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The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Ep. 177: If no Harper, no Machado: What’s the White Sox Plan B?

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Chicago Sports Network

Sports, Sports:baseball, Baseball

4.7620 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

If the White Sox don't sign Bryce Harper or Manny Machado, who should they sign/acquire instead? Chuck Garfien, Ryan McGuffey and Vinnie Duber play GM and provide their plans for this winter and beyond. Is a certain super utilityman the answer? (5:00) What closers make the most sense? (8:20) Who's the best fit for the starting rotation? (13:10) What outfielders should they pursue? (18:30) If they don't sign Machado, how do they solve third base in 2019 and the future? (25:05)

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, the White Sox Talk podcast, brought you by WinTrust Community Bank.

0:04.0

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0:07.8

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0:09.3

It's www.w.w.wintrust.com slash socks.

0:14.1

Chuck Arfine here with Ryan McGuffie and Vinnie Doober.

0:17.4

And guys, in a perfect world, the White Sox will sign Bryce Harper or Manny Machado.

0:24.0

But you know what?

0:25.4

Life isn't perfect.

0:27.6

The Rolling Stones saying, you can't always get what you want.

0:31.1

Good tune.

0:31.8

But if you try sometimes, you find you get what you need.

0:35.8

So on this edition of the podcast, we are going to go down the road, the very possible road,

0:40.4

where the White Sox don't get Harper or Machado.

0:43.3

And then what?

0:44.0

Then what happens, Ryan?

0:45.9

Well, you have to allocate your resources elsewhere.

0:49.8

That's what you have to do.

0:51.4

But I have a saying, are we getting right into it right now?

0:54.3

Because if I have my plan, I don't even call it a plan B.

0:58.6

I'll call it plan 1A.

1:00.0

1A.

1:00.6

Yeah.

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