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The Sox have been known to rush their 1st round picks. Rodon, Fulmer. Nick might be the most polished player in the last draft. Will he be rushed up this year? IMO, the Sox will do it. They've done this plenty of times before..

Fact. Gio did have a dynamite arm, back with the nats. His stuff is mediocre now

Boros representing a player shouldn't have any impact on the White Sox choice. Then again, gotta save up to resign our future studs ?

You know I'm right though

Extending Abreu is an awful idea. He is an aging slugger who is a complete liability at 1st. We have enough position less sluggers coming up through the minors. No reason to waste any payroll on Abreu.

I think I'm going to switch my allegiance to the brew crew. Big fan of them.

You just need to ether him a few times like I have, then he'll stop

Yeah, and doctor's used to think blood letting was the way to go. Ptatc's methods may be antiquated for all we know.

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.