Chicago White Sox

I think the odds are incredibly high that Sheets & Johnson are protected. Burger is the real wild card IMO.

I still don’t get why the wouldn’t protect him. There is plenty of space on the 40 man roster to add him, Sheets, & Johnson.

Springer next Tuesday

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Imagine trading six years of cheap Eloy and the Burnes goes down with TJS!

Please stop with your trade Eloy campaign. I know you didn’t say his name, but that is exactly what you are implying and it’s insanity.

Why are we “just taking” Blackmon and his $21M salary when $25M/year probably gets you an immensely better player in Springer?

Fegan confirmed the Sox were high on him well before hiring La Russa.

Latest rumor had Boston returning, but nothing official yet outside of Cario as bench coach and Katz as pitching coach.

I’m just going to come out and say it, but the Sox better protect Jake Burger. Dude looks jacked as fuck in that second video.

Why are you convinced the Mets signing every free agent including Springer?

While Merkin says the staff is more or less settled now, what does this mean for Super Joe? Is he moving to the 3B coach role or is Oquendo getting that job? What about assistant hitting coach? Nothing on that role so far.

This has to be some sort of crime right?

Something about to pop?

Look at how teams rebuild quickly nowadays. High draft picks and perhaps more importantly is large bonus pools that can be spread to multiple pieces. Take that away from teams like the Royals & Pirates and they are looking at very lengthy rebuilds if they don’t hit on the vast majority of their high picks.

That‘a the belief

Except for when low revenue teams at the bottom are stuck there forever.

Don’t you want to vote a bunch steroid users into the hall?

That’s not good for us

Marry a bimbo? Who the fuck cares who he marries, this is baseball not The Bachelor.

What’s crazy is the amount of regression these are projecting for most guys in the lineup outside of Moncada & Madrigal. Abreu going from a 7.0 win pace down to 2.0. Anderson going from a 6.0 to 7.0 win pace down to 2.6. Eloy going from a 4.5 win pace down to 2.0. Grandal going from a 4.6 pace down to 3.6 (despite what should be an increase in playing time at catcher). Also, these have Robert more or less not improving next year. I don’t expect Jose & Timmy to be as good as they were last year over a full 162 game season, but there is certainly upside to their projections. I also fully expect Eloy to blow his number out of the water and expect Robert to come in closer to 5 wins if healthy.

Stiever never even pitched in AA and when he came up to the majors this year his stuff was underwhelming compared to what scouting reports said. No idea how anyone could think his value is higher than Kopech’s. The reality is every major publication has Kopech as a top 50 prospect still whereas Stiever has never cracked a top 100 list. While that isn’t the end all be all, it’s a pretty good indicator of the who the more valuable prospect is.

What in the world has Stiever proved that Kopech hasn't?

No, the Madrigal stuff isn’t coming from Portillo’s, it’s coming straight from Harold in this thread.

You think Madrigal is a “likely 2021 all star”? I like the kid, but those are lofty expectations.