Jose Abreu

Tomorrow, according to Fegan

Guess I need a new name...

I disagree. If you're just referring to him staying healthy, then sure. But even 2022 Jimenez (when healthy) was better (144 wRC+) than 2019 Soler (136 wRC+). I'd love to see Eloy hit 48 homers, but he's a much better contact hitter than even peak Soler, so the "best case scenario" for Jimenez probably has him hitting .300 or better in addition to massive power output

Ok, now I'm in. Thanks for sharing

Extremely minor gripe but where does the "s" come from?

Fair enough. He definitely has gotten much worse back there with age

Salvador Perez is consistently one of the worst defensive players in baseball I don't know much about Grifol overall, but I wouldn't use that as a selling point for him

We all just sat through a full rebuild that started 6 years ago with promises of championship contending clubs, and to date we have received 2 playoff game victories and nothing else. If you want to turn this into a "real fans" debate, then I would argue that the "real" fans are the ones who actually care about the team's success and want them to stop making the same mistake over and over, rather than the ones who would blindly love another former Sox manager comeback story that is, once again, very clearly not going to work out

Absolutely. It’s a credit to Ozzie that he knew exactly what needed to be done —win over JR first, and at that point the second “interview” doesn’t even matter

His comments on postgame shows over the years imply otherwise

If the three-headed monster had a functional dynamic and sound process, I would agree. But waiting a month+ just to hire Ozzie Guillen when they could have done so weeks ago, or even during the last season, is exactly something this FO would do

Here's the list of candidates (obviously, only the living ones): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chicago_White_Sox_managers

I think they could probably get away with framing it as making the team better by trading away the 2022 underperformers, but it's probably just me overcorrecting my expectations after the disaster that was last offseason

Your pessimistic/cheap outlook is way more optimistic than mine. I don't even like Conforto much, mainly since he's coming off shoulder surgery, but I'm fully expecting a nightmare offseason of salary cuts (due to lack of playoff revenue), utility/relief signings, salary dump trades (such as getting out of Joe Kelly's contract by attaching Jose Rodriguez to him), selling low on Moncada/Giolito only for them to predictably return to form, etc.

SI is just Fansided now. They would absolutely allow this to be posted if it were BS

He might be my favorite potential option, at least based on publicly available information. I recommend reading this (Athletic sub required): https://theathletic.com/3234920/2022/04/07/qa-phillies-hitting-coach-kevin-long-on-his-prep-work-philosophy-and-a-stacked-lineup-thats-as-solid-as-there-is/

I don't understand this idea where the Sox have core players on expensive contracts who are not good, but are simultaneously desirable as trade targets for other teams. Vaughn is a realistic trade option, but probably has less trade value than everyone thinks. Moncada, contrary to popular belief, has never been this bad before, so you could maybe convince a team that this was just an aberration, and that he'll at least get back to his 2021 self. But with his money owed, you'd just be dumping him for no return, at the pretty likely risk of him being a better 3B option than whatever you'd run out there anyway

This aged poorly

Seconded here, for me it shows up in every page of every thread, no matter what. I don't mind it, but it would be nice to be able to minimize it, as it otherwise renders the right 1/3rd of my screen useless for the bottom 95% of every page in a thread

I get what you mean. I think, especially among the younger generation, there is an increasingly common sentiment that in order for things (which I am being purposely vague about, but it could be in politics, sports, etc.) to get better to a meaningful degree, there is sometimes no choice but to wait for certain people to die. It's super nihilistic, but I see it all the time now. However, it's another thing to have that attitude and then manifest it by actively wishing for it to happen, like you said

I should preface this by saying that I obviously don't want him to die or anything, but how are we as fans supposed to react to this? I don't feel bad for him, if it's that hard on him, he should resign.

I don't know if he counts, but Yordan Alvarez

Ben Gamel it is

Especially when the current offense of singles hitters who rarely strike out is working so well

Hader (7 in 34 innings) has allowed more home runs than Hendriks (5 in 35 innings) this year. In fact, in what's a down year for both of them, Hendriks has been clearly better. That said, I agree that the weird contract structure would make things tough