Relax. JORR says defense doesn't matter.

I know JORR is a fountain of stupid baseball thoughts,

Hahn has one hell of a job in front of him this off season. Besides getting at least two starting pitchers and four bullpen arms he HAS to improve the defense. It's fucking ridiculous how awful this team is at catching the baseball. They give away outs and extra bases more than any team I've ever seen. They currently have defensive liabilities at catcher, second base, third base, and left field. They can not go into another season of putting unneeded pressure on the pitching staff because they can't pick up the god damn ball and throw it to first base. Upgrading the defense has to be a priority.

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Flowers is going to be the primary catcher next year. That position is terrible across almost all of baseball, so ride with TFlow and Neito, but improve other areas of the ballclub. The bullpen has to be priority #1.

JORR has some uncommon beliefs but he knows as much about baseball as anyone on this board other than 312player

Hahn has one hell of a job in front of him this off season. Besides getting at least two starting pitchers and four bullpen arms he HAS to improve the defense. It's fucking ridiculous how awful this team is at catching the baseball. They give away outs and extra bases more than any team I've ever seen. They currently have defensive liabilities at catcher, second base, third base, and left field. They can not go into another season of putting unneeded pressure on the pitching staff because they can't pick up the god damn ball and throw it to first base. Upgrading the defense has to be a priority.

The fielding positions that are set for next year: 1B, SS, CF and RF

Why do you assume SS is set?

Alexei always seems to be rumored to be on the move.

Who is going to be the DH? LF?

Rodon is going to be one of the two starting pitchers added, and Danks can't be any better than the #5 in rotation going forward. They do need to add a solid, innings eater in the #3 rotation slot with Sale and Quintana heading the rotation.

Is Tyler Flowers considered a defensive liability? I had thought that was his a strength.

They do seem likely to spend money in free agency this off-season, although I'd rather see them stick with their plan of finding as much younger/MLB ready talent as possible.

JORR has some uncommon beliefs but he knows as much about baseball as anyone on this board other than 312player

I forget who it was that we debated this with... but was it JORR who argued that Shawon Dunston was one of the greatest SS's ever because he played 1800 games?

Jason Heyward, and he can be had.

Need a lefty power bat? That's Jason Heyward.
Need a plus-plus defender in the OF to give Sale and Q (who are a little fly ball heavy) a little bit of breathing room? That's Jason Heyward.

It shores up two massive weaknesses on the White Sox right now. He wont be cheap, but he also wont be too expensive either.

Gillaspie, Viciedo, T Anderson and Montas/Danish more than does it. You could probably remove Anderson or Viciedo and the Braves will say yes.

1. Adam Eaton CF L
2. Marcus Semien 3B R
3. Jose Abreu 1B R
4. Jason Heyward RF L
5. Avi Garcia LF R
6. <DH>
7. Alexei Ramirez SS R
8. Carlos Sanchez 2B S
9. Tyler Flowers C R

Not great, but not bad either. Eaton, Heyward, Ramirez and Sanchez are all either good (Sanchez, Eaton), very good (Alexei) or elite (Heyward) defenders. Of the remnants of that lineup Flowers, Abreu and Semien are all solid in the field. Avi needs a lot of work, but he's got the tools to be good in LF. I doubt he ever makes good on those tools, but even then he can be below-average in LF and the Sox still have a fantastic defense behind Sale/Q/Rodon.

The Sox will do something about DH. I'd like for that something to be a cheap. Just go find a Trevor Plouffe or something and its a-OK.

Then focus on pitching. Just get me some goddamn pitching.