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  1. nicksaviking
    Not sure what happened early in the year in Wichita, but Prato in St. Paul, looks pretty much the same as he did last year. I don't have much faith that Celestino will ever be more than the 26th man on the bench, I think we can be pretty confident his bat won't help. I'd honestly rather see Keirsey at this point. Also, if Joey Gallo is getting the 1B work now, Chris Williams should 100% be on this list.
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    Two.
  3. nicksaviking
    Since July 1, Gallo has had 7 hits and 37Ks in 28 games. And he's only sat on the bench for the entire game three times. Wow.
  4. nicksaviking
    This team just wasn't built to support ground ball starters. The outfield defense is solid, but with a sinkerball pitcher starting, now you're going to have to choose to run out the better offense at the expense of getting outs the way Keuchel likes them, or you're going to run out an offense that will force Keuchel to win a bunch of 2-1 games.
  5. nicksaviking
    I've seen Pace listed as an "OLB" but I think that was in reference to a traditional 4-3 scheme, so what was formerly the Will or Sam LB. The Chad Greenway or Ben Lieber spots had they been playing 3-4. The depth charts I've seen have him behind either Hicks or Asamoah I can't imagine anyone thinks he's big enough to be an edge guy.
  6. nicksaviking
    You didn't happen to show this to Brian Flores before he accepted the job did you? Pretty sure he would have ran away screaming.
  7. nicksaviking
    Hopefully he's as good at digging them as he is at throwing them.
  8. nicksaviking
    To their credit, they've been much better about this lately.
  9. nicksaviking
    That BA is only through four games. I'm fine being patient with him, because there are other, non-heralded prospects who should get extended looks but won't if Lee comes up and stays, but the team can and should still win this division even if they do start doing their homework on these young guys to build next year's 26-man roster. I do not think they can win a championship by continuing to sign and trade for these low ceiling vets to fill up half the roster. I would like to see done to the offense what was done to the rotation last offseason, but the free agent bats are terrible next year. Try to find out which ones can be strong contributors next year, and which one's should be traded for strong contributors.
  10. nicksaviking
    Yeah, I'd guess Williams will strike out too much, but I also had that opinion about Wallner, so I'd give Williams a shot before I write him off. Both have strong BB%, which should help offset the strikeouts. If we want to limit the strkeouts, Prato is obviously the guy this team should be trying to fit onto the roster. Or I suppose there'd be few objections to Brooks Lee. Other than those that want to manipulate service time.
  11. nicksaviking
    I don't think I'd want Alcala returning even if he was able to. A rusty reliever who already has sketchy control sounds like a bad addition for the stretch run. But as far as DFA's go, I'd probably do Jovani Moran. He is the square peg in a bullpen comprised of otherwise very good control. I'm also on board with removing Henriquez. I wouldn't necessarily give up on him, but his transition to relief came a year too late and his struggles this year won't allow him to contribute. Oliver Ortega looks like the current taxi-squad reliever du jour. Of course if it was my call, none of those guys would be DFA'd before Gallo or Luplow.
  12. nicksaviking
    I hope so, someone's going to need to make tackles. But going from Hendricks to Greenway to Henderson, seems like this club has pretty much always had pretty big name to anchor the middle of the field this century. I'd be happy if Asamougha or someone less expected grabs the spotlight.
  13. nicksaviking
    Looking at the depth chart...... Yeah, LB looks like the easiest path for a UDFA to make this team. Eh, maybe it's tied with CB. Man, it's been a looooong time since this team didn't have at least one standout interior LB.
  14. nicksaviking
    Seems like Wichita gets to hang on to players way longer than the other levels. Lee, Severino and Keirsey were there longer than they needed to be. Wallner and Williams had to play 2/3rds of the season there last year despite destroying the league and some how Julien never got promoted.
  15. nicksaviking
    This organization sure doesn't have a ton of transparency, that's for sure. I'm not even sure if the beat writers know of the job differentiations, because they seem to lump everyone together as well. And obviously the opaqueness is by design.
  16. nicksaviking
    You'll have to be more specific as to which of the two lineups you mean......
  17. nicksaviking
    Certainly they'll get better hitting lefties by watching other players try to do so.
  18. nicksaviking
    I don't care about outfielders and I don't care about August and September of 2023. This team does not need more Ramon Laureano's. Taylor, Gallo, Castro, Farmer, Solano, Luplow. There's never been a championship team that has had 46-54% of their offensive players a breath away from being DFA'd. Laureano will NOT improve this team's chances at winning the World Series. This has to be amongst the worst constructed rosters this organization has ever put together because they insanely thought they could get by with platooning half of the lineup. They need higher ceiling players and they should be rostering, and auditioning as many of the in house options as they have right now so they don't end up doing the exact same thing in 2024. That's the reality.
  19. nicksaviking
    There are way more than a half dozen player in AAA and AA that have higher upside than Laureano. Who's been better this year? The vets from other teams this club keeps sticking in the lineup? Or the guys they've been calling up? It's not even close.
  20. nicksaviking
    The rest of the rotation is fly ball pitchers. If Keuchel's 60% GB rate is going to influence the Twins to regularly keep Julien and Polanco out of the lineup in favor of better defenders like Farmer and Castro, then they'll be sacrificing offense to justify his spot in the rotation.
  21. nicksaviking
    Why? This guy is more of an offensive black hole than Taylor. I just don't understand why the front office an fans are so interested in other team's cast offs who are unlikely to be any better than the half dozen players they could call up from AAA or AA who are already under contract.
  22. nicksaviking
    I trust this 'new' Max Kepler about as much as I trusted April Joey Gallo. A month and a half of good hitting isn't going to make me forget about being disappointed in him for six of his last seven seasons. I obviously hope he keeps hitting well, but if the front office is fooled into thinking that a 30-year-old is suddenly going to turn his career around, then they haven't been paying attention to how baseball works.
  23. nicksaviking
    The number or players this organization continues to employ, who can't get a MLB deal the following year is stunning. Sano, Bundy, Archer, Sanchez, Leon, Hamilton, Duffey, Cotton and Joe Smith were just last year alone. Seven of those nine players were guys they signed as free agents or traded for JUST THAT YEAR! Either they have illogical expectations that aging vets will turn things around, or they are blind to the need of creating a roster that has a higher offensive ceiling. The continued reliance on these types of players, when the rest of the league is going with the younger, higher upside and cheaper internal players is exasperating.
  24. nicksaviking
    Kepler can. Chris Williams does. They've put Anthony Prato at 1B before. Heck, even Kyle Garlick has been playing 1B lately.
  25. nicksaviking
    Williams and Hahn have been in Chicago for decades now. Obviously they've been flipping between managers the last couple of years, but it's crazy to think they don't have any oversight into the day-to-day activities in the clubhouse. Of course, hyperbole from disgruntled former players is nothing new, so we probably shouldn't take Middleton's word as gospel. On the other hand, any observer can see that the White Sox have been an utter mess the last couple of years.
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