Chicago White Sox

Put me officially down for believing that Pereira is far more likely to be a positive contributor next year than Kelenic. Beyond being a bit of a head case, it just feels like Kelenic’s physical tools have deteriorated some since his prospect glory days and he hasn’t really shown any signs of improvement with his swing & miss issues. I think people are excited because of the name and former prospect status, but I don’t really see much of a reason to believe. With Pereira, he’s made some small gains with his plate discipline in the upper minors and I feel like his combo of power and ability to walk could result in him being a productive three outcome type of hitter eventually. No guarantee there, but I do feel like his chances of being a solid 4th OF / short side platoon bat is fairly high and that’s far more optimistic than I feel about Kelenic right now.

I don’t think Bailey Horn was really a punt either

I mean a veteran who has shown some success in the majors.

Kelenic is on a minor league deal…give him playing time in Charlotte first and see if you can fix him there. If he performs well, then find him a spot on the major league roster. I don’t understand the desire to hand a guy who has been bad in the majors across multiple seasons and who was terrible in AAA a starting spot. Pereira is a different story because he actually was good in AAA and hasn’t had a lot of major league opportunities. With the lack of options, he should land a major league role to start the season, although I’d probably build the roster around him being a short side partner for Baldwin. As such, we should probably go sign a LH hitting corner OF to serve as competition and/or a placeholder until someone is deserving of this spot. If healthy, Tauchman is a perfect fit of what we need. It’s ok to have veteran stopgaps at a couple of spots.

Hey, before you go attacking posters who actually wanted Imai, just remember we had this in the bag before you decided to body shame the little guy!

lol…NBB is such a clout chasing loser. Hopefully that’s our own @Baron holding him accountable for his miss.

What a fucking clown to do this after incorrectly saying we got him last night

Still need another SP…who is next on the list?

Yeah, definitely wouldn’t want that Yamamoto kid either

Yankees are out! Dodgers not an option. We’re running out of non Chicago, Sox based teams fellas! https://empiresportsmedia.com/new-york-yankees/yankees-tatsuya-imai-pursuit-mightve-just-hit-a-dead-end/

This guy gets it!

So 90 year old Uncle Jerry is awake at 1am in the morning and giving real time updates to NBB who is also sharing that insider info in real time on Twitter? Make it make sense guys. It’s so clear this guy is full of s%*# or at minimum overplaying his hand. BUT WHAT DO I KNOW?

Can someone post all the NBB Twitter receipts? Based on what I saw, there are only two options here: Dude is legit | got word we are signing Imai | panics that this will conflict with prior hard stance that we wouldn’t | went to the Twitters to share the news | gets yelled at by his source for posting too early | pretends that we aren’t signing Imai | will come clean that “he always knew” afterwards. Dude is a fraud | came across some fake insider suggesting the White Sox will land Imai | panics that this will conflict with prior hard stance that we wouldn’t | went to the Twitters to say despite his prior stance we may just end up landing Imai | realizes he has no idea | immediately does a 180 and says Imai ain’t happening | delete the tweets that expose him as a fraud to protect his “insider” reputation | continues to deny Yahoo Japan’s reporting that we are favorite Either way it’s clear that the Sox are landing Imai. I trust the Yahoo Japan reporting and we now have confirmation that only guy going against it (NBB) is a fraud. It’s officially time to start believing fellas!

Holy s%*#…did he delete some of his Tweets?

I can’t help but laugh at Northbrook Bob pretending he’s involved in the real-time negotiations with Imai. Dude is straight guessing and his last one will prove wrong come morning.

The fact he was nervous enough to say it was a possibility it all I needed to know.

👀 even NBB knows this s%*# is happening

I’ll be taking the over if it’s at 70 wins. That’s as close to free money as Vegas will give you. Also, I find most of Steamer’s projections to be very conservative for us outside of Meidroth and maybe Kay.

Fully agree

Oh s%*#…I’m starting to smell some smoke!

That’s right. What’s fascinating is they have the pitching staff going backwards from 11.5 fWAR last year to 9.2 next year. That’s primarily due from losing Houser and projected regression for Taylor (which doesn’t make sense to me). Personally, I think they beat that 9.2 figure with ease with normal health. Add Imai and another reliever and they should blow it out of the water. On the positional side, people are forgetting we got terrible contributions from several players who dragged our total fWAR down including Vaughn (-1.3), Rojas (-1.3), Amaya (-0.8), Robertson (-0.8), Palacios (-0.5), & Noda (-0.3). Those five guys were worth a combined -5 wins over 685 plate appearances. I know people don’t love the guys on the back end of the 40 man roster like Tanner Murray and Tristan Peters, but they are intended to provide some floor to avoid sub replacement production in the event of multiple injuries.

They have us getting 3 GS from Schultz and 3 GS from McDougal (plus 8 relief appearances) for a combined 0.3 fWAR. Nothing from Smith.

Thanks for sharing James and love that Haber / foodie stuff.

FWIW, Steamer has the Sox at 24.5 fWAR next year (15.3 for positional group + 9.2 for pitchers). That puts our baseline projected win total 76.5 wins. Add Imai, an OF like Tauchman, and a high leverage reliever and we’re approaching 80. From there, you just need some of the young guys and good luck to beat projections. So yes, I believe we can compete next year for the last playoff spot (87 wins last year) if we keep adding and all goes well.

Nope, hits to hard to home unfortunately.