Sleepy Harold

Leury may have "earned" himself another contract from the Sox with his play in 2021 (a career year for him essentially), but what he was given (3/15.5M) is/was a definite overpay and shouldn't have happened. Both can be true in this case. Why couldn't Leury be toast after his injuries though? He's a dude on the wrong side of 30 now after all. Leury has only been above league average with the bat one time in ten major league seasons, so it's not as if that bar was set all that high to begin with. But I also don't really understand the meaning of this, however I do think Romy could offer Leury levels of output at the major league level for league minimum if that's what you're asking. Out produced Moncada how and in what ways? A quick glance would indicate that Moncada has been a better hitter (wRC+) than Leury in all of his major league seasons with the lone exception of 2020, where Leury only played in 16 games and Moncada appeared to be quite afflicited by COVID. Moncada wRC+ 2017-2022: 105 (54 games/231 PA), 97 (149 games/650 PA), 139 (132 games/559 PA), 94 (52 games/231 PA), 120 (144 games/616 PA), 76 (104 games/433 PA) Leury wRC+ 2017-2022: 98 (87 games/326 PA), 86 (82 games/275 PA), 82 (140 games/618 PA), 106 (16 games/63 PA), 97 (126 games/474 PA), 39 (97 games/315 PA) For his career, Leury is an even 0 in OAA when combined across all positions played dating back to 2016, so he seems to offer generally average defense with a below average bat whereas Moncada offers above average defense at third (he was pretty terrible at second) and avg/to slightly above avg offense at the plate. Leury's sprint speed ranking has also been declining since 2019 (2020 season notwithstanding), speed doesn't tend to stick with you as you get older, and it appears it may be escaping Leury as well. It seems as if Alberto has played his way onto the team, Pedro seems to dig him.

The White Sox DFA'd Keuchel last year when he was an expensive batting practice pitcher, DFA'd Danks when he was clearly an expensive sunk cost, and sent Keppinger packing with multiple years left. Let's at least acknowledge that the Sox are moderately competent (at times) to know when it's time to move on, regardless of how much money is owed. A Leury DFA wouldn't be uncharted waters that they've never swam in before, which is an entirely separate and sad rabbit hole to go down.

After years of witnessing horrid defense, wanting Burger to start at third over Yoán because of his bat makes my head hurt. Anything Jake would provide on offense would be entirely negated by his inability to play a moderately passable third base. For reference, Burger played 326 innings at third last year, which was roughly 38% of the number of innings Moncada covered (859.2). Burger in that time frame was a -5 DRS, -7 OAA, and -2.4 DRP (Moncada had a 2 DRS, 4 OAA, and a 8.3 DRP). If you couldn't tell, Jake's numbers are quite abysmal at the hot corner. Hell, Jake has even played more first than third in spring games. With that being said, Moncada HAS to improve his offense from last year (which I believe it will improve). Nobody will disagree or argue with that statement. But at this moment in time, this whole premise of benching or moving Yoán off third for Jake is wild stuff.

That team defense coming off the bench would make a t-ball team blush.

2022 White Sox motto: Firstbaseman are in the corner outfield 2023 White Sox motto: Firstbasemen make up half the bench Progress?¿?¿

Hendriks said he thought he could be back in May, Lance scoffed at that in the podcast interview and threw June out there. We know Liam is super competitive, but i think it would still make sense to place him on the 60.

We're changing the ball once again, this time it'll be a bean bag except for Yankee games.

I had to read this a few times to make sure it wasn't the Not Bob account.

It showed up for me on the main page of the app, just had to scroll over a couple times on the Live & Upcoming Sports thing at the top.

They're a top 5 system right now, if not higher, so that checks out.

I don't often go on Tuesday but would be more inclined to do so with this. About time they did this. Tuesday vs the Cubs is exempt from this BTW.

Outside of nearly tripping on his own feet on his first attempt (still made the out) I think it went alright for the first time ever playing the position.