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Yeah, well...right now they don't exactly have a plethora of other options. Especially with Eaton banged up. Point is, Hamilton actually has a role to play on this club if we can get some personnel to cover CF when Leury need play elsewhere or ideally sits his on the bench where it comes. Mentioned it yesterday, but Sox should pick up Ben Gamel. He's probably a better option than Goodwin. Not sure how well he can cover CF tho, but he's made over 30 appearances there is his career.

Twins got quite a hole to dig out of. They need to go 34-26 in their next 60 games just to get to .500. They aren't dead yet, but without great pitching its going to be tough. Oh, and it looked like Buxton tweaked a hammy in the 9th today.

Hamilton isn't going anywhere at this point. And honestly, that is fine. But he should get very very very very few at bats and be used pretty much exclusively as late inning defensive replacement or pinch running.

Yeah, but I don't think you can get him without 1 of Crochet, Kelley or Cespedes. Not to mention others guys on the MLB roster. If you could get him for something headliked by Thompson/Dalquist, with secondary pieces like Adolfo/Rutherford/Gonzalez and Ramos/Bailey/Rodriguez/Gladney, sure I'd do it. But I don't see that happening.

THANK THE LORD HAVE MERCY! Not that Boob know anything.

Yeah I hope not. The thought of him being on this roster is terrifying. He adds nothing.

At least he got DFAd. Won’t be a FA for at least a few days...hopefully Hahn can come up with something better before JR/TLR make him do it.

This wouldn’t help...

Except you damn well know TLR plays his multiple times a week over Yermin. We need dudes who can the OF. Not the corpse of Pujols. As soon as I saw he was getting released I knew this shit was gonna happen.

Ben Gamel DFAd. Should get him in Charlotte. Just keep signing guys like this til someone sticks.

Is there any video available of TLR postgame comments?

Yermin was not available. Already used. Eaton also not available. But yeah, anyone but Hamilton there.

Vaughn definitely looks the part in LF and I can confidently say he is a better LF than Eloy at this point. Eloy days of playing the OF should be mostly over. I am fine working him in at 1B/DH/occasional LF start next year, and hopefully he can stick at 1B. But I see no good reason to stick Eloy back in LF and move Vaughn in to 1B. Only other scenario is honestly Vaughn has looked decent enough in LF that maybe he could handle RF on occasion in 22 when we want to run a murderer's row lineup out there, but seems like a lot to ask of the kid.

Nice W

Yes I am serious. Gallo makes $6M and will make something like $8-9M next year. He’s well within the White Sox budget no matter what ridiculous narrative about ownership you care to spin. Jerry is a cheap stake when it comes to the Sox but if the Rangers would take a deal the Sox felt comfortable with, Gallos economics are not getting in the way.

lol Gallos contract isn’t the issue. Dude hardly makes anything.

Damn really thought we were getting baseball tonight.

Theoretically it is a good problem to have. If that were to play out and the NL adds the DH this offseason as widely expected, Yermin is probably traded. Yermin isn't displacing Eloy or Vaughn. I sure hope Mercedes keeps it up, but we're a ways away from that being a reality.

No, I know. Just brainstorming really. The knee jerk reaction is to go out and get some bat to replace Luis/Eloy, but really all that would be doing is displacing Vaughn, Eaton or Mercedes. NEver a bad thing to have too many good hitters I guess, but the Sox need a CF. Not a LF, or DH, or RF. (I know you know this).

The Sox know exactly what Yermin provides behind the plate. And ~20% of the way through the season he has 0 appearances at catcher. Yermin is a DH-only player, and an emergency catcher/1B. He will never be playing defense with any regularity in the big leagues.

Where is this big impact bat going to play moving forward tho? There isn't a ton of room at the inn for a big impact bat - its not like Eloy and Robert are dead. The answer is obviously RF, but just there aren't that many guys that can play CF that are also big time bats we can just shift over to RF in 2022. This is going to just be a patchwork situation in CF. Its truly unfortunate and frankly unlucky situation the Sox have found themselves, but there isn't some perfect fit out there. Gallo isn't perfect player by any means, but he is probably the best fit. But no chance I am giving up any of the guys you mentioned for him.

There is a reason Mercedes hasn't caught a game yet this season. He isn't a major league catcher.

Moving forward, I would do Madrigal, Moncada, TA, Abreu, Mercedes, Grandal, Vaughn, Eaton, Garcia/Hamilton, personally. But the lineup tonight is pretty solid.

They didn't sign Goodwin to be a long term solution. They signed him to try to give them another option in CF until Engel returns or a better option presents itself.

I think we could see Cespedes at some point later this summer, but Sheets and Adolof can't play CF and that is what he need. Gonzalez can play CF, which he why he keeps getting the call, but he also isn't good and likely not a major leaguer.