ChiSox59

In one of DVS articles he tweeted today, had a quote from TLR to expect to see AV at 3B at some point.

Gary Sanchez won't be catching much. Jeffers is going to be primary catcher. They have a good offense, albeit one that won't take many walks. Even Buxton has a career OBP of just .299. Guys they added besides Correa are all low OBP guys. But if Correa and Buck stay healthy, they're going to hang around .500 even with the pitching. But hte pitching staff really is horrible. Its worse than last year. Berrios and Meada both gone, and those would be their 2 best pitchers. I've never been a huge Sonny Gray guy, he's solid enough, but as their ace? Gross. Lost their best pen piece today in an already awful group of relievers. I just don't see it. I think Correa is playing somewhere else by mid July.

Touche

For sure. Just seems unlikely. They’d basically be negotiating against themselves.

Deal!

O's have absolutely zero reason to offer the Sox anything. They get first dibs.

Do you want to be held to these?

Still not convinced the Twins are actually better than they were last year in terms of raw talent on the roster. They got buried by a terrible start, but talent-wise, I am not convinced they improved. I do expect them to play better than 73-89 baseball, but still think they're going to max out within 3-4 games of .500 one way or the other, unless they trade off Correa, Gray, Kepler, etc midseason.

For instance a team like the Nats might be itnerested in him. They're pretty thin in the OF corners after Soto. They just DFA'd some cat named Gabe Klobosits yesterday. 6'8' righty with great numbers in AA/AAA last season, but hot hit around in a small cup of coffee. He still has 2 options and could be a fit in a Micker trade. Sox may value the open 40 man spot more than him, but a trade like that would make some sense.

Sox have 7 days to try to trade him. At any point during that 7 days he can be placed on irrevocable waivers. But if he gets put on irrevocable waivers and is claimed (highly likely he will get claimed), he's gone for nothing. If he happens to clear, he can be sent to Charlotte. Sox will probably wait until Sunday/Monday to see if anyone offers something up and if not, then try to get him thru waivers if they don't get any offers. But he'll get claimed, likely by the O's, the team with the first dibs. Only positive to that, is that if any of the other 28 clubs want him, they pretty much have to trade for him.

I couldn't fathom a day where I'd long for Ricky to be the manager again. Well, until last April.

Worth noting that the Sox placed Crochet on the 10 day IL. So they should still have a 40 man spot to play with. Same with Yerm - while he probably won't need 2 months, dude is highly unlikely to ever make it back to Chicago, so they could put him on 60 day as well and just worry about the spot then. So perhaps up to 2 spots.

This. I’m a big Moncada fan. And playing baseball everyday would hurt. But he acts like he has a season ending injury every couple weeks. Even if he’s fine in a day or two. I think that’s where the rep comes from.

There will be a several other reliever DFAs next few days. Maybe we can flip him for one of them. May as well give an arm a try and send one of our guys with options back to Charlotte.

I have no issue with Burger. But deeming him comparable offensive player to Moncada based on 21 sample sizes is insane.

JFC

You hate sample sizes.

Also listing Yermin as an OF gave me a chuckle.

Must mean that Seby cleared waivers. Still have a chance to find a taker for Micker I guess, but sucks it took a DFA to find out.

No. Just must've missed if he actually shared anything beyond vague commentary on the topic.

I guess I must have missed these comments. Only ones I have really seen are super general comments that he wasn't all that liked and that he was just a strange dude with an air of cockiness that may have rubbed some vets wrong. Never saw anything I would actually deem true clubhouse issues.

Did this "issues" ever really come to light beyond Madrigal just kind of being a weird dude?

They also improved a good deal this offseason. I think Seattle is going to be pretty good.

This is probably why Romy got scratched last night.

The odds on this gotta be -1000. Just hoping for a hohum series win to kick off the season.