Greg Hibbard

He wasn't in his last season...

I do think there's some hidden value in his ability to be consistent (albeit slightly below average) and remain healthy.

From 2018-2020 Aaron Judge played 65% of his team’s games. For many, he had a reputation of never being able to stay healthy. From 2021-2024 he’s played 88% of the team’s games. I’m not comparing their talent, but there’s no way you can tell me that either was particularly predictable. Injuries can go a lot of different ways, even when a player gets hurt a lot in multiple years.

His minors injury record is a fair point. Maybe I’m too optimistic but I’m so sick of injuries.

Nice work moving the goalposts! I almost didn’t see it.

He played 56 out of 60 games in 2020. Or does 2020 not count as “every single year”?

It's not any great heights by most standards, but Jake Burger's 38 HR and 36 2B in his 190 games since leaving the Sox is something I would certainly like to have had.

I don't think this is even a choice anymore. Vaughn has proven he's better than Sheets at basically everything except the quality of being Left Handed.

No idea how to evaluate this guy as a good or bad asset for the team. The pros: Healthiest player on the roster, remarkably consistent, seems like a good clubhouse guy. The cons: His ceiling apparently equals his floor, not enough power, no speed, 4 years in the majors now - he is what he is. I think he's fine to move forward with because of how bad we are, but he seems like every other White Sox asset - never quite good enough to be elite or even above average, never quite bad enough to be cut or traded. A middling talent. Also, his WAR was 0.2 this season mostly playing 1b/DH. Wins Over Replacement typically means replacing him with whoever comes up from the minors, right? I have hard time believing any player coming up would automatically hit 30 doubles and 19 home runs.

I get that the stats look bad for 2024, but I hesitate to apply the word "trend" to this given the 100 game sample size, his 2023 year and career numbers, his injuries this season, and how historically awful this organization was this year. I personally think Luis will be ok. Maybe not the nintendo player everyone projected, but an .800+ OPS 4 WAR player.

I kind of think Benintendi still has some upside, looking at his advanced stats. BABIP seems low and hard hit seems about 90% of what it was. I don't think he'll be a .270 hitter, but a .250 hitter with 20 homers/20 doubles a year would be fine.

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I really, really don't understand why Sheets is still on this roster. Literally no upside left.

Will our best qualified hitter (Vaughn) be the worst best qualified hitter in terms of BA ever ?

Is a Sheets DFA impending? He hasn’t played either game since the break and they were both right handed starters…