Mateo has played one year in the majors. He has played shortstop one year in the majors. When he was with the Padres he never played short and his experience was a short sample size. I honestly think he will get better. I understand the options in the minors but I'm not sure we should just forget about Mateo.
1.White Sox need corner outfielders. Trade Hays, Cowser and Jackson Holiday for Cease and Eloy Jimenez
2. Sign Verlander or De Grom
3. Trade for a marlins starting pitcher
This is a huge winter for Mateo. he should have confidence enough to put in the work to get better for next year. The Orioles gave him a chance. He took it. Now put in the work Mr. Mateo.
This is a good thread and i enjoyed reading every ones comments. For me, I didn't mind the trades if we got back talent that can help us in our journey to compete for the next 5-8 years. I believe Trey is hitting below .200 since the trade and Lopez hasn't been lights out like he was for us before the deadline.
Losing 6-8 to Boston has hurt as well as the final 2 they lost to Houston. Losing 5 games to Detroit 2 games to the Reds and the Sunday loss to the Pirates stand out to me as games that stand out to me. Toronto is better then us offensively and their pitching staff. We simply do not have a Gausman or a Manoah at the top of our rotation right now that can be a stopper. We need 2 starters for next and 2 bats.
Hill isn't even a lefty flame thrower. He's a soft tossing lefty. I'd play my best lineup period at this point in the year. You know how many games in the last week we have lost and Seattle lost as well?
Between Odor, Urias and Mateo, Mateo should never be the one sitting out of those three. Urias and Odor should be splitting time at 2B. Gunnar at 3B. Seriously, so frustrating.
I was much higher on Urias in July and early August but honestly, what has he really done since then? I'd much rather have Mateo and move on from Urias with Westburg as his replacement.
I couldn't agree more. I am happy with what our rotation has given us this year but please if your spending money go all out and bring in an ace if possible? The Jays having Gausman and Manoah in this series is nice. BY the way, we got nothing in the Gausman deal did we? Why in the world did they just deal him like they did? That was not smart. We traded Gausman and Manny and literally got nothing in return but Kremer.
Henderson should have been up here at worse two weeks ago. I don't discredit the impact Odor has had with this team and the club house chemistry but with this teams offensive woes the last few weeks you would have thought having Gunnar up earlier to have a chance to have more of an impact get some games under his belt get comfortable would have made more sense. I also think they are afraid to DFA Nevin because he literally is the back up first baseman.