The Sir
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Just for fun, here's Moncada, Timmy, and Eloy's 2019 season extrapolated to 162 games:
M- 102 Rs, 42 2Bs, 6 3Bs, 31 HRs, 97 RBIs
T- 107 Rs, 42 2Bs, 24 HRs, 74 RBIs, 22 SBs
E- 91 Rs, 24 2Bs, 41 HRs, 104 RBIs
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Isn’t Arenado pretty average away from Coors on his career?
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2 minutes ago, SoCalChiSox said:
Good signing as the No. 5 guy.
If they really are making a trade with CLE using Madrigal, I hope it's Clevinger not Lindor.
A while back, I researched what Hitler was like as a person. One response was really insightful, with lots of well-sourced details. At the very end, it said, "Of course, there is strong evidence he regularly slept with his own mother, but that's for a different discussion on a different day." That was the last thing written.
That's sort of like what you just did. You can't just leave that here, with zero elaboration. Where the hell did you find this? Who is actually talking about this?
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We've been doing this for a century. Chief Bender, Johnny Evers, and Red Ruffing are all HOFers who had goofy stints with us at the ends of their careers. In the first two cases, these stints came years after they last played.
It's a southside tradition!
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Just now, mqr said:
They're going to be in the hunt for the division. Idk why people aren't seeing that the Twins have just as big a pitching problem as we do and the Indians are about to dump their best guys. They probably won't win it, but they're going to hang around.
This. Our lineup has pretty well-solidified all the way through with the additions of Robert, Madrigal, Grandal, and Mazara. We will sign a pitcher or possibly two, or acquire one via trade. The Indians are tearing down and the Twins had huge years from a ton of offensive players and garbage pitching. They'll come back to earth and we will contend. But here Sox fans are, despondent that we didn't sign Zack Wheeler.
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9 minutes ago, JUSTgottaBELIEVE said:
It’s highly unlikely the WS are a legitimate contender in 2020 based on how this offseason has transpired. It’s also become apparent that the timelines of the first wave of prospects, specifically Moncada and Giolito, do not align particularly well with the next wave of prospects and long term pieces like Eloy and Timmy, especially if 2020 is another lost season.
I’m sure the fans would crucify them for this so they won’t do it BUT I’d strongly consider trading Moncada and Giolito right now while they are at peak value. If someone like Lindor can potentially fetch May and Lux from the Dodgers, what would a guy like Moncada return in his final season of pre-arb? The demand for 3b around the league is huge right now (partly why the Rockies said they would listen on Arenado). Same with Giolito (goes without saying that demand for high end starting pitcher is through the roof). Why not target high end, MLB ready prospects for those two so that they better align with the forthcoming promotions of Lubo, Madrigal, and Vaughn?
Prospects I would target in trades:
May, Lux, Gray (Dodgers)
Adell, Marsh (Angels)
Gore, Patino, Baez (Padres)
Pache, Wright, Waters (Braves)
Can we introduce downvotes? I would pay a small subscription fee to buy a batch of downvotes to properly insult this awful post.
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1 minute ago, ChiSox59 said:
No, you didn't mention them by name but you said "go find strong bench bat to platoon with him", and frankly there really aren't any on the market that won't require a significant commitment. Unless, like I said, Zobrist, Pence or Avi tickle your fancy.
I'd rather give at bats to Leury than those three.
I've been suggesting Leury as the other half of that platoon since we acquired Mazara. I think that'd be perfect.
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Bumgarner is going to be a disaster away from SF and out of the NL.
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36 minutes ago, Eminor3rd said:
You’ve got a shockingly strong opinion of Josh Lindblom for someone who appears to know nothing about Josh limblom.
Weird how Mazara could “blossom to his full potential” But lindblom couldn’t possibly have gotten any better in the three years since the stats you’re referencing.
He’s 32. He’s never been successful in MLB. Mazara is 24 and has 79 homeruns.
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38 minutes ago, Eminor3rd said:
Lol are you serious
Yes, I’m absolutely serious. This dude is 32 and has been total garbage in MLB. The only place he’s produced is Asia. He’s a AAAA player. You might point out that he’s cheap but so is Nomar Mazara. The difference is that Mazara at worst will hit 20 bombs with a mid 700s OPS, pulled down by a weakness against LHP, and at best could blossom into his full potential. Lindblom isn’t going to do that. This guy is what he is. Soxtalk has weird fetishes and dislikes.
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19 minutes ago, Moan4Yoan said:
It’s $9.125 million for the entire 3 years. The Sox wasted a lot more money than that last offseason on Alonso, Jay, and Santana.
Yeah, I reread and noticed that. My bad. And while our idiotic use of money is indefensible, I still wouldn't go for this.
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7 minutes ago, bschmaranz said:
Upton's deal is fricken brutal too.
Probably is, but at least he’s only a year removed from showing a pulse. Pujols has been a waste for the last three years, and they weren’t even injury-stricken years. He’s just bad now.
Seriously, I know it didn’t harm Frank at all, but I’m gonna be salty if Pujols gets something like 98% of the HOF vote on the first try and nobody even mentions his decline. They all talked about Frank’s decline, but except for his increasingly more common injuries with age, Frank hit like a HOFer pretty much until he hung up his cleats. Pujols hasn’t hit like one of those since he was 31.
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3 minutes ago, GermanSoxFan said:
The Angels still have massive holes to fill on their roster. I don’t really see them being competitive next year, even if they get two starters.
Came here just to say this. They have some serious star power in Trout, Rendon, and Ohtani, one washed up and absolutely horrible contract in Pujols, and no pitching. They’re an older version of what we had three years ago.
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24 minutes ago, ChiSox59 said:
Dig a little deeper there, Sir.
Oh. He’s a 32 year old who spent a couple of years dominating Asian ball but sucks in the USA. Yeah, I’m good.
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Huh? Getting a 24 year old who’s hit 19 or 20 homeruns every year he’s been in the league with OPS and SLG trending upward is despised, but paying $9 million a year for the next three for a guy who’s pitched 10 IP since 2014 is what some people were actually excited about?
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4 minutes ago, 2Deep said:
I might get chewed up and spit out for this but I still think MadBum has a lot left. I understand metrics from last year were not good but he's only 30. I'm not sure how he would fit on this team personality wise.
It’s home-away splits more than anything that should keep us away. He’s terrible away from SF.
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9 minutes ago, Soxfest said:
Sorry Mazara does not excite me in RF
Good thing your excitement level doesn't determine the fate of the ALC.
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1 hour ago, SonofaRoache said:
You are correct, but my point still stands. We will have a tough road ahead.
Sure, but winning a playoff series is always a tough road. As much as I'd like to win the World Series every year for the next decade, I know that's unrealistic. I'll settle for something much more feasible, but which we have never done before: going to the playoffs multiple years in a row. And I think the team we are building is going to be capable of that.
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19 minutes ago, Balta1701 said:
The White Sox got a .636 OPS out of RF last year.
Somehow we were also #2 in the league in baserunning performance out of RF. I'll leave it to others to figure that out.
I thought I read that it was something like .562. Either way, Mazara will bring a big improvement to a position where we totally sucked.
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13 minutes ago, Moan4Yoan said:
I’m sure someone could come up with a list of highly touted 25 year old major leaguers who have done nothing in the league thus far that you wouldn’t want to acquire.
Sure, like Alen Hanson, who was highly touted and actually did nothing and whom you would seriously not want to acquire.
Nomar Mazara's "nothing" consists of four straight seasons of 19-20 homeruns, a .317-.323 OBP, and a .419-.469 SLG (that metric has improved each year). He'll be an old 24 year old on OD 2020. At worst, he'll put up a mid-.700s OPS at a position where we got mid-.500s last year. At best, he'll totally break out. Or if we shield him from LHP by playing Leury, he'll put up a mid-.800s OPS. All for the price of Steele Walker.
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2 minutes ago, 2Deep said:
As of now the line-up looks something like this after the 1st few weeks of the season:
Anderson SS
Moncada 3B
Abreu 1B
Grandal C
Eloy LF
Mazara RF
Robert CF
DH???
Madrigal 2B
Put Robert at the top. Let the man get as many ABs as possible. That's where his future is anyway.
Madrigal 2B
Moncada 3B
Robert CF
Eloy LF
Grandal C
Abreu 1B
Anderson SS
Mazara RF
McCann/Collins DH
Yeah, I know, our dork of a manager will never drop Abreu from the 3 hole.
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6 minutes ago, Wisebri224 said:
He’s good he walks in two years because he’s too expensive. If he sucks we wasted 2 years. Yep. Sox win win
Such a bad argument. If he’s good, then we got a good player for two years. Period.
This is the same logic that demands we keep Robert down for two weeks in April so that we can control him through 2026. I get having some thought to the future, but having Robert that year doesn’t mean as much if we’ve lost Moncada, Gio, Anderson, etc, and done nothing to sustain our success with good drafting and development.
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6 minutes ago, Moan4Yoan said:
Man, the Sox front office must love fans like you. Happy with table scraps.
I want to build a complete team with limited weaknesses. That’s what the 2005 team was. There won’t be an HOFer from that team besides Frank who had little impact that year. Not much star power, but there was never an easy inning for an opposing pitcher, and there was never a day where opposing fans could lick their lips in anticipation of some sort of offensive blowout. We were solid, top to bottom.
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2 minutes ago, Sarava said:
Innings eaters have value, but I think most of us wanted a TOR starter going in to the off-season. Even if Keuchel pans out better than expected, he's probably no more than a #3, and it could be a lot worse. He's not the same pitcher he was 4 years ago.
TOR starter? Whatever. Gio could be that already, Kopech and Cease could become that. Behind them, we have some iffy ones with the always injured Rodon, the inconsistent Lopez, and the still not here and oft injured Dunning. Sign Keuchel so that behind our big three we have a proven veteran who can mentor the young ones and give us a solid chance to win every time he pitches. Totally get that he’s not the ace from a few years ago, and that’s fine. To be fair, Wheeler has never been an ace.
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Moncada Says: Bring on all 162
in Pale Hose Talk
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And each of those guys was even more insane in the last two months or so. Extrapolating their numbers from those months would look like something Joe DiMaggio would have done. Seriously, 60+ 2Bs for Yoan and Timmy. And I think Eloy’s much higher slash towards the end will be closer to what he will do in future seasons. Monstrous.