The Mighty Mite

Actually the Aparicio trade helped the Sox come with their 3 best consecutive years in Sox history when they won 94 games in 1963, 98 games in 1964 and 95 games in 1965. If we had the wild card back then the Sox would have made the playoffs all 3 years plus a few more times in the 1950s.

Nellie was traded in the twilight of his career but I was still very sad when it happened. Minnie, Aparicio and Baines were traded when they were still in their prime and the trades were hard to swallow.

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving Day and hopefully this time next year we will be giving thanks for a White Sox World Series Championship.

Exactly, the Rays will trade him half way through the contract in a salary dump, maybe sooner.

Why didn't I think of that.

Right now I would platoon Sheets and Vaughn at DH, with Sheets eventually replacing Abreu at first base. I don't want Sheets and Vaughn anywhere near right field, we need to spend some $$$$ and sign a quality left handed hitting right fielder and hopefully Semien at second base.

Same to you, Pete. I was USAF but for you, Semper Fi.

To all my fellow vets, welcome home and thanks for your service.

Yep.

Towards the end Dye looked like he was running in quicksand.

My guess is Leury re-ups with the Sox.

So does the job go to Leury or are we going to try to make a second baseman out of Burger?

I've always liked Avi but at this point in time I'm not sure if he's the answer in right field, if we're willing to spend, there are better options. The Sox are in the period that the rebuild was all about, we came up short in 2020 so JR needs to step up and open up the purse strings.

What TLR said about Rodon is something I can believe, he's got Boras as an agent which is a minus with the Sox. Rodon just can't stay healthy so how much and how many years can the Sox offer him even if Boras wasn't his agent?

Wow, never heard that story, if true all 3 are scumbags.

Just wonderful.

I agree, a power hitting right fielder should be the number one priority. I wish Sheets was the guy but he and Vaughn are much better suited for first base.

Guardians is a horrible name to begin with, just go with the Cleveland Mistakes. Seriously, if they can't use the Guardians due to legal issues, I think the Cleveland Lakers would work, makes more sense than the Los Angeles Lakers who brought that name with them when they moved from Minneapolis in 1960.

Please let this happen, Minnie should have been inducted many years ago. Does Billy Pierce still have a chance with any of the various HOF committees? Like Minnie, he also should be in the Hall.

Excellent post, hope everything you said happens.

They were mediocre after the All Star break and sad to say I wasn't confident about them beating any of the playoff teams.

Anyone can win a short series and the Braves proved it and I'm happy they did. Now go out and beat the cheaters and it's also payback time for Atlanta and Georgia for losing the All Star Game because of stupid politics.

If he falls off in production next year and I hate to say it but I think I would have to let him walk, we have too many other options with Vaughn, Sheets, Grandal and maybe even Burger.

We need a lefty power hiiting right fielder and I think we should give Sheets a crash course in playing the posistion, whatever happens if he can't hack in right field we still should still keep him as a DH from the left side and also because when Abreu slows down Sheets can take over at first. Burger is another story, if Yoan wasn't such good third sacker I would put him at second and give the 3B job to Burger but that's not going to happen so maybe one of them gets traded for a second baseman with some pop. It would a no brainer to keep Yoan but I'm disappointed in his production, 14 homers and 61 RBI is not what we traded Sale for.