Chuck Garfien reports on latest White Sox rumors from the MLB Winter Meetings | The Chicago Lead

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Chuck Garfien joins Gabe Ramirez, Camron Smith and Brooke Fletcher of the Chicago Lead to breakdown everything he is hearing about the White Sox from the MLB Winter Meetings in Dallas, Texas.

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welcome back to the lead everybody Brook Gabe cam here guys let’s take it out to Texas because the winter meetings are going on and our very own Chuck garine joins us now from the winter meetings Chuck great to see you how are they going uh they’re going good and by the way I just realized I got this new mic flag chsn Chicago Sports Network it’s just it’s very nice very Chicago I’m just realizing that and yeah we’ve got a a great backdrop Jeff Cor bit our photographer put this together he set up all the lights at the hotel no he didn’t he just turned on the camera and the light and we got all this so anyway uh things are good here at the winter meetings we’re waiting for some wheeling and dealing to go on uh big names like Eric crochet Lis Robert Jr you never know but so far just a lot of talks and rumors and nothing yet all right Chuck speaking of Garett crochet I mean number of teams are after his services so what’s the latest that you’re hearing on the White Sox starting pitcher for now yeah so I heard a big number when I got here about how many teams have expressed interest in crochet not necessarily here but throughout the offseason and that number was 12 12 teams at least contacting the white socks uh there are different levels of contacting them all the talks with every team has been at the most preliminary just exchanging ideas maybe a player or two in terms of theoretical deals but very early on in the subject of trading gar crochet we did see Max freed go off the board here uh just a short time ago8 years $218 million with the New York Yankees that’s a lefty pitcher i’ had been hearing Yankees Mets definitely involved in talks with the white socks but then this signing happened will the Yankees still be interested in crochet we’ll see $218 million 27 $ million a year for freed you can get crochet for 2.9 Million roughly in 2025 it’s going to cost you prospects uh the Mets watch for them they’ve got a lot of position players who the white socks might like Red Sox and Orioles on paper seem like a great fit but at last check what I had heard was kind of crickets with those two teams trying to pursue G crochet things can change very quickly so we’ll see but that is kind of the latest with crochet for now yeah got to be exciting at the possibility of getting a lot of prospects and return there for a guy like gar crochet Chuck I heard a lot of teams are interested in Lis Robert Jr as well what can you tell us about the Rumblings surrounding him at the winter meetings all right I’m glad you brought that up because Brooke was there last week when I gave you the breaking news you did that there’s no way that he’s going to be traded there is no way Luis Robert shter is going to be traded because his value is at its lowest who’s going to want him and then literally I get here I’m here for like an hour and I’m talking to someone who’s know knows some things and he’s like H there might be some interest in G in uh in Luis Robert Jr so uh and then I did a little more reporting and there’s about six teams that might be interested in Luis Robert Jr but okay there is interest and then there’s just this kind of like well what could the white socks get for Robert Jr considering the year that he had now he a a premium top of the market center fielder defensively but he’s coming off a terrible year offensively so what’s going to happen what do you do if your Chris getet do you try to trade him now with his Market where it is right now and maybe because there aren’t a lot of center fielders out there available his Market goes up a little bit or do you take the risk of well if it is a risk take him into the season he could have a better first half and then you’re going to get more for him or does he have another bad year does he struggle with his health so I’m very glad that I work for chsn as a sports cter and I’m not a general manager because I don’t know what I would do with Luis Robert Jr right now I would hope and pray that some team comes in says we want them what do you want for Luis Robert Jor but I have a feeling that’s not going to happen well J if he does play to his full potential in his 2023 uh level you know they would have a pretty solid Outfield him at Center you got Austin Slater and then you got Mike talkman who just they just signed here today what can the white socks expect from him OBP plate discipline walks this White Soxs team needs that in uh the biggest biggest way and I’ve got the number right here I think it was 47 walks yeah in 350 plate appearances last season with the cup talkman had 47 walks that would have led the white socks team with basically half or two-thirds of theats compared to the guys who played on a regular basis so um he is a guy who can play all three Outfield positions he mainly played right field with the Cubs so he could be a platoon with Austin Slater in right field that is a possibility Dominic Fletcher was given the opportunity to be the right fielder last season but uh he did struggle offensively and Chris spoke about how he needs to improve uh but talkman a local guy from Palatine played college ball and Bradley and let’s be honest where are the white sock right now they need some veteran leadership they need some guys who can you can rely on give plate disciplin to this offense and he would be potentially a candidate who they would flip at the deadline I’m jumping way ahead here but that’s kind of the formul low that we’re working here with with the white socks they they need to get some starting pitching some innings some veteran help and maybe guys that could be flipped at the deadline for more prospects and to go off of what you were saying just his discipline at the plate he also has experience leading off and Chuck we talked about this they’re looking for a solid guy in that starting lineup and so he has experience hit 297 and 116 plate appearances with the Cubs last season so you know he he knows what to do at the plate and uh you know he Sol it was during a crucial stretch for the cubs too and they had some guys down that talk and step stepped up for them for sure definitely at a critical time so you’re looking for that production to transfer over one on the White Sox but let’s go to the bench andec speaking of new bench coach Walter mcken uh what are your impressions of Coach mckin when it comes to what he has right now because what I’m hearing is that he gives it to you Chuck Straight No Chaser so what are your impressions of Walker mckinon so he was described to me by someone in the White Sox front office he’s like Jason Bourne he is uh like a mental assassin right and he is uh goes under the hood and finds all sorts of ways a lot of baseball games are one in the margins you know and the white socks really need a lot of help with uh defensive positioning he was really good with that in Milwaukee as uh their run prevention coordinator like that was literally his title but it also involved working with the catchers and the pitchers and I think that kind of stuff is really going to help this white socks team and he started with the Brewers he actually grew up a Cubs fan he went to nutrier high school and uh he but he would I like that he just basically came out and said yeah I grew up a Cubs fan but everybody who’s watching this Rick Han was a Cubs fan I mean it just kind of happens he grew up with that team but then became a Brewers coach and now he’s a White Soxs coach and so uh he’s going to provide a lot of uh uh internal knowledge that’s going to help the White Soxs uh win games uh in the margins and he’s going to help out will Venable for sure he said he took this job because of will Venable and he also said he took this job because he likes doing hard things people who are signing up with the white socks and we’re seeing guys signing up not so many players but certainly from a coaching staff front office thing guys get when they sit down with Chris gets they get what the White Sox are doing they get the challenge that’s ahead and he says look I’m in for a big Challenge and he was really excited about this opportunity so uh Walker mckinven young guy I think he’s like 34 35 a lot of these coaches on this White Sox team are really young youngest I’ve ever seen and so uh Walker mckinven coming from the Brewers a team that you know is always knocking on the door for the playoffs and he wants to be a part of this rebuild and make a big difference starting from scratch with this team yeah it seems like they’re all aligned the guys that he’s bringing in Chuck bring up brings up a really good point there um and you know Chuck another great moment at the winter meetings white sock great Dick Allen he was was elected to the Hall of Fame you were there with his family just what was that moment like experiencing that with them during the announcement yeah I mean this was like decades in the making right so you know Dick Allen won an MVP with the white socks in 1972 before that he spent many years with the Phillies but his career really took off with the white socks he arguably I mean we hear this from people in you know on who were a part of the franchise back then he arguably saved the white socks franchise there was all this Scuttle butt about maybe them leaving town around that time and he put that team on his back in 1972 and back then for like the 70s and the ‘ 80s and ’90s you know you needed to have like 500 home runs to make it to the hall of fame well things have changed and so to be in that room you know Dick Allen unfortunately passed away in 2020 and there was his son and his grandson and people who have been really close with the family and they had been in this vote two times before it’s the classic Era baseball committee vote and it’s a bunch of uh Hall of Famers and people have been in the game for a long time who vote you need 12 of 16 votes to get in and he came up one vote shy the previous two times well this year he had won extra vote so he’s going to be going to the Hall of Fame in Cooper town and uh for all the Die Hard White Sox fans you know that when he came to the plate there was Nancy faou longtime organist for for the white socks she started she basically no she shouldn’t I wouldn’t say basically she in fact invented the walk up song with Dick Allen in 1972 playing the song Jesus Christ Superstar for all you youngsters out there take Listen to It’s a great song and she’s going to be in Cooperstown playing that song on the organ when they induct Dick Allen so uh it’s a great it’s a great thing for the white sock another name that should be there in Cooper town there you go great stuff as always it’s a pleasure talking to you keep killing it out there at the winter meetings


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