53 minutes ago, Chicago White Sox said:

Imagine this sexy rotation post Cease trade:

1. Mike Soroka
2. Michael Kopech
3. Erick Fedde
4. Touki Toussaint
5. Jared Shuster*

No Scholtens?   And the comeback of the inimitable Davis Martin?

 

How soon they all forget. 

 

Edited December 5, 20232 yr by caulfield12

Just now, caulfield12 said:

No Scholtens?   And the comeback of the inimitable Davis Martin?

 

How soon they all forget.  And the comeback of

I don’t think Martin will be ready right away.  And I really hope Scholtens isn’t in the rotation mix.

 

Some good nuggets in here.  As much I enjoy mocking how shitty our rotation could be next year, this is a small scale signing I fully support.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/09/03/erick-fedde-south-korea-nc-dinos/

Katz seems to like sweepers. He added one for Lynn. 

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/11/erick-fedde-drawing-interest-from-mlb-clubs.html

Merrill Kelly got a two-year, $5.5MM deal from Arizona going into 2019. A year later, Josh Lindblom got $9.125MM plus incentives over three years from the Brewers. Chris Flexen got $4.75MM over two years from the Mariners prior to 2021, plus a vesting option for 2023. Fedde may be able to top those figures through a combination of his superb season, his former prospect pedigree and inflation, but the guarantee still figures to be lighter than the top available arms.

59 minutes ago, Timmy U said:

Perfect cuz the Sox could compete in the KBO.

Come on now, they’d get destroyed in the KBO. 

43 minutes ago, Chicago White Sox said:

Imagine this sexy rotation post Cease trade:

1. Mike Soroka
2. Michael Kopech
3. Erick Fedde
4. Touki Toussaint
5. Jared Shuster*

That lineup calls for a site vomit reaction emoji. 

I'd like this a lot more if we were close to 85 wins on paper than 75.

1 minute ago, chitownsportsfan said:

I'd like this a lot more if we were close to 85 wins on paper than 75.

75? That’s too optimistic.

1 minute ago, Bob Sacamano said:

75? That’s too optimistic.

Well I'm six beers in so f*** off.

I’m good with this. Right type of chance to take. 

1 hour ago, Quin said:

Yeah, the Mets are one of the few teams that I think can use the term "retool" with a straight face.

The White Sox...no.

Meanwhile, I resolve all judgement on Fedde until I get an @Eminor3rd scouting report.

Sorry — Fedde was KBO, I really only follow NPB. All I know about Fedde is that he dominated the league. Not sure what he changed, if anything. 

Fedde was great overseas. Maybe he's the next Phil Humber. Sign him.

2 minutes ago, greg775 said:

Fedde was great overseas. Maybe he's the next Phil Humber. Sign him.

That wouldn’t be a good thing lol

1 hour ago, greg775 said:

Fedde was great overseas. Maybe he's the next Phil Humber. Sign him.

No hitter against Seattle forthcoming...

6 hours ago, Vote4Pedro said:

Sigh….it’s gonna be a long couple years 

It's been a long 42 years.

8 hours ago, wegner said:

I'm excited to see some news but I'll admit when I saw the thread title, I did wonder what the f*** is a fedde?

‘A Fedde’. Known nomenclature substitute for ‘A Reinsdorf’.  Understood to be a typical substitute for a real aquisition.

9 hours ago, Vote4Pedro said:

I really feel like Kopech gets moved to the bullpen. 

I would trade Santos and move Kopech to closer. If he succeeds there, then move him at the trade deadline.

"Can you imagine a rotation of Giolito, Flaherty, Soroka, Toussaint, and Fedde, with Kopech in the bullpen?" - 2019 Soxtalk

 

Picking up a bunch of former first rounders feels reminiscent of our attempts at all of those outfield reclamation projects, though in this case we're cobbling together an entire rotation of them.

You know times are tough when you desperate for an update on the Erick Fedde sweepstakes.

Fedde seems like the perfect "show-me" signing for a team like the Sox. A 2-year deal seems reasonable if at $10M total (though I suspect there'll be incentives thrown in there)

Essentially give him a big league audition at a low cost. If he does well at the trade deadline, his trade value is high because of the second year on his deal.

If he sucks, it's OK - the team will suck, and probably for really cheap, so a hit on 2025 is absorbable.

Please note that all of my "this seems like a good signing" or "this seems like a good idea" thoughts are based on the premise that the 2024 team will be atrocious, and the 2025 team will be .500 in the most optimistic, "Getz is a genius - he was able to bring the team back to mediocrity!" kind of way.

1 hour ago, Chick Mercedes said:

‘A Fedde’. Known nomenclature substitute for ‘A Reinsdorf’.  Understood to be a typical substitute for a real aquisition.

Much appreciated....I didn't take Latin in high school so there is a large abyss in my educationalness.

It's crazy to me that the bounce-back candidates that pitched in the MLB last year are too expensive for the Sox (Severino signing for $13M) so they have to go even cheaper.