Chicago White Sox

That’s totally fair, but he only made two starts in AAA. I seriously doubt they would have started him in AA again after the way he finished off the season. Again, I don’t think he should be counted as critical depth, but I think he did enough last year to be our #8 or #9 SP.

True, but adding Schultz, Pallette, & Cannon helps a ton and we’re also getting McDougal back. That’s four legit arms on top of Vera & Mena. Simas is a semi interesting prospect and I’m not counting out Thompson or Kelley just yet.

The lower minors is loaded in pitching, it’s the upper minors that is the problem.

Burke turned it on quite a bit over his last eight starts for the Barons (14.2 K/9 | 3.03 FIP) and may be closer than many here think. I think it would be nuts to enter the season with him as our #7 starter, but I think he’s fine a spot or two below.

No way the Sox are adding that much payroll. If we aren’t capped out already, I bet we’re awfully close. I’d say we have $10M max to work with and that’s likely being generous. Only way to add Conforto or Segura is by trading a piece like Hendriks or Giolito.

I’m pretty sure this Steve guy is a fraud and the timing of this rumor is awfully suspect given we were just talking about him in another thread, but I’d be very excited about his addition. He is an ideal 4th OF.

Fully agree. If we add a veteran 2B, Romy should get first crack at a bench role with Sosa getting a little bit of time in AAA. He’s getting up there in age and is a more versatile player.

External scouting reports. Here is what Baseball America said about his defense in their latest top 10 list: Here is what Baseball Prospectus said in their top 10: This is aligns with what I’ve read elsewhere. Good reads / routes make up for his average speed and would allow him to fill in at CF, but realistically he’s a RF in the long-run.

Sounds like Colas could play there for a few weeks and not completely kill you, but that also means Gavin Sheets sliding over to RF ?‍?

I don’t think the infield depth is all that bad, especially if we add a LH 2B to the mix and push guys like Sosa & Romy into bench roles. It’s really our OF depth that is the problem and possibly catcher depending on how cooked Grandal really is.

He’d be the perfect 4th OF for us IMO. Obviously you have to weigh his addition vs. filling needs elsewhere, but I don’t think 4th OF is a spot we should overlook.

He completely disappeared from here the moment FootlongComiskeyDog started moving on up in the fake insider world. He also was notorious for sharing that specific Twitter user’s tweets. It seems pretty apparent to me they are one and the same.

Yup, I wonder if Happy Man is a Soxtalk poster. We already outed Mahoney & Orlando as foodies and you got to think other desperate, attention seeking losers would leverage Soxtalk to draw attention to fake insider accounts.

I listened to about 20 minutes of one of FootlongComiskeyDog’s Twitter spaces and Happy Man was basically the only “guest” who talked. Not surprised he’s attempting to be an aspiring foodie. I’d put odds on this being accurate at like 0.000000000000001%.

I’m on a crusade for negativity? Show where I haven’t been objective.

Why wouldn’t he? Because he has no plate discipline. You seem to be on such a crusade for positivity that you lack objectivity. Cespedes still has a chance to be a major league 4th OF, but he’s got a long way to go before he gets there and you haven’t cited a single reason to believe he will. When 5’ 9” Cespedes has 80 grade power and walks 15% of the time we can start using Aaron Judge as support believing his 30% K rate won’t be detrimental to major league success.

Why do you think Cespedes will take two steps forward this year?

I didn’t think we could squeeze Benintendi, seems incredibly unlikely that we can fit him and Conforto into the payroll.

I know you asked for the opposite, but this a pretty decent article on him. https://www.soxon35th.com/who-is-new-white-sox-catcher-carlos-perez/

KW specifically said they offered more potentially and that’s actually true. They offered a $8/$250M base deal with options & incentives that could have brought it to a 10/$350M. While they were stupid to think Machado wouldn’t just take the higher guarantee, let’s not pretend they lied about they offered.

It was a defensive play I’m thinking about, but can’t quite recall the specific moment. Just remember him holding the ball and letting a guy score.

I got to be honest, I really hate the idea of Leury as our 4th OF.

Didn’t he make a really dumb play that cost us? All I can remember is that and a bunch of HRs.

I don’t think the people will allow…would take a big trade to win back enough respect to let it slip to page 2

Definitely nothing wrong with this, but I hope we have a better 4th OF in mind to start the season with.