Padres/White Sox

[bill (Bill, SD)]

White Sox deal:

SS/2B Jonathan Schoop (Twins) $1.4 6th
CF/2B/SS/LF Chris Taylor (Dodgers) $3.0 5th
SP Eduardo Rodriguez (Red Sox) $2.9 5th
RP Chaz Roe (Rays) $2.5 5th

Total $9.8

Padres deal:

SP Sean Manaea (A's) $2.5 4th
RP David Phelps (Blue Jays) $1.4 2019
RP David Hernandez (Reds) $1.0 2019
CF Kevin Pillar (Giants) $3.2 6th
SP Arnaldo Hernandez (Royals) $.3 1st---http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?player_id=642511#/career/R/pitching/2019/ALL
SP Yohanse Morel (Royals) $.3 1st---http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?player_id=678353#/career/R/pitching/2018/ALL
LHP Resly Linares (Rays) $0.3--- www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?player_id=660831#/career/R/pitching/2019/ALL
C Luis Campusano (Padres) $0.3 1st (unprotected)---http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?player_id=669134#/career/R/hitting/2019/ALL

Total:$9.3

Cap hit=

Padres +$0.8, at $100 even

White Sox -$0.5

By posting, the Padres accept. Interesting deal from my perspective.  I badly lack hitting depth and a consistent reliever and I think this deal accomplishes shoring up my team for what I feel is the waning twilight of my truly competitive window. Taylor adds great versatility, Schoop will hold down 2nd base until Murphy is healthy, Roe further solidifies my holds and Eduardo, while disastrous thus far, gives me an interesting SP.  I can't imagine he will be this bad all year, will he? Out of all of those pieces, only one doesn't have another year of control, I believe that factors in as well.

What did I give up?  Manaea is the big piece to let go, but his injury has me concerned in addition to the fact that I seemingly overvalued him. He's a solid youngish arm, but stat wise, he seems just slightly better than average.  Pillar naturally increased his rbi total 5 fold on the night I agree to deal him...but he has been terrible otherwise. Phelps and David Hernandez are basically salary dumps for me, they are average rp arms.  The prospects I give up are all mid-tier hometown top 30 prospects.  3 of them are relatively far away from possibly making a big league roster but have intriguing tools.  My win now approach persuaded me to swap them out as I'm playing to win today and these guys can't help me right now.  I didn't like dealing Campusano (again), but I think he is just blocked by Hedges and Mejia for the foreseeable future.

Thanks for the deal Micheal, Hernandez was my only drop in fantrax.

[White Sox GM (Micheal)]

White Sox agree.

And so begins the rebuild.  I was hoping to be somewhat competitive for one more year before tearing things down but it just didn't work out that way.  This deal helps me in a couple of ways.  I move some veteran players for the future.  Manaea has been reported to be throwing now and is possibly going to be back by the All Star break.  So if he comes back and is as good as he was when he went down he will be #2/3 pitcher I can move next year for $1.  Pillar has been raking here lately so maybe he can shore up some someone's bench.  Both of those guys should help bring back more players for future use.  And then I get some interesting arms that can marinate on my roster for a couple of years.  All have potential but a few years away from counting stats which is fine.  I'm in this for the long haul.  The guy I am most intrigued about is Campusano.  If everything goes great he possibly is the next J.T. Realmuto.  

Thanks for the talks Bill and good luck.

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