Chicago White Sox

Outside of injury, I’d say it’s 90% likely Madrigal & Robert play for the Sox next year and probably 50/50 on Vaughn. And yes, trying to justify paying a 32 year old, poor defensive 1B who plays in an incredibly batter friendly ballpark more money by comparing his offensive numbers to that of a 26 year, plus defensive 3B who plays in a very batter unfriendly ballpark is poor logic.

Lol...you pretend to be a baseball fan and just asked if they do that “team option thing”.

Get us back in this game McCann!!

As much I supported pushing Bush to Kanny this year, I’d be perfectly fine with having Gladney or any of our other AZL kids with swing & miss issues spend 2020 in extended / Great Falls.

He theoretically could have a higher batting average than BABIP if he hits enough bombs. Incredibly unlikely but technically possible given how little he’ll likely strike out.

DH slot will need to be filled.

Gotta disagree with pretty much this entire post. Calling this Abreu’s best year is simply wrong and you completely ignored the fact he’s always been a bad defensive 1B. And comparing Vaughn, one of the most polished college bats in recent memory, to Keon Barnum is perhaps one of the biggest stretches in SoxTalk history.

We only have him one more year.

I posted something similar a few weeks ago, but a more progressive organization would know how to tap into Reynaldo’s potential. Unfortunately he’s completely regressed this year under Cooper.

I think Sheets is potentially worth more to us than other teams. His numbers weren’t very good in an offensive friendly High A environment and the lack of power continued into the start of this year. But he’s really picked it up as of late with a wRC+ of ~160 over his last 30 games (with a fairly normal BABIP). Given his 1B only profile, limited history of success, and our general lack of left-handed hitting, I’d really like to see how he responds to the juiced ball in AAA before I consider using him as a throw-in.

Ugly game for Moncada. Hopefully Abreu can make up for it here.

A walk would also be fine.

Also, not sure how you think he raised his ERA but that’s besides the point.

Does it sound like I’m defending him? That post is from this very thread. I was just pointing out that the people who were overreacting to every single hit Lopez gave are the same ones who typically overreact to everything. I wasn’t referring to you if that’s what you think.

Eloy is a stud defensive LF!!!

Let’s be honest, the people melting down about Lopez are the same one who melt down about everything.

That’s what we did. Bought some Roku’s, YouTubeTV, and MLBTV and we are set for way less than what Comcast what was charging us.

My point is right now the Sox can’t rely on him holding a spot next year when we’ll also have Cease & Kopech in their first full seasons. Unless Lopez has a strong second half, he’s going to have an uphill battle to be in the 2020 rotation to start the season cause the Sox will a pair of starters from outside the organization to the mix.

Hopefully continuing to work with McCann will help in their regard.

You called out the Cubs regarding Bryant and he’s a guy they would have loved extending but he was committed to testing free agency from the get go. As for the four guys you mentioned, none of them had had $25M to $30M signing bonuses like Moncada & Robert. That’s the challenge we face with those two in particular because they are already set for life.

I agree about the mental aspect of DHing and not sure everyone can do it. That being said, Jose has 500 career plate appearances and has put up a 128 wRC+, which is very similar to his production at 1B. He may not want to DH but he’s shown in a fairly large sample he can handle the role and moving him there is what’s best for the team.

100% agree and I think he ultimately will agree to DH. Otherwise there’s zero chance he’ll be here after the 2020 season because Vaughn will have the 1B role on lock-down by then.

And fairly sizable extensions for Buehrle & Danks before that.

Lopez needs to man up and get us to .500 today. I’ve been one of his biggest advocates on this board, but he’s been a total disaster this season and it’s finally put up or shut-up time if he wants any chance of claiming a rotation spot next year. The clock is officially ticking.

You can’t force someone to agree to an extension. Bryant always wanted to test free agency and some of our guys may feel the same way. Again, I’d love to extend Moncada, but he seems like a guy who will likely go year to year and test free agency when he can.