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Or it maybe it creates the synergy we need to unlock booth’s potential?

I say it all the time, but if this was any other business the Sox would be down & out. Jerry refuses to invest in his product to drive customer demand like any other business would. Instead, he simply rolls forward with a budget that is more or less influenced by the prior season. He refuses to take the smallest amount of risk because god forbid he and him shareholders took a tiny loss in a given season. I knew he was a terrible businessman when the Sox never really pursued Bryce Harper. Signing Bryce would have transformed the organization and made him money hand over fist, but Jerry had nightmares about having to pay a guy into late 30’s / early 40’s when he may no longer be productive. This clown literally passed on a signing the most marketable star in baseball because the end of the contract may suck despite Jerry almost certainly being in the grave at that point. Jerry is just a terrible fucking owner and I’m going to celebrate like it’s my wedding night again when he’s finally gone.

Roster Resource now has Yogurt on our active roster

I think is what we’re all expecting now. A payroll in the $180M to $185M range, which probably means $15M to $20M to work with.

Who are the “Mendicks” on the 40 man roster?

I did not realize that about Mendick.

Totally forgot he had options. No idea then. Not like we don’t have enough spots on the 40 man roster to keep a useful backup infielder when healthy.

I think it means they know they need a LH infielder and Leury is clogging up the bench with his redundant RH bat (he is only a switch-hitter by technicality).

Even fringe top 100 prospects are pretty rare for us, so of course Hahn is going to treat him as our savior.

100% true, but unfortunately Hahn decided to lock up Leury to a three year deal and eat up a 1/4 of our bench for the next couple years.

We now have four “outfielders” on the 40 man roster with three of them being Eloy, Sheets, & Vaughn. I know Colas being added is just a matter of time, but Rick has his work ahead of him.

Generally shocked by non-tendering Mendick.

They’re also cutting payroll as their competitive window is quickly coming to a close.

Oh for sure. He should be attainable and would be a perfect fit, but I’ve already come to terms he won’t be happening this off-season. Not being able to afford a lesser LH OF option on a 8 figure pillow contract is a far more egregious offense.

Pretty depressing when we’re in our championship window salivating over a couple of guys who haven’t been productive in two years and can’t even afford them on a 1/$15M type deal because our owner is a cheap fucking asshole.

Eloy would tear his biceps on the first time he needed to dive for at 1B. He’s either a DH or a LF and I think it’s very by now that’s the former if you want any hope of him playing 140+ games.

Andrew Vaughn had a 125 wRC+ through August of last year. That’s with Frank “f*** the HR” Menechino as hitting coach who no doubt was going to prioritize Vaughn’s worst tendencies. Stop playing him in the OF and let a hitting coach who preaches power work with him so this kid can finally reach his offensive potential. I think a 140 wRC+ is very much possible and that will blow whatever a Sheets/Burger platoon would give us.

Yeah, moving Kopech to the bullpen would be the definition of insanity. He is going to have a Cease like breakout at some point.

I’ve had this hunch for a while that Hahn is trying to straddle both competing for a championship while building up the farm system (evident by his failure of a trade deadline). As such, I fully expect him to trade for several cheap rentals and/or bounce-back type guys. If the Red Sox decide to move on from Alex Verdugo, I could see Hahn being highly interested. Same goes for a guy like Cavan Biggio, who could platoon with our internal options at 2B. Throw in a free agent SP in the Clevinger / Quintana price range and I think that’s your off-season.

I didn’t realize his defensive had plummeted that much. He played CF for the Mariners when he first came up.

Given we have two OFs our roster you decide to start Colas opening day, this is a trade we should have made even if just for depth.

Seems to be the official theme of the off-season

Makes Winker & Lewis more available. Would definitely be interested in the latter as our 4th OF if the price is reasonable.

I could see it happening, but I don’t see how it makes us better. Winker may rebound offensively but he is horrific defensively.

On today’s White Sox Talk Podcast episode, Chuck & Ryan had Jesse Rogers on as their guest and they did their off-season predictions. Here is a summary: Jesse: Giolito to Rays for prospects Kyle Gibson or Zach Eflin replaces Cueto Bounce-back guy like Adam Frazier or internal guys for 2B Sheets & Eloy together will get the playing time in LF & DH Michael Brantley signed to play RF (lol) Sox won’t add a FA with an AAV above $10 (agents not acting like the Sox will have money to spend) Chuck: Eloy to Rays for Brandon Lowe Clevinger replaces Cueto (Chuck points out that we almost acquired him in 2020 and that Mike has actual interest in playing in Chicago) Elvis Andrus brought back to play 2B Kevin Kiermaier or Micheal Brantley for LF Colas is the starting RF Ryan: Giolito to Blue Jays for Teoscar Hernandez Cueto resigned to fill back-of-rotation spot Cheap FA and/or internal guys for 2B Colas is the starting RF (reluctantly) Sox’s biggest FA signing will be a 2nd tier SP The tone of the show matched the pessimism of the predations. May god have mercy on our souls.