White Sox Trade Jacob Gonzalez, Brandon Eisert To Pirates
The Pirates acquired Jacob Gonzalez and Brandon Eisert from the White Sox for a draft pick and a minor league pitcher.
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Eisert is underwhelming but an arm is an arm at this point. Can't ve nhch worse. Gonzalez is intriguing but yeah I think that means Lowe is gone...or at least more likely he is.I like the trade, they need to charge something to get a better bat on the infield with Griffin out for another month. My only issue is that I think they might be looking at this kid as the replacement for when. Lowe leaves after the year. Hopefully the bullpen arm helps out as well, they still need to get one more of those tooWhite Sox Trade Jacob Gonzalez, Brandon Eisert To Pirates
The Pirates acquired Jacob Gonzalez and Brandon Eisert from the White Sox for a draft pick and a minor league pitcher.
I like the trade, they need to charge something to get a better bat on the infield with Griffin out for another month. My only issue is that I think they might be looking at this kid as the replacement for when. Lowe leaves after the year. Hopefully the bullpen arm helps out as well, they still need to get one more of those tooWhite Sox Trade Jacob Gonzalez, Brandon Eisert To Pirates
The Pirates acquired Jacob Gonzalez and Brandon Eisert from the White Sox for a draft pick and a minor league pitcher.
I don’t know these White Sox players well enough to really have an opinion. Although, I do know that organization has been praised for its ability to accumulate young talent and turn things around rather quickly to be competitive. My first thought was where is Temarr Johnson, as I thought he was drafted as a SS when the Buccos took him #4 overall in 2022. After doing a little digging, I realized he was moved full time to 2B last year and spent the whole year in Double A working on it. I also thought that you couldn’t trade draft picks in MLB?
Generally that's true but teams can trade comp balance picks for players
You can only trade the competitive balance pics, not your slotted pics in each round.
I’ve never been a huge fan of Johnson, he never had the arm to play shortstop and he had too much swing and miss in his swing even back when he got drafted. I don’t know if he’s ever going to be a big league player let alone a star
I agree that he may never be a star, but even if he could be just a solid MLB contributor in the future, that would be good to go along with Griffin, Reynolds, and Cruz. Those are the young stars of the organization right now. I sure hope the Buccos realize the need for Lowe and O’Hearn to remain on the roster. Johnson is only 21 yrs old, so he still has time to improve and develop. Here’s a scouting report I found in him and his switch to second base. There are still reasons to be encouraged.
