Chicago White Sox

This isn’t about pettiness, Eaton is a huge fucking disruption in the clubhouse and should not be signed under any circumstance. I love the player and how his skills would fit the team, but full stop he is not worth the headache.

Leury isn’t good against RHP, so that would be a pretty terrible RF platoon. Shouldn’t be that hard to find a better option for cheap this coming offseason.

If Adam LaRoche is willing to come out of his retirement doing undercover missions to stop sex slave trading in Southeast Asia and we can bring the entire band back together including team leader Drake then I’m totally game.

Probably the Cubs, but why would we trade major league assets for a HS shortstop?

A rebuilding team will almost certainly give him a cheap major league deal.

I don’t see how a team lacking starting pitching depth is trading a young, cost-controlled starter for more offense. I really don’t think we trade Dunning or Cease unless it’s for an established TOR starter.

I literally have no fucking clue what you are arguing in this thread. But let me say this, dining indoors should not be allowed, whether it’s currently a rule or not. That should not be up for debate whatsoever and before you say “what about all the poor restaurant owners and their employees” that falls on the government to provide them with the necessary financial support to get through this pandemic. If our government could just take care of those most impacted by COVID (like the restaurant industry) and ban all non-critical activities that greatly increase one’s exposure to COVID (like dining indoors) we’d suddenly have thousands more people are alive. It’s really that fucking simple.

Ian Clarkin was a major let-down as the 2nd piece.

Longenhagen probably got some bad intel when Colas’ body went the wrong way. He’s back in elite shape with elite speed, power, & arm who has had success at various levels of Cuban & Japanese baseball at a very young age. To think he’s a 35 FV grade prospect is just laughable.

You’re right buddy, Fangraphs is never wrong, just like when they had Luis Robert graded as a 55 FV prospect prior to this season and still only have him as a 60 FV guy. But hey, if you actually think Oscar Colas is the same caliber prospect as Luis Mieses then god bless you!

I can tell you Fangraphs is way off with that valuation.

I’m not saying he will 100% be the guy, but my guess is the Sox sign him with every intention of him being our starting RF in 2022. And IMO, that means they won’t purposely block him with an expensive, multi-year addition this offseason.

I waited for 3 1/2 hours at the DMV this morning to get my Tennessee driver’s license and voter registration in order. Basically lost a half day of work at the worst time of year for me, but it was worth every waking second knowing I’ll be able to vote against this fucking clown in a red state.

I meant someone directly tied to this recent outbreak, but maybe that’s not enough.

I’m afraid it’s going to take someone in his camp dying for his base to realize just dumb these actions are.

This may be the dumbest, most dangerous tweet in his whole presidency. Anyone who voted for this idiot con-artist should be embarrassed for the rest of their lives.

It is kind of interesting.

Because we’d be completely fucked financially if we traded three cost controlled guys projected to be above average regulars for two dudes making ~$50M/year.

Unless Uncle Jerry is planning $200M+ payrolls long-term, Harper isn’t happening even if the Phillies would just give us his contract. I’ll keep saying it, but I think Oscar Colas is the name people need to peg for RF starting in 2022.

And if/when that doesn’t work, what’s our fall-back plan? The reality is they’re going to add a different RF because they can’t risk rolling the dice on Mazara when he’s entering his last year of team control.

Unless they have traded for more, the Rays should a bonus pool of $6.4M. Sounds like they already have two major signings in place for somewhere around $5.0M plus a couple lesser signings (not sure if they will count against the pool or not). Regardless, seems like they would be hard pressed to sign Colas for much more than $1.0M to $1.4M and I believe Jimmy has pointed out we should have $2M+ to work with.

Abreu & Eloy were both awesome against RHP, while Grandal was above league average. If you add a guy who can hit righties in RF and Yoan returns to form we should be fine.

How were the results better than the true talent of the team?

This is all fair, but I feel like we’ve typically avoided lame-duck managers in the past. If they’re sure Ricky is their guy, then he’ll likely be extended this offseason. If not, I think that signals there is real concern with him.

I’ll say this, if the Sox move on from Ricky this year it will be because there is some external option they really like and have confidence they can land. They won’t fire Ricky just to start an open-ended hiring process.