Chicago White Sox

Whether you agree with this move or not has NOTHING to do with keeping Sale or Quintana. There’s literally no connection other than they’re pitchers. As for Corbin, he’s an ace based on last year’s performance. Whether that’s repeatable I have no idea.

? This makes no sense.

Who is Rob Hill?

How much time is Adolfo expected to miss next year? Is DHing a possibility while he continues to rehab his arm?

Narvaez was like literally the worst framer in baseball. I’m not sure this organization understands what the term “framing” really means.

So the offseason is less than a week old and we’ve already gotten rumors of us being interested in: Harper + Machado Nelson Cruz Starting Pitchers Relief Pitchers Am I missing any? Seems like this could be a pretty ridiculous offseason.

I tend to agree, although I think they might be willing to trade prospects for a buy-low type (for example Jon Gray).

Why does it matter though if it’s on a short-term contract? Adding Cruz is an easy way to improve the team and doesn’t prevent us from making other splashier additions. I’m all for it if the price is right.

Sure sounds like Jon Gray to me!

Just say no to Gio.

Yeah this really sucks and makes me question what this front office is thinking. Like when did this happen, because it’s not like we’ve seen great results from our young talent since Ricky became manager.

The Sox tried trading for Machado last offseason, they’re most certainly going after him this year.

Well I disagree the Rockies are just giving him away. Narvaez is worth something and the Rockies are desperate for a catcher & have little payroll flexibility. I still believe there could be a match here.

Garfien podcast up with Morosi https://www.nbcsports.com/chicago/white-sox/white-sox-talk-podcast-machado-and-harper-jon-morosi-says-white-sox-have-seat-table

We drafted Carlos Rodon after years of not drafting Scott Boras clients.

I think Basabe should start of 2019 in AA. I don’t want to rush a legit prospect and if Micker isn’t ready right away there’s much less of a logjam IMO. Call and/or Booker can always be pushed to AAA if need be.

Gonzalez needs to start the year in AA. Adolfo already being on the 40 man & burning options pretty much means he’ll be assigned to AA when he returns from TJS. I agree that Robert should start in High A though.

Updated off-season plan based on the recent rumors that we plan on being big spenders this offseason. These moves would significantly improve the major league club in the short-term without jeopardizing the future. And yes, I’m adding two controllable starters because you can never have enough starting pitching and I’m not completely wasting a Manny Machado year. I would address any log-jams the following offseason. Free Agents: Manny Machado, 3B - 10/$375M (opt-outs after years 4, 5, & 6) Andrew McCutchen, OF - 2/$36M Martin Maldonado, C - 1/$6M Yusei Kikuchi, LHP - 6/$66M (including posting fee) Cody Allen, RHP - 1/$11M Trades: Omar Narvaez, C & Bernardo Flores, LHP for Jon Gray, RHP Yolmer Sánchez, 2B to Yankees for Freicer Perez, RHP Roster (May 1st): Moncada, CF (0.6) McCutchen, RF (18.0) Machado, 3B (40.0) Abreu, 1B (16.0) Jimenez, LF (0.6) Palka, DH (0.6) Anderson, SA (1.4) Castillo, C (7.3) Rondon, 2B (0.6) <Sub-Total: 85.1M> IF: L. Garcia (1.9) OF: Engel (0.6) UT: Delmonico (0.6) BC: Maldonado (6.0) <Sub-total: 9.1M> Gray (3.2) Rodon (3.7) Lopez (0.6) Kikuchi (11.0) Giolito (0.6) <Sub-total: 19.1M> CL: Allen (11.0) SU: Hamilton (0.6) SU: Fry (0.6) MR: Jones (4.7) MR: Frare/Bummer (0.6) MR: Burdi/Covey (0.6) LR: Banuelos/Stephens (0.6) <Sub-total: 18.7M> <Grand-total: $132.0M>

? Sale got us two blue chip prospects and another guy who’s probably in the top 100 (when we had no farm system). These guys only cost us money for which we have tons of.

Lol...ok, now I actually believe we’re trying to add both.

But Fathom’s “sources” claim the Cubs & Harper are basically a thing already!!

I don’t think there is a notion that he is bad defensively, but my understanding is his range is limited because of his size and his arm is below average for a RF. Long term he could be relegated to LF if he continues to grow. Add another below average (or even bad fielder) in Harper and you probably need to move Eloy to 1B in order to have a solid OF defense.

Signing Harper pretty much condemns Eloy to 1B in the long-run. But yeah, you’d need a pretty good defensive CF like Engel in between them.

I agree but man do Harper’s defensive metrics look terrible. Like I don’t see how he physically could be that bad out there. Does moving him to LF help at all? I have no interest whatsoever in playing him at 1B.

When are they giving this presentation? At the Winter Meetings?