White Sox: 3 players to cut now that the season is half over
The Chicago White Sox are a bad baseball team. The season is now officially half over and we can say that will full confidence.
They are through 81 games with a record of 34-47 which is good for fourth place in a bad AL Central Division. That is 6 games out of first place.
Winning this horrific division is their only path to the playoffs because they have no chance at the American League Wild Card.
Now that the season is half over and we know they have no chance, it is time to start thinking about the future.
There are some players that just don't deserve to be there anymore. These three players should be cut right now:
1. Aaron Bummer
The Chicago White Sox should cut ties with Aaron Bummer right now.
Aaron Bummer has been pretty bad for the Chicago White Sox for a long time. Pedro Grifol likes to use his left handed arm whenever the matchup sees fit but playing the matchup game doesn't work when the pitcher is straight up bad.
They'd be better off throwing a better right hander in literally all of these situations. We have literally seen Aaron Bummer lose baseball games for his team this season.
It happened as recently as this series as Mike Trout moved to third and then scored on two passed balls in a tied bottom of the 9th.
The White Sox have already cut Jake Diekman and Jose Ruiz this season. Both of them were replaced by better options so they should try the same with Bummer. No replacement could be much worse than he has been for a while now.
2. Elvis Andrus
There is no reason for the White Sox to be using Elvis Andrus anymore.
During the off-season, it seemed like a good idea for the Chicago White Sox to bring back Elvis Andrus. They didn't have a solid option at second base ready to go.
Now, however, Andrus has been worse than any of the options they have. Zach Remillard, Romy Gonzalez, and Lenyn Sosa amongst a few others would all be better options at this point in time.
Andrus is a shortstop by trade but Tim Anderson is there. Although Anderson is not having a good year either, we know what the upside of his game is at this point in time. Andrus is an aging player that isn't going to save this team.
If the White Sox were a serious team, they'd start to move on from guys like this that don't help them win. At this point, however, don't count on it.
3. Clint Frazier
Clint Frazier has no business being on the 2023 Chicago White Sox.
Backup catcher Seby Zavala probably deserves an honorable mention but at least he plays a position that the White Sox aren't stacked at.
Yasmani Grandal has been okay with his bat but his glove is terrible behind the plate. For that reason, Zavala is necessary right now.
That leaves Clint Frazier as the third player on this list. He is a former high prospect in the New York Yankees system but has bounced around a little bit. Now, he is on the White Sox and he doesn't do much to help them win.
He is a negative WAR player, his batting average is below .200, and his OPS is in the 5's. No matter what metric you like to evaluate a player, he is bad at all of them.
Playing plenty of other people in the organization would be smarter than using Frazier as much as they do.
All of these guys would make the team better by no longer being there.
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