Chicago White Sox

Trading away vets or acquiring younger depth type options?

Ramos isn’t on the 26 man roster, so a different move would be needed to make room for Tauchman.

His first win as manager…let them celebrate. Darker days ahead so enjoy the ones you can.

Vaughn is one dude on this offense I’m willing to cut bait on. I just don’t believe he will ever put it together, even if a new hitting coordinator in Fuller.

Honestly, the bigger issue with Benintendi is his defense. He’s found a way to maximize what I consider to be very poor raw power for a corner OF and I can a see a lot of his 2H improvement actually sticking (probably settles around a 110 to 115 wRC+ if healthy). But his defense has been atrocious since coming to the Sox and is well below what I would have ever expected. I think I read somewhere that he dealt with a hamstring issue last year or two and if that’s over with then maybe there some hope he can just be normal bad out there and not a total disaster. That would actually make him a positive value player.

Don’t get me wrong, we will be bad, but I think that’s more due to lacking a lot of impactful hitters vs. having a ton of sub-replacement ones. I think we will be in the 90 to 105 wRC+ range at most spots outside of catcher and maybe SS.

It’s really early, but I think the manager change will prove to be massive. Grifol was such a fucking joke of a leader that anyone would have been an upgrade, but I kind of think Venable is the real deal (again, I bit ridiculous to make claims after one game I get it). I just think Will is what you look for in a major league manager: leader of men, former player, up-to-date on analytics and modern in-game strategies, still young enough to resonate with today’s players, willing to work with the front office, etc.

Ramos and Baldwin should each have two options left.

I’ll keep saying it, but I think people are sleeping on this offense a bit. It will be one of the worst in the league, no doubt, but I expect it to be substantially better than the s%*#-show we put out there last year.

We really don’t need more infielders unless it’s a dude that can play SS. Vargas & Sosa need a ton of run-way this year. Both can factor in at DH, but even then you got Meidroth & Baldwin as dudes who will need significant playing time and should be a big part of the 2B & 3B mix. Ramos hopefully should be pushing for time at 3B at some point as well. Throw in Rojas when he comes back and we are packed at those two spots and will already need to clear one 40 man roster spot to make room Chase. Point is any upgrades over Amaya & Maton is almost guaranteed to be short-term and the juice won’t be worth the squeeze. Canario is the far more interesting play because we lack compelling young OFs that could be push for playing time at any point this season. I don’t really have a great grasp on waiver wire strategy and when’s the best time to try to sneak someone through. However, the reality is that we have a spot to give right now in Jankowski and should at least claim Canario and then attempt to pass him through to Charlotte whenever Tauchman is about to come back. There is zero downside to doing this.

Venable >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Grifol

Ballgame!

f***

Booser looking pretty good so far!

Sosa bomb!

Vaughn doing Vaughn things

Wow

Ishbia is there?

5th OF? Dude was 81st overall amongst all OFs in fWAR last year and only had 350 plate appearances. He’s been a productive player for three straight years.

Only at 67 pitches too.

Burke appears to be unfazed by the opening day start.

The off day after opening day is the legit worst

Thanks man!

Thanks and I am pumped! You know your life has gone wrong somewhere when you are this excited to watch this s%*# show.