Chicago White Sox

That’s why we absorb Kole Calhoun’s salary and throw him into the RF / DH mix. If you add both him and Escobar you suddenly transform this lineup power wise, especially once Eloy & Robert come back. Then go get Iglesias from the Angels when they throw in the towel and I think the roster is basically set for October.

Stiever is coming off a real nice start and Lambert has a 2.79 xFIP while leading AAA in K/9. I actually like both of those guys a lot, but AAA was an aggressive assignment for Stiever and he needs more seasoning. I do think one of them ends up getting moved for a bat before the trade deadline while the other remains the #7 starter as Lopez appears to be a lost cause at this point.

Rehab stint...he’ll be back in Charlotte soon

I like Mendick as a bench guy but he may be the most overrated player on Soxtalk. His bat is a massive downgrade vs. Nick’s and he’s significantly slower on the base-paths. He’s nowhere near a “3 win guy” IMO but should at least give us above replacement level production. I’d still be exploring 2B upgrades.

Dickman!

Two down...one to go!

K this fuck

Sit the fuck down Grossman

Just need an old fashioned triple play here

Throw fucking strikes

Oh fuck me

What just happened????

This is the craziest shit I have ever seen. So awesome that Liam was like “fuck this” and just threw that ball away

FIFY

Ray - I’ve got nothing but love for you pal, but you do realize that chitownsportsfan has you on block right?

God I love the Dells, where you staying?

I’m not sure they have a RP I’d target, but they might throw in Kole Calhoun for nothing. He’s currently hurt but should be ready to go near the end of the month and would provide a LH bat and some insurance in both RF & DH.

Go get Eduardo Escobar. Plays a good 2B and helps address the power problem we currently face. Historically he’s hit RHP well, although this year his numbers are down a bit. I’ll attribute that to a small sample size as none of his core metrics look that far off career norms. And he shouldn’t be that costly to acquire, which helps depending what else we want to do at the deadline.

At least with Cease, increasing his spin rate was a stated goal for the offseason involving actual adjustments based on feedback from Katz.

The 2H for Kanny will be very telling. Guys were given aggressive assignments and it should be no surprise the bulk of them are struggling, but it will be interesting to see who actually turns it around in the coming months. I’m still optimistic about the young arms and think at least a couple of positional guys will take major steps forward.

Blowback from who?

The Sox should immediately move Burger over to 2B in AAA and see if he can be even remotely passable there. Unfortunately, we simply don’t have the assets to add an OF, 2B, & RH setup man, which means we need to start thinking outside of the box where possible.

Rub one out brother and everything will be ok

You offer D-Backs Madrigal plus other things for Marte if you want to get really crazy. Nick is such a polarizing player though so not sure how other teams would view, but there is theoretically some logic to the move.

Krogman 4-4 and Pilkington with a decent reflect the highlights. The corpse of Reynaldo Lopez reflects the lowlights.