WhiteSox2023

You just made a great case for letting Sosa/Rodriguez play over DeJong/Lopez.

For the Sox, a team that spends $1 to $1.75 million on starting position players or part-time starters (DeJong, Pillar), $4.3 million is too much to spend on an expected bench utility infielder.

Exactly, but he’s starting. He should be a backup utility infielder like you said, but he’s also paid too much for that role ($4.3 million).

You can’t bench Nicky Two Eighty from Spring Training.

I’m not sure about that. He could out-OPS Lopez. Either way, would it matter? This team is 1-6 and absolutely awful.

Nicky Lopez can’t hit his weight or OPS .500. What would the difference be? ?

No, even though Getz was the Director of Player Development when Rodriguez was acquired, Jose was always ditching school and watching TV at his mom's house so he never benefited from Getz’s wise tutelage. Not Getz’s fault.

$2.5 to $3 billion?

Yes, I understand that as I stated that neither guy was on the 40-man roster. Since you are so good at projecting prospects and Rodriguez will only ever be a utility infielder, what are both Fletcher and Mena’s ceilings since you were a big fan of that trade?

And Horn is already 26 and getting beat up at AAA. You have no problem retaining Horn but not the 22 year old infielder who has shown recent success with both power and speed tools?

They are? Those two guys are roster chaff. Remillard was DFA in January and the Sox were able to outright him to Charlotte as no other team claimed him. Mendick is also working on a minor league deal because he was so bad with the Mets last year. Neither was on the 40-man and would be easy cuts. You could re-sign them back if you ever wanted them.

They are 5-2 now.

He was 17 with the Sox. Regardless, he’s 22 years old and the Sox have plenty of old trash on their 40-man roster. Perhaps Rodriguez pans out, perhaps he doesn’t. Just like with Fletcher, you never know. Besides, I’d rather have the 22 year old prospect on my roster than the numerous quantity of old and bad players the Sox currently have.

Even bigger news. There goes the Cubs trade deadline target.

None of them should’ve been hired in the first place. The Royals didn’t even want Grifol and Getz was a part of the previous failed regime. Then Getz chose to create his new regime with a bunch of losers from another terrible organization just like the Sox.

Someone made the photoshop of Getz in the dumpster, rather than Hahn. I can’t find it though.

The same guy who has been pumping up Getz since his hiring, along with his awful offseason acquisitions of a bunch of corpses? Maldonado is basically an immobile scarecrow behind the plate and should have been put out to pasture, yet you are still hyping him up. Let’s just say you may not have an unbiased opinion on things…

The league also told Getz what DeJong, Lopez, Pillar, and a myriad of bum relievers were worth, yet he chose to acquire them anyways. I would have chose to retain the 22 year old that may still have a future, unlike the bums that Getz kept.

With those moves, this already awful lineup (with Robert healthy) might actually be historically bad like some posters have said.

Every time he opens his mouth, he says something stupid. If the players play to their track records, they will be bad. If they play better than their track records, they will still be bad. Grifol is hilarious. Maybe he is trolling all of us?

I love how they prototyped a terrible Royals team and now are even worse than them. ?

Who would’ve guessed that these guys couldn’t hit? Even Hawk couldn’t have hyped up the new acquisitions. What is it, about $13 million dollars that Getz basically lit on fire by adding these players? Leadership and defense wins!

Basically the only positive is, how can it possibly get worse?