While our top prospect and possible best prospect in 25 years has his foot in the door, I'm most definitely not. They want to keep him as a replacement outfielder until one of the younger better guys comes up then fine. Until then he's a late innings replacement player.
The thing is no one is out of their range. They have more money than any other team to spend. The problem is they either won't spend it, or they won't overpay for a player to come here, which they'd need to do. I seriously hope they let Puig be. He's most definitely not what the team needs.
There's a reason it's only 209 at bats and it's because he's not good. He was sent down because he was hitting sub .220. He's not a consistent 3 WAR player throughout a full season. You're assuming he'd be that player consistently and he's proven time and time again he's not that player. He's...
I don't know, I have a huge feeling Robert will end up the best prospect since Frank Thomas. He's going to need to be up in the top of the lineup with the others. They've had him leadoff in the minors so I suppose he could do that. Personally I think he'd be best at 2 behind Madrigal. We'll see...
I think Walker and Rutherford might be another year out with Vaughn. In the meantime Collins, Abreu, and Eloy can fill in as your DH most games. Eloy has gotten tremendously better in LF and he'll continue to work on it in the offseason. I'm ok with keeping him there for now. Personally I think...
Castellanos would be a perfect fit. Problem is, as we saw again in the last offseason, the White Sox will not spend money on top free agents. With Madrigal, Collins (DH), Robert, and Castellanos added to the lineup every day, that would be very very scary for other teams to deal with. Add in a...
That's not like a 3 win player at all. His WAR this year alone is .8 and he's played in half the games. He strikes out way too much for a guy with 6 homers. Let's be honest, how many other teams is he even making the roster on? The only reason he's jumped above .240 this year is because he's...
Honestly we really only would need Keuchel. Personally I don't think they'd have a snowball's chance in hell at getting Cole, but they really need a lefty in the rotation. That allows Cease to either be your 4th or 5th. I can deal with Lopez as our fifth starter and I'd be pretty happy with that...
No, .240-.250 is not acceptable with a prime time star slated for CF next year. He needs to be much much better than that especially when that puts his OPS still under .700. As I said at the end of last year and the beginning of this year, Engel is a late inning replacement outfielder because he...
Scary thing is he's actually gotten better as the year has gone on and he's still really bad in left. As much as Engel isn't an everyday center fielder, they couldn't continue to keep letting guys play horribly in the outfield alongside Eloy so they had to bring him back up. A good portion of...
I wouldn't go as far as to say it's a complete disaster (and trust me, I'm no Rick Hahn fan), but it's definitely going much slower than anticipated. Injuries to key players in the minors definitely didn't help at all either. Not getting a big time free agent last offseason also slowed down the...
The front office of this team is a joke. If they enjoyed seeing 20K fans each game they better get ready for 10K. Unacceptable to lose out on both Machado and Harper. Money talks and they blew it. You don't let future hall of fame players at age 26 slip through your fingers when you have more...