd. If you believe in the current staff as well as Schultz and Smith, not sure I dip too heavily into FA starters it would depend on the price obviously.

There is no reason that this team should be handing high dollar contracts to 32 year old starting pitchers at this stage of the rebuild. There will almost certainly be a trade offer worthy of sending him off that benefits the long term future of this team provided he doesn't get injured or fall of the face of the earth over his next 1-2 starts before a trade. If he isn't traded, and he keeps this up all year, he can hit the market as a 32 year old starting pitcher coming off a 6+ bWAR season and would easily get paid more than whatever the Sox would offer in an extension. For this team right now Adrian Houser is what you are looking for, a veteran having a smash season that you got for nothing that can be flipped to help solidify the future. We aren't contending anytime soon, his only purpose for the White Sox is to help make the roster better when they WILL be contending.

When the Astros were rebuilding and losing 100 games a year we would buy the $7 upper deck tickets then go sit in the Crawford boxes since no one was there. One of the perks of a lousy team.

He's 9-4 with a 2.39 ERA and striking out over 11 per 9, leads the league in IP and K's. What is great if that's not lol

Funny enough, their Pythagorean W/L of 91-71 could have had them MISSING the playoffs in 05 had they not been on the right side of luck that year. The 11-1 playoff run speaks for itself though, you don't luck into that against the best remaining teams in baseball.

Yeah its easy for ownership like Boston to say "Hey we got this reliever whose never been a starter before but looks like an ace, lets give him $170,000,000 and lock him up." while the White Sox ownership goes "Yeah players aren't worth that much, what if he sucks we'll have to fold the franchise, trade him."

Ill admit it, I thought Crochet was a fluke and expected him to disappoint after we traded him. At least our trade return has looked very promising overall.

Mike Vasil, I don't believe in that guy at all. 6.4 K/9 and a 4.65 FIP. We'll see how that ends up.

Then sign another one in the offseason, under no circumstance should you hold on to Mike Tauchman if you get a legit offer for him.

Yep, should be an exhibition of the best players in the game. I don't understand what good it does that the White Sox have an un-deserving representative that more than likely doesn't even get in the game.

You're right anyway you look at it. He had a nice start, but an ERA over 9 in his last 5 starts. He's not an all-star but someone from the White Sox has to go. I guess it should have been Houser and his 8 starts of playing out of his mind, but whatever, there's no one on this team that deserves to be an all-star.

It was bound to happen one way or the other. This team is going to be god awful once these young guys get shut down and any vets with a pulse get dealt.