Chicago White Sox

Oh god dude, why do you keep doing this to yourself? Just tone it down a bit and keep posting. No need to get yourself banned again prior to the season starting.

Why do we need $20M of payroll space at the deadline?

Definitely seems like there is $10M of payroll space left right now plus room to operate at the trade deadline.

Dude, we have Luis Robert, Tim Anderson, Eloy Jimenez, Yoan Moncada, Andrew Vaughn, Jose Abreu, Yasmani Grandal, & AJ Pollock. Wake me the fuck up when the Tigers or Royals have eight players in their lineup of that caliber. And yeah, the Tigers have some promising young arms, but guess what? Pitching prospects bust all the time. And right now, outside of ERod, none of them have performed at the level of Giolito, Lynn, Cease, or even Kopech. They have to take massive leaps just to get where we are. Is our roster flawless? Definitely not, but it’s leagues ahead of the Tigers & Royals in terms of overall talent. Maybe that changes over time, but Torkelson / Greene & Witt alone aren’t enough to bridge the gap.

Do you realize how good our positional group is? Do you realize we have three top 20 starting pitchers from last plus a fourth guy who is more talented than any of them (yes I know Lynn is hurt)? Do you realize we have the best closer in baseball plus several setup who should provide quality innings? Like I wish we were bolder, but it doesn’t change the fact this is an elite club on paper. The Royals & Tigers would need massive leaps from numerous guys to even enter our stratosphere. Could it happen? Sure, anything is possible. Is it likely? Fuck no. The real threats at the moment are our lack of pitching depth and the Twins. If we continue to have pitching injuries and the Twins outperform their Pythagorean projections then it’s possible we could lose the division. But the level of panic that you’re displaying right now is a bit embarrassing and I say that a friend. It’s fine to be concerned, but we are still in the driver’s seat right now and we should all be excited about one of the best rosters in our lifetime.

For the love of god just rub one out bro

Like when they traded Willy Adames?

How does one argue a hypothetical? Regardless, I don’t agree with your take on Smith being more valuable that Sheets. Defensively Smith is bad in LF and was just as bad as Gavin was early on. It’s possible Sheets improves some or would simply be better in LF. Either way he’d primarily be in the 1B / DH mix and both Steamer & ZiPS project Sheets to be the better hitter next year. Given that he’s also cheaper and controllable for three additional seasons he’s likely the more valuable asset.

They can smell blood in the water. I’m sure Montas to the Twins will be next.

Who has waiver priority if Adolfo is cut? Is it worst overall team or worse AL team? Regardless, I’m doubtful the Pirates would give up Brubaker for him.

I don’t know how that’s a matter of opinion. Moncada is a 4+ win player. Even if you expected more out of him, he’s still a great player.

Disappointing <> bad player

Of course there is…these games don’t matter

Sheets is a bench player for us at the moment.

You’re arguing two different things now. You said the Padres wouldn’t move two arms in the same deal despite just offering those two arms in a deal for a player before they had even acquired more SP depth. Now you’re arguing something about Vaughn who was never part of my hypothetical. What we do know is the Padres offered the Mets Paddack, Pagan, & ~$30M in cash to take on Hosmer’s contract and receive Dom Smith. The Mets rejected that deal, so I think it’s safe to say the Padres would have to give more to get a deal down. And personally, I think Sheets is more valuable than Smith his lengthier amount of control remaining.

Moncada doesn’t care about spring training though and isn’t putting forth full effort

Didn’t the Padres just offer both Paddack & Weathers in packages for Reynolds? And wasn’t that before they acquired Manaea?

You crazy bro…it’s spring fucking training and Moncada don’t give a fuck. Let’s give him two weeks in the regular before we assume he’s somehow going to be worse offensively than on 2021.

If Cease was originally the #3 and now that’s Kopech’s spot you’re looking pretty good @Tnetennba

There are no other pitchers in camp so I doubt it.

If we carry 14 position guys, that extra guy is basically not playing. Leury, Engel, & Sheets will already be struggling for consistent PT and if Grandal gets any DH time that only squeezes the other guys further.

I honestly can’t tell if you’re a Sox fan or a Padres / Hosmer fan.

Let’s hope…would be nice to extract some value as Adolfo still has a chance to be a good player.

Big Dick Nick with a Big Bomb

Burr was solid for us down the stretch last year. I think him and Crick can eat up some low leverage innings at minimum.