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I mean, it didn't work in Tampa. Edit: But also, yeah. The Sox should have probably been able to do something with him.

The duality of fan

I smell a Clint Frazier home run tonight.

But this is besides the point: Burger at 2B is stupid. But Rougned Odor based on his 2018 (and not, for some reason, his 2022) would be stupid.

Obviously. If you want to go with bWAR for the absolute hell of it. LG 2017: 1.0 2018: 0.9 2019: 1.3 2020: 0.7 2021: 2.1 2022: -1.0 RO 2017: -0.5 2018: -0.3 2019: -0.6 2020: -0.3 2021: -0.4 2022: 0.1

Ah, since you provided 3 seasons (while skipping his most recent season), I had assumed that you meant 2019-2021. Because obviously 2018 is going to be more predictive of a player's 2023 than their 2022?

To add to this: Mystery Player 2019: 1.8 fWAR 2020: 0.5 fWAR 2021: 1.8 fWAR

2019: 1.0 fWAR 2020: -0.1 fWAR 2021: 1.3 fWAR So, no?

This board would have loathed Rougned Odor like no other. The man strikes out at a rate that would make half the Sox batters blush. Basing this on 14 games is pretty much like going off Andrus' 2022 White Sox stint, except you know you'll at least get his glove.

I've never been sold harder on a player.

Wait, what the hell?

Y'all really need to stop ragging on Sosa like he's a finished product at 23 years old with MLB 106 plate appearances.

Bro

I mean, Yankees fans booed Aaron Judge.

But also the Sox should be active in the Japanese market for the first time in 2 decades.

They can't do it until 2026. Lefty third baseman in the NPB. This thread is mostly an excuse to post this absolute bomb that I'm guessing only @Eminor3rd has seen.

I ran out. Now you can only get by on starts by Cokepech.

It's easy to find takes on this site, like my dumbass take saying that James Shields fixing Giolito and help turning him into the ace he was projected to be would make the trade worth it in the end cause Tatis would flame out as a lottery ticket. I was huffing so much copium when I made that post I might as well have opened a drug den inside the G-Rate.

Talked to him recently, he's doing well. Instead of spending money at Sox games, it's going to a nice family vacation.

The pitch clock or the pitch comm? There's been so many rule changes that I've lost track.

The Astros are the most dominant team of the past decade. Phillies have been to a World Series. Orioles are on the upswing like where the 2020 and first-half-of-2021 White Sox were (when we were happy). The Rangers went out and made moves to sign star players. Also, the Peagle rocks (as do the Southside jerseys). Like, c'mon man. People have legitimate reasons to be mad about this team.

If the Sox traded Sosa, we all know who would mention in him at every single opportunity if he made the major leagues in the next two years and put up a WAR north of 0.

I mean @Chisoxfn and I are both overly optimistic at times, but this team has a unique way of taking every piece of good news and countering it with one or two pieces of bad news. I can't blame people for being jaded when the core built to contend goes .500 in 2022 (after being picked by a number of outlets to be a World Series contender!) and then following that up with a horrific April. But that being said, some complaints are nonsensical - like, the Sox haven't signed Aaron Hicks, so don't complain about it. Yoan Moncada made a music video 3 years ago and people act like he's signed a record deal and is on tour. It was a one-time offseason hobby. If you have problems with that, then get upset about any player that goes hunting. If we want any baseball related activity from that video, at least he stayed in shape, I guess? But as for the operation of the team itself? Be plenty mad about them when they don't perform. Fans have earned that right. They've earned the right to be mad about the team not stocking up on legitimate starting depth past Davis Martin (Scholtens five innings the other day was a godsend) when they should know that all five starters staying health is a rarity - and in this case, six. Especially because Martin got hurt in his last start last year. The Sox are frustrating because there are so many self-inflicted, easily corrected mistakes - don't give two prime gratuity years to Tony, actually be serious and seal the deal on Wheeler, Harper, or Machado. So when people defend the Sox smartest-people-in-the-room mentality, that's when people get overly snippy. *I will note that I was OK with Colas and Lenyn/Romy on the team, but that's as someone that was/still is a pretty big believer in Colas and Lenyn.

And the bullpen turnaround once they got rid of Diekman and Ruiz + stopped using ReyLo in the 9th.

Nobody ever said 'I'm going to Cleveland on vacation.' What's so good about Cleveland?