Chicago White Sox

I think tomorrow will be the day.

He was more than fine against LHP last year and that’s the only role he should be used in.

And honestly I think that makes sense given we sat out two periods. Probably not the right time to go all-in on one higher end talent.

Let’s hope future CBA changes don’t continue to benefit small market teams with additional draft picks, etc.

Lol...most of those write-ups were pretty positive, no idea how he ranked us 13th. I get depth is important, but much less so when you can buy solid veterans on the cheap nowadays.

Apologies if my scenario wasn’t clear. What I’m proposing is Machado would have the right to opt-out after four years if we don’t guarantee another year (or potentially even two) to the backend of his deal prior to that point in time. By guaranteeing that year or two, we could delay has opt-out until after year five. So the base contract would be 8/$280M, but our swell-opt would push it to say 9/$315M. Machado could leave after year five and having earned $175M or could stick around for essentially a 4/$140M contract for his age 31 to 34 seasons.

I appreciate it and hope I wasn’t coming off as hostile.

Thanks. This may sound dumb, but I’d rather give Manny 8/$280M w/ an opt-out after four year and a swell-opt that can push it to five years by exercising an option than go 7/$210M but give him a straight opt-out after two. Given where we are in our rebuild, pay the fucking premium and buy an extra year or two of guaranteed control.

Honestly not trying to be a dick, but can people please provide summaries of the articles they’re posting links to if they’re behind a paywall? I’m guessing most of us don’t have ESPN Insider.

This just seems so dumb. Even if we have all the leverage in the world, going cheap on the broader offer is fucking stupid if it means Machado will demand an opt-out after two years. I refuse to accept the Sox would do something so short-sighted and for now will assume Phil Rogers is simply just an idiot.

I do not support outrage culture in the slightest (and I’m not suggesting that’s happening here), but let’s not use the word “goofy” instead of “racist”. Whether you think these emails are a big deal or not, let’s not try to purposely soften the clear racist-elements to them by using a softer word like “goofy”.

Nice article, I would rank the guys in the same exact order. To me, Adolfo & Basabe are a step above the others at the moment. Both have tremendous upside and loud tools. I really like Gonzalez, but need to see how he responds to AA. With a strong showing, he could pass those other two assuming he can stick in CF.

Man I miss the golden days when there were actually some rumors to discuss. Now we can’t even get a halfway reasonable fake rumor.

Has to be a Soxtalk member.

You might end up being right, but it’s way too early to come that to determination. And even if he ends up a 1B/DH, he hasn’t had a chance to focus solely on hitting. The dude has one of the best batter’s eyes in all of the minors and 70 grade raw power, you gave a guy like him a long leash to make the necessary adjustments.

Fangraphs had Collins as the 67th overall prospect in their 2018 update as a 1B.

Matt Olsen @ AA: .249/.388/.438/.826, 132 wRC+, 17.9% BB rate, 23.8% K rate Collins @ AA: .235/.385/.409/.794, 131 wRC+, 19.4% BB rate, 29.3% K rate Given that Zack also has to focus much of his attention on catching and plays in a huge pitchers park, I wouldn’t consider their stats that much different.

He also walks 20% of the time, but if you want to judge a prospect entirely on their batting average that’s on you.

So unless you can become a better than average player, you are a garbage prospect. Makes perfect sense.

Bad post from a bad poster...

Even one of my friends who is a diehard Cubs fans thinks this cat is a fraud. It really seems like the Darvish was either a lucky guess or one time leak.

Depends on his medicals, but I’d probably trade Walker for him.

Would the Sox do it? Yes, for sure. Would the Rays? No way in hell IMO.

Of course, but plenty of guys hit for power in college but not in professional ball. At the end of day, you don’t take a 1B prospect with a day one pick unless you’re confident in his ability to hit. Way too early to right Sheets off, but the pick will look like a disaster if the power doesn’t come to fruition.

I think you’re exaggerating a bit here. Lambert & Flores are both interesting, especially Jimmy IMO. Puckett is still technically a thing. McClure is pretty interesting and was doing very well pre-injury. Pilkington & Steiver head a wave of interesting college arms we just took as well. Not great by any means, but these guys are all way better prospects than what we gave up for Nova.