I gotta figure they want him to cut down the K a bit more before he gets promoted. ya, no. He's destroying AA pitching, why would they want him to change his approach? Look as long as he'd playing good defense in CF and OPSing close to .900 why mess with success? Because he's just like Brett [expletive] Jackson? Who hit .260 in AA. Is he just like Brett [expletive] Jackson who hit .297 his first 185 AAA ABs at the same age as Bryant? Nevermind that I'm not saying they're equivalent prospects but it's silly to say who cares what his K rate is, look at the pretty numbers only!! Especially when there's not exactly a playoff race we're anxious to get him ready for.
I gotta figure they want him to cut down the K a bit more before he gets promoted. ya, no. He's destroying AA pitching, why would they want him to change his approach? Look as long as he'd playing good defense in CF and OPSing close to .900 why mess with success?
They traded their closer for a 3B prospect, signed Abreu, and traded a SP w/ 4 years of team control for an OF w/ 5 years of team control. My biggest complaint with Theo and Jed is that they haven't done more in the trading market, but is there really a chasm here? For this past offseason? Certainly. We sat around waiting on a guy we figured we weren't going to sign and then shrugged our shoulders and said oh well.
The White Sox had the farm system in place pre-Hahn that everyone tries to pretend we did pre-Theo/Jed. With the same number of OMG Albatross contracts to boot.
Any of Watkins, Vitters, or Szczur would be better options off the bench than having Travis Wood as one of your bats off the bench. They're not stellar, but neither's Ryan Kalish, let's have a 14 man staff!
He only makes 1.5M/Y less than Jackson, and the contract as a whole is worth 16M more. ETA: My bigger annoyance in contrasting the 2 is the White Sox actually making an attempt to improve the team, rather than fiddling for 4 years waiting on prospects. There's been a sucking void of creativity here coming from some of the smarter minds in baseball
You feel Garza's attitude affected the club's performance in any way? They must've got hotter than [expletive] once they dumped that cancer off the team
With my increasing belief that we'll see no top prospects called up this season(Maybe Alcantara?), I guess Samardzija's first comments after being traded is what I'm most looking forward to this season? I wouldn't get my hopes up. I'd say maybe something a little passive-aggressive, but that's about it. Maybe Garza will just have hour long press conferences every time Milwaukee visits Chicago.
With my increasing belief that we'll see no top prospects called up this season(Maybe Alcantara?), I guess Samardzija's first comments after being traded is what I'm most looking forward to this season?
Where the hell did the White Sox dig up this pitching staff from. I just read their BR page, and out of 19 guys who have pitched for them this year, I could've guessed 5.