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My thoughts as well, especially Luis. Hate to see it.

Kopech has the upside of one of the best SP in the game. He has only 3 years of control left because Sox horribly mishandled him. You gotta keep him as as a SP for now. Hard pass on moving him to the pen and creating another gaping hole in the rotation.

I’m surprised by the CF numbers. I thought he looked adequate out there, surprisingly. But perhaps that’s just because I had very low expectations.

He played very little RF after the first month or so. And it was rough. He was serviceable in LF and CF.

Still was a bit of a square peg in a round hole. But it was the best he was gonna do with Kimbrel.

.800 OPS switch hitting 3B with a well above average glove aren’t that plentiful. That’s a very valuable player.

I literally think he’d fit right in with the crew. Perhaps a slight upgrade on the 1B, but he’s really bad. He looks like a flimsy green bean with a hat on wiggling around out there. It’s bad. Not a fit defensively at all, which we all know should be a focus. The bat would work tho. There’s worse moves that could be made.

Yoan is definitely a guy I could see being a very productive major leaguer until he’s in has late with 30s with just a priority shift. He’s got all the talent in the world. He’s probably already locked himself into being a let down in a White Sox jersey, but I wouldn’t be surprised at all to see the light bulb go on once he realizes the well is going to run dry in a couple years. It’s in there. Hope it starts in 23.

If Winker wasn’t a complete butcher in LF, his offensive profile would be a solid fit. But we don’t need more DHs.

It makes no sense. Sox will trade him pennies on the dollar and Gio will be a 4 WAR SP in 2023 because the dude wants to get paid.

Precisely. Me thinks Graveman has value. i would take tapia over engel for free tho.

Ramos and Rodriguez seem like no brainers. Who else will be added?

And acquire an OF that fits pretty much no team team needs, and biggest move is acquiring a guy that wasn’t good last year. Maybe a bit dramatic but replace Conforto with Tapia and I like it alot more. I’d also hang onto Graveman.

May as well trade everyone if this is the plan.

I would love Clevinger at 2/$20M. I think that’s the exact type Of move they need to finish out the starting 5.

This makes pretty much zero sense. So I doubt it happens

LOLZ

This is kinda my concern. I fully expected Pollock to be back, but now we need two OFs. I guess worst case Sheets can hold down LF until Colas arrives, but Pollock honestly would have been useful to have around for what really amounts to a net cost of $8M. Now if that $8M is intelligently reallocated, it could be good news, but IMO the Sox are slightly worse today than they were this time yesterday.

Those guys suck.

The coaching staff, and the fact that pretty much all their best players were either hurt, bad or both. That might matter too, idk.

Yeah, that $5M buyout sucks. 1/$8M sounds about right for AJ. At least you can squint and see a useful player there if his at bats against tough RHP are limited. And certainly provides some injury insurance you noted.

Problem with that is Sox then need 2 OFs. Can you find one better than Pollock for 1/$7M? Maybe…but the net cost is about right

Its really not that difficult of a situation to figure out. It is actually quite simple, really.

How in Benintendi in the OF? He doesn't play any RF. While not ideal, probably not a deal breaker as Colas can cover RF. But we'd be back to the Pollock in RF games to start 2023. Gallo's being a pretty good OF helps a lot. I think there is a decent chance he'd a solid player. But he'd be third on my list after Nimmo and Conforto.

Gallo.