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PIllar maybe? Would make a nice 4th OF.

Hope not.

Kirilloff will play alot of 1B moving forward regardless.

Almost certainly now. But even so, still a strange fit. 2/3rd of their OF is now full and they need to give Larnach near everyday at bats. Kiriloff too. He can play some 1B. But also have Garlick and Wallner. Just a strange fit.

Gallo to Twins is a very strange fit.

The payroll was always going to be in the $190M range. Just a fan base that likes to get up in arms about anything.

Grandal has significant negative value. If you're paying him (say) $15M regardless (assuming most relief you could get is a few million), you may as well roster him and hope he pops back to 75% of the player he was prior to 2022. If he does, you instantly have have a 5 catcher offensively in the game. Dumping Grandal makes zero sense.

Wish Profar has played more IF lately. Honestly, just really liked the Frazier fit. Drury is another guy we could play in the IF and OF, but another RHH. Didn't hate seeing Jorge Mateo's name thrown about on twitter yesterday. Can't hit much, but he can field and is fast AF. Doubt O's in a hurry to move him tho.

You already know the answer this question.

I agree, fwiw.

Who cares about Eloys feelings. He’s lost that luxury. If he wants to get another decent contract after this one, he needs to hit.

Hendriks for Jansen and Biggio feels very White soxy. Really don’t like it, but if Beni is brought in whatever.

Eloy is a DH.

LFG

Are you going to mad if Sox sign Benintendi?

It shouldn’t be.

The Leury Garcia deal - while bad - is so overplayed by Sox fans. $5M AAV in literally micenuts for an MLB org. We're talking about like 2.5% of the payroll.

I was referring to coming off 2020. Carlos had made 7 starts in 2 years, his results when he did pitch were awful and he had just gotten done embarrassing himself out of relief in the biggest game the White Sox had played in 11 years. There’s a reason he took a 1/$3M deal.

Haven't laid my two cents on this deal.....but IMO, guaranteeing Los that kind of $ is sort of crazy. Of course the Yankees can afford it, and I am genuinely happy for him. He is an easy dude to root for. But if we are to assume the Sox will continue to operate as they always have, paying Rodon $27M a season over the next 6 seasons would certainly become a major issue. Maybe not in 2023, but certainly before long. I will take the under on average of 20 games started per season over the course of this deal. You likely end up paying him $1.3-1.5M+ per start. That's a lot. Coming off the 2020 season, before he took the 1/$3M deal with the Sox for 2021, I was pushing for the Sox to put an option heavy contract in front of him. Something like $2/15M, with several options starting at like $12M on the back end, increasing each season. Most here thought I was nuts --- would have worked out quite well for the Sox. Of course Boras probably wouldn't have let Los take that, but at the time, he didn't exactly have a boatload of options as he was 1 more injury away from being an milb deal guy at the time.

The ex-Sox bullpen and OF are rough. Those teams play 10 times, I am going with 5-5. .500 is the White Sox way, afterall. Of course, the Sox also don't even have an OF atm.

I’d be much more interested in Escobar than McCann.

Sure, but it’s also extremely believable. JR has a clear history of getting in the way.

It’s been outwardly reported that JR didn’t let his FO offer the QO.

Hard to imagine how brutal the fan base would be right now had Tony not gotten fired….errrrr, stepped down.

Yeah, I guess. But you're paying him regardless so may as well try to make something of it. I guess if you use the saved $ to turn around and sign Conforto, perhaps get Biggo back in the deal as well, and have a trade lined up to get some back of the rotation SP depth for Seby, I could live with it. But its just a weird strategy.