Chicago White Sox

The fact that Adam Eaton is our RF truly sucks. I get maybe it would have been tough to convince Springer to play RF in Chicago vs. CF for the Mets near his hometown, but Joc Pederson provides a much higher ceiling than Adam and should have been very gettable at a reasonable price. But we got to pinch pennies to ensure Uncle Jerry takes on no financial risk whatsoever. He’s obviously not Jeffrey Loria bad, but he’s easily amongst the worst owners in baseball.

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I call BS on this Crochet = Wilcox. No prospect improved his value more than Garrett last year with his major league showing. I think Kelley would be a more appropriate comp there. And teams may be intrigued by Bailey, but I don’t see how he’s anywhere close to Hunt’s level. I think Stiever is the closest thing we have to a guy that could be considered a borderline top 100 type and that’s if you buy into the 2019 version who had a ton of helium.

Thanks. No one was hurt with the Christmas bombing, so plenty to be thankful for there.

Two guys that are expected to play an important role on the major league team next year and who will make a combined $1.2M.

If they can extend Lynn for two years at a semi-reasonable rate I think we’ll like that price a lot more than what it would have cost us to add a Snell or Castillo.

Yup, which means we’d have to do something like Kopech, Kelley, & Stiever (ignoring positional mix altogether).

Are you saying Collins = Meija? IMO, Francisco has got to be significantly more valuable and that’s the problem. I think you’re Sox package is probably too light.

Sad but true unfortunately

Yeah, I hate the Padres but they have the depth to make these moves. And that’s another reason why us not spending our full international bonus pool is so stupid as it’s potential prospect currency going to waste.

Rays do pretty good with these change of scenery guys.

Why? It will have cost us talent no matter what and was stupid as fuck to do. And why are you demanding these fans apologize and then say they shouldn’t take shit personally. Talk about a walking contradiction.

If we’re serious about competing this year, then we need to sign a legit #4 type starter, have Kopech start the year in AAA and serve as the #6 starter, and use Lopez as a reliever and potential #7 starter in the event of multiple injuries. We should NOT consider Reynaldo as a place-holder until Kopech is ready / service time manipulated and hand him a major league starter role. Now is the time to see him what he can do coming out of the pen in shorter stints and based on Katz’s comments that sounds like the likely plan for him next year.

Why not trade one of our most important pitchers plus a top 20 prospect who will likely be major league ready next year for a high school prospect who is years away from helping when we’re entering our competing window? It makes perfect sense to me!

Holy fuck you are insane.

100% agree. It’s amazing how he puts mitigating financial risk over building up his product. It’s going to be so weird when we finally have a new owner whose primary goal is winning and who is willing to take some short-term losses while the window is open.

You’re not getting this, no one has $2M to give Colas in this period and it sounds like even $1M from a team would be a stretch. He will likely wait a year to get $2M to $3M rather than take a few hundred thousand now. And the White Sox have probably the best chance of landing him as we seem to not blow our entire load on 16 year olds and like have some uncommitted dollars of materiality unlike most other clubs. Odds are pretty decent we get both Colas & Cespedes.

I’m not suggesting they will go sign Bauer or anything like that, but perhaps they have the budget to sign Hendriks, a halfway decent starter for the #4 spot, and some sort of left-handed bat. Where I get nervous is adding Hendriks potentially tapping us financially and then being forced to go real cheap with a back-end starter and not adding another bat. If they were prepared to spend $25M/per on Springer, I’m hopeful there is more budget than they’re letting on.

Interesting if true...seems to suggest we should have more money to work with than what the current rumors are hinting at.

All good! Apologies if I came off as overly aggressive in any of my posts.

Fully agree

Lol...yup, let’s renege on a previously agreed upon deal to sign a guy who might be slightly better of a prospect if at all. I’m sure LatAm will guys would love to do business with us after that move.

I think they’re willing to pony up for Hendriks (within reason obviously), but am concerned that will tap them out financially for the most part.

Agree with you on this.

It really comes down to the bat with Madrigal. I know people are shitting on him over a couple base-running & fielding blunders, but I have zero concerns he won’t at least be above-average in both areas even if he’s not as good as originally advertised. That being said, a 3 win outcome is very possible if he hits anywhere close to how he did last year. Steamer is projecting him as a 108 wRC+ hitter next year and ultimately a 2.6 win player, with his BABIP regressing significantly but his ISO improving from amongst the lowest in baseball to what would only be the 10% decile of all qualified hitters. IMO, he has a real chance to beat that wRC+ projection with a slightly higher contact rate / batting average and that alone could get him to 3.0 win mark if healthy. While the complete lack of power will never be sexy, getting 2.5 to 3.0 wins out of the 2B spot for dirt cheap has real value for us as the rest of our young core starts to get expensive. He’s most definitely movable for the right piece because of the lack of ceiling, but that also makes him less attractive to rebuilding clubs. I wouldn’t move him for two years of Musgrove now that we have Lynn in the #2 spot and can simply buy a starter to serve as depth until Kopech is ready. For better or worse, I think he’s our starting 2B for the foreseeable future as long he can find a way to consistently hit a +.300 clip with a ~.360 or better OBP.