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When new ownership arrives the franchise will be in a position to start bringing in competent individuals to run things. That gives you an opportunity to start "winning" again. Why is it so hard to understand that under current ownership the resources and talent SIMPLY ISN'T THERE and WON'T be because the owner refuses to spend/invest money to bringing it in. Therefore the only current way to 'maybe' start winning is to trade assets get back young unproven talent and hope it works out. Yes...that's all the Sox can do...hope. Signing an unproven Fedde who will be in his early 30's does very little to win in two years given the absolute chaos at all levels of the franchise.

May 17, 2021 – In the Sox blowout win over the Twins in Minnesota, national controversy erupted centering around the ‘unwritten’ rules of baseball. With the Sox leading 15-4 the Twins used a position player, Willians Astudillo to pitch the ninth inning. He lobbed up a 47 miles per hour pitch to Yermin Mercedes who blasted it over the center field fence. Twins manager Rocco Baldelli took exception to it as well as many baseball traditionalists. White Sox manager Tony LaRussa wasn’t happy with it either saying what Mercedes did disrespected the game as well as he missed the take sign on that pitch. Some of Mercedes teammates and many Sox fans disagreed saying that using a position player instead of a regular pitcher also disrespected the game and that until the game is over players are expected to do their best regardless of the score. The next day, after the Twins threw at Mercedes, LaRussa ignited another controversy when he said that he didn’t think Twins pitcher Tyler Duffey deliberately did that, that it may have been a pitch that got away from him. Some Sox fans feel this was the moment when LaRussa began to lose the clubhouse and the Sox started sliding back towards mediocrity for the rest of the season and into the 2022 campaign.

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Honestly? I don't care if we are competitive for the rest of 2024, or even 2025. I am already in a mindset of we need to target being competitive in 2026, with a realistic goal of 2027. Why? The talent gap is sooooo wide between the Sox and real playoff teams that every single person who isn't a rookie today is probably not going to be here by the time we could win a divisional title again, meaning that all of them are disposable for pieces that can win a title in the future.

I'm guessing we would have been horrible at framing.

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He’s having the draft season that Rodon was supposed to have

Now guaranteed to just have to flush it.

I think he's a slam dunk pick. I like him so much more than Burns. If the position player side of the White Sox system was better I would be advocating for him hard.

One concern with Montgomery is he’s not nearly as good facing LHP. They touched on this last night.

Excellent post

New Pipeline mock. https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-pipeline-2024-mock-draft-mid-may?t=mlb-draft-coverage

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The upcoming schedule has teams that can score runs with Toronto being the exception. The Sox glaring weakness of no power and no run production will make it tough to be competitive.

Especially on the offensive side of things. The well is dry for the Sox offensively.

All the same for me back in the day haha I had to be the smallest, skinniest catcher.

Good for them.

At some point you have to take a gamble. I see few free agents that can potentially be difference makers that are even in the realm of possible. Alonso is one of the few and even he may be stretch.

Colas? Improved K & BB rates while maintaining a similar ISO to last year. His BABIP is down like 50 points which is likely bad luck unless he’s hitting a ton of infield pop-ups. Not suggesting he’s killing it down there, but I’d say he’s done enough to get some major league shot. Now is the time to see what we have in him, Fletcher, and theoretically DeLoach.

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