Chicago White Sox

I already bought three custom made Harper jerseys for my kids for Christmas ?

Wow, you’re now approaching Greg levels. You think these guys are going to pass on 10 year commitments why? Like you are completely losing it man.

Lester isn’t a free agent after this year and declining Quintana’s cheap option is perhaps the single dumbest proposition I have ever seen on this site.

Then Harper must not care about money, because those national brands are unlikely to offer nearly as much as the Sox or Phillies.

The Cubs have to move significant salary in order to sign Harper. Maybe I shouldn’t say they have no chance, but the odds are so low it’s practically zero.

Good god man, you don’t think about anything, you just assume the worst and pollute this website with your relentless pessimism. And where is this $70M in payroll coming off the books.

And how does it make them better?

For the love of god the Cubs have zero chance of signing Harper. Like where do you come up with this shit.

Now you’re just being dumb.

You either have poor math skills if you think those probabilities are anywhere close to realistic or are simply the most pessimistic person on the face of the planet.

Who are these MLB ready talents you are referring to that are worth taking on a $120M albatross contract.

Unless this cat is Theo or Jed, I can 100% confirm this is complete BS.

Seems like having two or three awesome catchers would be a good problem to have?

Nope and it’s a ridiculous comparison.

Lol...just found this article outlining the impact of pitching framing on 2018 pitching performances. Look who the #1 & #2 most negatively impacted starters were...I’ll give you a hint, they play for the same as McCann does now. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/9tk3yr/introducing_rfip_evaluating_pitchers_without_the/

I sometimes wonder if half this board even watched the team last year. Didn’t we have the most strikes in the league lost due to poor framing? If you don’t think that has an impact on our young pitching, then I don’t know what to tell you. But hey, who the fuck cares!

A backup catcher that could potentially have up to 50 to 60 starts (if Seby isn’t ready) with our young pitchers is kind of a big deal to me.

What makes you think he’s a good framer? His WARP has been negative two straight years and is at 0.1 for his career. He is a poor framer.

McCann used entirely against LHP might be worth it, but that’s not happening with Castillo being his platoon mate.

I could see the Rockies taking him off our hands. His salary is pretty manageable and the option would be attractive.

Even if Zavala gets called up halfway through, we’re looking at least 25 to 30 starts from McCann and that’s assuming Castillo stays healthy. God forbid he goes down.

Look, I’m a huge Zavala fan and am aware he was hurt last year, but he hasn’t done anything in AAA yet to warrant early callup consideration. Also, I view our moves at catcher as investments in our young pitching. I’d rather have signed a guy like Maldonado for like $5M and traded him at the All-Star break then have Rodon, Lopez, & Giolito be forced to work with another poor framer for half a season.

100% agree.

Alright, I’m doing a complete 180, but could we still add Grandal and then trade Castillo? McCann makes much more sense as a platoon partner for Grandal than Welington.

No Grandal confirms the Sox still believe in Collins. I really hope we know what we’re doing, because young pitching + horrible defensive catcher (if the rumors are true) = potential disaster in 2020.