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Either of these guys could be interesting for the Sox.

I think this excerpt from Merkin’s article tells a lot. I don’t think he’s your average NRI.

LaMond Pope got the memo, too. In today's Trib: Chicago White Sox: Offseason additions — and areas to address Kelenic leads off an "off season additions" piece. Nothing interesting, just recapping the off-season for people who don't follow the off-season. Build new friendships, to replace the old friendships...hmmm I wonder why he needs new friends?

Definitely seems that way. You would think that article was written by Merkin if you didn’t look at the link first. And then I saw on the Sox website that he already wrote a puff piece as well. 🤣 https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/news/jarred-kelenic-deal-with-white-sox It feels like he’s already been promised a roster spot.

January 17, 2002 - After one injury plagued, controversial season with the Sox, pitcher David Wells signed a contract with the Yankees. Wells won only five games in 2001 for the team with 16 starts. Naturally he then turned around and won 61 games over the next four years with New York, San Diego and Boston. The White Sox did get some revenge against him in the 2005 A.L.D.S. as they beat him in game #2 of that series 5-4 when he was pitching for the Red Sox. The big blow was a three-run home run by Tadahito Iguchi.

Personally I'm more concerned with how much the Bears will pay for defensive help this off season. 😆

I first became aware of Jayson Stark when he was on the staff of the annual Bill Mazeroski Baseball Prevue magazine, in the 80's. That publication kept me in stitches, and pulled me through every team preview with witty writing. But like every artist who suddenly becomes "aware" of themselves and tries to turn in an album or movie that taps into all of their own quirks, Stark really started leaning on the quirky. Most home runs for a guy with a Z in his name. Entire columns of that sort of filler felt clownish. Maybe I just grew up. Stark's still a good writer, but I really don't seek him out anymore. That said, he just wrote an article in The Athletic explaining his ballot. He voted for 9, and left Buehrle off his ballot. He explains: My 2026 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot — change is coming to Cooperstown - The Athletic I guess it's reassuring that he does give great thought to his ballot and can explain every vote and omission. But for his refusal to pick Buehrle...clown.

Holy s%*# he is going to be an all star. Swing improvements let’s go!!!!

Like three days ago

Yesterday's Rosenthal column at the Athletic floats that the Rays are still looking for catching. What I’m hearing about the Orioles’ interest in Justin Verlander, and more MLB notes - The Athletic Didn't that three team trade for Lux happen about a month ago?

The amount of fluff pieces on Kelenic in the local media tells me he might be a bigger part of the Sox' plans than we anticipate. White Sox' Jarred Kelenic ready to show swing improvements at spring training - Chicago Sun-Times Give him an honest shot to make the team. Please don't hold him up as some exemplar of experience in growth.

Lockout happening for sure now. 😏

SWINGCHANGE, EVERYONE DRINK!

Same here. I was literally imagining Schriff-dawg say it during a 2026 Sox game as I was typing it.

Damn you. I read this in his voice and now I’m preemptively mad about a signing that won’t even happen.

“Recently, in 2019, Conforto was one of the top power hitters in the league. The Sox coaching staff has helped Mike make a few tweaks to his swing and he thinks this will be one of the biggest years of his career.”

NBA probably more likely. Cap complex, floor assures veterans getting paid. Nba would actually work pretty well on mlb too because issue in basketball is 2 elite guys are enough to carry. Thats not the case in baseball.

In 2023, the Padres led the Dodgers.

Schriffen will love him.

Because their revenue model is completely different.

Hey dude, Conforto used to be a 4 WARt player.

Conforto isn’t even as talented as the wart on $50 million dollar Kyle Tucker’s big toe. Most people realize he’s BAD. No, we don’t need to simply “add bodies”, especially not when they are rotting corpses.

It might if you get to 100% revenue sharing, which might lead to a 3 year lockout. Also, draft picks transform franchises much more quickly and completely than they do in baseball, so free agents in baseball are probably more valuable than they are in football.