South Side Fireworks Man

I'll take Harry and Jimmy.

Sox still lack depth, except at Catcher (and some are eager to trade that depth away).

Hey Harry!

I wonder if he can play a decent Right Field? ?

By the way, what ever happened to the poster @Cubano? I always enjoyed reading his input on Cuban prospects.

My baseball hero.

Well, there's a real scoop LOL! Yes, Steve, it actually does make a big difference, depending on what they give up.

Probably better defensively too.

That's just planted to get Castellanos to sign with the Sox already. ?

Career .313 OBP & .766 OPS. Color me unimpressed. Just sign Castellanos.

Kevin Pillar, the 31 year old with the lifetime .296 OBP and the .701 OPS? Would he be any improvement over Adam Engel, or even as good?

Yeah, but no sense not filling the holes that are easily filled now.

Agreed. They've got a long way to go before they're finished with this offseason.

That's why good teams build depth.

Right. And if Collins looks bad, they can always try to re-sign McCann.

Good, I want both! ?

If we're talking about selling high on McCann and getting back something useful, then by all means trade him. But if we're talking about trading him just to get rid of his $5.4M salary, or just to clear the way for Collins, then that would be a mistake.

And if Grandal gets hurt? That $5.6M isn't going to break the Sox budget. It's nice to have depth for once so we don't have to watch players that have no business in the major leagues filling in. Having said that, if they can get good value in return for McCann (or Collins for that matter) go ahead and trade. But it would be nice having all three around this season.

Me too. ?

Unless they're trying to put together a very strong lineup with depth to compete with the big boys.

Traded for Lindor?? ?

Why not? They always have. At least this one supposedly can hit a little bit and provide some LH pop off the bench. Plus there's an extra roster spot this year.

Agree. I wouldn't give either one away just for the sake of trading one. But if someone wants to give something of value for either one, I wouldn't be against that either. To me, McCann is the perfect backup to Grandal and Collins gives you depth and a possible future backup Catcher/1B and maybe DH if he improves his hit tool.

Or keep all three for depth. But if you can get some real good value for McCann, go ahead.