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Idk some sort of negotiating/signing window every couple weeks with a break in between. Incentives for both players/teams for getting a signing done earlier. I don’t have a good answer for it but something to make the off-season a little bit more exciting to keep that excitement going into ST. I’m all for the players and team officials enjoying the time away from the game, the mental aspect of a long season doesn’t get talked about enough, but make the holidays a down time then so fans know what to expect because everyone knows what fans want is what matters most 🤣

January 3, 2005 - As part of a plan to add more depth to the rotation, the Sox signed veteran hurler Orlando “El Duque” Hernandez. “The Duke” started strong in 2005, faded somewhat down the stretch but pitched perhaps the most historic inning in franchise history when he came in to a bases loaded, no out situation at Boston in game #3 of the A.L.D.S. with the Sox only leading 4-3 in the sixth inning. He proceeded to get two pop outs and a strike out as the Sox held on to win 5-3 and advance to the A.L.C.S. For the 2005 season Hernandez went 9-9 with a save in 128 innings of work. He was traded that off season as part of a deal bringing Javier Vasquez to the White Sox. January 3, 2008 – The White Sox were looking for another solid hitter to join the lineup and G.M. Kenny Williams thought he had found him as he made a deal with Oakland and acquired outfielder/first baseman Nick “Dirty 30” Swisher for Ryan Sweeney, Fautino De Los Santos and Gio Gonzalez. Unfortunately the deal fell far short. In 2008 Swisher put up decent numbers 21 doubles, 24 home runs and 69 RBI’s but he turned into a distracting presence in the clubhouse, was benched by manager Ozzie Guillen towards the end of the year and was then traded to the Yankees…where he promptly regained his Oakland form in four solid seasons. Sweeney hit higher than .286 in three of his four years with the A’s while Gonzalez blossomed into a solid starting pitcher for the A’s and then later the Nationals where he won 21 games in 2012. The Sox signed him as a free agent for the 2020 season but he was injured and only started four games in the 60-game pandemic shortened year.

In your article, you name Outfielder Sebastian Romero but then refer to somebody called Rivero. Are there two different players, or is it Sebastian Rivero, and you mistakenly subbed in Francys Romero's name?

Who cares? It's just a name. Don't lose any sleep over this.

"Bad owner" for fans of the team. Great owner for investors. Very good owner for the other owners, although that has dropped the past ten years. Very good owner to non player employees. (Loyalty and job protection) Average to above average owner for average players. Well below average owner for superstars looking for appropriate contracts. Well above average for players and coaches with literally no other place to work. Average (big guess on my part) to neighboring businesses and the surrounding community.

Bring down the hammer!

Braston Baxter. I'm looking forward to watching his progress. Great report.

I remember the overslot prep arms who never even made the majors. Cannon signed for like $900K I believe. Great value in round 3.

I wrote the international signing preview for FutureSox here: https://www.futuresox.net/2026/01/03/2026-white-sox-international-signing/

So then what would be your proposal for the rest of the offseason, exactly?

If Indiana gives the Bears everything they want, I wonder what will happen if Indiana says the deal has to have the team known as the Indiana Bears.

How about the Illiana Bears.

Ignorance is bliss.

That seems like a damn good carrying tool for a prospect that doesn't rank inside of Pipeline's Top 50 Int'l prospects. 🤔🤔

No need for the idiotic politics unless people want to find somewhere else to post.

I’m not saying they would but damn does the MLB do a good job of losing fan interest in the offseason

I’m just not sure what the answer is in a non salary cap league. QO’s really affect the marketplace though. If they got rid of one thing, it should be not penalizing teams for signing players.

Verdugo, Verdahgo. They're all just bodies, pile 'em up, run 'em out. Feel no shame, all teams do this. Kelenic is their particular poison this spring. The weird thing is that MLB has completely f-ed up their off-season, so teams are still building their rosters in the middle of February. It gets tiresome refreshing Twitter for 3 months.

"Hey JR, we bought another scratch off ticket."

More disposable paper plates for the summer BBQ. Save the good stuff for 2027.

They’ve done it with Bonemer and Fauske the last two years. Bonemer is a top 50 prospect in the sport. It’s how you get those guys. I just don’t look at the draft as slot amounts per round. I see it as, they have a certain total amount to spend and trying to get as much talent for that money as possible.

The Oort cloud, sometimes called the Öpik–Oort cloud, is theorized to be a cloud of billions of icy planetesimals surrounding the Sun at distances ranging from 2,000 to 200,000 AU. Its existence was proposed in 1950 by the Dutch astronomer Jan Oort, in whose honor the idea was later named.

A starter of some sort. Whoever is decent and cheap.

Now what?

Might be worth a waiver claim… “Astros designated RHP Kaleb Ort for assignment.”