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White Sox sign Leury Garcia to 3 year deal

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Just now, Chick Mercedes said:

Let’s reverse engineer this. If the Sox signed Semien or Escobar, and an everyday legit RF, would Garcia still be signed here for 3 years?  
 

Gotta believe things are not real optimistic in the war room, based on this signing.

Based on the injury history of our players, I would hope so.

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  • Yes, Leury is a good player to have on the roster. Nice to have, trust the process, etc. I believe that the White Sox intend to get a better second baseman still. Here's the problem, as I see it:

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Just now, southsider2k5 said:

He never got a glove on it, so no.

Lucky ducky.  Clearly a horrendous/embarrassing play, error or not.

3 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:

The Sox committed 1 error in the playoffs, and it was by Tim Anderson.

Leury is not exactly known for his defensive highlights…even if bad routes, throwing to the wrong bases and related mental mistakes usually don’t show up in the boxscores.

I just hope Hahn has a press conference to announce it.

Hold that thought…there are only 1-2 in the media covering the Sox that will challenge him directly on anything, so it would be pointless as usual.

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4 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:

Based on the injury history of our players, I would hope so.

And people call me gloomy. But the injury history is def real. I don’t think a FO will outlay millions up front based on forcasting a lot of injuries though. More to it than that Id reckon.  To specifically address the contention however, one might think a Garcia signing after a Semien and RF signing would be a luxurious Yankees type spree 

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3 minutes ago, Squirmin' for Yermin said:

Lucky ducky.  Clearly a horrendous/embarrassing play, error or not.

It was a horrible sequence of events set into place by our HOF person manager.  But it was not an error, nor did he commit 5 errors.

7 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:

The Sox committed 1 error in the playoffs, and it was by Tim Anderson.

Yeah thats why I said "and bad plays".  The one in RF was 100 % an error but didn't get recorded as an error 

1 minute ago, Moncada said:

Yeah thats why I said "and bad plays".  The one in RF was 100 % an error but didn't get recorded as an error 

Considering he made zero errors, it would be just "bad plays", but nice try.  Let's see the list of bad plays now.

2 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:

Considering he made zero errors, it would be just "bad plays", but nice try.  Let's see the list of bad plays now.

Didn't know if they had recorded the one in rf as an error 

So 5 very bad plays lol.  

18 minutes ago, fathom said:

I’m going to change my prediction from Sox going after Conforto to going after Schwarber and putting him at DH.  No sources or anything, just a baseless hunch.

Your source is me

You all can defend Leury all you want but he is a horrible starter and a very bad signing if it is as as starter which it appears so for now.  

Now if it is to play 1 or 2 games a week as a backup, barring injuries, good signing then.  

1 minute ago, bmags said:

Your source is me

When was that :)

What's the AAV? I feel like if they gave him three years they should get a discount on AAV. Anything more than 18 million and I'm iffy. If they got him for 3/18 or something that's fine. But 3/22 or something feels like an overpay. I know we're "just" talking 2-4 million here and what's the difference but for the end of roster types that shit adds up and can prevent other moves.

5 minutes ago, Moncada said:

You all can defend Leury all you want but he is a horrible starter and a very bad signing if it is as as starter which it appears so for now.  

Now if it is to play 1 or 2 games a week as a backup, barring injuries, good signing then.  

This isn't defending Leury as much as it is knocking down make believe strawmen, considering you keep posting falsehoods.

Can we just retitle this the "Leury Disinformation Thread"?

Just now, 35thstreetswarm said:

Can we just retitle this the "Leury Disinformation Thread"?

“Leury fake news”

6 minutes ago, chitownsportsfan said:

What's the AAV? I feel like if they gave him three years they should get a discount on AAV. Anything more than 18 million and I'm iffy. If they got him for 3/18 or something that's fine. But 3/22 or something feels like an overpay. I know we're "just" talking 2-4 million here and what's the difference but for the end of roster types that shit adds up and can prevent other moves.

@hi8is mentioned that someone on Spanish twitter is claiming that it’s $16.3 million.

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Just now, maloney.adam said:

@hi8is mentioned that he saw on Spanish twitter that it’s $16.3 million.

The source of that was some Dominican newspaper. We’ll see if it comes to pass.

Every time I come in here and see "White Sox sign," I get excited. 

My cousin knew a guy who said Mendick is the starter.  Can you believe that?  Outrageous.  Also, watch out for hypodermic needles with AIDS in the gas pump handles downtown, my other cousin said the ISISes are doing it

29 minutes ago, fathom said:

Well maybe if the guys who were supposed to start didn’t get injured so often, then he wouldn’t get as much playing time

To expect people to welcome a player signing who plays in the event that the frontliners are hurt, is not fair to expect. People would be happy about Garcia signing after the holes are plugged with real ballers. Which again, a Garcia signing probably wouldn’t even  happen in that event. Which is the gnawing fear. That it possibly means the Sox  aren’t optimistic that the real ballers are arriving. A Garcia signing just to cover for injured front line players is something a team does where money is no object. Usually nominal type utility guys are brought up for that stuff. It’s fairly easy to find nominal backups.

How could anybody possibly be upset about this?

3 minutes ago, Chick Mercedes said:

To expect people to welcome a player signing who plays in the event that the frontliners are hurt, is not fair to expect. People would be happy about Garcia signing after the holes are plugged with real ballers. Which again, a Garcia signing probably wouldn’t even  happen in that event. Which is the gnawing fear. That it possibly means the Sox  aren’t optimistic that the real ballers are arriving. A Garcia signing just to cover for injured front line players is something a team does where money is no object. Usually nominal type utility guys are brought up for that stuff. It’s fairly easy to find nominal backups.

No part of this is an "exciting" signing.  It is a part of roster building.  I get the worry that he will play too much, but you also need guys like this around for when guys like Eloy decide to run through walls, or someone else pulls something.

8 minutes ago, 35thstreetswarm said:

My cousin knew a guy who said Mendick is the starter.  Can you believe that?  Outrageous.  Also, watch out for hypodermic needles with AIDS in the gas pump handles downtown, my other cousin said the ISISes are doing it

Was that guy sitting on a southwest flight next to TLR?

I would love this move if it came on the heels of a few "bigger" ones.

In itself it's disappointing.  Can anyone not see that?  

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