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Warning track power for Vaughn

Fletcher looks bad against lefties

Looking a lot better now. Hope he can keep this up.

I remember him sitting 98-99 before he got hurt, but I don't know how true that memory is.

I don't know man. This guy had electric stuff before TJS. This is like a different pitcher.

He needs to drop that pitch and use the curve more.

Why is he so worried about Madrigal? Tiny little legs run in quicksand.

Kopech has zero control

Sox continue to love giving up runs immediately after scoring

Crochet HOF 2045

Elko HOF 2045

Hopefully he turns it around and earns himself a nice deal in 2025.

Kauffman Stadium

I normally don't get too sad when players move on, especially when they were only here for a couple years, but this one hurts. Hope he recovers well and continues to pitch and b**** into his 40s.

This team is an experiment to me. I'm interested to see how the "all defense no offense" approach goes. I'm interested to see how Benintendi does now that his wrist injury is behind him. He showed a little power at the end of the year, and if that is real then maybe he's something like the guy we hoped we'd get. I'm interested to see how Moncada and Eloy do in a make or break year for both of them. I'm interested to see if Vaughn can ever be more than a second division starter. I'm interested to see if guys like Fedde and Soroka can be decent 3rd or 4th starters. This is likely a 70-ish win team. I can squint and see more if a bunch of the above questions go their way.

Good cover

That’s Bannister

The Orioles are about to learn some hard lessons

Why? He's completely done.

So it seems like no other team really wants to trade any prospect with high value. Hopefully that changes at the deadline, but who knows.

No it isn't. Pitchers need to build back up to game velocity. He's where he needs to be right now.

Yeah, and they traded him for broken down Syndergaard last year. Cleveland clearly didn't want him, and the Dodgers don't make that trade if they don't have injury issues. They were pretty desperate, but still didn't want to deal with TA. Uribe is a pretty good comp for Rosario offensively. Uribe's a better defensive player though.

TA is bad but Rosario isn’t good either. He had one really good year defensively in 2022 and has been below average otherwise. i don’t know why character concerns holding TA back is so controversial with some of you that you need to prop up ancient guys like Andrus or second division starters at best like Rosario. TA sucked last year but he’d still be a White Sox if he didn’t have personal struggles, or someone would’ve taken a flyer on him by now as a second baseman. What TA went through last year absolutely factors in if a team thinks he’ll rebound and provide good production, and it matters to their clubhouse culture. He’s not worth the gamble right now.

And the rest of the guys you mentioned besides Chapman, who was awful in the second half of this year, are all too old and bad to consider. Hernandez was worse in 2022 than TA and only played in about half the games, while Rosario was nowhere near a 4 war season by fWAR. TA has also been a much better hitter than him by wRC+.

Yes it does. He was good but has way too much baggage. Same as Bauer. TA has too much baggage for his performance level last year as well, even given the potential upside a healthy TA brings at age 30. That has been my whole point.