Chicago White Sox

God you suck and so does whoever liked this post.

Robert is worth significantly more than 1.2 years of Trea Turner.

Wow

Got to go with the hot hand...I mean veteran

He’s slightly overpaid in terms of AAV for what he’s going to give you, but as long as team limits his innings next year you can avoid the real problem that will likely be 2023.

If were willing to roll the dice, we should consider trading Keuchel right now while there is a complete lack of starters available and a ton of teams desperate for pitching. Not going to happen, but that Keuchel contract is going to ugly in the not too distant future and maybe as soon as next year.

Lol very true...at this point any rumor involving a potential target of ours is highly interesting to me as there is literally nothing else out there.

I don’t see the Jays moving Semien despite the talk out there

Why are you skeptical about adding an OF?

There is zero chance we don’t make multiple additions. Worst case scenario, we add one reliever and backup IF. More likely, we add a starting 2B and two relievers. Not totally out of the question is an OF on top of all that.

I don’t get what you’re arguing at this point. Hosmer sucks balls and the Padres are likely looking to trade prospects away in hopes of some teams absorbing a sizable portion of his albatross contract. Is this all because he was a former Royal?

Agreed

Marcano was/is already on the major league roster.

I still don’t like the Baez fit because he doesn’t really address our weakness against high end RHP, which after relief pitching is the biggest thing likely to unwind us in the playoffs at the moment.

A Story & Marte combo would be insanely awesome!

I think you hit it on the head, although I’d add Bard to the Rockies’ list.

Prospects on the 40 man roster make sense, but a lot of them are underperforming in Stiever, Lambert, Burdi, Johnson, Lopez, Rutherford, & Gonzalez. Some of them could go, but you’d be selling low on those first guys and probably wouldn’t get much for the next three. Then you have guys like Burger & Sheets who have probably seen their stock move up enough that they shouldn’t be moved for straight rentals. As such, prospects I could definitely see going are Adolfo, Gonzalez, Sosa, Mendoza, Mieses, Pilkington, McClure, Bilous, & Horn, plus maybe a guy like Foster who has been bad this year but has shown some major league success.

Apologies in advanced for posting these “rumors”, but at least they can generate some discussion:

Yeah, Kanny has been ugly but mostly expected given their youth / lack of experience. I’d actually say the AA arms have done well in Pilkington, McClure, & Bilous. It’s AAA that’s the most frustrating with both Stiever & Lambert getting beat as well as most of the important relief prospects like Burdi, Johnson, etc.

Yeah, just need a little taste to keep that itch going

And that’s very much true, but even those numbers were never sustainable. The fact is Goodwin started off hot and is currently cooling down, but neither state reflects the run rate performance you’d expect out of him. Goodwin should provide league average or better production vs. RHP and that’s valuable in the absence of a legit upgrade. GMs don’t overreact to hot & cold streaks and neither should we.

Stop overreacting to cold & hot streaks. 14 days, good or bad, isn’t predictive of shit and right now we’re simply seeing regression to the mean. Goodwin is likely a league average hitter or so and that has value given our other options.

How is Cease expendable?