Chicago White Sox

To be fair, Caulfield is obsessed with all Royals…and all Padres.

Grandal = 4/$73M ($18.3 AAV) Castellanos = 4/$64M ($16M AAV) Keuchel = 3/$55M ($18.5M AAV) ?‍♂️

But they’d also be giving up a controllable piece in Varsho. If they’re going to blow it up, my guess is they’d want prospects and we probably don’t have much that would interest them.

Why are the D-Backs trading for Eloy if they are years away from competing?

I know this is an older story / not the formal report, but Paul Vincent recommended they go to the police and made this comment: https://www.tsn.ca/blackhawks-refused-to-report-alleged-sex-abuse-of-players-to-police-source-1.1656229 Again, to me, it seems pretty clear that the alleged assault was communicated and under no circumstance should that not have been addressed immediately. This isn’t some guy making a sexually suggestive comment, this a dude who was accused of sexual violence against an employee. Whether McCub said he was going to do something, clearly he didn’t and that should have been apparent to everyone in know. I’m not suggesting Bowman should go to jail, but the complete lack of compassion for a potential victim and willingness to allow a predator to continue to run rampant should certainly cost him his job. Bowman does not deserve sympathy for doing the absolute bare minimum. Just my opinion.

To be clear, sexual assault <> sexual harassment and the fact that Aldrich wasn’t put on leave immediately after the meeting with McCub should have caused Bowman to follow-up. The reality is he did the bare minimum because he also didn’t want the distraction at that time and he 100% deserves losing his job now. If your direct report accused someone else at your office of sexual assault and you saw said guy running around a couple days later, I hope you wouldn’t be like “well I told my boss, I’m sure everything is fine”.

I was originally expecting around $170M, but based on some recent comments here I’m going with something around $180M. Could it be higher than that? Theoretically yes, but I’m not banking on it until it actually happens. Hopefully Jerry realizes now is the time to spend and perhaps his unfortunate loss of his wife has shown him he may not have a ton more time to win another championship. Time to go big or go home.

Thanks as always James!

You hearing anything about our plans this offseason? Just curious if you get the sense we’ll be spenders or if we’re going to have a limited budget like last offseason.

You like him better than Conforto?

My reasoning was twofold. First, as you outlined above, La Stella’s salary jumps substantially in 2023 and they make seek an upgrade at 2B this offseason. Second, 80% of the Giants rotation is hitting free agency I believe and adding Dallas may be an easy way to address one spot. Maybe I’m totally off base here, but I could see something like this theoretically happening.

I think we can trade Keuchel for another bad contract. I could see something like Dallas to the Giants for Tommy La Stella making sense for both sides.

Fully agree on the defense, but he’s really not good against RHP and just feels like a guy that will get overpaid IMO. But damn, would Cubs fans riot if he joined the Sox.

Happ is not a really good player and Baez is a bad fit for this team IMO. The other two would be helpful though, but adding Schwarber only makes sense if trade Vaughn for someone like Lux.

One thing to add, but if the Sox are planning to spend like crazy then it’s all but certain Jerry is looking to sell the team in the next couple of years and is looking to quickly build up the value of the franchise. This is the exact playbook the Tribune executed when they finally decided to sell the Cubs. And with rumors of some smaller ownership changes, maybe we really are seeing an end of the Reinsdorf dynasty.

If he buys each member of the Analytics department a second monitor then I’m all in!

Scherzer, Semien, & Conforto confirmed!

Fully agree, just challenging to add a lot of quality SP depth given limited roster spots and financial resources. Plus good starters aren’t going to take a reliever role and hope they eventually get a shot in the rotation. Hahn will need to be creative, because I agree that Kopech likely caps out a 150 innings and Rodon has never been a beacon of health (again assuming he is back). Lopez, Stiever, Lambert, and possibly McClure are our best in-house options, but couldn’t hurt to add some sort of vet to the Knights’ rotation.

I was talking to a buddy last night, but it’s amazing how painfully obvious it is that Nagy needs to go and yet the Bears are unlikely to do anything until the offseason. What good does it do keeping Nagy around for another 10 games? He has proven to be incompetent as an NFL head coach and play-caller and is hindering the development of the most critical member of the organization in Justin Fields. I know getting rid of Nagy right now doesn’t fix the O-Line problems and the lack of weapons, but anything is better than accepting pure incompetence at the head coach spot. Oh well, at least I have the Titans to cheer for while the Bears front office continues to ignore an obvious problem at hand.

Two slots? Giolito, Lynn, Cease, & Kopech at minimum are getting four of the spots. I think they QO Rodon and he accepts, which would then be a full rotation. So I’d say they have one spot in the rotation to address if Rodon doesn’t accept and they plan to move on from Keuchel. No doubt some depth would be nice, but most organizations don’t have great #6 starters. Will probably be Lopez primarily with hopes that Stiever & Lambert can finally stay healthy and eat up some starts as well. That can probably work in a weak AL Central, although I’d try for a couple minor league deals to add some arms in AAA as well.

The pressure is different going to a team with a 10+ game lead in a division without a legit threat?

He signed a team friendly extension with them, doubt he’s the guy they’d want to move. But if they’d be done, we’d be crazy not to do that trade and I think Vaughn is going to be an absolute stud in the next year or two.

Holy shit that’s bad. Like someone is going to do some time for such negligence.

I can’t see it. I’m probably one of the more optimistic posters here when it comes to Cespedes, but no way he’s shown enough to pass on a long-term solution to RF. IMO, the hope is for him eventually replacing Engel as a 4th OF and if he develops into something more than that then great. But after wasting two playoff seasons with Mazara & Eaton as our starting RFs, no way Hahn goes scrap heat there again. Plus it’s painfully obvious we need better balance in the lineup and RF is one of only two options we have to solve that problem.

Don’t forget Caulfield’s gold standard the Padres who didn’t even make the playoffs!