Chicago White Sox

5th OF? Dude was 81st overall amongst all OFs in fWAR last year and only had 350 plate appearances. He’s been a productive player for three straight years.

Only at 67 pitches too.

Burke appears to be unfazed by the opening day start.

The off day after opening day is the legit worst

Thanks man!

Thanks and I am pumped! You know your life has gone wrong somewhere when you are this excited to watch this s%*# show.

Thank you! Finally working for me. Just got to Mexico and was worried it was some sort of blackout issue.

My boy Slater hit a dong?! Fucking MLBTV fucking me over big time

I’m not even against Canario at this point…but he hasn’t been DFAed yet.

Tauchman isn’t a major league talent?

Fletcher, DeLoach, & Colas aren’t major league talents though…we don’t need to give them 600 plate appearances to confirm that at this point.

Trotting a bunch of below replacement level OFs is somehow going to improve the team? What am I missing here?

Who said you should be excited? The point is you guys continue to call Getz an imbecile for rocking a 121 loss team last year and then when he finds a way to improve one of our worst positions from Y24 with no budget and where there isn’t a single minor leaguer worth a damn you guys call him an idiot. If he hands Fletcher the RF job and he proceeds to put up a -2 win season you guys will rip him endlessly. It’s damned if you do, dammed with you guys.

Anyone else having issues with MLBTV?

Age might catch up with them….that’s possible. But Tauchman has shown no signs of slowing down and I trust Fuller’s evaluation of Slater. Projection models predict this will be a ~2 win RF platoon on a Reinsdorf budget. That is a 4 win improvement over the garbage we trotted it there last year and would blow Fletcher, DeLoach, & Colas out of the water…age he damned.

Which guys? Jankowski? He will be DFAed within seven days. Tauchman has been a legitimately productive OF for the last few years despite every poster here calling him “crappy”. Slater was one of the best hitters against LHP from 2019 to 2023 and was almost certainly a recommended “buy low” target of Fuller’s. I wouldn’t have added Taylor with the other two vets already in place, but Taylor is an elite defender who put up 2 fWAR/season from 2021 to 2023. Fletcher, Colas, & DeLoach can’t even hit AAA pitching in the second most hitter friendly park in AAA. People are demanding Getz be fired for losing 121 games last year and then turn around and complain about him adding what should be a 2 win RF platoon vs. the -2 wins they got out of the position last year. At this point, people will whine about everything. The people who were applauding the additions of Eder & Fletcher when first acquired are now throwing hissy fits about Getz being a total idiot for trading for them in the first place.

Getz gutted the pro scouting function after making this trade. If anything, this is a bad look on Barfield for recommend Fletcher over McCarthy.

Jankowski will be DFAed in less than a week. Might be eaiee to sneak Fletcher through waivers right now given alll the player movement happening.

Janikowski will be here for a week at max. The decision comes down to Greg Jones vs. Dominic Fletcher.

Because Fletcher, DeLoach, & Colas aren’t major league caliber players. They aren’t even young anymore for those who think they will suddenly figure things out at the major league level despite being bad at Charlotte.

Unfortunately we needed him in case we got in a fight with Nick Madrigal at the bike rack

They will win 50+ games barring incredibly bad injury luck (which can happen)

FWIW

Sox have six batters on the roster with 5+ plate appearances vs. Kikuchi: Benintendi: 13 PA | 1 BB | 3 K | 4 H | .742 OPS Vaughn: 9 PA | 1 BB | 1 K | 1 H | .311 OPS Taylor: 7 PA | 1 BB | 1 K | 2 H | 1.232 OPS Robert: 6 PA | 0 BB | 4 K | 1 H | .333 OPS Slater: 6 PA | 0 BB | 3 K | 0 H | .000 OPS Thaiss: 5 PA | 1 BB | 2 K | 1 H | .533 OPS

Let’s get some Gamethread talking going.