Chicago White Sox

This is painful to watch.

I figure someone will always be hurt, so Antonacci ends up being a full time player essentially.

Just mind boggling. Even if you felt you could fix him, he had zero surplus value and that’s after netting his salary with Dominguez’s.

I can’t believe we gave up Boston Smith and took on Castillo’s entire contract.

Unfortunately, he sucks a fat you know what.

Castillo needs to bring it tonight. No more fucking excuses or bad games.

Forgot about Murray, but him too.

We should have Brooks Baldwin & William Bergola next year as reserve infielder options.

Also, our weakest hitters against LHP the last two months have been Murakami (68 wRC+) and Braden (55 wRC+). Both have been a bit unlucky with batted ball luck, but also aren’t rocking great ISO’s during stretch. Murakami had a 128 wRC+ against LHP through June, so there is zero reason to think he’s just a platoon guy at this point. Braden has struggled all year against LHP and while I don’t think he’s a platoon guy long term, I doubt he suddenly starts hitting them this year. If Suarez could actually hit LHP, you could put him at DH and Grichuk in RF and then sit Braden. I’m just not convinced he can hit LHP at this point in his career. Luis Robert, if made available, would be a much preferable fit because he still can hit LHP and would provide improved OF defense as well.

That’s the biggest issue. Another RH bat could certainly help, but Saurez doesn’t inspire much hope right now as a lefty masher.

Casey Mize would be an example.

I think so, but there hasn’t been an update on him in like a month when he was staring to do long toss. Crazy he’s going to miss two full years from his TJS.

This here could totally be right. I just think at minimum they add another $20M+ AAV type SP, even if it’s an older guy on a shorter deal. I’m hoping for a younger, more impactful SP, but Jerry is risk adverse so hard to bank on that part specifically.

He will, but my guess that’s more of a mid season thing if how the rehabs for Adams, Thorpe, Fry (if he alive?), & Berroa (is he alive?) went.

I mean, I just laid it out. At minimum, we’re adding one TOR starter, Newcomb or replacement, and Grichuk or replacement. Those three alone will likely cost you $40M to $45M. That puts the payroll well below the league medium, which is where Jerry normally operates in semi-competitive seasons. It’s possible they add another depth SP or a better backup C than Bart or Quero. Rotation next year should be: Burke Free Agent Castillo Kay / Davis Schultz / McDougal / Sandlin / Thorpe / S. Smith Bullpen should be: CL: Taylor SU: Newcomb* SU: Hicks SU: H. Smith* MR: Brazoban MR: Hudson* MR: Murphy* LR: Kay / Davis

The reality is this team isn’t leading the AL Central without Peters.

He’s also as good of a defensive CF as anyone not PCA or Rafaela.

Yeah, I don’t agree with this take at all. You’ve painted him out to be Bob Nutting, whose primary focus is to make a buck. Jerry wants to win, but is risk adverse and doesn’t want to take a loss. We have seen his spending behavior for years. The payroll will ebb & flow with prior year attendance and the next season’s expectations (see chart below). He is a shitty owner for many reasons, but acting like his primary goal is to make money simply isn’t true.

And they took on quite a bit of money in the Castillo trade.

He doesn’t pay the players if there is a labor impasse. He’s been gifted a dirt cheap lease arrangement for his stadium. What is all the cost he has to endure if there is a long lockout?

I don’t understand these payroll doomer posts. Jerry has almost always rocked mid tier payrolls when semi competitive. When we were actual contenders, we rocked very higher payrolls. How we spent that money sucked, but the reality is he isn’t nearly as cheap in terms of absolute dollars as some here let on. The Sox are sitting on a projected $98M payroll for next year. That’s for 26 dudes included all Arb eligible guys. The median Opening Day payroll in the MLB this year was $170M. I’d be SHOCKED if we were below $150M next year and in a normal year we’d be at the median. Regardless, $50M can get you two SPs including one legit TOR guy plus bring back Newcomb & Grichuk (or replace them with comparable talents). There will be at least one big free agent added next year…no doubt about it.

Get out of here…they will have a ton of money to play with.

Because he murders LHP.

Extend Mune & Vargas. Keep everyone else. Buy pitching in FA. Cook. 1B: M. Vargas 2B: C. Meidroth SS: R. Cholowsky 3B: C. Montgomery* LF: C. Bonemer, LF CF: T. Peters* RF: B. Montgomery# DH: M. Murakami* CA: K. Teel* Bench: UT: S. Antonacci* (LF / 2B / 3B) OF: B. Doyle (CF / PR) OF: RH Vet FA (RF / DH / PH) BC: E. Quero# or RH Vet FA

Changes are hard mid season which is why it’s strange that Getz went out and acquired two projects out of four total additions.