ChiSox59

He did. I saw a follow up that he was dealing with calf tightness last night. Even without Colas, let Fletcher play RF over Sheets.

This. Its not really not that complicated. The Beni deal has obviously gone horribly. But people acting like the Sox can't afford to pay him $16M the next three seasons are just making excuses for the org. But I am moving on from this discussion because its mind numbingly stupid.

Curious to see if they make any roster moves today to get some of these worthless vets out of the way.

$15M was 7.5% of the Sox payroll as recently as 2 seasons ago.

He's had an OPS just under .800 since June 1. The defense has been terrible and the arm is awful, though I do think some of the former is just an effort problem. If Beni can OPS .750ish, he's a non terrible bottom of the order player. Obviously not what the Sox were looking for when the gave him 5/$75M. He was hurt for most of last season; not sure what the issue was in April/May this year other than just a brutal slump.

The AAV isn't a lot of money in the context of baseball. He isn't even a top 75 paid player in the league.

Yeah, I don't buy that. I guess we'll see what happens.

Its really not, though. Their payroll for next season will be around $50M as things stand right now (obviously will be higher with stop gap adds). It was 4x that 2 seasons ago. The Sox can afford Beni's mid tier contract just fine.

On the grandp scheme of things, Beni’s contract isn’t that bad. $16M is chump change in today’s game. If he can be the hitter hes been the last 2 months, put a little more effort in on D and play less against LHP, he can be a 1.5-2 war guy and be “worth” his pay the next couple seasons. Lots of ifs. But it’s not some albatross deal.

If Burger was on this team, you'd have absolutely torched him all season. But of course since he's not, he's the next Edgar Martinez.

And what if an asteroid hits earth?

Oh im very worried about the strained forearm. TJS is probably coming and that blows. But writing Thorpe off as a back of the rotation starter because he doesn't throw 97 is stupid.

He had a strained forearm dude. Who gives a s%*# about his last two starts? What about the 6-7 starts prior to that where he was nails? I guess we'll just forgot about those.

How many guys have that elite of change up?

You keep repeating this and it is kind of a crazy take. He got shelled his last two starts which skewed the heck out his numbers, but he was awesome prior to that and has an unreal minor league resume. Thorpe doesn't have amazing stuff so isn't ever going to be a prototypical "ace" but he can absolutely be a very good mid to upper rotation guy. It absolutely blows if he ultimately needs TJS, tho.

If anyone has a link to this presser, please post.

I'd honestly be fine with Grady as the manager moving forward. Would definitely prefer him to an insular white sox hire.

LFG Grady! s%*# canning those coaches too. I fucking love it.

I think its more that they weren't going to fire him mid road trip. But they should have just canned him on the previous off day.

YESSS! Captain of the Sizemore train over here.

Of course you find a way to complain about this move!

Does it really matter though? Lose 120, 110, 100, doesn't really matter when 2025 rolls around.

Sizemore for interim please!!

https://x.com/jonheyman/status/1820984470696268097?s=46&t=ZsD-oMA2yHZYnWZDZsTK_w pham certainly has not s%*# on the Sox on his way out.

Luis looking like a dude tonight is nice