Heads22 Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeGetzUs Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Welp.....saves service time for next season I guess. Hopefully the depth can cover down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flavum Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Bullpen pitcher 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boopa1219 Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Don’t blame him one bit. There are things that are more important than baseball. I hope he’s okay and let’s see him next year. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiliIrishHammock24 Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Fans of Vanessa Morgan apparently think that they are getting a divorce. None of her social media posts recently have involved him. Hope whatever it is he finds peace with it and this gives him enough time to clear his mind and come back next February. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtySox Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Bummer. Hope everything is okay. Respect the decision. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoCalChiSox Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Good luck to him. Let him get everything in order. We got that extra year of service time back. So 6 years of team control still, right? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiSoxFanMike Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 To be honest this isn’t the worst thing in the world. The Sox will get another year of service time out of him and I don’t know how much of a factor he would’ve been this season anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago White Sox Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 On 7/10/2020 at 10:14 PM, YouCanPutItOnTheBoardYES! said: To be honest this isn’t the worst thing in the world. The Sox will get another year of service time out of him and I don’t know how much of a factor he would’ve been this season anyway. Expand Just got to hope he eventually comes back or we are in big trouble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago White Sox Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 On 7/10/2020 at 10:13 PM, SoCalChiSox said: Good luck to him. Let him get everything in order. We got that extra year of service time back. So 6 years of team control still, right? Expand Should be five years unless they try to manipulate service time to start the 2021 season. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quin Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 All the best to Kopech, hope he's ok mentally, physically and emotionally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hi8is Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 And no one dared disturb the sound of silence. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiSoxFanMike Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 On 7/10/2020 at 10:17 PM, Chicago White Sox said: Just got to hope he eventually comes back or we are in big trouble. Expand I really can’t tell if his absence and subsequently opting out is due to the virus or for other reasons. Hopefully he’ll be back in 2021 either way. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoxAce Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Best wishes to Kopech. Doesn't this give the Sox the year of control back too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Hope he finds what he is looking for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raBBit Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 It's easy to assume the worst with this kid given all the headlines he's had as he's come up as a young professional. I think this isn't necessarily a bad turn of events for the Sox. If the service time stipulations are correctly understood, we now have his rights for all of 2025 instead of for 60 games this year. If the team comes out 2-9 in the first 11 games, we'd much prefer this scenario than him pitching 40 innings for us this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raBBit Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 I imagine we will soon find out this isn't about mental health or drugs or whatever everybody is fearing. Do some social media snooping and you can figure things out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiSoxFanMike Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 On 7/10/2020 at 10:28 PM, raBBit said: I imagine we will soon find out this isn't about mental health or drugs or whatever everybody is fearing. Do some social media snooping and you can figure things out. Expand Lots of people on Twitter are saying his wife might be pregnant. So that would explain why he doesn’t want to risk it right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoxAce Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 (edited) On 7/10/2020 at 10:28 PM, raBBit said: I imagine we will soon find out this isn't about mental health or drugs or whatever everybody is fearing. Do some social media snooping and you can figure things out. Expand Don't have social media but ima assume Joe is in the ballpark there with his assessment. Edited July 10, 2020 by SoxAce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timbo8 Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 if that true i dont blame i just hope peopple dont spead bullshit rumors like tha one person was Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flavum Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 On 7/10/2020 at 10:33 PM, Tony said: I think the bigger overall concern, aside from whatever is going on in his personal/private life....is he’s thrown 14 MLB innings since 2018. With 2020 a wash.....he’s going to have missed A LOT of development time. Kopech also has been known to be ultra-competitive, so hopefully that fire is still there and he can come back stronger than ever. But he’s got a fight ahead of him. Expand Completely agree, and that’s why I think he’s now a bullpen pitcher. He could be a dominating closer, which would be fine. But no way would I pencil him in the rotation for 2021. Maybe they still will, but I’d be very surprised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcq Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 I might worry about him for next year not this one. I hope he is not too unstable. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoCalChiSox Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 If Rodon is 100% we will be OK. 1 Giolito R 2 Rodon L 3 Cease/Lopez R 4 Keuchel L 5 Cease/Lopez R Swingman- Gonzalez 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonofaRoache Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 On 7/10/2020 at 10:24 PM, SoxAce said: Best wishes to Kopech. Doesn't this give the Sox the year of control back too? Expand The Sox shouldn't count on him at this point. You wish him the best because he is human and hope he produces, but he can't be relied upon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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