Chisoxfn Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 What do the Sox do at catcher? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chick Mercedes Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 Might want to think about drafting them high before first baseman and DHs. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeC Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 27 minutes ago, Chick Mercedes said: Might want to think about drafting them high before first baseman and DHs. …like they did with Collins? 2 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold's Leg Lift Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 They should shoot Grandal into the sun and sign a guy. Any guy. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 48 minutes ago, JoeC said: …like they did with Collins? He said they should draft catchers not first baseman and DHs 1 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Allen Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 1 minute ago, bmags said: He said they should draft catchers not first baseman and DHs Drafting catchers high is boom or bust. Mostly bust. They need to sign a good handler of pitchers and glove guy to be a back up. See where they are in sp;ring. If Yaz is looking a lot better, trade Seby. If Yaz is toast, eat the contract, but sign a back up glove guy before then. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chetkincaid Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 34 minutes ago, Harold's Leg Lift said: They should shoot Grandal into the sun and sign a guy. Any guy. I’m on board with this plan. Grandal can’t catch and he can’t run anymore. All he does is walk and hits an occasional home run. Plus he slow as molasses and he clogs up the bases. Release him and eat the money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoCalChiSox Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 Target a quality young cost controlled catcher in the Giolito trade that might be otherwise blocked. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold's Leg Lift Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 Catchers are always over drafted in the 1st round. They should draft a college catcher every year in the 3rd-7th round. Every. Year. That's where the majority of them come from. The very least they should do this year is take Drew Millas in the rule 5 draft. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chick Mercedes Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 1 hour ago, JoeC said: …like they did with Collins? Well that’s witty. Dont quit man, stay in the game. The draft is a crap shoot. You can do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chick Mercedes Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 (edited) 38 minutes ago, Harold's Leg Lift said: Catchers are always over drafted in the 1st round. They should draft a college catcher every year in the 3rd-7th round. Every. Year. That's where the majority of them come from. The very least they should do this year is take Drew Millas in the rule 5 draft. Absolutely. I mean, instead of rando floor oriented college pitcher every time, try a catcher once in awhile. Or a high school kid. I like what Mike Shirley has been doing however. I don’t know they’re doing signing international catchers, but I see a couple guys in the system with some juice. Hell its all a crapshoot. Im just riding all the first baseman and DHs like whipped mules until they leave and people stop projecting Sheets in the outfield Edited November 29, 2022 by Chick Mercedes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 55 minutes ago, Dick Allen said: Drafting catchers high is boom or bust. Mostly bust. They need to sign a good handler of pitchers and glove guy to be a back up. See where they are in sp;ring. If Yaz is looking a lot better, trade Seby. If Yaz is toast, eat the contract, but sign a back up glove guy before then. Carlos Perez is good 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flash Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 Trot Grandal and Sevales out to start year and see how well Grandal holds up. He's likely to be better than anyone we can pick up in trade. If we move Gio, I'd look to a team like the Yankees and try to pry away Austin Wells. Maybe Gleybar and Wells for Gio? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EloyJenkins Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 Nothing. They still have a top 10 catching duo and limited funds. Grandal post knee surgery and rehab should be better. Hahn made this bed...he can sleep in it. 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 Of all of the issues, this isn't even a top 5. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Sacamano Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 (edited) Jorge Alfaro. You have someone to split time with Grandal and if Grandal is washed, you have someone who can start. Edit: his projected arb number was $3.6M before being non-tendered. Edited November 29, 2022 by Bob Sacamano Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GREEDY Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 Just now, EloyJenkins said: Nothing. They still have a top 10 catching duo and limited funds. Grandal post knee surgery and rehab should be better. Hahn made this bed...he can sleep in it. Agreed. If Grandal were on another team, we would be clamoring to acquire him in the hope he bounces back. Yaz has been so, so, so unbelievably good over the past decade you have to get him to June and hope he reverts to form. At that point if it is a repeat of '22 you can safely cut bait and go with Sevy/Perez. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tnetennba Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 Should do and Will do are different stories… 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Allen Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 53 minutes ago, bmags said: Carlos Perez is good He might be, but I wouldn't count on a rookie catcher if you are trying to win. Someone will eventually get hurt, and he'll have his opportunity. In fact, Yaz and Seby probably both will be gone by 2024, so I would work Perez in slowly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tnetennba Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 31 minutes ago, EloyJenkins said: Nothing. They still have a top 10 catching duo and limited funds. Grandal post knee surgery and rehab should be better. Hahn made this bed...he can sleep in it. I wouldn’t call it top 10, at least not as catchers. Grandal is still awful behind the plate, but he is a sunk cost and we know they care more about cost savings than they do improving from outside the org. So we’ll get the same expensive awful half the time and decent the other. We just have to hope that Seby is the actual starter and Yaz the backup contract be damned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 3 minutes ago, Dick Allen said: He might be, but I wouldn't count on a rookie catcher if you are trying to win. Someone will eventually get hurt, and he'll have his opportunity. In fact, Yaz and Seby probably both will be gone by 2024, so I would work Perez in slowly. I agree with this but that's why I don't want them to sign another catcher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tnetennba Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 I would have DFA’d Yaz sometime in the past year if it were up to me and my owner wanted to pay for a winner. He would not have made it past the last month of 2022 that’s for damn sure. But I haven’t even given replacement options any thought because I know it isn’t happening. Yaz is going play if even remotely healthy, we just have to live with whatever he gives you good and bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quin Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 Trade for James McCann, obviously. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squirmin' for Yermin Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 If you can't dump Grandal then you do nothing. Maybe sign some AAA depth piece. But Grandal, Zavala and Perez should be league average. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 do we all realize the best chance at getting above average LH power on this team next year is Yaz even with coming off a league awful year? 2 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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