Jose Abreu

And that's the exact reason I revived this thread. The Sox have an issue with offering long contracts, but over these past two winters, they have shown a new philosophy when it comes to AAV. 5/200 might be a bit much, but you get the point

Probably, yeah. Moving Rendon to RF is also an option as I weirdly think he'd be competent out there, but I think 2B would be more likely. Not that it means anything, but all the "source" accounts on Twitter (not the real ones like Bilek/WSD etc but the Steve Cisheks of the world) are all saying stuff like this today. Fair points. Definitely agree that Madrigal would have to stay at 2B (on whichever team).

Agree with all of this, but two comments: First, Moncada has already volunteered to move to the outfield, per Renteria. Additionally, you're right that Moncada is likely a better defender at 3B than Rendon, and that's why Rendon would be the one that I move in this hypothetical signing.

To be fair, those people never should have been taken seriously in the first place. He was a 2 WAR player in 2018 and had a pretty average year overall.

Doesn't seem like the craziest proposition ever since you have made *looks closely* 1 post here, ever

This isn't about Tsutsugo, this is about Shogo Akiyama. Tsutsugo is a prototypical home runs, walks, and strikeouts guy.

Rendon's main goal seems to be high AAV. We just offered $25 million AAV to Zack Wheeler and $31.25 million AAV to Machado in February. I obviously don't expect us to sign or even pursue Rendon, which I'll underline since any post on the matter tends to get a bunch of replies restating that, but I see him as a more realistic pivot than Cole or Strasburg. If you really want to spend the money, get creative with Rendon and offer him 5/180. As unlikely as it seems, I never expected Reinsdorf to be convinced to offer Zack Wheeler of all people $25 million per year.

Well it is pretty normal to win the vast majority of games in which you're leading after 8, but that's not what I'm arguing and I'm not sure what you're getting at. For everything that suggests the 2019 Sox were lucky, there's another thing that suggests they were unlucky I could definitely see that argument.

Works both ways. For example, I think most of our relievers (save for Bummer) have better years. Same goes for Lopez. I also think Anderson improves on defense.

He probably heard it from Mr. Cishek

The additions of Robert, Grandal, Kopech, Madrigal, and Cease (full season) make us an ~80 win team as constructed, IMO. Getting one of Ryu/Keuchel, Castellanos/Pederson, and hopefully one more significant piece pushes us towards the higher 80s.

James McCann

Yes, that’s all it is

Wouldn't the "28th worst defense" be the 3rd best defense?

I miss the days when "putting your email in your Soxtalk username" was a thing

It says the account was created in August of 2016. Clearly, Cishek made the account, forgot about it, then got this Wheeler scoop today and decided to share it with the world.

And his RF defense is even worse. I'd literally rather have Leury play RF full-time when you take the contracts into consideration

He didn't circle back, the Sox FO learned the news with the rest of us. When Moncada was moved to 3B, that Padres deal hadn't even been offered yet

Not a huge Gonzales fan but he isn't a high walk rate pitcher, in fact he's one of the best pitchers at avoiding walks. That said, I'm sure the Mariners are asking for something we'd be unable to pay. Wheeler + Hamels would be great.

Kyle Seager ended up passing Moncada after this tweet, but Yoan still finished 4th and this definitely would factor into a potential extension. Once he figured out the early throwing errors, he was automatic over there. Completely agree, and I would also be more than willing to do that if I'm the Sox. The nagging injuries may be a concern, but he's our first young superstar position player since Maggs and it's probably worth the risk.

You guys realize this is a fake tweet and Porcello didn't actually sign for 2/30, right?

For some reason I remembered him getting the TJS in April rather than June, which would make a 2020 return much more likely. My bad

I get that he's recovering from TJS, but Burr was decent in a limited sample in MLB this year and killed it in the minors. I don't get why Dylan Covey wasn't the cut-off guy, honestly. Does he really need a 4th chance to *not* be one of the worst per-inning pitchers in the league?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/jason-kipnis-has-harsh-assessment-of-white-sox-after-losing-series-to-them/ar-AACiaGT

Robert is eligible to be called up without losing a year of service time about a week before then (due to the early start to the season). If he's healthy, I don't think he'll be there when you're there