Chicago White Sox

I think many things are consequential when the season could come down to a single game being the difference between making & missing the playoffs. I’d prefer someone who wasn’t 20% below league average against LHP last year and may ultimately not be an upgrade over what we currently have. Is it our biggest problem at the moment? Obviously not, but it’s a bit more frustrating because we had other better solutions in house throughout the season.

The role makes sense. He’s been below average against LHP the last two years though, so just questioning the fit.

So the extra two men to start September will be McDougal & Pham. Tommy will require some 40 man roster move to add him. Junior Perez seems most likely to get DFAed to add him. Probably why they traded for Cave. At some point, Teel will be added to the 26 man roster. With the addition of Pham, it seems like they will only go with two catchers. Romo should have options and sending him down would allow you to hold onto to more depth, but it just feels like the Sox will end up keeping him over Rogers. This would also open up a 40 man spot. On the pitching side, Martin should be back very soon. The most obvious offsetting move is sending Tyler Davis back down to AAA moving Urquidy to the bullpen. And not too far behind Martin is Chris Murphy, who was very good with the Sox prior to his injury. Schweitzer, Urquidy, & Richards are the three most likely to be replaced and in that order. I guess McDougal is also an option to be sent down here as he might just be a placeholder until the injured pitchers come back. Not sure the status of Brazoban and if/when he’ll be back, but that feels like a late September addition base case scenario. McDougal almost certainly goes if/when he comes back. That leaves Thorpe and Sandlin as other guys who should probably factor into the mix somehow. At minimum, Drew will need to end his rehab assignment at some point. My guess is Rogers gets DFAed eventually to open up that spot. I also think Sandlin would be an improvement over several guys right now, including Urqudiy.

McDougal’s line in Charlotte since being sent back down: 4.2 IP | 3 K | 6 BB | 10 H | 11 R | 7 R | 3 HR | 13.50 ERA | 14.44 FIP Definitely the guy who should get the call to solve our pitching woes!

I don’t get this move at all. Pham hasn’t been above average against LHP since 2023 and is now 38 years old. He is also a below average defensive OF and has lost a lot of his speed. What does he bring to the table exactly? More importantly, whose roster spot is he taking? It’s pretty wild that we gave away Hill, Periera, & Hays for nothing and now are rolling the dice an old, likely broken player. And yes, broken could also probably describe Hays and maybe even Periera to some extent, although Everson at least killed LHP when healthy.

He’s not on the 40 man roster I assume? If so, I’m guessing the Sox DFA Perez to make room for Thorpe and this gives some minor league OF insurance.

Thorpe or Sandlin. We need someone to step up and give us quality starts and I think that will be one of them.

JFC that is embarrassing.

It’s ok to acknowledge that Getz had a great offseason and put this team in a position to compete faster than anyone expected, while also acknowledging that some of his deadline moves were questionable or even bad. Mason Adams may not have a high ceiling, but he was a consensus org top 20 prospect. I don’t get this need to belittle him to defend Getz. Doyle has been terrible for two seasons and is the definition of a project. It’s very fair to question why we felt now was the right time to acquire and try to fix him. The same applies for Castillo. Value wise it looked an L on day one because the Mariners were desperate to move his salary. It’s still too early to fully judge the trade, but right now it looks very bad for us. Hopefully that change, but again, as Getz himself stated it’s hard to fix guys mid season. Giving up Boston Smtih for that luxury remains baffling to me. I’m a Getz supporter in general, but candidly I didn’t love our deadline.

Can’t stop scoring runs. Might need 12 tonight to win.

Imagine if you take his one good start out

We paid for that privilege! As we all know, there was a scarcity of SPs with 5.00+ ERA’s and team control for another season at $23M at the deadline!

Hope you like some smoke & mirrors, because Fedde will be putting on a show tomorrow!

We are still winning this game, but it will be despite Castillo trying his best to lose it for us

love we added this f*** to provide innings and he just gets annihilated out of the gate each game.

JFC

This is painful to watch.

I figure someone will always be hurt, so Antonacci ends up being a full time player essentially.

Just mind boggling. Even if you felt you could fix him, he had zero surplus value and that’s after netting his salary with Dominguez’s.

I can’t believe we gave up Boston Smith and took on Castillo’s entire contract.

Unfortunately, he sucks a fat you know what.

Castillo needs to bring it tonight. No more fucking excuses or bad games.

Forgot about Murray, but him too.

We should have Brooks Baldwin & William Bergola next year as reserve infielder options.

Also, our weakest hitters against LHP the last two months have been Murakami (68 wRC+) and Braden (55 wRC+). Both have been a bit unlucky with batted ball luck, but also aren’t rocking great ISO’s during stretch. Murakami had a 128 wRC+ against LHP through June, so there is zero reason to think he’s just a platoon guy at this point. Braden has struggled all year against LHP and while I don’t think he’s a platoon guy long term, I doubt he suddenly starts hitting them this year. If Suarez could actually hit LHP, you could put him at DH and Grichuk in RF and then sit Braden. I’m just not convinced he can hit LHP at this point in his career. Luis Robert, if made available, would be a much preferable fit because he still can hit LHP and would provide improved OF defense as well.