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Lol, hindsight is 20/20. Rutherford just turned 22 like a week ago, so it is far too early to call him a bust IMO. But obviously he has not been good with the White Sox and I suspect at this point his chances of being an average MLB regular are fairly low. But you make that trade 100 out of 100 times. Sometimes prospects don't work out. FWIW - the two OF bats ranked closest to what Rutherford was ranked when the Sox acquired him are Luis Robert and Yordan Alvarez. Me thinks we'd all be pretty happy if the Sox traded Colome for someone of that magnitude.

The Sox are not going to be buyers. Even if they somehow are around .500 coming July, they're still not trading legitimate future assets for current pieces. The one exception I could see to this is perhaps trading for a controllable SP, but it wouldn't really be a "win now" buyers type move. I highly doubt Abreu is extended in the next 12 weeks. But I would certainly throw a 2 year $20-22M deal at him right now and see if he takes it. Robert and Madrigal will not see an inning of time with the White Sox in 2019. Nor should they. I don't think Rondon is going to have surgery, but Rodon may. I think the Sox are exploring all alternatives on that, because if it is TJS, chances are at best a coinflip that his career with the Sox is over. Alonso will be DFA'd prior to the trade deadline, IMO. Maybe someone desperate for a LH bat is willing to take on like $1M to get him, but I doubt it. I would be very surprised if Colome is on the White Sox come August 1st.

FFS, the Sox traded Robertson (who had neutral value due to his salary) in a deal that netted them a top 50 prospect at the time. If the So did that with Colome, I would be doing backflips.

They’ll cut him before the option vests. I’d prefer they do what you’re suggesting, but it’s clear they’re just going to ride him for now and cut him later. At this point, no one is going to trade for him even if he turns it around some.

Please try to add something of value with with your posts instead of repeating the same shit over and over again.

Problem with Rutherford is he needs to be added to the 40 Man this coming winter. He does kind of need to start hitting a little.

Great analysis here - but I really hope Vaughn isn’t the guy. Not that I don’t think he can be good, I just really don’t want to spend a top 3 pick on a 1B.

Assigned to Charlotte. Takes Preston Tucker's spot who has been released to pursue opportunity in KBO. Feel free to move to minor league forum, but due to our lack of outfield depth and the fact that Orlando has close to 1,000 MLB PA, figured it could go here.

I wouldn't call Rutherford "absolutely nothing" at the time.

Lol, yah I struggled with that one.

Edwin Jackson was actually pretty good for the Sox. 11-9 wit a 3.66 ERA and 3.22 FIP. 174 Ks to 57 walks.

Garcia 2B, Moncada 3B, Abreu DH, Alonso 1B, Castillo C, Delmonico LF, Anderson SS, Tilson CF, Cordell RF

Nice, let's toast their bullpen in game 1.

His wRC+ of 125 so far this season would habe been good for 9th best in baseball last season. For a 23 year old, that isn't bad.

Generally speaking, when you remove a team's top 5 prospects, the farm system is going to look pretty bad.

Covey vs. Bucholz in Canada. I think there will be some runs scored in this affair. Let's strive mightily to win 2/3 or sweep this weekend.

Nice, figured this one was done for. Probably still is, but at least we got a chance!!

Yah, they can DFA him at anytime. They are just on the hook for the remainder of his 2019 salary unless someone claims him.

I am very against moving Moncada again. I think he's been about as good as we could have hoped at 3B.

anything to get Alonso less at bats is fine with me. I am totally OK with Eloy DHing some, I just want him in the field most of the time. He is young enough that he can still improve out there. He will never be a good OF, but things get a whole lot easier if he can at least be a passable LF for the next 4-5 years.

Yah, same. My "insert FA" would be different, but that is my other group of 4, assuming Rodon goes down with TJS.

I'm not sold either. But they are going to give him us 30 starts, and he'll have an ERA in the low to mid 4s. He'll be fine. You could do alot worse than him as your 5th starter, which hopefully is what he is 12 months from now.

Rosario has been struggling to hit for average, but he leads the AL in homers. I wouldn't really expect a ton of positive regression from their of those guys.

Lopez will be fine.

The Twins offense is going to cool off. It is still going to be good, but Jorge Polonco is not the next coming of ARod and Cron, Schoop and their catchers are going to cool off. They're the easy favorites for the AL central now though.