Chicago White Sox

Five day sample sizes legit don’t matter and no one is making trades off of them

That will happen soon enough I believe.

We really need Teel & Baldwin back.

This makes the Peyton Pallette decision all the more perplexing.

It’s wild you are already writing Quero off as platoon player

Yeah, I’m much more concerned about the bat than him not looking great in CF defensively four games into his career there.

Wait until Teel & Baldwin are back. And the rotation isn’t good right now, but Smith, McDougel, Schultz, & Thorpe will all be pushing for spots soon enough.

You think Colson Montgomery is a top 10 defensive SS in the majors?

The Dodgers literally play guys all over the place. Look at where Mookie Betts has played since joining their organization. We are four games into the season and Venable was looking for a way to get another LH bat into the lineup. If this continues at this pace through May, let’s talk more then. Otherwise, people are overreacting to an incredibly meaningless sample.

Every smart organization does this but for some reason the Sox are stupid when they do it. And Colson will be playing 3B less when Teel & Baldwin are back and they more left-handers available. While Peters may not be much, it’s refreshing to have a manager who is aware of platoon splits.

Weird how they are doing these moves in such small waves.

Someone needs to trade for Lee.

If he does (which is possible), then he’s going to make the OD roster (and should), but I haven’t seen that reported anywhere so assuming he doesn’t have such a clause for the time being.

Here are my 20 bold predictions: Sox improve by 19 games yet again with and flirt with a playoff spot The positional group finishes the season well above league average in fWAR The pitching staff is still below league average but well above expectations Will Venable wins Manager of the Year in a landslide victory McDougal is up by May 1st and puts up a 2+ win season Hagen Smith is up by Jun 1st and puts up a 1.5+ win season Thorpe is back by Jul 1st and puts up 1+ wins across the 2H Kay, Fedde, & Martin all traded, DFA’d or moved to bullpen by Jul 1st Burke reclaims his 2024 form and leads the pitching staff in fWAR at 3.5 Berroa back by Jun 1st and immediately becomes a dominant bullpen piece Antonacci is up by May 1st and puts up a 2+ win season Teel leads the positional group with an fWAR of ~4 Murakami strikes out like crazy but hits 35 HRs and wins AL ROY Meidroth achieves his Steamer projections of 2.6 fWAR and a 108 wRC+ Acuna demonstrates elite CF defense and surprises with the bat (~90 wRC+) Baldwin secures an everyday role by producing a 115 wRC+ for the season Colson struggles immensely to start the year before a solid 2H rebound Periera goes from platoon bat to everyday OF after mid season Hayes injury Benintendi & Sosa are both traded or DFA’d before the end of the season Kelenic fails to make the OD roster, flounders in AAA, & retires from baseball TLDR - The Sox are going to surprise and have a very nice fucking season!

Yes, I will probably s%*# on the org if they put him on the OD roster unnecessarily, but I definitely hope he works out if/when he makes the team. Honestly, I think a good bold prediction would be that Kelenic is called up May 1st after killing it in Charlotte for a few weeks and his roster spot is opened up by DFA’ing Benintendi.

Because of one bad spring training start?

Why would I complain about Kelenic being awesome?

Why is this something? We‘re talking 23 ABs for Chase and 15 for Tristan. There is literally nothing of significance that could be gained from such a small stat line.

Exactly, I’m all for question moves the front office made and no one has to like Sandlin specifically, but this entire argument about “not willing to eat money with Robert” is semantics when we are money by taking on Hicks.

They didn’t include money in a Robert trade because the rich ass Mets weren’t willing to offer us something of value for it. Should we have eaten a portion of the contract and still got the two pieces we did? The humorous part here is we took those savings and immediately redeployed them, including us buying a pitching prospect by taking a bad contract. Whether you think that was a good use of our limited resources, the reality is we took on money to get a prospect (and one that we like). which is what you guys are claiming we were unwilling to do with Robert.

Um yeah, they turned around immediately redeployed the money they saved by dealing Robert. They could have ate part of Robert’s salary, but preferred to use their general budget to go buy Sandlin and the other free agents they ended up signing. If you’re angry about our the budget Getz has been given (which is totally fair), that’s very much a different claim than saying we were unwilling to eat part of Robert’s contract.

I think he meant will get assigned to full season ball at all not High A vs. Low A

Why do we think they weren’t willing to include money in a Robert trade when they turned around and took on money to get Sandlin?

Probably the one that just pitched for us given it’s a gamethread

Same here. I feel much better about the trade after seeing his velocity.