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ChiSox59

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  1. $15M was 7.5% of the Sox payroll as recently as 2 seasons ago.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Yeah, I don't buy that. I guess we'll see what happens.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. I'd honestly be fine with Grady as the manager moving forward. Would definitely prefer him to an insular white sox hire.
  12. 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.
  13. Does it really matter though? Lose 120, 110, 100, doesn't really matter when 2025 rolls around.
  14. https://x.com/jonheyman/status/1820984470696268097?s=46&t=ZsD-oMA2yHZYnWZDZsTK_w pham certainly has not s%*# on the Sox on his way out.
  15. Luis looking like a dude tonight is nice
  16. 39 wins? Expect the Sox to get red hot?
  17. I mean, its not really that simple. Fedde has been better this year, but Rogers has been better in his career. Rogers is cheaper, has another year of control, is 5 years younger than Fedde, throws with his left hand and has more projectability. I will again footnote that I think the Fedde deal sucked, and they should have gotten another good prospect in the deal. But these aren't really apples to apples comps.
  18. Interesting to see Callis say he'd take Vargas over Norby rather easily. I don't think this deal is panned nearly as badly by Sox fans if Fedde went to the O's with the Sox getting back Norby + Perez and Albertus. Still probably feels a player light with Kopech and Pham, but I think the narrative wouldn't be quite as negative. Would sure be nice to see Vargas look like he belongs the next couple months.
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