Chicago White Sox

You aren’t getting someone with the upside of Eloy for $13M. Competing next year is a pipe dream, but the best way for that to happen is Eloy becoming a 140 wRC+ hitter again and magically staying healthy.

Eloy is a hold for now. Not going to get anything for him and he only makes $13M next year.

Oppor $145k over-slot

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Oh for sure. 11 & 12 are probably overslot as well, but I can’t imagine huge dollars. Will be interesting to see how much Wolkow gets.

Gonzalez was $600k below slot?

Gotta disagree. Dude had great plate discipline in college and during his brief stint in the lower minors. Then he completely skipped AA & AAA (I know he was part of our COVID complex team, but not sure that’s equivalent to those levels) and now is just pretty blah at everything. He’s barely 25 years old, give him a couple months to work on things in a low pressure environment. I have seen very little progress from his this year at the major league level. If this is app he’s going to be then he’s AAA fodder anyways.

Probably not, but zero doubt in my mind they should. A slow, poor defensive 1B who is a slightly above league hitter isn’t all that valuable. And three years of said player may not even fit our timeline.

Six runs is nice, but 12 K’s & 0 BB’s reflect the true identify of this offense

Demote him! Dude had very little minor league development time, zero downside of optioning and giving him a couple months in Charlotte.

He’s basically Podsednik without the speed or range.

Glad Pedro has this offense primed for the second half!

Please have a good start tonight Lynn and build up that trade value.

You realize Clevinger got $11M right? If Lynn keeps pitching even 75% of how he has lately that option is getting picked up by someone.

Lynn has an $18M team option. If we don’t exercise, I doubt he’s back. And Kopech will probably make $4M next year (he makes $2.5M and it would be odd if he didn’t get some raise). I think that rotation is probably $50M+ which may not work out with our other commitments.

Can we even afford that rotation?

Which makes me feel like even JR & Hahn must realize that next year has to be a transition season. I think it’s possible that Cannon & Mena could be ready by 2025 (won’t necessarily be good, but rookies ready for their first shot). Burke is another guy that could potentially be in the SP mix, but hard to feel good about him right now given how bad his 2023 has been (he probably ends up a swingman). Everyone else seems +2 years out given where their innings load are. I think the reality is we should probably move Cease and target a young starter that better fits our timeline. Would the Giants consider dealing Kyle Harrison in a package for Cease? Add an arm with that type of ceiling & control who isn’t too far off the majors and maybe there is a way to start building a competent 2025 rotation with high potential reinforcements coming thereafter.

But this illustrates the general problem we have. We have literally zero pitching depth in the upper minors and our payroll is going to be slashed. Rick Hahn hasn’t been able to fix 2B & RF despite being holes for multiple years…imagine him trying to patch together 3/5 of a rotation.

For the record, Sean Burke has like a 6.70 ERA in AAA. He is not a realistic option for OD next year unless you’re punting on him as prospect and simply want someone to eat up garbage innings.

Yup, up until they have five years of service time. Just unclear how long he’d need to be down for to claw back a year.

The Sox should option Kopech down to AAA to let him work through his s%*# and see if they can claw back a year of control somehow. The fact we’re still trying to make him a positive fWAR starter who can handle +160 innings when he’s 2 1/2 years from free agency is remarkable.

Hopefully they both go, but this team (which is admittedly flawed) has performed at the worst case level of potential performance and that’s on Grifol. Dude is softer than a fucking pillow and has allowed the team to already quit on him.