Chicago White Sox

Better player I agree. But I do like the upside of those two you mentioned more than McLain & Antonacci. All that being said, Shirley probably deserves trust until proven otherwise.

To be honest, my main concern with McLain & Antonacci is a lack of upside. Just worry that given the lack of positional depth in the minors, that we went after high floor guys who have little to no chance of being difference makers (which Hostetler also did quite a bit when we kicked off the rebuild).

So do Pham & Clevinger ?

Why not take Sirota over McLain?

Wilson has a ton of control left, I’m not moving him unless we get legit value for him which probably doesn’t happen right now.

The Fedde market is going to be very different than the Crochet market due to the prospect capital involved. Obviously there is some overlap, but not a ton of teams have what it takes to land Crochet.

Does Dalton Rushing hit enough to play 1B? If not, I’d probably prefer De Paula despite the defensive concerns.

Which is unfortunate because I’m not sure how much his numbers will improve without any protection and you incur potential injury risk (although I’m in the minority in thinking his injuries have been flukish in nature).

I think we’re at the point we desperately need bats and more pitching has a much lower marginal value. And yes, you can never have enough pitching theoretically, but we’re also rocking an all-time bad offense with a mostly barren farm system.

We’re a week away. I feel like we see the first few moves this weekend before the normal onslaught begins the last day or two. Will be interesting to see if Getz tries to get some stuff done early so he can focus a smaller set of moves right before the deadline.

Too bad KW isn’t a GM anymore

I really don’t see the value of pitching him another inning.

100% seems like a player development issue.

I really hope they pull Crochet after this inning.

Looking at these lineups is super disappointing.

Hopefully they package him with Robert so Getz can afford to sign Santander and finally fix this offense

Only 3 1/3 years left of Andrew Benintendi

I guess the theory would be these guys would have gone before our picks had we not overslotted them (not sure if true). What’s weird though is Saucke got more than McLain a pick later, so if you like Saucke more why not take him in the 3rd and try to push McLain down a round?

Vaughn is a 10% below league average hitter who plays a bad 1B. I pray for the team he’s an upgrade for.

Schultz, Smith, & Taylor could / should be and Thorpe looks like he might be a legit #3 starter. And there are loads of guys who have MOR / BOR potential. It’s 100% the offense that I’m worried about at the moment.

You never liked Montgomery?

Korey kaught the ball

The 44% K rate for the offense tonight is certainly impressive

I think he’s packaged with one of the big three most likely, but I think people are underrating him. Since Jun 1st, he’s got a 2.70 ERA / 1.40 FIP with 13.5 K’s per nine and a 7.5 K:B ratio. Again, I have never actually seen him pitch well, but apparently he has based on those numbers and teams are desperate for relief pitchers this time of year.

He will 100% be traded and actually return something of value. He’s really damn good for the last month and a half, although it does feel like he sucks every night.