Cesar Hernandez OPS splits

April - .527 (eck! horrible!)

May - .810 (oh! nice!)

June - .715 (meh. fine.)

July - .898 (?)

Just now, chw42 said:

At least this probably means Goodwin stops getting starts in CF. 

I'm really thinking Goodwin is gone when Robert comes back...lately he has been awful.

4 minutes ago, Sleepy Harold said:

PortillosHamburger, more like PortillosSadburger amIright?¿?

So Kaplan is his "source". 

2 minutes ago, fathom said:

My initial post wasn’t sarcastic.  They truly didn’t like his medical report, but some people are just ignoring that aspect.

No I agree. That was obviously make or break with them.

We wanted Pequods

We would have settled for Lou's

We got Little Cesar

Pizza Pizza 

The .898 OPS in his last 21 games, along with taking his low BABIP into account has me very content with this deal. 

1 minute ago, mqr said:

Cesar Hernandez OPS splits

April - .527 (eck! horrible!)

May - .810 (oh! nice!)

June - .715 (meh. fine.)

July - .898 (?)

I'll take those July #s for Oct please.

 

1 minute ago, SoxAce said:

 

Yeah he's a huge reason they're still a .500 team. He just hit a go ahead homer for them yesterday and always seems to sneak homers in when you least expect it. 

1 minute ago, GREEDY said:

We wanted Pequods

We would have settled for Lou's

We got Little Cesar

Pizza Pizza 

There was no pequods or lous, it's all little Caesar's or papa John's.  Come on they are getting rentals here

Just now, Kyyle23 said:

There was no pequods or lous, it's all little Caesar's or papa John's.  Come on they are getting rentals here

Sox should have traded for Chris Taylor imo

Just now, mqr said:

Sox should have traded for Chris Taylor imo

Green font pls

Solid move that upgrades the roster by trading from minor league depth.  

57 minutes ago, KrankinSox said:

Hernandez is a switch-hitting 2B, with 18 HRs and a WRC+ of 100. League average hitter is an upgrade over our current 2B.

Owed about $2M more for the rest of 2021 and has a $6M 2022 team option with no buyout.

Solid, unspectacular pickup to fill an obvious hole.

Ah, the epitome of the 2014-2016 mindset applied to our 2021 championship contending team.

Have fun being a Guardian, Pilkington. 

1 minute ago, bmags said:

Ah, the epitome of the 2014-2016 mindset applied to our 2021 championship contending team.

I just really want to know what people think is out there. Was it Frazier or bust?

3 minutes ago, chw42 said:

Yeah he's a huge reason they're still a .500 team. He just hit a go ahead homer for them yesterday and always seems to sneak homers in when you least expect it. 

He's going from the top of the order on a .500 team to the bottom of the lineup too. 

I would be interested in what Future Sox guys say about Pilkington. His velocity is up, he’s had some success in a pitcher’s park in Birmingham. I would put him in the 15-20 range with McClure and Bilious. My fear is that Steiver and Lambert do not look like useful depth for the rotation. Pilkington was one of a handful of guys who could give you that next year. Off-season, Sox may want to trade upper level power prospects for upper level pitching depth.

Just wanted to point out @chw42 is absolutely killing it in this thread with his posts. Well done.

6 minutes ago, mqr said:

Sox should have traded for Chris Taylor imo

Is this for real? Maybe the Sox could have traded Luis Robert and Michael Kopech for him, too. 

31 minutes ago, kleedawg said:

If the sox do not want to pick up Cesar's option next year, I bet they can trade him in the off season for something better than conor pilkington

They would have to pick up his option to trade him.

24 minutes ago, WhiteSoxFan1993 said:

Cleveland is off today so they probably traveled last night. He may have to switch hotels, though.

Westin -> Marriott

24 minutes ago, chw42 said:

For those that think Hernandez's HR output isn't sustainable: he's upped his barrel rate by 6% this year over his career norms. That's also 3x higher than his career norms. Is he just running into the ball more? Possibly. But it also just looks like a change in his approach. 

His rate of hitting the ball in the air is way up too.

 

5 minutes ago, bmags said:

Ah, the epitome of the 2014-2016 mindset applied to our 2021 championship contending team.

When you're a 90 win team, the context for taking a below-average position up to average is different than when you're a 73 win team.

Love to go to the Cleveland board and hear what they're saying about this move. 

1 minute ago, Donny Lucy's Avocado Farm said:

Is this for real? Maybe the Sox could have traded Luis Robert and Michael Kopech for him, too. 

deadly serious

I was kind of fixated on Story, but Cesar is fine. I also like that there is a reasonable team option