southsider2k5

They have built a great team doing it "this way", so why not keep it up. It's got us on a 40 win pace! More of that please!!!

I think you also forgot that the Sox had all of Robert, Crochet, and Fedde, and were still 13.5 games out of the race on April 29th.

Who did you plagiarize this from?

I swear the name was thrown out there just for a reaction as opposed to actually comparing the two guys.

Peak Javy Vazquez was a 140 ERA+. Cease was a 180. When Cease was going good, he was the runner up Cy Young, Vazquez, no. Career Vazquez was a 105, Cease was a 110. I don't know what grave that the corpse of Javy Vazquez got dug up out of, but put him back this is ain't it.

Because Jerry and Captain Panic can't build a team with a $16 million contract on it.

I don't think that he will be DFAd just because we will need some innings filler if the top 3 all get dealt.

Fedde plus say a Soroka or Brebbia might push up one of the prospects we get to a higher level for sure than either could get alone.

One of my favorite SoxFest stories ever was meeting Cal Eldred like a month after we traded for him from Milwaukee for Navarro. I told him how excited Sox fans were to have him here, and the guy who was sitting next to him doing security looks over at him and said "Yeah, you are the most popular guy in Chicago right now.".

The Jamie Navarro experience was it for me.

He has been really good out of the pen. I think that 100% for sure a team takes a chance on him, and it will be probably be a smaller budget team trying to get a good bargain on a guy without a big name as a reliever. There just isn't enough pitching around for teams to avoid most of our relievers. The other consideration here is that Soroka is a free agent in 3 months. He's gone, 100% for sure. Even if it is a crappy rookie league relief pitcher, the Sox take what they get for him. Personally I think they get something interesting as I explained why above.

I would just add that it isn't just one half of a season. He had a huge year last year in Korea and made arsenal changes which contributed to it. When you look at this a a year and a half instead of half a season it has a different feel, plus he is CHEAP for next year will also help that value.

Based on his numbers last year he should have been in line for a multi year deal at $10 million per season, or more. He got neither. No one wanted him. And even if he had defied the odds of pitchers skipping spring training and being decent, that probably doesn't change. It's hard not to point at the obvious reason why, but Mike Clevinger is not a wanted commodity around MLB.

Same.

The short term couldn't matter less. I am glad that Captain Panic has seemingly accepted the fate of this dumpster fire. Now move out the chaff and let the kids get run.

I think we see a ton of pitchers moved, and not a lot of position players. For pitchers I went with Crochet, Fedde, Flexen, Kopech, Brebbia, Wilson, Banks and Soroka. Hitters, just the top 3 listed in Robert, Pham, and DeJong.

When you own an 80 tool, you will get attention. The team that teaches him to hit an empty .250 gets a weapon a long term rostered MLB player.

I have said it in a couple of other places, but once Yoan is back, move him off of 3B. The kid is a 2B for sure. If he can hit at the .700 OPS end of where he has been, he's a 10 year major leaguer. Even with the slow start he is up to an 88 RC+ which is 20th (with Marcus Semien) among MLB 2Bs with 200 or more PAs, and has a 92 OPS+ on the season. If you plot back to his last call up, he has actually put up a .295/.333/.467/.800 line since May 31 (so about 5 weeks now). That .800 OPS would rank 5th among 2Bs on the season with 200 or more PAs.

It was.

Sosa would be a way better 2B than 3rd.

We know.

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