February 21, 20251 yr https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/02/white-sox-mike-clevinger-agree-to-minor-league-contract.html
February 21, 20251 yr Author I just don’t get it…he’s never exactly been an innings eater so that’s not a reason or argument. Edited February 21, 20251 yr by Bob Sacamano
February 21, 20251 yr To add onto this: This isn't a move Getz has to make because he has no budget, cause there's no upside with Clevinger. He sucks, he's been injured while here, and that's not even counting the accompanying baggage. At this point, it's just charity for Clevinger.
February 21, 20251 yr ... I'm fucking done with this team. f*** that piece of s%*# of a human being and the White Sox organization. I don't give a damn how many innings he eats.
February 21, 20251 yr SSHM and Balta threatened to quit the board over this lol before..although have since seen the former name in the SoxMachine threads on Fegan Margalus Nelson articles. Same poster that always provided graphs facts background like Jay Cuda I guess. You go through all the trouble of casting out the so called bad apples from the 2022-23 25 man roster and THEN you disrespect your clubhouse and female fanbase by deliberately counting more controversy? This is dumb in so many ways they're impossible to count. What the heck is Venable thinking about all this? Surely he was notified? Too early for April Fool's right?
February 21, 20251 yr February 20th, 2025 at 11:03pm CST • By Anthony Franco The White Sox are in agreement with Mike Clevinger on a minor league deal, reports Robert Murray of FanSided. The ACES client receives a non-roster invite to Spring Training. More to come. The day the White Sox died...11:03 p.m. on a Thursday night. Not a Hahn Wednesday.
February 21, 20251 yr 19 minutes ago, Bob Sacamano said: I just don’t get it…he’s never exactly been an innings eater so that’s not a reason or argument. Doesn't he have a personal relationship with one of the minority shareholders? I feel like I've seen that connection before.
February 21, 20251 yr 19 minutes ago, CWSpalehoseCWS said: Doesn't he have a personal relationship with one of the minority shareholders? I feel like I've seen that connection before. I think/hope this is why.
February 21, 20251 yr Sox already have to find innings to ramp up 16 guys to starters in Spring. I have no idea why they would do this. Oh well, add it to the 99% of reality that I get no say in.
February 21, 20251 yr Jose Quintana has supposedly been rejected by the Mets and now the Pirates (signed Andrew Heaney instead)...wouldn't THAT be a much better story, ending his career with the White Sox, one that began 13 LONG years ago?
February 21, 20251 yr 6 minutes ago, DoUEvenShift said: Damn our game threads will go from 10 posts to 5 posts when he starts. Cue up the "no way he even makes the team as an NRI," brigade, he's just rotation insurance...nothing here to see.
February 21, 20251 yr I heard Trevor Bauer is still throwing 95mph on tik tok reels, we should check him out too
February 21, 20251 yr They've already paid this guy $15 million between 2023 and 2024...and he's recorded 2.2 and -0.1 fWAR's. 2.1 isn't a terrible payoff for a FA contract based on that amount, but the public relations and clubhouse chemistry hits alone aren't worth that level of performance. And then you want to reintroduce him to your clubhouse of lots of young players just breaking into the big leagues for the very first time??? WHY????? How does he represent White Sox culture that Venable and Getz are so desperately trying to inculcate??? 2020 0.7 $1.5 million CLE/SD (traded for Austin Hedges, Josh Naylor, Cal Quantrill and prospects Joey Cantillo, Gabriel Arias and Owen Miller, not one of Preller's best moves.) 2021 0.0 $5 million SD (injured, out for whole season) 2022 0.4 $7 million SD 2023 2.2 $8 million CHW 2024 -0.1 $4 million buyout, another $3 million contract ($7 million total) CHW Average=0.64 fWAR (3.2 fWAR total) over those last five years for $28.5 million ... the Padres couldn't move on fast enough, but the White Sox were so quick to INCREASE his salary after a 0.4 fWAR campaign in 2022. The guy has made $30,670,000 in his career already...do we need to contribute even more to his family? Finally, the entire baseball world must be laughing at the White Sox, yet again...why do we continually make ourselves a national laughingstock? Edited February 21, 20251 yr by caulfield12
February 21, 20251 yr Part of the MLB new quality of equality issue. Clev plans to wear Sox gear to Coopersville.
February 21, 20251 yr Investing significant money in a pitcher (Sunshine) who’s had a history of injuries likely isn’t what the Padres front office wants to do. And the bottom line is he pitched just 2.2 innings, allowing seven earned runs in his two postseason games this season. Of course we all know he wasn’t able to get a single out in Philadelphia after the offense gave him the luxury of a four-run lead before he even took the mound. While he didn’t perform in the postseason, I did feel for him when he said the day of Game 4 was one of the worst days of his life. He wanted to help this team win so bad so it sucked to see him struggle (as it does to see any Padre struggle). I would be fine if he returned on a team-friendly deal but money could probably be better spent elsewhere this winter. This was Clevinger coming out of 2022... https://www.gaslampball.com/2022/10/28/23425641/2022-padres-player-review-mike-clevinger Edited February 21, 20251 yr by caulfield12
Investing significant money in a pitcher (Sunshine) who’s had a history of injuries likely isn’t what the Padres front office wants to do. And the bottom line is he pitched just 2.2 innings, allowing seven earned runs in his two postseason games this season. Of course we all know he wasn’t able to get a single out in Philadelphia after the offense gave him the luxury of a four-run lead before he even took the mound. While he didn’t perform in the postseason, I did feel for him when he said the day of Game 4 was one of the worst days of his life. He wanted to help this team win so bad so it sucked to see him struggle (as it does to see any Padre struggle). I would be fine if he returned on a team-friendly deal but money could probably be better spent elsewhere this winter. This was Clevinger coming out of 2022... https://www.gaslampball.com/2022/10/28/23425641/2022-padres-player-review-mike-clevinger
February 21, 20251 yr The Sox operate as if their goal is to alienate as many fans as possible. maybe it actually is.
February 21, 20251 yr 17 minutes ago, maxjusttyped said: The Sox operate as if their goal is to alienate as many fans as possible. maybe it actually is. Pretty darned close to the plot of Major League...including a rickety plane compared to the rest of MLB. We don't even get a bikini cutout and crusty manager Lou Brown.
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