Chicago White Sox

I think the point you and Nardi aren’t acknowledging is if we trade Robert then we literally have to fill an entire lineup from scratch. Yes, there are some prospects at AA and above who should be ready by next season but it’s very likely a chunk of them end up failing. And yes, we should certainly get some more positional prospects via trade, although the same hit rates apply. The reality is we will need to sign multiple impact to free agents to go from what will likely be a 50 win team to 80 win team in two years. The challenge there is threefold. 1) The market has to have players of need. 2) We have to hope Getz & Watson can identify the right players. 3) We have to hope Jerry and Getz can actually get them signed. While not theoretically impossible, it involves a ton of pieces and many of which are out of our control. And I’d be much more optimistic if Jerry were willing to sign legit stars like the Rangers did instead of the Andrew Benintendi types who can fall off a cliff on day one. Personally, I think 2027 is a more reasonable goal to reach .500 unless we hit on a huge number of prospects or Jerry goes hog wild in free agency for the first time in his life.

Quero has a 127 wRC+ in AA. Are you overreacting to a low BABIP? Why is Gonzalez a “bench IF at best”? Power hasn’t been great but has shown elite plate discipline and should be a very solid defensive player.

In my mind, there are some very basic changes that should done be ASAP. The first is releasing Maldonado and going with Korey Lee as the primary catcher like you suggested. The Chuckster can be the backup option for all I care as anything is an upgrade from Martin. Next, Vaughn should be optioned to AAA and Sheets should be given the 1B job. This version of Andrew simply doesn’t work and Gavin has been useful against RHP. Make Vaughn dominate AAA before getting another shot. Finally, give Colas and Sosa everyday opportunities the rest of the way. It’s now or never time for these two and let’s give them an extensive evaluation period so we can make proper 40 man roster decisions when the time comes. IMO, Colas deserves playing time over Fletcher in RF. He’s got the louder tools and has improved his plate discipline quite a bit this year in AAA. And Sosa should easily get opportunities at 3B and 2B over Lopez & Mendick. The Sox won’t suddenly be good by making these moves, but at least they would be more watchable.

Rosenthal with a status update article on Grifol. Suggests that Grifol might be around for a while longer, at least until the first wave of kids are ready for a call-up. I think that feels right unless they hit a 20 game losing streak and Jerry is finally motivated to take action out of embarrassment.

I’m not even trying to be mean, because I had one of these rah rah threads ahead of the 2023 season, but nearly every prediction here is wrong outside of the Fedde one. It’s really impressive just how bad this time has been.

ISO wasn’t great, but much better BB & K rates. And honestly, the biggest thing preventing him from being a productive major leaguer was his chase rate and it appears he had made progress there.

I can’t wait to hear Grifol’s post game presser

Fire Grifol immediately for the most worthless challenge in baseball history

lol…never mind!

And there is the jinx…lol

Chris Getz playing 4D chess by calling up Duke for this specific moment

His plate discipline numbers in AAA are much improved

Colas should be playing everyday so we can determine if he’s a usable piece before the offseason.

Good at-bat by Colas (so far).

He should be playing everyday so we can determine if he’s a usable piece before the offseason.

At least Grifol does the right thing here.

Does Pedro pinch hit for Maldadno in the 9th? And yes, I’m aware that Lee is at DH and we would lose that position by doing so. Still 100% the right call.

Why does Leasure always look like he’s on the verge of a panic attack

lol…these guys are such clowns

The problem is that Pedro is Getz’s get out of jail free card. Once he cashes that one in, the focus turns to him. Heading into the season I thought Pedro would get canned around the All Star break, but I could see Getz potentially dragging this out now given how bad things gotten. But if the losing streak keeps building and starts approaching 20, it just might force the issue.

I mean, he inherited a very bad team and somehow made it historically bad. Even his army of fanboys should be nervous at this point and yet here they are telling us Julks is a starting caliber RF and we’ll be back to .500 in no time.

Fletcher?

The point wasn’t he was rocking a high BABIP. Obviously some guys can rock higher BABIPS. The call out from me was his wOBA was ~80 points higher than his xwOBA in 2023 and was rapidly regressing before he was sent down, hence the BABIP was never sustainable. And yes, you ignored this point and continued to use a flukey 100 plate appearance sample as proof he could hit major league pitching…even up to today.

Which we pointed out screamed flukiness based on the batted ball data which you proceeded to ignore by claiming we were just “hating”

So basically swapping out the entire OF…now it all makes sense