The White Sox and Yankees are among the clubs expressing interest in Pirates starter José Quintana, reports Robert Murray of FanSided. The veteran southpaw is almost certain to change teams as a fairly productive impending free agent on the fourth-place Bucs.
Chicago is plenty familiar with Quintana, of course. The Colombian-born hurler began his big league career with the South Siders and spent essentially all of his prime seasons there. One of the sport’s best pitchers at his peak, Quintana worked 200+ innings with an ERA of 3.51 or lower each season from 2013-16. The Sox flipped him across town in a 2017 blockbuster that netted them Dylan Cease and Eloy Jiménez from the Cubs.
Since leaving the White Sox, Quintana has posted more up-and-down production. He’s generally looked like a competent but unexciting back-of-the-rotation arm, excepting last season when he spent a good chunk of the year in the bullpen. Quintana has returned to the rotation full-time since signing with Pittsburgh, taking 19 turns and working 97 1/3 innings. At just a bit more than five frames per start, the 33-year-old has had a relatively sheltered workload. The Pirates have allowed him to face a batter for the third time in an outing on just 68 occasions all season.
While Quintana hasn’t been counted on as a prototypical innings eater, he’s been generally effective on a rate basis. He owns a 3.70 ERA, his lowest mark since his final full season with the White Sox. Quintana has a modest 20.7% strikeout rate, but he’s induced swinging strikes on a slightly above-average 11.1% of his pitches. After an uncharacteristic spike in walks last season, he’s again demonstrating his more typical strong control (7.1% walk percentage).
Quintana won’t be the most exciting player on the move this summer, but there’s value for contenders in stability at the back of the rotation. The White Sox have gotten ace-level production from Cease, and minor league signee Johnny Cueto has provided an invaluable 2.72 ERA through 12 starts. However, the Sox have gotten underwhelming work from Lucas Giolito and Lance Lynn. Hard-throwing righty Michael Kopech has shown well in moving from the bullpen to the rotation, but his 83 innings are already past last year’s 69 1/3 frames. Pitching coach Ethan Katz pushed back against the idea that Kopech will be on any sort of innings limit this evening (via Daryl Van Schouwen of the Chicago Sun-Times). Nevertheless, there’s room for another arm capable of reducing some of the pressure on Kopech, particularly with Vince Velasquez on the injured list due to blister trouble.
The Yankees are also familiar with Quintana, although he’s never suited up for them in the major leagues. He spent three years in their minor league system before making his MLB debut, departing as a minor league free agent after the 2011 campaign. Of course, the far more relevant concern for general manager Brian Cashman and his staff would be to fortify the depth of a rotation that recently lost Luis Severino to a lat strain. The Yankees rotation has been very good overall but middle-of-the-pack over the past month, with Jameson Taillon particularly struggling of late. As with the White Sox, New York probably wouldn’t look to Quintana to supplant anyone in their top five, but rather as a swing option who can add some stability behind that group.
Quintana should have a fairly broad range of appeal to pitching-needy clubs, as he’s affordable. He’s playing this season on just a $2MM base salary, around $800K of which remains owed. That’s a marginal sum, no doubt intriguing with the White Sox and Yankees each looking to bolster rosters that are already running franchise-record payrolls.
Would rather have Jonathan Cueto.
Would rather have anyone else
Drew Smyly.
Luis Castillo, will beat you in the playoffs…and I will laugh, and laugh…
@titanic struggle- playoffs? playoffs? We’d be lucky to win another game.
Cincinnati is making the playoff?!
Cincinnati is making the playoffs?!
@stymeedone- The question is so important that you got to ask it twice?
It’s a koan.
Quintana has proven he can be a successful pitcher on a team with no playoff aspirations. However when he’s on team with expectations of playing into October he has never been able to handle the pressure
SSS. He could be amazing in 2022 playoffs
Based off the 2 years in which the team he played for made the playoffs? One of those in which he had a 4.03 ERA over 170+ innings?
I’d say he’s just overrated in general, and it has nothing to do with what kind of team he’s playing for. Even in his best years, his WHIP was consistently pretty high, especially for someone that was considered to be a #2 pitcher when the Cubs traded for him. The Cubs paid the price as if he was an ace or #2, and it was pretty clear that at best Quintana is a 4 or 5 starter on a good team. That same year, the Cubs were supposedly in the running for Verlander but wanted the younger and safer bet with Quintana. That worked out well.. not
I can see the Sox paying dearly for Quintana.. partly because Hahn is a sucker. The Sox need more than one guy and will not find what they really need in the FA market, which is a heart transplant.
Estevan floral you’re a pirate say goodbye to goodbye to the bonks arrrr
The Pirates are probably going to want a pitcher. Could see them target someone like T.J. Sikkema from the Yankees. Not too many left-handed prospects in the system and Sikkema could be up for them next season. Maybe they could squeez out a change-of-scenery guy like Deivi Garcia or Clarke Schmidt.
Clarke Schmidt doesn’t need a change of scenery. Also Schmidt is way too big an ask for Quintana.
@Cuso- I definitely think Deivi could use a change of scenery, but for David Robertson on the Cubs. The man is like wine he gets better with age.
Found the Kody Duncan burner account.
@Noel1982- Estevan Florial? Nah, wouldn’t even give up his tang top and gym shorts for Quintana. Easy pass.
Florial is out of options after this year which means he has to stay on a MLB roster next season. I think that diminishes his value to other teams.
I wouldn’t be opposed to that. Pitchers are what the Pirates need. OF is kind of crowded in pittsburgh but none of the younger guys are overwhelming. Florial’s stock dropped like a rock but i turn around for him could make for some nice trades later on.
Would be really great deal if the pirates could get him going at first as well.
But if the Sox are thinking along those lines as well.. they wouldn’t do it. he still has lots of control and has time to figure it out.
Something is up with David Robertson. The Cubs just bypassed him 2 days in a row in save situations. Could a repeat of last years deadline be looming with a Robertson Reunion on the South Side? Robertson and Smyly for Sosa? Smyly is arguably better than Quintana but more injury prone but the Sox have a pretty solid rotation when it’s hitting on all cylinders so they don’t need a high impact guy and Robertson might be a huge help.
Pirates know the Yankees system and have a good relationship. If the price is too high on other starters adding Quintana won’t be a problem for them.
Why would the Yankees want Quintana? He isn’t better than any of their starters and won’t even start in the playoff.s Luis Casillo or bust…
Severino, Taillon, German and Montgomery comprise 4/5ths of the rotation. You really think they aren’t in the market for someone to eat innings down the stretch and make it through the playoffs? Especially considering the vast difference in acquisition cost in terms of prospects for such a move?
Why would the Yankees even want Quintana? He isn’t better than any of their starters and won’t even start in the playoff.s Luis Casillo or bust…
Ask Cashman because according to the article he wants him.
Pirates were adamant about the return they got for Daniel Vogelbach. I would assume they wouldn’t change their stance on any other of their trade pieces. They have a price on Quintana and aren’t going to give in for less.
They might be adamant now. Trust me gms. Unless the Mets want Quintana, call them back about 4 or 5 o’clock Tuesday and they won’t be adamant any longer.
@mlb1225- did you hear that White Sox?
If they don’t give in, they’ll let him walk for nothing in a meaningless season. That would be a bigger waste than getting a lesser return.
Why would the Yankees want Quintana? He isn’t better than any of their starters and won’t even start in the playoff.s Luis Casillo or bust…
The fact is that Cashman isn’t a good GM. Almost any organization with a staggering payroll (especially the biggest payroll in MLB) can throw together 90 win teams that don’t win the World Series. Cashman is approaching a decade and a half since the last team he put together won a World Series, despite massive payrolls- frequently the biggest payroll in MLB- year after year after year after year. Bad signing after bad signing after bad signing on top of that. Cashman is just not a good GM.
Teams that are competitive without big payrolls are impressive. Teams that win the World Series regardless of payroll are impressive. Teams that have massive payrolls yet don’t win the World Series (especially 13 years and counting for the Yankees) are just boring and unimpressive.
I’d wager that you’re a fan of a small market team. I’ll take being of fan of a team that plays 162 meaningful games year in and year out. It’s not my money but I have something to look forward to every season.
By “small market team” you mean “team that can’t buy it’s way into contention every single year while bragging like they actually achieved something”?
At least they try to buy their way into contention perenially. I wonder what those team do with the revenue-sharings checks they cash. I’m also pretty sure ownership isn’t complaining when big market teams come play and increase gate receipts and concession revenues.
At this point I’m fully convinced every MLB team makes a profit every year before June 1st. Being a Pirates fan specifically that lives near PNC Park the one series a year at best where the Pirates play the Yankees doesn’t make much of a difference. Pirates fans hate the Yankees mostly because of the small market vs. big market complex but diehard baseball fans fans in PGH don’t go to Yankees games just to see Judge, sorry he’s good but not that good. We had Cole. There’s a spike to see Soto and personally I went to two Braves games to see Acuna in the last year and a half or so. The big difference in PGH is when then Cubs come to town, especially for a weekend series. It’s not a far trip and I’ve heard from a handful of Cubs fans over the last five years or so that if you can get a cheap flight then going to to a weekend series in Pgh is only slightly more expensive than going to a weekend series at home in Chicago. For what it’s worth, nobody in Pgh likes Nutting and we all assume he just cashes checks without writing any.
And somehow Cashman still has his job. He hasn’t been able to make a big move or two at the deadline to make them a contender and not a first round exit team. Atleast in the past 5-10 years.
Holy redundancy, crapman! Could’ve said all that in three sentences.
A few things I disagree with here. Getting to the playoffs should be the goal. Winning the WS is a bit of a crapshoot, and teams shouldn’t necessarily be judged on that. If you can build a perennial playoff contender, then I think it’s fair to be considered a good GM. The last time the Yankees missed the postseason was 2016. So I think Cashman is doing a good job.
You bash GMs for spending a ton, but let’s look at all the teams currently in 1st. The vast majority of them are spending a ton.
If you want to bash unsuccessful teams that spend a lot of money, you should look at the Phillies who haven’t reached the postseason since 2011 and currently have the 4th highest payroll and look poised to miss the postseason yet again.
Agree with everything you said except that the goal of the.Yankee organization can not be “get to the playoffs” in 2022…..it has to be WS or nothing at this point and this may be the year that Cash has too make some hard decisions with respect to making moves that he has been unwilling t make in the “main goal is the playoffs” mindset seasons of the past….and that he has to make to bolster both pitching and his offense to get there.
Agree with everything you said except that the goal of the.Yankee organization can not be “get to the playoffs” in 2022…..it has to be WS or nothing at this point and this may be the year that Cash has too make some hard decisions with respect to making moves that he has been unwilling t make in the “main goal is the playoffs” mindset seasons of the past….and that he has to make to bolster both pitching and his offense to get there.
Agree with everything you said except that the goal of the.Yankee organization can not be “get to the playoffs” in 2022…..it has to be WS or nothing at this point and this may be the year that Cash has too make some hard decisions with respect to making moves that he has been unwilling t make in the “main goal is the playoffs” mindset seasons of the past….and that he has to make to bolster both pitching and his offense to get there.
@TheOpener – This is such a lazy take. We hear this crud all the time about Cashman. Yet, he’s recognized throughout the MLB as an excellent GM.
Winning a World Series is really hard and the playoffs are a complete crapshoot every year. Sustained excellence is a much better way to grade a GM.
Also, MLB has been putting roadblocks against large market teams over the past 20+ years to make it harder and harder to leverage this advantage. This, along with a budget conscience owner who doesn’t allow Cashman to fully leverage their spending advantage, makes his job even harder.
And yet, with all that headwind, Cashman has continued to field good to great teams every years without doing the scorched earth rebuild that penalizes the fan base so unfairly.
He’s also built one of the best minor league infrastructures in all of baseball and continues to make savy moves every year to keep the team competitive.
Sounds like a poor GM to me…
I’m with Lars MacDonald. I’m not even a Yankee fan. I think Cashman is a fantastic GM.
@VonPurpleHayes- you can have him. I’ll take rocky7 as my new GM any day of the week.
Yes. Take a GM from a mlbtraderumors site. That’s sound advice. Nothing against rocky7 by the way.
Cashman is a competent GM sometimes mistaken as a genius.
The Yankees have had a winning record every season so calling him bad is ludicrous.
Of course making moves like signing Happ and trading for the $50 mil Donaldson at 36-37 are bad. He recently hasn’t been able to move the team forward from the very very good teams of ’17-’18. If he doesn’t get one of Castillo, Montas, Mahle he will probably fail again.
“He recently hasn’t been able to move the team forward from the very very good teams of ’17-’18.” I think this also has to do with the strength of the division. In 2017 and 2018, the bottom of that division was weak. Now it’s one of the stronger divisions in baseball. I’d argue that the 2022 team is actually stronger than the 17 and 18 teams, but they face tougher competition.
I do agree with your whole comment though. Cashman is not immune to mistakes. That’s for sure.
The Yankees rely on 30 somethings to be their best players, more than any other team. They may lose Judge for nothing. They need to go big at the deadline. But yeah, Cashman would lose 100 games with a league average payroll. He can’t produce cost controlled young stars from his draft board, unlike a lot of other teams. When was the last WS winner that didn’t have young stars as major contributors.
2009 Yankees?
Jason Dominguez, Clarke Schmidt, Miguel Andujar and a PTBNL…
Get it done Assman!
Naw son the Pirates would never go for that. If I was Cherington I be amenable to a straight-up Andujar for Reynolds trade though
Lol. That phone call wouldn’t even get connected before it could be hung up
Yankees could definitely use Quintana after Monty’s showing tonight! Likely we’ll see a repeat tomorrow with the wife beater on the mound…
Are the Mets and Cubs interested as well?
Quintana is good. A contender should offer some prospects. A Dylan Cease and Eloy Jimenez should get the deal done.
Huge mistake for big market teams to trade for Jose Quintana, especially in NY with the Yankees. Quintana has proven with bote the White Sox then the Cubs he doesn’t preform at all under big pressure.
He’s a decent pitcher but I’m not sure this is the type of player the Sox should be looking at. Unless he can get on base and drive in runs.
How about the Pirates keep him and sign him for next year so they can compete in the weak Central division ? Wouldn’t that be a surprise.
Quintana is a free agent and I would be shocked if he didn’t want to wait until the off-season to see what offers he will get unless he gets a severe over pay to extend. So if Pirates want him they can sign him in the off-season whether they trade him or not so why not trade him? No guarantees what they get will pan out but their options seem to be, don’t trade him and end up with only Quintana next season (if he signs) or trade him and end up with Quintana and the trade return.
He is a FA. I would bet that he will not extend until he sees what the market would bear. If the Bucs do not trade him, they risk losing him to a team that offers crazy money to him and then they get nothing in return. They will trade him and still will make him an offer after the season. anyway.
Classic 5 inning starter giving up two runs. Once in a while you might get 6 out of him. Even Cole, who they often overextend, hasn’t quite averaged 6 innings per start. They’ve already blown up two of their bullpen arms. The Yankees need to start managing for the postseason. Regular season has become inconsequential. The obsession with winning will destroy them.
The Mets used three pitchers last night, the Yankees used six. There’s a lesson there. Don’t waste your talent in the games that you lose. If they lost 8 to 3 instead of 6 to 3, so what?
Yes. The lesson there is that the Mets SP went deep into the game and the Yankees SP didn’t get out of the 3rd (hence the number pitchers each team had to use).
The score was 5-3 in the third inning when Monty was pulled. That’s far from being out of reach. You’re also forgetting that the Yankees are trying to secure home field advantage and the Astros are right behind them. If they’re going to have any shot at beating them in the postseason, the Yankees are going to need home field advantage
When you said Cole hasn’t avg 6 innings a start I thought you were crazy and I immediately went to baseball reference and used my calculator app. You are right. Thank you for being that to my attention. It’s pretty crazy that a SP making that money and being known as one of the best pitchers in the game isn’t even going 6 on avg.
It really just highlights how different baseball is now, since the 90’s. With my mentality, I’d be embarrassed about that if I was Cole.
Treatment of starting pitchers is ridiculous (by most managers)…at least Mattingly lets Alcantara pitch! No one is worse than Kevin Cash. Everyone remembers game six of the world series, but I can point to at least three games this year that he removed a starter too early and the pen blew it. Those games are on him. Last night is perfect example. McClanahan is the Rays’ best pitcher, their bullpen is injured and thus overused (not to mention there is no one out there who scares anyone), and yet…81 pitches after seven innings…he is removed. These guys overmanage in 2022. They have helped to make baseball worse than it was…
Playing for the postseason is like playing prevent defense: it’s a great way to lose players and games, losing the team more games, players, postseason berths, and playoff games.
Boone already manages this way, using Chapman in close games that he 1) loses or 2) lets get tied. He has a long hook with too many relievers that also produce similar results.
You know what happens? They end up bringing in high leverage relievers to clean up the mess, which often are unrecoverable. It’s a great way to burn low leverage relievers and high leverage relievers in losses.
Boone did this in 2021, and he’s done it in 2022, but the players have been bailing him out. Unfortunately, this type of mismanagement has caught up to the Yankees.
You remind me of a Mike and the Mad dog caller from back in the day. Thank you for the pleasant flashback
He’s not better than any minor league option that can be called up. Don’t waste pieces you can trade on Quintana
@Bigtimeyankeefan- yeah, wouldn’t even trade my easy pass for Quintana.
Quintana is definitely better than a lot of those minor league options, but to your point, you shouldn’t give a ton up for him.
“Quintana won’t be the most exciting player on the move this summer”
That sums up my exact thoughts on the matter. Do you want him in your rotation for 200 innings? Yeah, sure. But do I want him starting a playoff game for me? Not unless I have a decisive lead and my ace going next game on full rest.
If I’m the Pirates I attach Bednar to the deal to maximize your return. If to the Yankees I’m asking Peraza and two top 30 pitching prospects. If CWS I’m asking Cespedes, Sosa and prospect.
@msqboxer- the Yankees” No thanx”
I don’t believe the Pirates should generally trade away any of their young players before getting rid of guys like Quintana, Gamel, Marisnik, Tsutsugo, but your point is well taken
I like Bednar. He’s a local kid and fans here respond to that. But is it just me, or does it seem like opposing teams have caught on to him over the past few weeks?
Yes, he’s regressed, maybe due to overuse in 2 inning situations. If I’m the Pirates I’m looking to deal him for the right price as closers are replaceable and they’ve always had success replacing them.
And most importantly the Pirates don’t need a closer for the rest of this year or all of next season which makes two of his four years of control insignificant for his current employer.
For Quintana? What are you smoking?
What’s going on with Lance Lynn? I heard there was a 2 mph drop in velocity. Is he hurt? That could be the key right there whether the White Sox can turn things around. Better then any trade.
2mph drop in some of his pitches, while others have more or less retained their velocity. A lot of his stuff isn’t moving as much, either. As for him turning it around, he threw 6IP with 0 runs last time, but aside from one other similar start, has been just deplorable. With the two good starts in there, I tend to lean more toward a mechanical issue. It’s also possible he’s tipping his pitches. In fairness, some bad luck is involved as his FIP is a good 2+ runs better than his ERA.
Looks way out of shape. Hope he comes around .
We NEED Castillo, we will trade for Quintana….might as well get Keuchel too 🙁 they can mop up for each other…
Keuchel’s not even fit for mop up duty anymore. He fell hard off that cliff.
Castillo!!!
You need the three C’s for the postseason: Cole, Castillo, Cortes!!
@DCartrow- I’ll take Castillo, he’s great! But wanting him on the Yankees doesn’t mean it’s goin’ happen.
from the White Sox prospect bunch someone like a Kohl Simas would be an instant trade for me. That would be the ceiling and probably would want to send a small kicker to the Sox to get it done.
from the yankees T.J. Sikkema also looks like an easy sell.
pretty much any trade ‘should’ be a pitcher with a ceiling of that range.
Pirates are also not hard pressed to trade him but should if they can get a fair prospect out of a deal.
Every GM in baseball knew Quintana was a trade target the day he signed his deal to play in PGH and his relative success this year has made that assumption into a de facto fait accompli. Nobody will overpay for Quintana but every team with a need to cover innings with put in an offer and Quintana will be sold to the highest bidder.
White Sox should be selling. And while they’re at it, fire LaRussa
The Rays will trade you Kevin Cash for tony larussa. Then we can dfa TLR and get a real manager, one who allows pitchers to actually, you know, PITCH.
If that were a real offer, I’d take it in a heartbeat. TLR is so unbelievably bad as a manager.
I would not give up much for a 33 year old pitcher playing decent for a last place team.
Agree, especially if Q doesn’t currently face the opponent’s lineup a third time.
A second lefty in Sox bullpen would help! Maybe Q could be a Sox swing man with spot starts for now, but move to BP for the playoffs.
In my opinion Quintana would be worse coming out of the bullpen. He doesn’t have the stuff/youth/projection to gain any extra velocity from shorter stints and his bread and butter right now is the curveball and changeup which is a combo that can be used to navigate through a handful of innings when you have a reliable but unremarkable fastball but can blow up in your face if you need to cover an inning or two in a tight game and either one of the two pitches are off that day and you don’t have a heater to rely on.
I think the White Sox should be buyers. Check out their remaining schedule. The last couple of series vs the Twins could be the key to winning the division.
It seems if we are going to beat out Houston we have to get Castillo. I believe Houston will catch and pass us for home field as their division is weak. So to get to the WS it runs thru Houston and without Castillo we have no chance of beating them.
Small sample (just four games) but Quintana has a 5:28 ERA in Yankee Stadium. Seems like they have other issues they need to address first
and Luis Castillo nearly no-hit the Yankees just last week. Hard choice….
@DocBB- Castillo is way too expensive. Montas might be the way to go, if you can get him cheaper.
The reason you trade for Quintana is not for him to start in the post season, it’s so your bullpen and rotation isn’t burned out by then. Quintana has 10 or 11 starts left for the season and if you win half of those games from your 4/5th starter your happy.
This is just noise from the Yankees to try to drive down the price of Luis Castillo. Quintana is not an upgrade over any of their starters and certainly not come playoff time he would likely not even start.
There’s a zero percent chance, if not a negative percent chance, that Jose Quintana’s market affects Luis Castillo’s market.
I swear, if Cashman gets Quintana instead of Castillo…
@bernbabybern- if Cashman trades for Quintana he needs to be fired immediately!
Bargain shopping leaves too much variability in potential outcomes. Quintana is the type a contender signs in the off season for depth- at this point in the year, you need more than a BABIP dependent soft tosser with October in mind.
Have to hope that pitching prospects are what the Pirates brass are aiming for where returns for guys like Quintana, Gamel and others are concerned. I’m glad the focus is now on playing the kids and allowing them to cut their teeth, but it continues to be a difficult team to watch at this stage. Guess that’s fine and to be expected
Really wouldn’t provide any depth to the Yankees rotation. Quintana sucks
Says the Yankees fan who hasn’t seen Quintana pitch a single game this year I assume. I’ve gone to a handful of Pirates games this year and Quintana pitched three of them. Pirates won all three of those games by combining to score a whopping total of 6 runs across the three games. One of the games the Pirates were no hit by the Reds, predominantly Hunter Greene, but won 1-0 mostly because of Quintana.
Who thinks the Yankees are going to have a better record than the Astros? Every team in the AL East is .500 or better. The AL West without the Astros is a combined 43 games below .500! The Yankees have massively overachieved while the Astros have done about as expected. It seems like Boonedoggle is chasing windmills.
Dear Yankees, just get Benin and Castillo. You don’t need another Jose.
Yankees aren’t going to win the east
Oh, that trade. I didn’t like it then, and it did not age well; Quintana is fine if nothing is on the line, but get him in an actual pennant chase? egad.
Cashman is an excellent GM, IMO.
That is all.
Please White Sox do not trade these 4 players: 1)Vaughn 2)Jiminez 3)Kopech 4)Cease
I think you meant Robert, not Jimenez. At least I would hope so. I thought Eloy was going to be a beast, two years ago. Now he looks like he is too fragile to make it through a season without spending half of it on the DL. Plus he is a danger to himself and others in the outfield. Robert is the only legit outfielder who can play defense on the team, other than Engel who isn’t good enough to be a starter.
Sox have had league worst defense the past year and a half. If they got something of real value for Eloy, that would not be a bad change. Would have to be a much better player than Quintana, of course.
I agree and don’t think they will trade any of those boys. But Hahn should just go get Ohtani and then maybe flip Elloy for a starter and throw in leury too lmaooooo
The White Sox should trade for no one, especially the few guys that are legit prospects in their minor league system. Why? Its not going to fix the ingrained issues with this club. Namely the lack of heart and poor coaching, yeah POOR coaching.. I get there are those that love LaRussa, but they love a guy from 10 years ago, not this guy. They love what was. Not what is. ‘What is’, for this White Sox club, is the reality of poor execution, poor desire, or fundamentals. One player? OK, its the player, but then again, has it been addressed? I see players making embarrassing little league mistakes and nothing ever happens, that player is out there again the next day instead of being benched for making such egregious errors. Yeah yeah I already here the superfans crying that Im a ‘gym coach'”… whatever, if you want to win, you play hard and smart. Want to lose, play like the Sox have all season. Heck even Stone just roasted these guys on sports radio about how lackadaisical this team is on the base paths (Im guessing he ran out of time to raze them on their pathetic fielding). I’ll give the White Sox this, the fact they are .500 is amazing in, and of, itself and shows how frustrating it is to be a fan of this club this year (and last year for that matter). However, this team has problems up and down it with lack of motivation, execution, and heart. That falls on the coaching staff, sorry LaRussa fans.No one or two trades are going to fix this club, the Sox still need a RF, 2nd baseman, and a starter and bullpen help (that all can show up against good teams as well) and this is the same list from before the season started… What has changed exactly?
It’s not just Larussa. Boston and McQuing have been there for the last 3 managers and I ask Why?
ChiSox should just go get Ohtani and get on with
it already wtf
Just do what you got to do to get Ohtani then trade Elloy DL Jimenez for Montas.. I should be the GM and they have to take leury in the deal too lmaooooo