Chicago White Sox

It’s truly wild that Sheets is batting cleanup despite putting DFA worthy offensive numbers in his major league career

I got bad news for you about the next ~1,400

Crochet in this case

I hope Hahn is sitting in a dive bar in Winnetka crying right now as he watches what he could have been.

Luckily he can still hit though ?

I seriously doubt Jerry Reinsdorf is providing any input on this

At some point the minor league arms will be ready for their shot. Cannon, Thorpe, & Eder in particular should be pushing for roles in the second half. I’d imagine Crochet gets shut down by August and Soroka is dealt at the deadline. I agree that Flexen gets cut or moved to a swing role eventually and signing Clevinger hopefully helps accelerate that.

I think they realize Flexen is absolute garbage and will eventually need to be replaced. A rotation of Crochet, Soroka, Fedde, Clevinger, & Nastrini could be decent for what is otherwise a very bad team. Flexen becomes the swing man and jumps back in when there is eventually an injury or when a spot opens up. I just hope that they use this as an excuse to claw back an extra year of control with Nastrini, but my guess is Getz will bungle this opportunity unfortunately.

I think there is a very slim chance he is here all season. Pedro is the laughing stock of baseball and I truly believe the only reason he’s being kept around (other than to help Jerry’s wallet) is to be the sacrificial lamb for a shitty team in transition as we wait for our main prospects to reach the majors. At some point the losses will be too immense not to do something in season or Getz will bring heat upon himself. My guess is that will be sometime between Memorial Day and the All Star break.

I’ll ask again…does this bump Nastrini from the rotation?

No idea, but they certainly should have eaten Clevinger’s buyout at last year’s deadline and gotten something for him given they paid those dollars for nothing anyways. I think it’s very apparent, even moreso now, that no one wants this dude in their clubhouse. We’re talking about Vince Velasquez money for a pitcher that isn’t actually bad. I’m not going to lose sleep over this, but don’t see any real upside here other than we’ll be a little less terrible when he makes starts than when Chris Flexen does.

Sox were unwilling to eat salary?

Does he bump Nastrini out of the rotation? I can’t imagine they cut bait on Flexin this soon. I guess I should wait and see the dollar amount, but no one wanted this dude at the deadline last year despite pitching well and no one wants him now despite likely costing very little. If it’s dirt cheap it’s a whatever move I guess, but this ain’t a dude we’ll be able to flip for anything of value.

Why? Like what in the f*** does this accomplish?

Remind me when Kyle McCulloch led the minors in K’s? I’ll hang up and listen.

There is certainly a path to having a competent pitching staff by next year. That requires Crochet staying healthy, holding onto Fedde, and a few young arms taking a leap (such as Nastrini), but it’s definitely within the realm of possible. Creating a competent offense by next year will prove challenging. Jerry would need to add a couple major bats for it to be possible at all. For example, let’s say Jerry goes out and adds Peter Alonso for 1B and Gleyber Torres for 2B. Is this lineup good enough to make some noise in the AL Central next year? Benintendi, LF* Torres, 2B Robert, CF Alonso, 1B Montgomery, SS* Vaughn, DH Fletcher, RF* Ramos, 3B Quero, CA# Still a massive amount of question marks and it still requires two free agent signings that would be financially possible but unprecedented from a White Sox commitment standpoint. Honestly, the lack of high end positional talent in the system is immensely concerning and I’m not sure what Getz plans to do to help address it unless Jerry will finally sign some large checks. Montgomery alone isn’t enough to get the impact talent to where it needs to be.

There is zero chance Jerry’s children can afford both the Bulls and Sox…they will 100% sell the Sox and keep the Bulls.

DeJong feeding off all that fathom hate!

Renteria drove me nuts with his in-game decision making, but the dude had his guys playing hard most nights. And it seems like several of the guys didn’t do well with Zombie LaRussa’s complete lack of clubhouse rules & oversight.

Yeah, I really liked what I saw today.

I’m going to give it more time before I draw any hard conclusions, but it would be a very bad sign if they missed badly on the Fletcher evaluation given this was there one big swing excluding the Cease trade.

Leadoff man aboard for the Sox

Wasn’t fully paying attention as I’m at my in-laws for Easter, but Fedde looked pretty solid there from what I could tell.