Chicago White Sox

Pitching is incredibly different than hitting. You can adjust a guy’s mechanics, arm slot, grip, repertoire, pitch mix, etc and quickly transform a pitcher. By no means am I saying that will happen here, but there is a chance to unlock a pitcher at the major league level. That is far more challenging with a hitter. And no, setting the all-time loss record in back to back seasons would be career suicide. I get that you are pretending you would be ok with it, but no sane GM would be.

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You because of his other injury?

Really bad timing for Thorpe, Bush, & Berroa as they are going to accrue service time in the meantime.

Three kids who were likely a part of the rotation mix this year, our highest ceiling reliever, a solid upper minors SP prospect, and recently selected comp pick all getting TJS and we haven’t reached OD.

JFC…expected but dear god this is an insane amount of TJS’s

Vasil was the 9th ranked prospect per BA for the Mets last year before falling off. Below is his report from BA:

Rule 5 pick so he’s making the majors.

This is really bad news for Thorpe. Rotation spots are going to be super hard to come by come 2026 (hopefully at least) and he could be on the outside looking in if just a couple of the Burke, Smith, Martin, & Cannon group (or even the AAA arms) prove themselves this year. Obviously it’s a good problem for the team, but I was really hoping Thorpe would get an extended look free of injury this year.

Lineup: 1B: Vaughn 2B: Baldwin# SS: Meidroth 3B: Vargas LF: Benintendi* CF: Robert RF: Slater DH: Sosa CA: Lee Bench: BC: Thais IF: Amaya OF: Taylor Seems like you go with those 12 to start and have to add one of Ramos, Fletcher, or Colas or pickup someone up on waivers.

Oh I didnt catch the Tauchman news…how long is he out for?

Didn’t Drury get hurt in a random collision? Not sure age has anything to do with this.

It’s ruthless to cut a NRI who got injured and who would have required us to DFA another player to make room on the 40 man roster?

100% agree. Wolkow only has half a season in Low A, he should start the year in Kanny and work on his pitch recognition & swing decisions. If he does well, promote him around middle of the season whenever Braden likely get the bump to AA. Ending the season as a 19 year old in High A would be a hell of an accomplishment for him.

Bernstein deserved to be fired no doubt, but the guy he was fighting with on Twitter is also a little b****. He reached out to the FBI over a little fake tough guy talk? Lol…I fucking hate social media so much.

Or it might just be spring training.

They appear to be keeping everything close to their chest.

When did I defend those moves? Pretty sure I ridiculed Getz for saying defense would be a priority and then played Sheets in the OF like his predecessor did. Regardless, this is a silly argument. Lopez has proven to be an above replacement level player because of his defense. I don’t think he’s good enough to be a starter on a good team, but he is a major leaguer in some capacity. Sheets put up a 131 wRC+ in half a season at Charlotte before being called up. Colas has never been over 100 wRC+ and regressed further last year. The big thing you keep missing is that signing cheap vets is a way to buy your prospects more time. The reason that we signed DeJong last year was to have a placeholder until Colson was ready (turned out he wasn’t). Let guys complete their development in the minors first before them into a major league role. I get the clock is ticking on Colas & Fletcher, but if they can’t fix their s%*# in AAA it’s unlikely they fix their s%*# in the majors.

Lol…I think you’re missing the point here buddy

That makes him a trash player?

Tauchman put up 1.1 WAR in 350 plate appearances last year and he’s a trash veteran? I bet if your wife performed fellatio six days a week you’d be whining it wasn’t enough.

The best part of this post is the Sox had the choice to cut Colas or pick up one of these beloved DFA players and chose Colas. Why do you think they keep him on the roster? Because they want to ruin his career by forcing him to suffer in Charlotte forever? Or maybe they didn’t like any of these DFA guys you keep hyping up that become available but that every GM passes on. This idea that allowing Colas to work on stuff at Charlotte for a short period of time based on guidance from our new Director Hitting is somehow a sign of incompetence is quite humorous to me. Until someone better comes along or the spot is needed for an actual prospect like Teel, Quero, etc. in a couple of months, you might as well see if anything clicks in a stress free environment.

We just hired a new Director of Hitting…maybe we should give him a chance to work with Colas before cutting him? Personally, I think they will cut him before spring is over with, but I really don’t see the problem of giving him a couple of months in Charlotte if Fuller thinks there is something for him to work on.