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This kind of money for Lane Thomas doesn’t bode well for anyone thinking Getz is going to sign another outfielder…

For the Dodgers it's just a write off like Conforto last year by the end of the season. Cost of doing business. For the White Sox, it's life and death to wring the last possible drop of value out of Benintendi and Robert. Which is absolutely crazy having watched Rodon Abreu Anderson Jimenez Moncada Lynn Keuchel Kelly Graveman and Hendriks all leave with almost nothing to show in return or still owing money. The ill-advised Kimbrel QO, in fact, led directly to Pollock and then to Benintendi's ghastly crippling contract. Same with Burger and Vaughn in the end. Well there was Giolito/Quero and Crochet out of that entire 2021 cycle of players. (And no comment on the Cease deal is necessary.)

Of course. Plus, if they couldn’t get anything they wanted for him then, why would they get anything they wanted for him now with yet another injury? The only way they come out ahead is if he stays healthy and plays his ass off until the next trade deadline. He has the ability to do that, but it’s crazy to bet $20 million on it when $20 million to the White Sox seems a lot more than it does for most teams.

You could probably come up with only 2-3 examples over 40+ years where JR willingly ate more money to get top flight talent back. Just dumping contracts for negligible paper returns in prospects, sure. That has happened. Erik Johnson and roughly 35-40% of Shields' salary subsidized should have been enough to consummate an escape for a player whose ownership had decided he must be traded...but JR nevertheless wanted to get even more money back and therefore lost HUNDREDS of million in value as a result of that deal. Talk about wasting leverage for a team already facing from contention.

I had a glimmer of hope that once Getz convinced Jerry to approve picking up Robert’s option at the trade deadline, that JR may also be willing to eat some of the salary since Robert is one of their last remaining trade chips. It looks like I gave Jerry too much credit.

No that's just the front page and opinion columns. They're really relatively fair and balanced about sports. How could they sell papers if they constantly defended the likes of Cohen and Hank Steinbrenner? They would be eaten alive. And there's already the Wall Street Journal and Forbes that trend in that big picture/pro ownership and corporations way already.

If anyone thought the White Sox would pay money to trade Robert when they just. Outdid have let him go for nothing, haven’t paid attention. That JR won’t kick in money is not news.

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Jerry is a noted cheapskate of an owner and it has nothing to do with the political slant of a newspaper/website. Not one Sox fan should be surprised by news like this. The same time Jerry is slashing the payroll to extreme lows is probably not the time to question this news. And Jerry is the one who thinks he is beyond reproach.

Remember the good ol days when the Sox, and all teams really, made a batch of offseason trades? One or two significant every year? Sox aren't even trying (captain obvious) any more to add any intrigue or interest or improvement. I'm surprised our front office and owner have pretty much thrown in the towel on improvement. Remember when the Sox traded Forster and Gossage to the Pirates for Zisk? Those were the days. Not sure why anybody would buy season tickets to this wretched team. Monty may be great and Robert dandy but that's still about it.

Haha, typical Jerry. What a freaking loser of an owner. The whole point in picking up Robert’s option was to get something out of him, even if you had to eat some of his salary. If you are trading him at full salary, your return will obviously be much crappier. Like @Bob Sacamano just said, what was the point of even picking up his option? I guess we should scour the Mets roster for whomever their player equivalent to Curtis Meadiocre is.

Okay, let’s get back on topic. It’s pointless to argue over a scrub organizational catcher with a 0.0 career bWAR as a means to bolster a team’s developmental prowess. How many other MLB teams’ best starting pitcher performance (2.3 bWAR for Smith) come from a Rule 5 pick in the same year the player was chosen, rather than a starter they already had on their roster? That’s a crazy statistic.

They want to legitimately compete...stop pretending Mead Vargas Sosa and Quero are 1B men!!!

Take Roch and let him become an all star SS. If Carlson becomes a legit top 50 guy, trade him in two years. Give me Roch at SS and Colson at 3B

You have to figure a prospect who's value is derived almost exclusively based on his command is going to have a very fragile grip on their prospect ranking. You're almost always looking for an excuse to downgrade because they don't have the luxury of having a bad season (or missing it due to injury) and their rankings are based entirely on the performance.

I also said Colson at 1st base but that's a everything goes right scenario. 1. Billy Carlson SS He is the great fielder he's reported to be and his bat comes around. 2. Roch Cholowski 3B 3. 2nd base up for grabs between Meidroth, Bonemer and Antonacci 4. Colson Montgomery 1st base. Just what you want there a LHH with power. Tall ,so able to snag more high or wide throws. Doesn't throw LH but fits the bill on everything else. 5 DH :Survivor who becomes the best hitter between Vargas, Sosa, and whoever is not playing 2nd base. Utility guy : Whoever isn't playing 2nd base or DH and isnt traded . Others prospects may also step up.

Cornering the market...niche advantage.

You might as well have declined the option then.

For chicagoans who want to see him live, UCLA is at Iowa in March, at Michigan St. In May, and the Big 10 tournament end of May in Omaha.

They want to finish ahead of the Sox in 2026 so taking all the LHHs.

Why is Seal Team Six waking me up on my billionaire's orbit of Earth flight to notify me of this?

Who could have seen that coming

the NYPost regularly trots out pro-[certain president] BS, so why are we assuming their sports coverage is beyond reproach? Imma gonna wait until they report on actual names and amounts before I pretend to get mad. The end.

Or you know, our shitty owner could just be shitty like he always has been.