Chicago White Sox

We also DFA’d Declan to make room for Hills…whoopsey

Is Schweitzer up for good?

Looks like Aly has officially jinxed Thorpe…oh well, he was fun while he lasted

Damn those glasses are really working!

Where did this 88-90 to come from?

That was an incredibly impressive first inning.

You’re missing Rodon (already in majors), Fulmer, Hansen, Adams, Pilkington, Lambert, etc. Not saying you’re wrong by any means, but there was quite a bit young pitching at the time including eight guys who cracked top 100 lists.

I’m super excited as well, but we kicked off the rebuild with a pretty insane group of pitching prospects.

They are taking Schultz off the once a week schedule?

Thorpe getting called up allows one promotion. At some point, someone has to be pushed to Charlotte. I get not making it a mandatory spot for all pitching prospects, but you also can’t completely avoid utilizing it.

Which means that Chris Getz is a complete fucking clown like many of us fear

Sheets has actually hit well this year. I don’t he changes the calculus on a Robert trade, but I don’t think he has negative value.

Only if they trade Robert. I’m still skeptical that someone will go all in on Crochet given the massive workload risk. I think he’s a dude you’re probably better off selling in the offseason. I’m still optimistic that Fedde will bring in a top 100 prospect, but that isn’t going to vault us to the top of the pack, even if we deal a bunch of the other less exciting pieces we have.

When you say much more than that, can you give an example of what you’re thinking? From my perspective, let’s take an optimistic approach and say that Robert is viewed as a 5 win per year player. At $9M per win and with $61M in salary, his surplus value would ~$100M over the next 3.5 seasons. Let’s even assume a 25% premium because he’s a star and those should be worth more on a dollar per win basis and say he’s worth ~$125M all in. My proposal was Emerson, Montes, and a 3rd good prospect. Emerson is now ranked 15th overall at BA and is a legit 60 FV prospect (which based on an old FG analysis would be worth ~$55M). Montes is now ranked 49th overall and is probably a 55 FV prospect (worth ~$46M). As for the third piece, perhaps I undersold it a bit as being simply a “good” piece, but I was thinking a 50 FV type positional prospect or someone roughly in the 60 to 100 range (worth ~$28M). I was originally thinking Tyler Locklear (now 83rd on BA’s list) but I didn’t love pairing him with another bat only prospect in Montes so I kept the specific piece vague. Regardless, that package would be worth a theoretical ~$129M in surplus value vs. the ~$125M for Robert, which feels within the ballpark. I’d expect a couple of lottery tickets to be included as well, but nothing earth shattering there. That does feel light relative to the first Soto trade, but the market is going to be constrained due to few teams having the prospect capital to get a deal done in the first place and even fewer GMs having the appetite to give them up.

Nothing this lifeless team needs more than Zombie LaRussa!

Which two are ranked top 5 and based on what criteria?

Definitely feels like Robert to the Mariners for Emerson, Montes, and a good 3rd piece needs to happen.

If Kenny Williams can win a World Series despite the shitty owner, then Chris Getz should be able to assemble a team that isn’t the worst in baseball history.

I don’t know how anyone can defend Getz after witnessing this atrocity. This is the most pathetic team in Major League Baseball history and it’s not even close.

Colas on the bench is frustrating

I’m sure most will hate, but I support these efforts.

He hit .244 but just keep making stats up. And yes, let’s ignore the .400 OBP that came with that BA because Adam was an incredibly productive three outcome hitter who didn’t appeal to your baseball sensibilities 15 years ago.

Colson? A 129 wRC+ as a 21 in AA is doing “not well”? Where do you come up with this stuff.

You realize how much we spent on Yolbert Sanchez correct?

Dude has nothing left to prove in AA. Might as well send him to Charlotte and see how he does in that offensive environment.