Can you create a comparable team to the White Sox off the street?

We’re a couple-two-tree weeks into the season and the White Sox are stinking it up. There have been some signs of life and we’re excited to see Chase Meidroth up, but this is a bad team. So bad that I am tempted to perform this exercise to see how much is readily available off the street.

Starting Position Players

C Yan Gomes
1B Anthony Rizzo
2B Whit Merrifield
SS Nick Ahmed
3B Miguel Sano
RF Robbie Grossman
CF Aaron Hicks
LF David Peralta
DH J.D. Martinez

Bench

C Chance Sisco
IF Danny Mendick
OF Adam Duvall
OF Avisail Garcia

Starting Pitchers

Anthony DeSclafani
Jordan Lyles
Sixto Sanchez
Alex Wood
Touki Toussaint

Relievers

David Robertson
Spencer Turnbull
Will Smith
Daniel Bard
Joe Kelly
Adam Cimber
Brent Honeywell Jr.
Drew Smyly

This was not as much fun as I’d hoped and this would be a horribly bad team. But I would give a look at some of the bullpen guys. Turnbull in particular worked well as a reliever when healthy. There are a few flavors of these guys: aging out of the game, oft injured, busts, or fringe players. I will say there are some guys I am surprised are available here like Whit Merrifield since he still runs well and has some position flexibility.

But could this team beat the White Sox? They’d have to have an unreal run of health and performance to beat them on a regular basis. I have to be honest, some of the pitchers on this list may not have working arms. I’ll give the edge to the current White Sox roster, but damn it shouldn’t be as close as it is!

-Chorizy-E