Sleepy Harold

Cool tribute to Dale with the logo.

It was a trash idea when you "jokingly" suggested it the first time, and it's a trash idea now.

Yeah...no. This take ?

It should make a big enough impact that in theory, we won't have to sit through more Covey/Santiago/Santana/Despaigne/Detailer starts.

It's official now.

Hawk was very much near the cream of the crap for the last 7 years or so of his duties. I grew up on Hawk calls, but man was it his time to go.

I doubt he'd even really want to leave LA in the first place. If anything, I think he tests the FA waters to see what his market is and goes back to the Dodgers so they can work something out.

I believe this is how it should be approached. Whatever beef they had like 15 years ago shouldn't matter anymore. The man represents a lot of the top talent that the MLB has to offer for a reason. Balking at negotiating with him only does a disservice to your team. If they intend to be serious about taking the next step, this is something that the FO has to get over.

"The sexy unknown"? People know what JD is, a great damn hitter. He can't field at all, but he sure can hit the hell out of the ball. In '17, JD had an OPS (on base percentage + slugging) that was 160 points higher than Jose, in '18 it was 233 points higher than Jose, and this year it was 105 points higher. That's a pretty wide gap if you ask me. Jose had a nice rebound year in '19, but JD would provide the team with a bonafide DH for the first time since the shell of Adam Dunn roamed the premises, some desperately needed on base percentage (his OBPs the last 3 years are .376, .402, .383, guys on base more have a better chance of scoring runs), protection for everyone else in the lineup, and can be a great influence on the young hitters we have here/coming up (see Betts, Mookie). It's not about "statniks"/advanced stat people trying to shame the traditional stat followers, it's about making the White Sox a better baseball team. Adding a high quality bat to a lineup that sure could use it makes all the sense in the world. His age is what it is, he's about 7 months younger than Jose FWIW, but as a professional hitter and not much of a fielder anymore, one would hope to project that he doesn't fall off the "wrong side of 30" cliff as quickly as a normal position player would/does. Jose isn't a good 1Bman by any means, but both of them could definitely coexist, and the both of them on a 2020 White Sox roster would make it significantly better.

Was it this?

Who knows if this would amount to anything but it's interesting nonetheless.

Well Hahn must've thought it was so outstanding of an idea that he didn't end up doing it.

Well he's also employed by ESPN so that's why he does a bunch of college hoops and football, but he's currently living his dream job of broadcasting White Sox baseball. I think it's his job for a long while.

FIFY

He was in Charlotte with the Knights.

He didn't have any pick tied to him since he was traded mid-season. Harper got a QO so he had pick compensation tied to him.

I was hoping Capra would get the boot too, but I suppose this is better than staying the course with the same people again.

The main difference between Jay and Choo is that one can hit & one can't hit for shit.

His defensive #s don't look great, but with who we've been running out there the last few years, not sure how much worse he'd be out there than a Palka or Jon Jay. He'd probably be a cheap acquisition for a year and fill an OBP need.

I think Choo could be a very attainable (and cheap to acquire), albeit unsexy pickup that could help the team out a lot. He can play RF, bats LH, good OBP guy, only signed for 1 more season. Theoretically buys the OFers on the farm another year to develop/someone step up.

"Bunting: only acceptable on Opening Day"