Ep. 77: Playoffs? Dan Plesac says White Sox could compete for wild card in 2018

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

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4.7 • 620 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

On Day 1 of the MLB Winter Meetings, Dan Plesac of MLB Network joins Chuck Garfien to talk about the White Sox rebuild. He raves about the team future and says he believes the White Sox could compete for a wild card berth in 2018. Plesac talks at length about White Sox prospects Eloy Jimenez, Yoan Moncada and Michael Kopech. He also uses his incredible photographic memory to recall certain at-bats he had in career against Tony Gwynn, Dave Winfield, Cal Ripken, Rafael Palmiero and Mo Vaughn. You’ll also hear Rick Hahn speak with reporters about trade talk picking up since arriving at the Winter Meetings and A.J. Pierzynski talks about being named a White Sox team ambassador and wanting to call a game this season with Hawk Harrelson.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. This is the White Sox Talk podcast coming to you from the winter meetings in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.
0:07.5	I'm Chuck Arfine. And as always, the podcast brought to you by WinTrust Community Bank, home of White Sox checking with free ATMs nationwide.
0:15.3	You can find out more by going to WinTrust.com slash socks. So as we tape this, the White Sox have not made any trades. They have not
0:22.1	signed any free agents, although Rick Hahn did reveal to us that trade talk has picked up
0:28.3	since he got here. So something could change over the next few days. We'll see. And if something
0:32.8	does happen, we will bring it to you as soon as possible, and certainly there will be a podcast about it.
0:38.9	I'm doing podcasts every day here,
0:40.6	so there'll be tons of content to send your way.
0:43.7	The big piece of news, A.J. Prasinski, back in the fold,
0:48.9	coming back as a team ambassador with the White Sox,
0:51.9	and not just A.J. Jose Contreras. So the White Sox
0:56.0	going back to their past to bring them into the organization once again. Great to see
1:00.8	AJ back. AJ came here to the winter meetings. He lives nearby. You're going to hear from AJ
1:05.8	on the podcast. And we just want to let you know something really special we're going to be bringing you
1:11.5	involving Hawk and AJ later in the week. So that's coming up. And you know, people have been
1:16.7	asking me, hey, can the White Sacks do what the twins did in 2018? Meaning can they go from a 100-loss
1:23.9	season to a wild card? I've been thinking, no, they can't do that. Well,
1:30.3	Dan Pleasak of MLB Network, who's also a diehard White Sox fan, is on the podcast and he believes
1:37.6	from people that he's spoken to and what he also knows that the White Sox can actually compete for a wild card.
1:45.0	How could they do with this?
1:46.7	Well, Dan's going to explain coming up on the podcast.
1:50.1	But first, let's hear from Rick Hahn.
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