Chicago White Sox

Deadline Buyers Rankings: LAD: Trea Turner, Max Scherzer, Danny Duffy NYY: Joey Gallo, Anthony Rizzo, Clay Holmes OAK: Starling Marte, Andrew Chafin SDP: Adam Frazier, Daniel Hudson TBR: Nelson Cruz BOS: Kyle Schwarber CHW: Cesar Hernandez, Ryan Tepera HOU: Kendall Graveman, Yimi Garcia MIL: Eduardo Escobar CIN: Mychel Givens, Luis Cessa TOR: Brad Hand SEA: Tyler Anderson, Diego Castillo, (Kendall Graveman) NYM: Rich Hill Will be interesting to see how these change by tomorrow.

I didn’t laugh at your post, but just because Burger is blocked doesn’t mean you have to move him for a rental. Hold until the offseason and trade in a package for a controllable piece.

@bmags - No Carlos Perez!

It’s young and there a ton of semi-interesting guys not on it: Luis Mieses, OF Chase Krogman, OF Cabera Weaver, OF Benjamin Bailey, OF James Beard, OF Bryce Bush, OF Cameron Butler, OF DJ Gladney, 3B Harvin Mendoza, 1B Ronaldo Guzman, LHP And that’s just off the top of my head. I’m sure there other guys I’m missing, but High A & Low A should both be filled with interesting, young prospects next year.

I’ll go into more detail later, but there are definitely some pretty big snubs here IMO.

Figured this would be highly interesting given how outdated the preseason list is at this point and with the addition of the 2021 draft class: Colson Montgomery, SS Yoelqui Cespedes, OF Wes Kath, 3B Norge Vera, RHP Andrew Dalquist, RHP Jared Kelley, RHP Matthew Thompson, RHP Gavin Sheets, 1B/OF Jake Burger, 3B Jose Rodriguez, SS Sean Burke, RHP Jimmy Lambert, RHP Jonathan Stiever, RHP Bryan Ramos, 3B Yolbert Sanchez, 2B Lenyn Sosa, SS Romy Gonzalez, SS Micker Adolfo, OF Luis Gonzalez, OF Blake Rutherford, OF Jason Bilous, RHP Tanner McDougal, RHP Christian Mena, RHP Konner Pilkington, LHP Bailey Horn, LHP McKinley Moore, RHP Jefferson Mendoza, C Wilber Sanchez, SS Misael Gonzalez, OF Luke Shilling, RHP

NSC >>> Kinander and that’s saying something

Lol...oh well

I actually mentioned previously that Escobar would make a great utility player next year and maybe getting him in house would convince him to accept such a role in 2022, but with this team option we basically get a similar player on a reasonable one year deal. Almost seems like a no-brainer that option gets picked.

Pilkington’s value has certainly increased since pre-season rankings and he was a no doubt top 20 prospect in this system and more likely a top 15 guy IMO.

Gotta disagree here. The big benefit of Hernandez is he’s significantly better against RHP than Leury. Since 2017 he’s put up a 104 wRC+, while Leury is only at 80. That is a massive improvement and provides the potential for a pretty good platoon at 2B given Leury’s strength against LHP (108 wRC+ over the same time period). But I agree the depth aspect is also very important.

I told you he was as good as gone ?

Will he continue to provide that power going forward is the question?

I think so

Yeah, the Shields & Shark deals obviously turned out horrific. Hopefully we’ve gotten better at self scouting since then.

I don’t think you’re giving these fake insiders enough credit. It’s really hard to keep up with the constant stream of rumors, so whenever you see anyone with the smallest amount of credibility hint at a possible trade you need to quickly drop some eyeballs so you can claim you knew all along but were unable to share for reasons that us common folks will never understand. In that regard, Portillo’s is the superior insider to NSC, as the latter actually throws out names far too often and 99.9% of what he predicts never comes to fruition.

Puckett and some other dude that never pitched were acquired for Melky. Also, on that Peavy trade, we also got Frankie Montas and JB Wendelken. That trade was way better than some people remember, but obviously we traded those additional two pieces for Frazier & Lawrie in the greatest half-assed “all-in” effort in White Sox history.

Who is the player? I remember hearing about this back in the day, but don’t recall if the player ever leaked out.

The wild card in a Story trade is the Sox appear willing to absorb money and I could totally see Rockies’ ownership looking to unload salary. Given that Story & Bard will make nearly $7M down the stretch, absorbing that money could keep the prospect cost down some.

Fully agree and if they’re able to solve both 2B/RP in one move, it makes moving Burger a little more tolerable.

Honestly, no idea but it’s possible Jimmy’s name is being thrown around multiple deals and Burger is only involved in talks for Story. I do think James’ tweet about the lack of media availability tonight at the Knights game to be highly interesting.

Only a four for one now and suddenly doesn’t seem like that crazy of a return

Isn’t Gonzalez killing it in the ACL?

Getting to second costs us