The case for Johnathan Lucroy

[caulfield12]

The Brewers don't have to trade Lucroy...they're doing just fine financially.

 

Whereas the Padres weren't sure at all how well Pomeranz was going to hold up over time and felt they sold high compared to what they paid for him.

 

Lucroy's also their franchise player, with Braun entering the decline years of his career. Nothing to see here.

[Special K]

Collins isn't gonna catch.

 

I would have to think they have not written him off yet

[TheFutureIsNear]

Lucroy isn't getting this offense anywhere, so this thread is pretty pointless. We need way more than just 1 guy to even think about seriously competing r

Edited July 17, 2016 by TheFutureIsNear

[Lillian]

It is becoming increasingly easy to see the point of those who argue that it's futile to try to fix this team's offense, for this year. Moreover, it's difficult to have much confidence in Hahn's ability to make a good trade. I'd prefer to see the front office try to get some young players to replenish the depleted farm system.

They probably should be seeing what they could get for Shields, Frazier, Cabrera and Lawrie. Non of those guys will likely be on this team, past next season and this mix appears not to represented a very well constructed offense. I guess you could add Robertson to that list. We shouldn't expect Jackson to be back next year either, so there's another hole which will need filling, not that he really has filled it, to this point.

 

Maybe they should figure out what their core is going to be in their oft cited "3 year" plan, and trade everyone who doesn't figure into that equation. So, that leaves Eaton, Anderson, Abreu, Sale, Quintana, Rodon, Fullmer, Jones, and the best of our recently signed draft picks. Whom have I forgotten. Which of our current Minor Leaguers would you expect might be able to fill some of the many holes on the roster, after such a purge? Could C. Sanchez, Davidson, Delmonico or May be reasonably expected to make any contribution to the Big League roster?

 

It's hard to believe that they haven't scored a run in the last 3 games. WHAT A MESS!!

[GreenSox]

There's an opportunity to extend him as well. He has 5-6 years of good performance left, and the team that trades for him has 2 of those years and the highest probability of getting the rest.

Yes, that was some of the rationale for the Shark rent, the Frazier semi-rent.

He'll be a FA in 1.5 years.

Sign him then. Sox aren't winning now with or without him.

He he may not be worthy of a 5 year extension anyway. Players deteriorate.

[kitekrazy]

The SP market is considered fairly barren at the moment, but one of the best pitchers on the market just moved for someone that is put in the same value range as Carson Fulmer. Given that, if the White Sox strike quickly, they may be able to make the deal before some prospect rich team gets desperate.

 

 

The pattern is that the White Sox pursue and overpay for power bats and ignore the mediocre average and high strikeout rates, only to have those things bite then in the ass. Lucroy is not that type of bat, and it seems dumb to eliminate half the players in the league from trade consideration just because they're in the NL.

 

 

That's a fair counterpoint, but what are the options for this team? If they don't either catch fire like they did in April or make some difficult decisions to compete, they might as well just sell everything off like many on here have suggested. I'd rather see the White Sox trade from a position of strength to turn a weakness into a strength and hopefully turn a middle of the pack team into a much more formidable contender. Yes, you only get two years guaranteed out of him, but the White Sox are going to have to make a lot of hard decisions in 2017 as it stands. Either they're going to tear everything down at that point, or they're going to spend a lot of money to extend their competitive window.

 

For the Sox it's twice as stupid to consider it.