Chicago White Sox

Interesting comment in Merkin’s article. Would be fantastic if they started Crochet down in AA and worked him as a starter.

Pure speculation, but I feel pretty confident Mazara end up happening.

So now you’re just moving the goalposts? I want him in the rotation because I believe in the talent and hope that Katz find a way to unleash it, but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t bad last year. And it wasn’t just his command (which was horrible), he also has a very low active spin rate which makes it harder for his 4 seamer to miss bats. Hopefully he finds a way to fix his mechanics to improve command and reduce the cut on his fastball, but until he’s a complete wild card coming off a really bad year.

He was 100% lucky and if you actually watched his starts or look at any of his stats other than ERA you would know this. He was horrendous last year and his luck would have almost certainly run out over a full 32 start season.

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So with the addition of Rodon we’re looking at the following staff: Gioltio Lynn Keuchel* Cease Rodon* / Lopez 9th: Hendriks 8th: Bummer* 8th: Heuer 7th: Crochet* 7th: Marshall 6th: Fry* 6th: Foster 5th: Lopez / Rodon* Then at Charlotte you should have Kopech, Stiever, Flores, & Vargas in the rotation, with McClure likely in AA. The Knights’ bullpen would have Cordero, Burdi, Johnson, & Lambert. Our bullpen depth looks real solid to me, just need to hope Katz can work his magic with the young starters.

I just can’t see them adding another pitcher on a guaranteed contract. Folty on a minor league seems to make the most sense to me.

If you’re using ERA to somehow justify that Cease was good last year then you must not have watched him pitch at all. He was horrendous last year being both unable to command his pitches and generate any strikeouts. I’m a huge Cease fan and am hopeful that he take a big leap forward this year, but that doesn’t change the realities of how ugly his 2020 season was.

This directed at me?

Agree

Yeah, I see no way they don’t give Cease a job unless he looks absolutely horrendous in camp. Hopefully this ends up being Rodon vs. Lopez vs. Folty and one them emerges.

I’ve been very angry the past week ever since Bob said we were “tapped out”, but if we’re going to dumpster dive to fIll out our rotation I do like this move over possible others. I agree, it would be good to add one more arm to the mix if this is the caliber we’re going with.

Lol...there was nothing fabulous about that appearance.

A little early for Bob to be day drinking.

I’m an idiot and he was projected for $4.5M in arbitration, so he’s likely getting less than that. I could see up to $4M maybe.

Lol...good point. What was his projected arb salary?

This makes me wonder what the price is. I would have guessed somewhere around $3M, but if we had to “outbid” the Cubs for him I guess I could see up to $5M.

Beef said that and then self corrected a few hours later I believe, which is a bit odd.

I’m not optimistic about Rodon suddenly figuring it out and being healthy for an extended stretch, but I’m glad they added another arm to the mix. Hope they add Folty as well and then let them and Lopez battle for the 5th starter role in spring training. Not ideal obviously, but better than an older dumpster dive who lacks stuff.

I have a feeling we resign Rodon & Mazara and then add Folty and a vet catcher on minor league deals.

Come on man, that wasn’t in relation to this year’s team. That’s about Jerry’s general refusal to invest in his product to drive attendance and instead needing guaranteed revenue to actually spend appropriately. That’s not how businesses typically work, but given professional sports teams are a unique beast he can get away with it. We are clearly one of the best teams on paper, but our depth is paper thin on the pitching side of things and all it takes is one major injury to the big three for a potential playoff spot to be in serious jeopardy. I’m not going to sit back and be ok with that when our payroll is down YoY and a measly $8M could make a material difference.

I called them a shit product? Please share that post because I’d love to see it. Meanwhile, just in the last hour I stated the team has a roster capable of winning a World Series ?

I wish I saw this before posting...lol

It’s 2021 and there are people still using batting average as the primary metric to evaluate the effectiveness of hitters...wow

You are assuming injuries don’t happen and that’s the problem. It’s only 10 starts from Lopez if everyone else is healthy & productive.