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Guessing it’s just to get Romy a day. I’d prefer to see him play for sure, but it’s not a huge deal.

Tony doesn’t deserve to ever step foot in that dugout again. Now let’s go twins. Man does that feel dirty to type.

But but but they’re winning “for Tony”!!!!!!!

Bump

I am one happy son of b****.

Hope twins and guardians play 20 tonight

Lol wat hahaha

It’s not up to the front office. If it was, Hinch would be our manager.

They were a vibrant young team that played with fire coming off a playoff berth looking like a juggernaut for the next half decade +. Now they’re lifeless and boring, just like their manager. Injuries and lack of a finishing roster moves have played a big role, but so has Tony. Pal.

Everything with respect to the Chicago White Sox is in significantly worse shape than it was the day Tony was announced manager. He was an awful hire that somehow got even worse. How anyone that has paid attention can defend him is beyond comprehension.

Yeah, Jazz and Gimenez are really the only two that make sense from the Sox perspective. Of course Sox would need to add to that deal as both are controlled the same as AV and MI >>>> 1B masquerading as an OF. But Gimenez is never getting moved inside the division. I do feel a bit like Jazz offensive profile isn't too dissimilar from what we have (high K rate, low BB rate), but he does bat LH at least and was really good in limited sample in 22. He'd be a great guy to add to the mix and certainly fits our team better than AV. Just not sure how much the Marlins would need added to that deal to make it work for them. Maybe something like AV + Ramos gets it done. If Ramos can't stick in the IF and there are questions, they should move him this offseason while the stock is up.

Just cycle thru Romy, Mendick, Sosa and Yolbert until one sticks. No need to spend further $ on 2B. Leury will also still be on the roster, unfortunately. Other option is turning AV into a similarly controlled LH 2B that better fits the roster but I struggle to come up with that name.

Let’s go royals! Clase BS!

Is Robert can't go, I'd much rather watch Payton play than Engel or Leury.

Yes, I missed a 0 on Pollock's salary when entering into the spreadsheet. That's my bad. I am at $139M on the 13 committed salaries, so yes basically same place as you. Though Sox could easily find $5M for a 5th SP by non tendering Engel and Ruiz, or just not slashing payroll by a measly $5M. Point is, they have $20-30M to spend on an OF and 5th SP, or Abreu and whatever is needed after the trade package received for AV. I certainly prefer to see them go the let Abreu walk and sign Nimmo route, but think Sox are more likely to give Abreu 2/$30M and trade AV for a SP, unfortunately.

Sox need 2 OF, not 1. Colas is one corner, another OF in the other. Sheets and AV should be nothing but emergency OFs moving forward.

Bummer looked really good after the first couple hitters. Having a little rust is to be expected for a dude that hasn't pitched in the bigs in like 3 months.

I like Conforto, certainly was a Conforto guy going into this season before it was known he was out for the season. Its pretty obvious that he would have a been a huge piece to this team if were available. As for 2023, he'd be a solid back up option to Nimmo, but Nimmo is a better fit at this point. That doesn't mean Conforto wasn't a great roster fit for this team this year had he been healthy.

This got me curious because you've been banging this Sox have no payroll space drum for awhile, and its just really not accurate. Sox have $130m committed to 13 players in Lynn, Grandal, Moncada, Hendriks, TA, Eloy, Pollock, Robert, Kelly, Graveman, Garcia, Bummer and Diekman. They have ~$26.5m locked into 7 arb players in Giolito, Cease, Engel (non tender candidate), Kopech, Lopez, Mendick (non tender candidate) and Ruiz (non tender candidate), which include healthy raises in the arb estimates. Fill out the roster with 6 pre-arb guys and you're at ~$4m. That is approximately $160M payroll on a team with a $196M payroll in 2022. SO they have at least $30M to play with on an AAV basis and that would include a slight reduction in payroll from 2022 to 2023. There is plenty of room to sign a notable FA.

There’s plenty of money for Nimmo if Abreu is gone. They’ll get paid similarly enough on an AAV basis.

Pollock is a natural platoon for Colas, and he’s almost certainly on the roster. Still think they should sign an actual OF tho; Colas - Robert - Nimmo is a good defensive OF. I let Jose walk and put AV at 1B in this scenario. Eloy DH. But you can trade AV for SP and keep Abreu too. Sheets is Eloy insurance and Pollock 4th OF that probably ends up with 400+ ABs. It’s a much much better roster.

Is TA even for sure coming back? Fegan said he’s still a week away from baseball activities.

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To be fair, he has been since Yoan's recent injury

Harrison blows. He had one job on this team and that is to play his position. He’s been bad defensively for over a month now. So ready to be done with him.