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We've gone through this before. You and I have differing views on the responsibilities and roles of a training staff

It's time to completely clean house and get rid of the training staff. This is beyond absurd at this point.

I'm a big zavala fan tbh. Athletic guy by all accounts, and it sounds like he can stick at catcher. Wasn't he in the OF before catching? Has some good pop to his bat as well

And what WAR are you using there?

Really? Outside of 2017, he is a 1 WAR player at best. Dude is completely mediocre.

Anderson is a DFA candidate if he doesn't post a .360 OBP next year. Too risky of a choice.

Yonder Alonso, Jon Jay and greg775

I really think the bucks can beat them. The warriors really lack depth. That's usually not a huge issue in the playoffs, but the bucks have such great depth. I'm on the bucks bandwagon.

You don't seem to understand - he has yet to hit any major league pitching. That Byron Buxton guy tore up AA and AAA at a young age as well. How has that turned out? The Sox have never gambled like this with a minor leaguer. Quite frankly, most of their decisions regarding minor league players are simply awful. From drafting to development to rushing them up to the majors. They have proven absolutely nothing in regards to handling minor league players. This sounds like a botch job in the making.

They have never signed an extension like this with a player who has never been in the majors. They did great with these contracts on pitchers (Sale and Q) and an injury prone player (Eaton). All had proven something in the majors but were volatile. Given how awful the dopes in the FO are at evaluating talent, I'm surprised anybody would give them the benefit of the doubt on this. You supplement the younger and cheap years from your star players with proven veterans who will cost more. Don't sign an unproven commodity to the biggest contract in club history. That's laughable.

And any sane fan would trade our organization for theirs in a heartbeat

There no way you could get worse with the way your started here

I find it strange they are willing to commit 100m to a guy who has never played a game in the MLB, but they cheaped out on Machado and Bryce. Just really odd and not Sox like.

You get mad at the idea of an opener but you don't mind an awful fielding 1st baseman when we have a superior fielder on the team? I thought you were anti tank?

https://mobile.twitter.com/whitesox/status/1105993145668517890 Is Jose really going to be the starter at 1st this year? Yonder is the better fielder of the two, and I have to imagine playing him at 1st will bolster his trade value. Abreu is such a butcher out there that he is injuring himself from deflections.... It is time to shift him to DH. It is long past that time, actually.

I've been pointing this out and I get lambasted every time I do. It has gotten ridiculous this past year.

March, April, and May are clearly his worst months... You just proved my point. Combine that with his awful defense and you have a very frustrating player. He would be a solid DH on a team with better offense around him. He shouldn't be at 1st.

He sure is consistent. Consistently awful on defense, consistently underperforms in the early season and until the Sox are out of it, then consistently mashes when there is no pressure.

I gave you shit and many others did as well, but you were basically right regarding the cheapness of the Sox the whole time. Props to you.

Let's go braves.

My God is the Felicio signing a bad one. Dude is so incredibly bad.

Disappointing off-season in the sense that we added so many freaking mediocre guys. We had enough of those guys already.

So the HOF voters use WAR as a basis for their votes? This is news to me. You aren't required to tirelessly defend the FOs failure to land Machado and Harper this off-season you know.

Chisox378 - March 1st join date. Anti gay posts within 2 weeks of joining. ?

Sheesh I can't say I saw this coming when I entered the thread.