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I've read that every Japanese hitter has issues hitting velo once the come to America. They're professional hitters. They adjust. The strikeouts concern me. I don't think they need Murakami as a core piece.

Your Holiness, we thank you for gracing us with the #1 pick. We humble Sox fans ask for one more blessing as we near the birth of our Lord, Amen.

I was looking at the bat speed of the players projected to be on this roster and we have very few guys who above average. Colson & Robert are both elite, but the latter will likely be gone before the end of next season. After that, we’re just left with Mead & Sosa, who are both just slightly above average. Everyone else on the roster is about average to well below. Point is this team is going to need some power. Roch, Braden, & Bonemer will all help eventually, but we really need a thumber in the near-term that can slot into 1B or DH. Murakami can be a mini Schwarber. People keep acting like his K rate and zone contact rate are death sentences, but they are both better than Ohtani’s were in Japan. In a suppressed market, this is a swing you take if you’re the White Sox and I honestly think they will when it’s all said and done.

It wasn’t pertaining to this matter, but whatever.

You don’t trust Krusty the Clown?

IMO, this NW Indiana play is nothing but an obvious bluff. The Bears can make all the threats they want, but they want to be in AH first and downtown second. Their vision of what a new domed stadium can bring to the table is all but wiped out in NW Indiana. Pritzker has all the leverage with them and people should be glad he is not caving.

@Y2Jimmy0!

I agree about the upcoming election season, and 2028 looms, also. Newsom let the A's and Raiders leave.

Even James agrees it’s happening now!

It doesn't help anybody for the White Sox to be ruled out. Murakami to WSox helps Murakami drive up what little interest he has. It lets O'Hearn know the Sox have other options. It keeps fans refreshing Twitter and listening to insipid sports mumble programs where everything is possible. I still think an off-season of O'Hearn, Bassitt (or reasonable facsimile), Bleday (orf) and some sort of leverage bullpen dude would be an insane out-of-the-park off-season compared to what we've been prepped for.

I'll also note, without commenting on whether I approve of the Governor or not, that he's up for reelection in 2026. As much as I'd like to see a Bears deal in AH done, him not wanting to be seen as giving the McCaskeys a huge tax relief isn't being stupid. As far as I can tell, public reaction (on both end of the political spectrum) has been unfavorable towards a Bears stadium deal. Maybe that'll change if an Indiana stadium deal seems imminent, and it might get to that point, but not right now. At the end of the day, if I had to choose between only 1 team (Sox or Bears) getting a deal done for a new stadium, I'll gladly take the Sox resolving their stadium situation over the Bears any day.

Bruce Levine has always been the most credible source in the industry.

He just feels like a guy the Angels are going to sign, but I would like the Sox to do anything to add significant talent. His K rate, in zone miss, etc aren’t pretty but the power is stoopid, so… might be fun.

Wont happen since he's not a slap hitter. Once an outside puts on the Sox uniform suck seems to over take them. Has so much BS in the offseason ever been this bad before the 24 hour sports networks? Who remembers Fukadome? Cubs curse Sox blessing

If they somehow get him well under what his projected deal was going to be, that would be a hell of an early Christmas gift. I know Jerry probably doesn’t want to pay a posting fee, but hopefully Ishbia convinces him that he will write a check for that.

You called him a clown…that’s political brother. I was just curious what makes him a clown related to this matter. Seems like not wanting to subside a multi billion stadium project for rich NFL owners would make him the opposite of a clown.

the "espn prediction" is an opinion piece in which some guy talks about "well the sox should probably spend some money, they could use a first baseman, my prediction is that they will sign murakami". as far as i know, there has been nothing to actually indicate the sox are negotiating with him or that he's even on the radar.

Finally time for a standalone Murakami thread. Looks like Santa is coming early this year boys!

https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/white-sox-predicted-land-japanese-165639949. Too good to be true? Probably. But absolutely worth noting. He crushed 56 home runs in 2022 and won the Triple Crown. At just 25 years old, he’d fit perfectly into what the Sox are trying to build. Apparently David Schoenfield of ESPN predicted that the White Sox will be his landing spot. He has until 4pm this Monday to sign with an MLB team.

No political talk. I’ll pass.

"ESPN’s Jeff Passan wrote on Thursday that Fairbanks was trending towards either a multi-year deal or a one-year contract worth more than $11MM. While it’d seem counterintuitive for teams to pay more than the declined option price, that occasionally happens. Option calls are due within the first five days of the offseason. Teams may have preferred to maintain payroll flexibility until they had a better read on the market." mlbtr.com "In an appearance on Foul Territory this week, Izaac Azout of Fish On First suggested that Miami has shown a willingness to offer a one-year deal in “the mid-teens” range and floated the possibility that Miami could make a $13-14MM proposal."

Why is Pritzker a clown?

Pretty sure Finch was hating the refs right there

The McCaskeys are gonna have a hard time getting back the money they spent on that lot so far, I also don’t see them running around to Indiana and just eating that investment