Chicago White Sox

You told us last year when he was a gas can that he had TOR stuff. Then when he finally shows that type of ability, you jump ship at the first rough patch. You need to sit back, take a deep breath, and not overact every time things go off the rails slightly. Your instincts about Giolito were right, he is very much a TOR type starter and you should be enjoying that, not waiting for something bad to happen.

Wow, just read this thread. The amount of hot takes every time someone hits a rough patch is outstanding.

Kid will easily hit 10 bombs with the juiced ball.

If Stiever was in the Yankees system he’d probably be a top 100 prospect.

Might not have 35 HR power? Have you seen what the juiced ball has done to baseball fathom?

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He might have, but the team has kind of just zoned him out per Ricky and that’s perfectly acceptable apparently!

But @OneDog847 promised we were seeing the start of some serious second half regression!!

But how would DHing prevent him from doing that?

I find it interesting that Ricky basically refused to DH Collins when McCann was catchinh but quickly DHs Castillo as soon as he’s back from injury.

Matt Boyd is going to cost a lot more than a few guys in the 10 to 20 range.

No reason to post this Jack, we all know you’ll automatically expect the worst.

Interesting list. The Basabe ranking is quite frankly ridiculous and I fully expect them to look like assholes a year from now when his hand is fully recovered.

I was thinking the same thing in regards to Tom Longo.

I’m fine with negativity and try to give people the benefit of the doubt, but at this point I have no choice because he’s adding nothing of substance.

Lol...you’re reading comprehension is a little off here as I wasn’t comparing you to Hawk. But you’re right about one thing, I try to be an optimist as long as I’m also being objective. The Machado miss has taught me to reassess some things (which can be seen in my recent comment about Cole), but that doesn’t mean we should all go full Chicken Little like you have and be completely irrational.

@OneDog847 makes @Moan4Yoan look like a Hawk Harrelson level homer.

I FUCKING LOVE IT! Seriously, there is zero reason they can’t pull off something like this. I’m still skeptical on our ability to land Cole (due to years), but without question he’s what we need and missing out on Machado could be a blessing in disguise if it lets us commit those resources to Cole.

Bat speed and raw power.

They aren’t wasting another year of cheap Moncada, Giolito, Eloy, Timmy, etc. They’re going to be aggressive this offseason and put their financial flexibility to work. As for the defense, Robert & Madrigal will approve CF & 2B accordingly. If Jose is brought back, my guess is he DHs more. We’ll have to see what they do in RF, but overall the defense should be good outside of a few spots.

The point is replacing a lot of roster spots is very much possible and like 90% of our core will be in place next year. We’ll need a couple big additions no doubt (RF & SP), but acting like a couple bench spots and the last guy in the bullpen are what will hold us back is absurd. The resources are there to fill our major holes, Hahn just has to execute a strong offseason for once.

Another guy who I wouldn’t have minded giving a look at 2B over Sanchez, although very unlikely we would have amounted to anything.

If you can get a good package for him then by all means and go out and sign Grandal in the offseason. Just not optimistic the return will justify the risk we’d be taking at the catcher spot and it seems like the front office is interested in extending him.

Just to show how ridiculous this post is, here’s the offseason additions (excluding any minor league promotions) for a White Sox team that ended up being pretty good: Jermaine Dye (RF) A.J. Pieryznski (C) Tadahito Iguchi (2B) Scott Podsednik (LF) Chris Widger (C) Pablo Ozuna (UTL) Orlando Hernández (SP) Dustin Hermanson (RP) Luiz Vizcaíno (RP) Bobby Jenks (RP)

Our GM didn’t make any “big” acquisitions over the winter, he simply added several placeholders to buy time for the prospects and traded for a guy to help in their pursuit of Machado. Argue it was a waste of money, but no one should have been expecting much out of these guys outside of maybe Colome & Herrera.