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Korey Lee has been arguably the worst hitter in MLB since he debuted. Finding someone who doesn't profile as a big league caliber hitter, base runner, or defender would be quite a feat.

I understand why they wanted out of the Luis Robert business, but I think the most likely outcome is Robert produces more WAR this season than Dominguez, Hayes, and Acuna Jr (combined) ever do for the White Sox.

On Sox Machine podcasts Fegan alluded often to seeing him around during Spring Training, fwiw

Eloy getting promoted by the Jays according to Mike Rodriguez

This isn't a gotcha question, I am genuinely curious for your explanation. If Cease and Giolito weren't ever realistic extension targets what about Crochet? It became apparent shortly after his breakout that signing him to an extension is something he was interested in and in some ways a prerequisite to trading for him. 6 years 170M is a significant bargain compared his actual value. Is that something the Sox should have done themselves or was the team too far from contention to justify it?

Guardians payroll is 29th in baseball and 19 million lower than the White Sox. They still started the service time clock with Chase DeLauter on Opening Day. He is universally considered a better prospect than Antonacci. But sure, every team in baseball would be doing this.

Which is why so many top prospects made their debuts on Opening Day this year.

Having an extra year of team control would have been meaningful for... 1 prospect the Sox have promoted in the last decade? Cease definitely fetches more in a trade had that been true for him. It wouldn't have mattered for anyone else and I'm on high Antonacci but he's not exactly Konnor Griffin. Even for *this* organization manipulating Sam Antonacci's service time is embarrassing.

He’s been good there though, why not let him show you he can’t play there? I don't think there is any downside to maximizing Colson's (or basically any other players) positional versatility.

I'll criticize this organization for pretty much anything but mixing Colson in at 3B is fine. If he doesn't outgrow SS one of Carlson or Cholowsky will push him off the position in the future anyway.

The Brewers were missing their top 2 starters and best position player off last years team in this series. Acting like what the Sox just faced is representative of the best team in baseball is ridiculous.

You can sign an actual star player for what the Sox are paying Dominguez + Benetendi. It's just unbelievable how bad they are at using the limited financial resources that are actually available to spend.

I think using him as their highest leverage reliever rather than a traditional closer is the right call Granted that's not the role he was used in this series, but it's what I would do moving forward

Already excited to find out which team will fleece him in a Murakami trade at the deadline