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Its not just his framing that is bad. He's an all around horrible defensive catcher. Its beyond obvious when watching him. Like I said, he can hit a little bit. He's always had a good eye - the power surge he's seen the last 9-10 months has definitely been a little surprising.

Disaster seems aggressive. His BABIP is way down. I don't have the capability to watch Dash games, so not sure what is behind the lower BABIP this season, but his numbers would be pretty decent if his BABIP was where it was and should be. I definitely agree that he needs to be better, though.

I'd take the under on Narvaez being in the league in 3 years. He isn't very good. He can hit a little bit, but not nearly enough if he isn't catching. I know he's been pretty good this year, but I don't see it lasting. And Colome has been quite good. The Sox have done OK with catchers. They turned Tyler Flowers into a decent big league catcher, and a very well respected game caller and defensive catcher. He got poor grades as a defensive catcher in the minors. Narvaez, while a terrible defensive catcher, the Sox plucked him out the minor league phase of the rule 5 draft and turned him into one of the better closers in the game. Thats not bad either. It took Phegley over 4 years to become a playable option in Oakland. He is not a loss.

I remain fully in the Cole + Castellanos or Ozuna + Grandal train. Resign Abreu. Cole - 6 years $160M Castellanos - 4 years, $55M or Ozuna - 4 years, $65M Grandal - 3 years, $45M Abreu - 2 years, $24M Alex Wood - 2 years, $22M OD 2020: CF: Leury, 3B: Moncada, LF: Eloy, 1B: Abreu, RF: Castellanos/Ozuna, Catcher: Grandal, SS: Anderson, DH: Collins, 2B: Yolmer. BN: McCann, Tilson, Rondon Rotation: Cole, Giolito, Cease, Lopez and Wood (Kopech starts in AAA) Bullpen: Colome, Herrera, Fry, Burr, Hamilton, Frare, pick 2 of (Burdi, Ruiz, Vieira, Fulmer, Marshall - Fulmer and Vieira will be out of options) Mid-June 2020: CF: Robert, 3B: Moncada, LF: Eloy, 1B: Abreu, RF: Castellanos/Ozuna, Catcher: Grandal, SS: Anderson, DH: Collins, 2B: Madrigal. BN: McCann, Leury, Yolmer Rotation: Cole, Giolito, Cease, Lopez and Wood (insert Kopech for 1st injury) Bullpen: Same as above. Sox spent just over $300M.....what they would have given MM, on 5 players. Is it a pipedream? For sure. But that would be my "Plan A" for right now.

Sox should have traded for Edwin Jackson. Jays only gave up cash.

Yah, its going to be one of those three (or Fulmer). Though we'll likely see a 40 man bullpen arm (Ruiz, Frare of Vieira) up for the weekend before Flores, Lambert or Detwiler get the call on Monday. Or maybe we see some sort of minor trade / waiver claim over the weekend. Rodon can be moved to the 60 day IL to make room for any of those options.

Avi Garcia is not good, was not a part of the future, and I am glad the Sox are not wasting more at bats on him. Yes I would rather watch some combination of Cordell, Tilson, Leury and Delmonico over Avi.

Suspect an IL stint is upcoming. Hopefully we get to see Lambert or Flores. No one in AAA has pitched well enough to get the call. That said, I suspect we'll see a pen arm up on Thursday for the weekend, and then Fulmer up to take Banuelos spot in the rotation next Monday.

I am as excited about Cease as anybody, but the guy has pitched over 5 innings in just one of his six starts. He isn't going to come up here and magically solve the pitching issues.

We can't send him down. Its DFA or bullpen. Though it may be IL based on him being removed.

He reminds me of the left handed version of DJ Carrasco.

Not really something thast has changed in the last decade or so, but going back further than that, long term contracts is what has changed. Guys used to play for 1 year deals, so they'd play through just about anything as their next season's paycheck depended on it. Now a days teams are more cautious because they have guys locked up long term, players are more cautious because sitting out more often keeps them fresh, and unless an impending FA, shouldn't affect your pay down the line that much. etc., etc.,

Yah, trading Rodon last July wasn't really much of an option.

I don't think so. I think he'll be back next week. He's able to go into concussion testing today, which I believes lasts a minimum of 5 days. Zavala is back today, though.

If someone wants to give up a backend top 100 prospect for Abreu in July, you definitely do it. I probably don't trade him if the return is a AAAA type. I think the offers will be somewhere in the middle, but there should be a handful of teams in contention that Abreu would really help. So you never say never.

Mr. Boras isn't going to have much bargaining power. Its in Carlos' best interest to stay with the Sox right now. He'll make a little more money AND he gets to rehab somewhere where he is comfortable and knows the training staff. I think 3 year extention (which really only buys out 1 FA year) plus a series of team options makes a bunch of sense for both sides. From Carlos' perspective, if he is unwilling to discuss a somewhat team friendly extension, he runs the risk of signing either a minor league deal, or simply rehabbing next season without the benefit of a major league training staff and facilities. Hahn has a great deal of leverage here.

Alonso still in the clean up spot though...that I can b**** about.

Moncada was quoted recently (yesterday maybe?) as saying he was tired lately. I am totally OK giving his legs a day.

He was down to one (next season). Hahn said today that due to his injuries the Sox will be granted a 4th option year. Sox now don’t need to add him to MLb roster until OD 2022. Actually a very significant development. A chance? Of course he has a chance. His injuries the last couple years are super unfortunate. To say you don’t care about retaining a guy like him is asinine.

This is kind of a bad take.

per fegan via Hahn, the Sox will be granted another option year on Adolfo due to his missed time. That is fairly big news. Only expected to miss 4-6 months of baseball activities, so sounds like a relatively minor operation as far as elbow surgeries go.

Yah, its not good, but comparing a basketball players knee operation to a fairly simple elbow operation is a bit of reach,

Worth noting that Adolfo will be down to his last option season next year. 2020 is going to be make or break for him, as he'll either be on the 2021 MLB opening day roster, or in another organization.

This is fairly typical around all organizations not something only the White Sox deal with.

No, just arthroscopic surgery.