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Just a couple things from what I've heard about their preferences. Some scouts from the Detroit Tigers are expecting the Sox to take Abrams One of the longest tenured beat guys in town told me last week that the Sox won't pass on Witt Jr. if available With that being said, I won't be surprised if it's Vaughn but Abrams makes the most sense at this point.

I wanna see McCann catch Reynaldo.

Must he incorrect reporting. I'm guessing it was Lucas high school English teacher who came up with the idea and deserves full credit.

Things I'd like to see include Rondon sent down (DFA) for Mendick and Alonso going to the mystery IL with Jon Jay Syndrome

One of the hidden things I’m glad we clarified this season: Rondon is not a major leaguer

It is really annoying to see players, who just seem incapable of making adjustments and playing situational baseball. When Rondon had two strikes on him, I was screaming; "choke up and just try to elevate a pitch. to hit a sacrifice fly". With Anderson at third, it wouldn't have had to be hit very deep to score him. But no, there he was, with his hands all the way down on the knob of the bat. So stupid. I've seen enough of Rondon and his swinging for the fences, and I'm ready to see what Mendick can do. He seems like a pretty smart ball player.

YOLMER'S GATORADE BATH YESTERDAY WAS PROPHETIC

Time to see what we have in Mendick

Take it from one drunk to another: Chuck looks like a massive fucking drinker. He looks awful.

Sosa HR 👍

Rondon is horseshit

I can't wait for your post saying "release this stiff!".

KW for much of the 00s was drafting based on what he could afford. Telling me drafting Lance Broadway and Kyle Mcculloch was BPA on their board is such an own goal.

Machado signed a ten year contract; Harper, a thirteen year one. We could have signed either/both, and they would have been around for the entire length of whatever the next window of competitiveness is. Meanwhile, the operative word in your second paragraph is, of course, "if". "If" they spend $300Mish. "If" they spend big on the types of players you mentioned, then yes, we can forget the travesty that was this past offseason. But you have to admit, with this organization, that's a big "if" at this point. With history as our guide, the fear is the "spend" will be on a tier of players below the guys you mentioned.

I don't necessarily believe they will, but there is a world of difference between spending 300 million on one guy and 300 million spread out on 3 guys.

Because they're actually a year closer to competing. No one thought this team was going to complete in 2019 - with or without Machado or Harper. Not sure the same thing can be said in 2020 when everyone has another year of experience under their belt, and Kopech, Cease and Robert joining the mix. If the Sox go out and spend $300Mish this offseason on guys like Cole, Ozuna, Grandal, and maybe a supporting piece or two, this fan will forgive them for passing on Machado.

'He doesn't possess much swing and miss in his game and projects as a "plus hitter". ' People really need to stop lumping this kid as a 'toolsy athlete'.

I find it difficult embracing this rebuild/tank. Year after year of losing teams while JR and his investors are laughing all the way to the bank. This White Sox franchise is more profitable today than at anytime in its history. The two previous White Sox owners (John Allyn and Bill Veeck) didn't have the money to compete and both were forced to sell the team. At least both of them wanted winning teams. I don't see that here with JR.

The last 3 teams to win the world series have been loaded with stars. I believe each of them had an MVP winner that season and there's a couple Cy Young contenders in their each time.

Avi had 5 years, Seby has had 5 ABs.

Renteria is awful, but Ventura is in a class all his own. Ventura wasn't just tactically incompetent as a game-manager, he was probably the single most uninspired and un-charismatic manager in modern baseball. Renteria is just tactically incompetent, but I can at least see him being a quality clubhouse voice. He's similar to what Fox was for the Bears. Awful for competing, but good for laying the groundwork of a consistent winner and eliminating the toxicity of the previous regime. Now is the time for the Sox to start looking for their Matt Nagy.

Yolmer Giolito McCann Colome And the rest

Do you have something to say that you haven’t already said 7,373,662,738,737 times? You’re a broken record and about as useful as one.

Yeah I wanna be mad at Ricky and co but it really feels like Lucas just spaced out in a meeting or something

Sox have quietly played .500 baseball for about a month now. I'm not sweating the RD on a team with SP this bad. That said, the money clearly has to be spent on pitching. Ideally in 2022 guys like Lopez and Dunning are your 6th and 7th starters (for example, just build that depth again). Position player wise holy shit if McCann is actually a 3 WAR catcher that's massive.

But, on the other hand, James McCann

That's not a bad thing...

But my god was his at bat in the NL WC game last year awesome

Yeah, like say.. 10th

Stop being cocky Lucas...respect the game

What would it take for Baltimore to take Vaughn? If Vaughn thought he would slip to 5 or 6, would he be more likely to strike a major under slot deal? And if that’s the case, would it benefit the Sox to show a lot of interest in Abrams, even if they preferred Vaughn, in the hopes that it would increase the chances of Vaughn going #1 and Rutschman dropping to them? Does this make any sense? If not, I’ll show myself out and shut up.

Giolito looking good after a rough first inning it's great to see

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from having to suffer through many “one thing with Ricky” segments, it’s hat this man has absolutely zero personality

Good pitchers are allowed to have bad games

Yattah Boyz #24!

posting this as if it wasn’t a suspended game getting picked up halfway through... Sullivan is SUCH an asshat

Have you like completely missed all the stuff coming out in the last few weeks about the 2016 season? That part of a managers job is way more important than any on field decisions and Robin was absolutely abysmal at managing personalities. Say what you want about Ricky, but that clubhouse seems to function the way it should.

For a guy who is putting up a .700 OPS in A-ball, yeah a .680 OPS in the big leagues in a couple years is plausible, but even with the better baserunning you've now set the ceiling of this player as a 2.5-ish fWAR guy, and if he gets hurt or sloppy some year and isn't the best defender in the league or best baserunner in the league, then you suddenly are very disappointed. When we had 2017 Yolmer, he was a nice little player, but we weren't exactly penciling him in as a major piece long-term. That's a utility guy or a guy stuck at the back of your order that you replace if you have the chance, just like Yolmer. And to extend the comparison - if anything goes wrong, like this year - well then you're screaming to get that guy out of the lineup ASAP. This is not selling me on the player very well, this is telling me that we need to look elsewhere for 2b help and if this guy does come around there's no harm in making him a utility guy since even if everything went great he's not that good of a player.

The crowd goes mild

Burdi?

Sweet, I'd expect either 6/1 then or at the latest when the mass draft assignments start.

It's not the player, it's the rationale described in the BR post and even yours. I don't want them filling positions with the draft, if they think Bleday's power and hitting ability sets him apart from even Vaughn then that's who you take. I can't see their scouting reports, but saying we needed a new LF because Eloy isn't looking good defensively that's poor process* *reads 10 pages of astro ball and is now sam hinkie

I don't think that many people realize that the clock is already ticking and has been for about a year.

I think you're in the minority in leaving Eloy Jimenez off a list of "potential stars" of the White Sox (regardless of his tools) but whatever -- my point is that I agree with your sentiment that the Sox org has more star potential than many on this board admit.

Tank for Beer!!!

Excellent D, baserunning, contact skills and plate discipline. The ONLY thing he isn’t doing right now is hitting for power. And that isn’t much of a surprise

LOL I'm glad I didn't have a drink in my mouth because I'd have just spat it out. See this is why I put that offer out. A guy with an OPS hanging around .700 in high-A ball is not nearly ready and I really want to stop hearing about him as coming up any time soon. Let him take his lumps, he needs to change an awful lot of things in his game before he's ready. I don't want to come down harshly on how truly bad he's been because he has a long time to continue working and he's supposed to be a smart player, but suggesting rushing him like that leaves me no choice but to highlight how disappointing he's been.

So, I'm not sure someone can seriously ask the question OP asked and legitimately be a White Sox fan. Robin was worse, which is heartbreaking because he was one of my favorite players when I was a kid. I'm sure some of our more senior guys can list a bunch more, too.

The twins are a taped together stop gappy squad. Like 40% of the team won’t be there next season and well over 50% will be gone by 2021. Lets not act like the twins have built this super sustainable power house. They’ve caught lightning in a bottle the first 50 games and they’re sure to cool off. He’ll win this division though.

Goodness this board needs a reboot