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He's white, chubby, and battled back from adversity. Pretty much the perfect candidate to be emotionally more important to the fan base than on field play would warrant.

Basically a full WAR. I'm not going to sit here and argue for Moncada either as lord knows he's frustrating but you can't hand waive away defense.

It's a silly argument but hey, it takes all types of fans. Not really a hill I'm going to die on. That said, I can't imagine too many fans, casual or hardcore, coming out to a .400 club to see Jake Burger.

Fairly small sample but FG has Jake at -4.3 runs in the field, even with the 3B adjustment he gets. He's just the latest in an endless run of DH/1B types that Chicago has tried to move the wrong way on the defensive spectrum.

Kopech had major red flags attitude wise right off the bat, then suffered TJS. You need to stockpile pitching prospects, because the vast majority flame out or turn into relievers. Other than perhaps in the late 90s the Sox have done a poor job stockpiling enough arms to where you have depth when the inevitable flameouts happen.

This is what I'm complaining about. Burger is like JAG. We are just so starved for any success we have some mixed feelings about losing a DH? I understand liking his story but we root for the laundry no? The Sox are going nowhere fast, with or without Jake. Getting a good SP prospect makes the next relevant Sox team a little closer.

Says something about something that many Sox fans either don't like the trade or would just prefer to have not made it. This is a franchise that has starved the fans, in some cases into clouded thinking.

As much as I like all these moves the much bolder move would of course to have made them last year. But better late than never. I was clearly wrong about the value overall of rentals and otherwise mediocre players. The playoff rules have changed what "going for it" means and seems most years it's going to be a seller's market.

A. But an A on the midterm is meaningless when you flunk the final. Doesn’t change his overall performance one bit.

Wow we sold high for once! On a DH! Wow!

Cool narrative, but horseshit players and teams fail between the lines first.

Yea I guess so. I think the scouting turned out fairly accurate on him. Maybe he can have a couple nice years as a setup guy. We jerked him around so much it's hard imo for relievers to thrive like that.

I hope he thrives. always liked him he kept his mouth shut and as the third piece of the Eaton trade was a fine piece.

We have one position player that is on pace for more than 2 WAR and that is Robert, who will probably finish around top 5 in the AL at 5.5-6.5. Jake might be able to squeek over 2 if he can stay healthy and keep his wRC+ around 120. Our biggest signing ever, Benitendi, is on pace for 1.3 fWAR. The rest of our "core" like TA, Moncada and Eloy aren't even worth mentioning really. They all, for various reasons, are barely even 1 WAR players anymore. Just a really shocking turn of events for guys that looked like "can't miss" players just a few years ago.

We really ran into a lot of bad luck with all the tommy johns. Tommy john isn't a miracle cure and at least 1/6 or so guys never really makes it back fully. With his other lower body injuries on top of his arm issues Kopech as you said, this is not the same guy.

I missed the game. Looks good in the box score. Raise that trade value boys.

That doesn't seem very white sox.

lol KW to the rescue! spare me.

it's a bit off color and would probably get them cancelled had the joke come out now but one of the funniest bits on the Dugout was Mr. Met, whose avatar was of course the Mr. Met mascot, typing in the chat "I hate when we [lose] and it makes me so angry I have to go home and [kiss] my wife right in the face".

It’s a retool ok…

are we winning, son?

This looks like a 100 loss team after we trade two SP.

Maybe they can get a guy like Dane Dunning for Giolito.

Pain.

I almost posted the same thing last night in the trades thread. The utterly crazy thing is if we trade guys having horrible years like Lynn and Anderson we actually done even have replacement level players for them anywhere in the minors. Just an incredible indictment of Hahn.