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Living in reality doesn’t mean wallowing in self pity. As it stands right now I don’t really see this team being appreciably better than it was last season. I’m not wallowing in that, it’s just what I see.

Either way, I am not paying money to the White Sox organization to do the job of people who should be doing this things themselves. That's gaslighting.

It's silly to blame any club for any action when it's all CBA anyways. If the cabal doesn't like how the other cabal members are operating change the rules, you know the rules you all agreed to last time.

I don't know. Bing's AI bot tells me this:

Pal, I'm waiting for your receipts. I never said anything of the sorts. I said it was a league average system with a last place team.

Still at it

Is the open Q&A even a thing anymore? I thought I remembered reading it was not done anymore.

I wouldn’t count on any for longer than that. I’ve pretty much given up all hope…

Ask it at SoxFest.

I am definitely curious to see if last year was an anomaly, or if the firing of Katz might have been related to this. Of course we will never know the latter, as our local media is too scared to ask such a question.

Wonder which 6 of our pitchers will magically all need TJS the very first day of spring training.

I wouldn't count on Bush until the ASB.

January 27, 1953 - It was one of those deals that was too good to be true and unfortunately that turned out to be the case, as the Sox acquired two-time A.L. batting champ Ferris “Burrhead” Fain from the Philadelphia A’s as part of a five-player deal. Fain never approached those numbers in Chicago, was a distraction off the field, got hurt himself, and was rumored to have gotten into a fight with second baseman Nellie Fox that resulted in injuries. Lockers were supposedly pushed on Fox during the altercation and he was pinned under them. The fight was thought to have taken place after a game in Washington D.C. against the Senators. In 1953 Fain walked 108 times and in 1954 he hit .308 but despite those numbers and two All-Star appearances he was sent to Detroit after the 1954 campaign. January 27, 2005 - So who needs scouts? (Just joking...) Sox G.M. Ken Williams signed Japanese second baseman Tadahito Iguchi after watching video tape on him. Iguchi turned into a very solid second baseman and second hitter in the lineup… delivering defense, home runs and RBI’s to a team that would go on to take the World Series. Iguchi's three run home run in game #2 of the 2005 A.L.D.S. turned that game around and gave the Sox a commanding two game lead in the best of five series and then the following year in 2006, his single in the 19th inning on July 9 beat the Red Sox 6-5. That game was tied for the fifth longest in franchise history. His best offensive game came a few weeks earlier in a 10-9 extra inning loss to the Astros. Iguchi drove in seven runs, five scoring on home runs in both the eighth and ninth innings at U.S. Cellular Field. On April 15 of that same year he turned in one of the most incredible defensive plays in Major League history throwing out the Blue Jays Bengie Molina in the ninth inning of a 4-2 White Sox win. Iguchi threw the ball to first base sailing horizontally off the ground and from a most unusual throwing angle.

Teams regularly give medical updates in spring training or right before it. (Now spring training may not be in your definition of "off season" but it is in mine)

I've said it before and I'll say it again you need another drink or six.

He had a 65 wRC+ last year in 193 plate apperances. I suppose he could improve with more reps, but that’s a pretty big jump.

Part of the equation that is missing is the minor leagues and development costs. Teams you mentioned like the Brewers and Guardians history develop great toung talent. The cost of this will not be considered in this equation. They've learned that if you cant spend with the big dogs you need to develop your own at a better rate.

Agreed. I'm sure we'll never know the real numbers.

Yeah, while I don't doubt the Sox are near the bottom of such a ratio list, the overall list doesn't pass the smell test. Aside from a few outliers like the Cubs and Royals, it's almost all big market teams near the top and small market teams near the bottom. Are owners like Reinsdorf and Nutting (Pirates) a big part of the problem? Absolutely YES. But now we're arguing that even good, competitive small market teams like the Guardians and Brewers are the problem because they're not outspending teams like the Dodgers, Mets, and Yankees. Logic tells me that it's extremely unlikely that all the owners willing to spend to win just happen to be in major markets and almost every single small market owner, even those of winning franchises, are all cheap bastards and the sole cause of MLB's competitive balance. I just don't buy it and whataboutisms about the Pirates and White Sox doesn't change that.

As much as they tell you they make no money, they wouldn't keep being sold for billions if they were losers. The fact is, when a team is owned by a publicly traded company, like the Packers and now Braves, and they have to be truthful, they make a rather large profit.

So there is like a 100 million dollar difference between what JR claims on revenue and this chart. JR is claiming operating losses. Truth is probably somewhere in the middle.

These numbers just seem mostly made-up or pulled from thin air.

Another lefty reliever. By my count on the 40-man/NRI, we have: Sean Newcomb (I do believe he gets the chance to start. He's talked about it and probably why he chose here) Tyler Gilbert Brandon Eisert, 2 options remaining Bryan Hudson, 0 (feels like a soon to be DFA when they need to make room for Dominguez) Chris Murphy, 1 Ky Bush, 2 (who knows, may be ticketed to pen here when healthy) Ryan Borucki, 0