bobbydanks

I have nothing really to say but Fedde was a brilliant pick up asset wise and I bet every GM was legit thinking "WTF, why didn't we do this? we let the fucking White Sox of all teams get this guy?" I'm a simple man and realist when it comes to White Sox scouting, I'd be happy with a future 5th starter and a AAAA position player.

While I'm a big fan of impending doom can you mofos keep that s%*# in the fire Pedro thread or something this was a nice win that shouldn't have happened. Catch me in a week when Cannon gives up 5 runs in 4 pitches somehow. Christ.

a guy that had a little league batting average in little league has 3 pages because he might be able to steal a base once every few days as a pinch runner. news flash that would require the rest of the team to get on base in the first place. so instead we got a 30 year old guy that can't catch or hit to be our 5th catcher while Quero probably went 3-5 again today.

calm down hahn

i'm glad you took the reigns of my premise

if that guy throws it home we lose in the 11th probably. what the hell was he thinking

not gonna lie i wrote most of that on notepad lol. and yes i was very drunk

no

alright i've come around from the OP's first post. Say for instance the White Sox won a quarter more of those games blown out of 20 and that adds 2-3 wins to our starters' stats but also takes pressure off of both those starters and the relievers because they definitely have had a lot of trouble after the first five innings or so. Taking on an aging reliever for a former top 50 prospect struggling (think korey lee but younger, we like him right?) or something and eating a third of the cost of a stupid contract for a season or two while we're going to pay like brebbia or anderson the same price... there might be something to this. One solid reliever can make every other pitcher's stats look better and add value to them even if they're not part of the big picture. Granted our starters are so bad that most of the overpaid relievers would probably wind up starting a few games but at least it's a thought? What teams overpaid a reliever but are looking like non-contenders? take that reliever and their 6th best prospect and call it a day.

I'm looking forward to the top prospect from the trade striking out a 15 year old in A- ball on 92 meatball and all the "TOLDYASO"s after he has a 16 ERA beforehand brought down to 11.

It's going to take a massive unexperienced ego for anyone to touch this team though regardless of the price. No one's going to ruin their reputation trotting out injured cubans and gavin sheets next year because they might want a job with a team that doesn't terribly suck in the future. Whoever gets this franchise to .500 is going to get hired immediately by another competent team while Michael Reinsdorf probably promotes Benintendi to minor league coach and Maldonado to GM

well i'm glad you had those other 3000 posts of "this team is poopy" on your record instead of reading like 40 words

or just not embed tweets and make these twitter "journalists" make a point instead of a headline

objectively this team is going to need a lot of subjective decisions before they can even get remotely competitive to think like an objective team you subjectively objective subjective objective

i did some accidental research while looking up why morneau won the mvp in 2006 (when they went on a historical run due to him and the white sox a decent collapse) and something that stuck out because the white sox have used almost a historical number of starting lineups and pitchers and etc. this year in 2006 after the world series they only used 37 different starters including pitchers and the league average was 44 and the second closest was 42 outside of garcia/garland/buehrle/vaqzuez/contreras only two other pitchers started games and they pitched 2 and 1 games respectively, brandon mccarthy and charlie haegar (this is is the most insane stat imo that no one got hurt) and all of them had mid 4 ERAs while the offense was mashing still never gave any rest to any of the starters juan uribe played the least amount of games in 2016 at 132 out of regular starters 4 of our 4 highest played bench players batted between 280 and 330 so is it possible ozzie ran the same group to the ground after the championship and all those extra games and wear and tear of winning the championship? https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CHW/2006.shtml I just thought it was an interesting enough distraction to think about from the rest of this season and recent past and also a bit of odd statistical hindsight on what we thought would be a power house. Having five starters start all of your games with extensive innings seems insane in retrospect and having 4 guys off the bench batting high enough to start for most teams but barely getting playing time or traded for a championship caliber team is also worth talking about. I was sure that team was going to win 164 games. If I was off on any statistics feel free to correct me I just was kinda amazed by the topic matter, this was also a year when almost everyone in the ALC had 3-4 mvp candidates but I digress. That was a hard year but a weird one too.

If our ownership had any interest in eating salary maybe we could take an overpaid but not terrible reliever off of someone's hands if they add a mediocre prospect with upside alongside it. There be some added wins to our starters when they do look good instead of the bullpen entirely blowing it every time. Thus creating a few extra wins and trade value for them, maybe go for some groundball relievers struggling in hitters ballparks that are young enough and need our elite defense (lol) or something. So maybe I was harsh with the first post but there are definitely possibilities that we can pick up prospects by eating some salary of a reliever just to up the value of our starters and maybe not make our defense run around and get injured too much? I don't know, trying to positive.

Also can people please stop trying to sell us on Luis Robert like we're some hapless GM of another team in your MVP baseball sim, we already know he's a great player. it's not a job interview, it's an internet discussion board. You're not auditioning for Glengarry Ross 2 ffs.

That seems like a pretty quick contradiction. If you're expert guru GM that thinks more control equals larger return despite the fact that he's sucking and coming off of injury then you should have no issue with waiting on him to produce a bit better on this losing team.

I don't like it because he's probably at the lowest value of his entire career.

yeah not wasting trading capital on a reliever for a .200 team...

they also seem to have a bad habit of sucking

i know a lot of broke ass people and they wouldn't go to a white sox game with a 25 dollar gift card and a ride

why do teams keep drafting catchers that cant catch if they're just going to turn them into first basemen unless their hitting peripherals are through the roof

intelligent writers are smart enough to have a career outside of journalism, little alone being a fucking white sox journalist

tommy pham rules