Chicago White Sox

Rosenbloom is a total joke. Always hated his stupid “your table is ready” line. What a douche. No idea how he is still around.

Offensive decline? His K is rate down, BB is rate up, ISO is up. If his BABIP weren’t 65 points down vs last year there would be no mirage of decline.

First off, this is not a fair assessment of the situation. By the end of the 2019 we should have potential building blocks in Moncada, Anderson, Jimenez, Collins, Zavala, Rodon, Lopez, Kopech, Hansen, Dunning, Giolito, Stephens, Burdi, Vieira, Hamilton, Fry, & Bummer (amongst others) already on the major league roster. Davidson, Sanchez, & maybe Abreu could still be around. This doesn’t account for any free agents we might add and potentially a guy like Madrigal in this year’s draft. And who knows, Robert might move pretty fast. Point is, we are NOT waiting on all the A+ ball prospects to start competing and the mere notion is absurd. More likely than not, we’ll package a few of those guys to acquire a cost-controlled star to fill a hole and let the cream of the crop have their crack at one or two spots. Good teams do introduce young players each year, just can’t have a lineup full of question marks. If this team isn’t serious about competing for at a very minimum for a Wild Card spot in 2020 then things have gone horribly wrong.

Let’s get one more right here!

I’ll take it! Now get the lead Sanchez!

Dear baseball gods, I have suffered through this shit all year and haven’t asked for much, so please give me a grand slam right here. Thanks.

I hope Renteria gets fired after this half inning. What a fucking clown.

OMG

There’s our bunt attempt!

That was an ugly at-bat.

Palka with the triple! I wonder if they would expect a suicide squeeze right now ?

Holy fuck, fire Ricky Renteria right now. Dude is a bunt addict.

Wow it finally happened.

Three months = half a season. Quite frankly, that’s a substantial amount of development time IMO.

They may not, which is why having a core anchored by Moncada, Jimenez, Anderson, Kopech, Rodon, Lopez, Giolito, and hopefully Abreu and some big time free agents is critical. We can afford growing pains at a couple spots if most of the big pieces are in place.

So fucking awesome, really hope he makes it.

The confusion is I thought I might have missed a Basabe injury given he didn’t play last night. The only context I had for “Lou Bob” was the nickname you gave Basabe. Don’t catch feelings son, I didn’t mean no disrespect.

I’m expecting uncertainty as you just never know how quickly young players will develop in the pros. And I’d really like minimize the amount of growing pains in 2020. Our next wave of talent should hit that season and I’d like a strong foundation in place that I know can offset the new guys’ growing pains. Look, if our development people are confident that one year is all it will take to get Kopech & Jimenez ready at the major league then I’m all for that. I’m just not sure I think our organization feels that way. I do feel strongly that if you don’t call them up by June/July, then you might as well keep them down the rest of the season and should wait until late April of 2019.

The problem is our Kris Bryant is already up and burning service time. Our goal should be to maximize our chances to win during his service time window. If getting Kopech & Jimenez an extra 3+ months of major league development time gives us a better chance of winning in 2020 then I’m all for it. IMO the focus should be on the 2020 to 2023 seasons.

Lol...I did not connect those dots. Probably because Caulfield has been calling Basabe “Lou Bob” since Spring Training. Thanks for clearing that up.

A combo of Machado at 3B, Anderson at SS, & Moncada at 2B could provide elite infield defense. That is the dream and I think something Machado could be convinced of assuming the money is there.

Who is Lou Bob?

Man the medicals would have to be really bad to pass on Mize. Dream scenario right now is Tigers do a big underslot deal with Kelenic, Giants & Phillies are infatuated with Bart & Bohm respectively, and somehow we get our choice of Madrigal & Mize. I just hope the Giants are as obsessed with Bart as the experts are making it out to seem. He’s probably my #4 prospect at this point, but he’s a clear tier below the Madrigal/Bohm group who are a tier below Mize.

I would be ok with this, but not sure if there anyone from extended (Curbelo?) they want to give the everyday SS role in Kannapolis to once Rivera is bumped up. And if we end up selecting Madrigal in the draft that job probably goes to him pretty quickly.

Laz Rivera might be a thing.