Chicago White Sox

4th rounder plus taking on the remaining guaranteed money in his contract.

Now there’s a real American hillbilly!

Just to reiterate, the number one goal for this offseason should be to fortify the pitching. As we saw last night, even a high pitchability guy like Dunning is going to hit bumps in the road. Get one more starter in the 1-3 range and push Cease & Dunning down to the 4 & 5 spots. That means short of an injury, Kopech starts off 2021 in AAA for a few months (buying back an extra year of team control) and replaces whoever is the weakest in the rotation at that time.

I think he’s gotten himself in better shape. And I will fully admit I was worried about his 2019 slash line against RHP, but he’s made me look like an asshole and for that I’d tell him thank you.

100% agree, was thinking about this when I was going through the 16 to 30 list. We finally have a bunch of exciting young talents in the lower levels, but don’t get to watch them progress via box score this year. It’s a major bummer, but hopefully next year is worth a wait. That Kanny roster should be loaded to make up for lost time.

Definitely Abreu. His fWAR is only 0.3 behind Tim’s for the team lead, but he’s been clutch this year, leads the majors in RBIs, and is more or less the leader of the positional guys. Tim is definitely a close 2nd as he’s more or less the heart of the team and winning a second batting title in two years with improved power numbers is crazy.

Crotchet is officially the 99th ranked prospect now due to graduations. Very exciting to finally have another guy make the list after the big four prospects. Hopefully we have a few more guys make the leap next year including Kelley and Stiever.

While I find it amusing when Madrigal haters say his defense or base-running is overrated, there are some posters who are convinced Nick won’t be a .300+ hitter in the majors. SSS I know, but according to Statcast his xBA is .334 and that’s with him striking at an 8.4% clip with a low walk rate, both of which will improve over time. Right now, his batted ball profile would make him a league average hitter with virtually no power. The likely reality is Nick is going to be a high BA / high OBP player who is both a plus base-runner (even without elite speed) and plus defender. His contact-oriented approach at the plate will add some much needed consistency to a lineup that can get way too swing heavy at times. Putting him in the 9th spot basically allows him to become our second leadoff hitter and should put some real stress on opposing pitchers when he gets on-base with our big batters up. The kid is never going to be Jose Altuve, but he doesn’t need to be to warrant being the #4 pick. His bat control is so elite that he can easily be a 3+ win player with minimal power.

Do you realize how much better a 130 wRC+ is vs a 102 wRC+?

I really don’t get the hate Joc has been getting as of late. Offensively he’d be a perfect one year place-holder in RF until Cespedes or Colas is ready and allows you to commit larger financial resources to your pitching staff that is more likely to need them.

I can’t believe we got that call, but I’ll take it!

Nice inning boys!!

Robert > Trout

Holy fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’d love to see stats on Capra’s success rate sending guys home...has to be the worse in the league

Pito!

Ugly

Make this fuck pay here!

Come on man, they asked those guys for feedback on potential acquisitions and possibly guys they might be traded like Kopech. They didn’t decide to stick with Rodon over other options because of anything Keuchel said about Carlos.

Are you suggesting they didn’t make moves because of what Keuchel thinks? Regardless, Keuchel isn’t going to come out and say “we’ll we’re fucked because Hahn didn’t add anyone at the deadline”. He’s always going to hype up his guys cause that’s what good leaders do.

Nice at-bat Robert!

That’s just PR after not getting anyone at the deadline, they certainly wanted to add a starter but didn’t like the prices

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It definitely a Cooper thing and I simply don’t get it.