Chicago White Sox

Jon & Yonder unfortunately

Congrats bud. I had twins my final go-around in March of 2017 and got one fucking week of leave…enjoy the time off. Wish you had a better Sox team to watch, but any Sox baseball is better than no Sox baseball (2024 excluded).

I don’t think you need a true carrying skill to be a ~2 win player. Baldwin may not be tooled up in any one area, but he’s solid average or better across the board and that’s highly valuable when you can play all over the field. I think his ceiling is Tommy Edman with a bit less defense. This is isn’t a dig at you, but not sure a lot of Sox fans know how to value him since we haven’t had a ton of players that fit his profile. That being said, he’s the exact type of guy who an org like the Dodgers would he all over.

You think his ceiling is a 1 win player? It appears we feel much differently about the upside of guys like him & Meidroth.

Monday afternoon game during spring break for many people isn’t going to draw a lot of fans, especially in March and coming off a 121 loss season.

You’re already writing off Baldwin?

Good point. No idea why Getz would want to give starts to Jankowski unless he’s focused on some early season tanking (which maybe?).

Almost all the vets will be gone by the trade deadline. The bigger issue right now is not having any attractive options to throw out in the OF.

It’s so true and very bizarre. Jankowski is going to be released within a week or so and has already started 50% of our games when we have at least five other dudes who can play the OF (maybe six with Maton?). Just very hard to fathom why any competent manger would do this? Jankowski should be used nothing more than a pinch runner and defensive replacement until Tauchman is back.

That I agree with. Tauchman is going on a rehab assignment so Jankowski’s days are numbered. Just wild we keep starting him when we have other options.

Has Amaya really started every game so far? I’m sort of blown away by that.

So we have four guys on the bench today: Maton, Baldwin, Lee, & Slater. If you are going to DH Benintendi, then Baldwin should be in LF. I don’t really care how bad his 2B defense looked yesterday, the kid isn’t going to improve or get comfortable at any spot without reps. Jankowski should never player over him IMO. Beyond that, I’m mostly ok with the lineup. Lee shouldn’t be used as just a platoon bat, but I can kind of understand getting Thaiss in there again with the offense struggling and him coming off a hot game. That being said, that same logic should apply to Maton and Amaya. Again, I have no idea how Maton is defensively at SS, but if capable at all then he should be splitting time there with Amaya (and ideally Baldwin, although I have him above in this hypothetical).

I know I hype him up a ton, but the OBP is going to play in the majors and he’s not a pure slap hitter. He’s got great bat to ball skills, but his objective at the plate isn’t just to poke balls through the infield to pump up his BA. The kid is one of the most selective hitters in baseball and that’s also in the strike zone. He is willing to wait for the right pitch and making good swing decisions should help him get the most out what raw power he has. And defensively, what he lacks in physical ability (range & arm) he makes up with skill and strong fundamentals. His minor league teammates raved about his defense last year and I think he can be plus at 2B. Watch video of him and you will see plenty of great plays. He is a kid who simply gets the most out of the tools he has.

Harold seems to be implying they are trying to move him. Are we still eligible for potential compensatory draft picks if we call up Teel now?

Jankowski & Taylor in the corners is gross as f***.

I think this is true, but he probably needs a good two or three months of plus production before other teams are willing to pay the price we’d desire.

Not sure I love the Mets as a trading partner. You’d have to get Jett Williams as the centerpiece and something about 5’ 6” guys scare me at the moment.

Three…fucking…games

Exactly. Let’s not cut bait on talented young players after three games in a season where only losing 110 would feel like a victory.

The poster said we should send him down to AAA after three games. Sosa is not the guy replacing him on the 26 man roster. He may get more at-bats as a result but he should be getting those at the expense of Maton (and Amaya) and not Baldwin. Both guys are going to be needed if we want any semblance of a competent offense.

It’s going to need Meidroth, Teel, & Quero eventually too. They will go through their struggles, but should bring a better quality at-bat from day one than some of the retreads currently on this roster.

Guy who can play pretty much any position and put up a 150 wRC+ last year in the minors is “hardly a prospect worth playing”…dear god make it make sense

Sosa is already on the roster. And if you aren’t happy with Brooks’ production so far, I can assure you won’t be happy with Ramos right now. Beyond not being able to throw at the moment, he showed he was much further away than Baldwin last year with the bat. Bryan needs at least half a season in AAA to regain his form before we should even consider calling him up. And I say this as a huge Ramos fan. Unfortunately, young players are going to look bad in small samples and we have endure those struggles if we want to come out on the other side of this rebuild with a competitive core.

As pathetic as it is, we need Tauchman back ASAP. He’s unfortunately one of our only proven bats against RHP and his addition helps us get Jankowski off this roster altogether.

Yup, we’re in year two of a rebuild so we should just dump an actual prospect in Baldwin after three games and go sign the UT version of Jankowksi