What are we thinking Soxtalk? The team seems to have a lot of middle infield prospects at the moment, especially with the imminent Roch pick. Do they make some trades or hold off?

If Jacob Gonzalez has regained value by mashing in AAA, as a 1st round pick who is a lefty SS, I wouldn't be terribly upset if we flipped him. I have no idea of Gonzalez has any value though.

Edited 4 hours ago4 hr by ron883

Much is going to depend on where the Sox are at the deadline and more importantly what JR decides given the almost sure lockout coming. He probably won't want to take much risk, if any until he knows what the next CBA will be like.

Should they? If they are close...of course...but this is JR remember.

If they get to the deadline and they are still in the thick of things, and refuse to add and try and help themselves, it’s gonna be kick in the nads

https://www.espn.com/mlb/attendance

AL Central fans all are pretty lukewarm in their reactions...lined up quite nicely 21-24.

White Sox probably at a 1.6-1.7 million pace if you correct for weather, summer months and more competitive team.

Texas is a scary data point too...already down to 29000 with a WS win two seasons ago in a newer facility.

Unless they traded high on Martin Vargas or Mune....their best trade chip is ???????

Fedde Hays Hicks Newcomb Hudson Dominguez Taylor Kay Jacob Gonzalez Korey Lee Leasure Acuna Kelenic Peters Pereira Hill....there's pretty much nothing there, and Taylor/Hudson LIKELY aren't going anywhere.

That pushes you into guys like Bergolla Mogollon Jeral Perez and all the tj recovery guys...or basically lottery tickets like Wolkow or Zavala.

Cannon has marginal value as well.

Sandlin needs to do something at the big league level to increase his value/s.

Sox would simply have to either take on additional payroll/bad contacts with B/C prospects attached...or do something crazy like trade Hagen Smith to a team who believes they can fix him, or trade McDougal with all his injury/reliever risk concerns and buy another veteran starter like an Alcantara from MIA.

Let's not forget Schultz has a season high of 84 innings pitched and it clearly wasn't last year...so they would be down another starter or forced to destroy the pen in August/September unless they went back to the Crochet plan of 3-4 inning starts down the stretch.

Edited 2 hours ago2 hr by caulfield12

Wouldn't give up real future assets for a run this season. Would trade Dominguez (if he has any value). They should do whatever builds on this momentum.

13 minutes ago, Kyyle23 said:

If they get to the deadline and they are still in the thick of things, and refuse to add and try and help themselves, it’s gonna be kick in the nads

35 minutes ago, nrockway said:

Wouldn't give up real future assets for a run this season. Would trade Dominguez (if he has any value). They should do whatever builds on this momentum.

Yea I'm closer to the latter opinion here. We're not really contenders in any sense of the word even if we make it to the deadline around .500. Giving up anything other than some spare parts doesn't make sense and even around .500 we should be looking to continue to look to trade Dominguez and others that have any value and are not key pieces going forward.

Not even AJ Preller could find the right mix of non core prospects to trade from here…

3 hours ago, caulfield12 said:

https://www.espn.com/mlb/attendance

AL Central fans all are pretty lukewarm in their reactions...lined up quite nicely 21-24.

White Sox probably at a 1.6-1.7 million pace if you correct for weather, summer months and more competitive team.

Texas is a scary data point too...already down to 29000 with a WS win two seasons ago in a newer facility.

youre way too obsessed with the attendance