Sleepy Harold

I suppose it makes a bit more sense now

A veteran catcher that's better than your current 29 y.o. backup and relatively cheap. Could possibly help out Korey and/or Quero (if they decide to call him up). I'd say there's not really any downside to putting a claim in, especially since the Sox have right of first refusal.

Maybe they feel Drew Romo is ready.

He makes sense to claim bc Chuckles Robinson isn't good. He's owed about 1M for the remainder of the season, so might be too rich for JR after giving Pedro the axe.

Throw in a claim Getz

From James Fegan's piece today https://soxmachine.com/2024/08/for-chris-getz-white-soxs-historic-futility-can-be-means-to-an-end/

Nincompoops gonna nincompoop

FINALLY

Today would be a great day to give Mr. Clean his pink slip.

Leave him on a dinghy in the Bay with his walking papers.

When you have the opportunity to plug in a .636 OPS hitting, 28 year old first baseman into RF where he's -5 OAA, you have to jump on that.

He's split time between LF and 2B all season long.

Seems to be everything really, from who they target, glaring lack of development, leaving $ on the table in multiple classes. Their strategy of throwing the majority of the pool $ at "advanced" Cuban players didn't work, and we know they don't play in the deep end for the high end teenage talent either. I will say that Paddy definitely helped bring the department back from the depths of hell post-scandal.

Agreed, they really need to find someone else to take over the position from Paddy it seems.

Javier Mora & Alvaro Aguero released from Kanny, Womack released from Birmingham as well.

Here's the brief write-up as well

#54 at BA right now.

No defensive home AND can't hit? The ultimate modern White Sox

Don't worry, only three more years left on his deal (allegedly)!