Chicago White Sox

He did hit 16 HRs in AA back in 2019, which is pretty decent. But year, would be great to see him reach the 20 mark this year.

Price becomes the big question mark. But you’re right, hard to find a better fit given his control, left-handed bat, and ability to play some CF.

Crochet + Kelley + Horn would have to be pretty interesting if you’re the Pirates.

A couple interesting arms, although a bit on the older side. Bilous has pretty big stuff. Carranza & Schilling were both over-slot signings who got hurt immediately. Freeman is guy who could be move fast. An infusion of youth at some point would definitely help.

The Sox can still win the division, but they 100% need to add a CF type that La Russa will actually play on a regular basis. Leury & Hamilton simply don’t cut it as fill-ins and honestly I’m not sure we can bank on Engel being ready in 3 weeks with all the set-backs he’s been experiencing. And while I hope I’m wrong, it’s probably only a matter of time before Eaton hits the DL too. No fucking clue who might be available right now, but waiting to the trade deadline might too late. We still have a lot of talent on offense, but we’re also a very streaky unit and can’t afford to rock sub replacement bats at the bottom of the lineup when things are running cold. Doesn’t need to be a star or anything close to Luis Robert, but the gap between serviceable and Leury / Hamilton is massive when it comes to the bat.

Tim Anderson, SS Bryan Reynolds, CF* Jose Abreu, 1B Yoan Moncada, 3B# Yermin Mercedes, DH Yasmani Grandal, C# Andrew Vaughn, LF Adam Eaton, RF* Nick Madrigal, 2B

Bryan Reynolds for our 2020 draft class...who says no?

Lol...god help us all. The amount of playing time we are going to give to Leury & Hamilton is going to be appalling. Hahn has to make a bold move and fast or things could get ugly.

Did you miss the entirety of KW’s tenure as GM?

Probably sending him to AA to help mask that readiness

How bad is that ptatc?

He at least looks serviceable back there, which is a huge step up from some scouting reports that had him being unplayable. Now he just needs to find a way to get the bat going, which I think happens with time, at least again RHP.

Lol...I’ve enjoyed my time as a Sox fan, but hard to say any of us have been spoiled

I’m actually not opposed to it assuming Yermin won’t kill us there.

The best is Phil citing the “platoon” advantage in defense of Tony playing Leury despite the fact that five seconds of research would quickly show otherwise. Phil is legit one of the worst baseball commentators in the game right now, which is funny because I used to love reading his Tribune pieces as a kid. The more you know though.

Agree. TLR supposedly plays the bench guys so much to keep them fresh, but is going to have Mercedes have five straight off days outside of pinch hitting. I actually like that Tony is holding Yermin accountable for his actions, but I would tried punishing him a different way given the broader circumstances.

With 19 games against the Twins left, we basically control our own fate. If we play them tough, we could make things very challenging for them. I really hope we can somehow go 4-2 in these upcoming two series against them and push the Twins even further behind us.

Just an extra meatball

Pretty much since VAfan declared him signing of the offseason

No rational person could actually believe this. Leury Garcia has a career 68 wRC+ against RHP while Nick Madrigal has a 124 wRC+. Nick has shown so far to be almost twice as effective against RHP as Leury. Garcia is not good from the left-side of the plate and there are 1,142 plate appearances to support that. I’m not joking when I say this, but Tony just not look at basic splits as insane as that sounds.

I didn’t laugh at your post and I get what you’re saying, but there is a balance here and rocking an ice cold Leury in 60% of games just seems crazy to me no matter what. I honestly think La Russa is overvaluing Leury’s switch-hitting ability and doesn’t realize that he is bad against RHP.

Leury has a xwOBA in the 2nd percentile and is somehow making his 16th start in 26 games. I simply don’t get Tony’s infatuation with him.

I know we shouldn’t be trading up anymore, but damn would I consider it for Tylan Wallace.

What do we have left in term of picks?

A Mercedes ducksnort would be huge here