Chicago White Sox

I love this post

I’ll happily eat crow

I say plenty of dumb shit on this board, but I’m glad this turned out to be true.

Holy fuck Grandal

Mendick just jacked that ball!!

He’s definitely earned his paycheck this year

Terrible fucking call right there

Lol Almora

My MLBTV stream is clearly on lag as I was quite confused by this post

You nuts bro

Does Lester still have the yips when runners are on base?

Eloy gonna hit a bomb here

No walks

Lol Happ

Yeah, that was definitely a kick to the dick, hopefully that Reinsdorf just bluffing

Here we fucking go!

You’re probably right, but I’ve got a little more optimism after the Wheeler offer.

They did offer Wheeler a fairly sizable contract.

Right now!

That was actually said with you in mind, but I do disagree that lineup optimization doesn’t matter. I personally believe that context matters and bad decision-making can add up more than you’d think over the course of a season.

I’m actually ok with resting Moncada tonight, but I definitely would have started McCann tonight and Grandal games two & three. People can hate on me if they want or say it doesn’t really matter, but Ricky is terrible when it comes to optimizing his lineup for specific matchups.

Lol...why do we care about Collins’ perspective?

Because McCann is free agent after this season and will actually have a say on how much playing time he’d like to receive? Plus what team has ever committed $28M+ to two catchers? With McCann’s lower salary this year plus the core still being really cheap it works for now, but long-term we’ll need those funds used elsewhere.

Hopefully Yoeklis Cespedes by 2022, but if not they need to find a long-term solution. I think the Sox probably went the cheap route with Mazara in hopes that one of the Basabe, Adolfo, Rutherford, etc. would break out and present themselves as an option by 2022. With COVID halting minor league seasons and the rest of the core looking ready to go, they can’t wait on those guys any longer. They need a long-term solve and short a potential prospect like Cespedes, said player will need to come from outside the organization.

Just saw this, but thank you!