Chicago White Sox

Yankees gave up their #13, #23, & #29 prospects per BA’s midseason rankings. They also acquired a rental with limited track of success who is more or less limited to LF. Happ is a better, more versatile player with an extra year of cheap control, which means the Benintendi price isn’t comparable and our prospects in the 20 to 30 range aren’t nearly as valuable.

So it’s very clear to me the farm system is still very bad and what looks like a solid draft isn’t going to magically change that. However, it’s definitely improving and I think we’re quickly moving away from the bottom. Here are a handful of reasons we should be optimistic: Colson’s Montgomery: Has put up a ~150 wRC+ across A ball this year as a 20 year old, is sporting a BB % higher than his K % in A+, and is now ranked #52 in BA’s top 100 Oscar Colas: Entered season in great shape flashing at least four plus tools; despite battling rust and a wrist injury, put up a 127 wRC+ in A+ and is currently destroying AA Lenyn Sosa: Breakout season in AA at 22 where he was arguably the league’s best hitter posting a 142 wRC+ with improved BB %, K %, and power (29 HR / 600 PA pace) Bryan Ramos: 20 year old starting to turn his plus bat speed & raw power into in-game power with a 26 HR / PA 600 pace; has also improved his K % while maintaining BB % Jose Rodriguez: Slow start to season as a 21 year old in AA, but has really picked it up over his last ~150 PAs posting a 127 wRC+ with improving K % while swiping 23 bases Carlos Perez: 25 year old catcher continues to flash unique offensive profile in AAA with high contact (8.5% K rate) and good power (28 HR / 600 PA) with improving BB % Yoelqui Cespedes: Has made major improvements in his BB % over his last 100 PAs, jumping from 2.6% to 13.9% without any change to K % and minimal decline in ISO Luis Mieses: 22 year old having solid season with 115 wRC+ and league leading 31 doubles in High A; flashing major league platoon OF potential with .880 OPS vs. RHP DJ Gladney: Significant improvement in repeat season at Low A increasing his wRC+ from 73 to 107 with improved K % and league leading 16 HRs (26 HR / 600 PA pace) That’s just nine positive developments and it only includes full season positional guys. I’m sure someone could add pitchers & rookie ball players and quickly find another dozen. I do think credit should be given to Barkett & Johansen as we are actually seeing young guys get better vs. stagnating and eventually flaming out. Hopefully Getz has finally fixed the hitting side of the player development function and we’ll see continued returns into the coming years.

As one of the few “trade for Gallo” fans here, take a look at these splits vs RHP: Home: 11.8% BB rate, 31.2% K rate, .171 ISO, .204 BABIP, 76 wRC+ Away: 18.3% BB rate, 35.8% K rate, .270 ISO, .233 BABIP, 129 wRC+ If more impactful players can’t be acquired without decimating the farm system, I’d 100% take a chance on Gallo possibly returning to form by simply leaving NY. Dude is streaky as hell and if he can somehow get hot come October he could possibly carry the team. Assuming the cost is basically nothing, he’s definitely a guy I’d take gamble on.

What type of players are you referring to? Craig Kimbrel was a much bigger get last deadline than Benintendi is this one.

Not a prediction, but would love to try and pull off a three way trade with the Pirates and Brewers. Basically Vaughn to the Brewers for Chourio + another top prospect and then those two guys shipped to the Pirates along with a third Sox prospect for Reynolds. Anderson, SS Moncada, 3B# Abreu, 1B Reynolds, RF# Jimenez, DH Robert, CF Grandal, C# Pollock, LF Harrison, 2B That’s a legit lineup with much better OF defense.

At one of the highest AAVs in free agency

Kelly has been an absolutely, positively tremendous addition.

Joe Kelly hurt? What’s new?

Fuck New York! That all was all knob!

Fucking hits him on 0-2

Are we really saying that Graveman & Hendriks are unavailable?

Unfortunately it looks like we hit our quota for the day

What a strange take

Yoan is back!

Then why are you still here? If you feel there is no hope, then perhaps find a better use of your time.

Poke one through Yoan!

Note to future opposing managers, don’t call for a lefty reliever when you’re winning and trying to close it out

Tie game!!!

The best thing would be to go 6-0 and finally wake the fuck up

Against two guys with ~5 ERAs to boot

Hey Stone Pony, how about instead of hyping up the offense for all the hard hit balls today, maybe call them out for the groundball heavy approach for once.

A White Sox homer this inning sure would be swell

Easy peezy

Because in this division we just need the light to turn on in October. If we were in any other division but the NL Central, we’d probably need to be selling right now.

This is fucking insanity