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There’s plenty of precedent showing young, talented teams going deep in the playoffs or winning chips without trading away any of that young talent. When you’ve got a plan, forecast, and road map as a GM, you don’t deviate unless something overwhelms. Lane Lynn, and especially Robbie “ton of talent but can’t pitch” Ray, are not pieces so important to progress that you deviate from the plan, imo.

Thanks for the PBP...feed looks to be back (minus Jason and Stoney)

Not sure if any of y'all heard the White Sox Talk Podcast (Garfein) this week with TA on it but, man, really impressive interview. He's quickly become a professional hitter. Hearing him break down at-bats and sequences, coupled with his regular in-game discussions with Abreu regarding the pitcher on the mound, tells me that what he's doing is far from a fluke and he's bound to become an even better hitter. A team leader, becoming a good to great hitter, and working on defense...TA7 has quickly become a force on this team and the league. That he's not top 100 in this list is a joke.

Interesting how the two Sox players on this list stick out like sore thumbs when looking at the launch angle column.

I'd prefer we make due with what we have than deal prospects. I think Cease will come around. Gio and Keuchel are solid (usually). Kopech back next season. Carlos and Rey coming back soon. Dunning we haven't seen yet. There are other arms we could use, too. Injuries suck and may screw us out of a few wins but I don't want to see us sacrifice top 5 prospects because we caught the injury bug in a shortened season.

I don't think he's missed a day since he came up with that groin injury several days ago. Give him a couple of days to rest...he's too important in this line-up to play him when he's apparently at 60-70%

I really hope they don't turn to Detweiler, as Stoney and Jason suggested. He really seems to thrive so far coming out of the pen. Leave him doing what he's shown the most success doing.

Great win. Pretty sure Grandal had to deal with 5 strikes called outside of the zone tonight. Brutal. Pen is shaping up to be a real strength of this team.

Leury is just butchering things. Just awful. He's responsible for, what, like 4-5 of their runs?

3.5 of innings played and we’re an hour and 40 minutes in. This is nuts.

I didn’t have any issue with another change there but it needed to be further out of the zone

Just pitch to contact here, please

8 hits in 3 innings against the Twins ace. I’ll take it.

Atta boy, Gio

Pretty sure TA7 was pointing at Menechino after his single. The way he laid off two fastballs but was all over the change it makes me wonder if Frank predicted the sequence.

Gio needs his personal catcher back.

I still blame Leury for extending this inning but Gio needs to change his approach

Freaking Leury has cost us 2-3 outs already.

35-25

I'd only sign him if Abreu signs off on it and only after Abreu has an in-person one-on-one with Puig. May sound ridiculous but I think Jose knows the personalities and clubhouse hierarchy better than even Renteria and would be able to properly evaluate the risk/reward of signing him. No offense to Grandal but dude should probably spend at least a week in the clubhouse before his endorsement counts for shit.

We have some control over Mazara...JP is a rental and will cost us another prospect or two. I'm actually pretty excited to see what Mazara can do; I think he'll have a surprisingly good season.

I would be livid if the Sox gave him anything in the neighborhood of what Trout is making. He's great, but he's not exactly defining a generation of baseball like Trout is. His 2018 season was unreal, and 2016 was pretty damn impressive, too. His other seasons were very, very good but not 'break the bank' good, imo.

Based on his minor league performance and his 'hot' month in MLB, I'm surprised so many folks have him hitting .280 or under. He's Miggy. I expect him to hit over .300 with at least 35 bombs. Seems with Moncada making HUGE strides last season and Robert on the horizon, the numbers Eloy put up in the minors and late 2019 are being ignored and we're instead focusing on his middling performance when he first came up. The dude is an absolute stud. Same as Moncada and Robert, he was a top 3 prospect in all of MLB. The kid is going to shine brightly.

Reading through the board, I can't help but get the feeling that many people actually expected the Sox to compete for a ring this season. Be it the idea of overpaying for starting pitching, dropping a record contract on a player not fitting a position of need, comfort with trading young prospects, or just getting upset that Hahn hasn't "spent the money". 2020 should have never been the season we Sox fans expected a truly competitive team. We're going to be several weeks without Madrigal and/or Robert, and then likely have to wait for them to adjust to ML pitching. A month or several months without Rodon and Kopech. Cease and Lopez need to find consistency. Collins is still learning how to hit in the majors. This was a 72 win team last season. I don't blame Hahn or Jerry for not going all in this offseason. We may be competitive for a WC slot this season or, best case scenario, everyone performs as we hope, win the division, and get shellacked by the Yankees or Astros in the playoffs. This would be the case even if we'd gotten Wheeler or Rendon. If Hahn fills RF with a Mazara platoon partner and can get a decent stopgap SP, I'd call this offseason a success. Give us this season to win more games, let guys mature, let Kopech and Rodon get healthy and back in form, and see what happens. Next offseason is when we go all in, imo.

The AAVs on this offseason's contracts are fucking insane.