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There’s really no spot for him now that they resigned Rodon.

You could fill a large lake with the water you carry for this organization. I am sold. They did their best. If we dont win the division or any playoff games this year. We can always have this.

Mets are about to sign Bauer and Sox fans are on the edge of their seat trying to find out whether Folty chose us. I am one of those Sox fans lol.

The Collins love on this site is incredible. The guy is not exactly a front line player. He is not great defensively and what we’re his stats in the minors? He is not that great. Neither is lecroy but he probably knows how to handle pitchers and is a smart catcher. Good depth for sure , nice sign. That’s it no all star no starter just good damn depth.

Long answer: no they have not Short answer: no

Man, if only the Sox could be the what the Padres were in the Machado saga to the Mets and Dodgers. Go screw yourself JR...

I hate the owner so much of this franchise.

"Down to 2" Sox and Mets are both the second teams in their respective cities. Sox are from the Second City. Bauer is signing with the Sox.

Idk, I think it’s kind of refreshing. Agents do it all the time. They even lie to reporters to get their clients more money. She’s been pretty transparent and I think it’s a good look. I’m not a Bauer guy but I don’t see the problem with her confirming that there are two teams left. Helps make the offseason less excruciating and kills nonsense rumors. But I’m not a peer or a GM like you so I digress.

With some quality baseball journalists being let go I have no idea why Bob has a job still. He’s is so unequivocally awful at his job.

So Collins is gonna have to prove he can ACTUALLY catch. This is a great depth/fallback move.

As opposed to Scott Boras doing a press conference or selected leaks to his favorite reporters?

lmao @ the luba hate, this is just absurd what's wrong with her tweet? It's quite clear that this is the 'end game' with all the national reporters reporting that it's down to mets/dodgers.

how unprofessional for Luba to tweet that. Seriously, if that is how she thinks she should do business...good luck.

1 mil a year for 69 years?

Using their ridiculously low payrolls at peak rebuild to suggest they spent most of the Machado money is poor logic. The reality is that money has not been spent at this point in time. However, if they can extend Giolito & Lynn and possibly add a few years onto Anderson’s deal I’d probably change my tune.

JR "Hello I would like to place a collect call to Hudson Hill 5-9975 please" Operator "What?"

Well not every teams Chairman calls Bob on their personal rotary phone.

He’s only accurate when it’s bad news for the Sox

Oh Bob

Scott Boras has turned free agency into a circus for decades, and he has done just fine. Let's see what the deal looks like and then we can judge the job that was done.

Wait, there's people on this board who still think we might sign Bauer? Wtf

I'm going to guess it's the team that didn't ask the free agent to bend over backwards to fit their plans and instead is the teams that respected the players value.

Truth.

Thank god we didn't sign Machado or Harper. Imagine trying to fill in the lineup/roster and keep the gold in the swimming pool filled. It would be impossible.

Yes it is. You're on the clock to win a world series . You got a free agent without many suitors who wants to play on a contender, likes your coaching staff, actually wants to be here, who is open to some kind of oddly structured contract, and the Sox, who tell you all about multiple championships and the money will be spent, look the gift horse in the mouth because JR can't spend more than last year because the poor owners lost so much money .

It was super frustrating, but it's a confounding draft class to me. I think I agree that it's likely sox had planned on some additional cubans to make the jump, but it was reversed by Trump admin. Sox may have had a bunch of extra budget at that point, the rest of players under previous agreements, so they just made sure they got Sanchez away from some teams in the previous year who still had money (orioles, etc). And the other part of it is that class has some really interesting pieces, moreso than many previous years. Bailey is the obvious, but it plucked a very interesting year as a 16 year old with really great K rates. Veloz was 18, but has chance to fill out and dominated the DSL that year. Christian Vera we'll see this year, along with Wilfred Veras. And then Tatis showed little, but keeps getting mentioned by sox. So maybe we'll find out this year that despite missing a real top 30 talent when we expected one, that it was a good class. I mean 2018 we had no idea would produce what it did, with Ramos and others.

I woulda loved hill.. Given him the 5th starter role until he gets hurt in his 3rd start, then let Rodon take over until he got hurt, then it's June1 and Kopech can come up.

Because it is fully believable.

Back in February 2019, right after the White Sox lost the Manny Machado sweepstakes, Rick Hahn gave the following quote: "The money will be spent. It might not be spent this offseason, but it will be spent at some point. This isn’t money sitting around waiting to just accumulate interest. It’s money trying to be deployed to put us in best position to win some championships." Here's a link to the article I pulled this from. Manny Machado' contract called for him to get $300M over 10 years. That was Feb 2019. Now the Sox didn't commit to $300M, which is part of the reason they lost. Their offer was speculated at around $250M. So let's use that latter number to assess whether Hahn has in fact spent that money. In 2019, the Sox had an active payroll of just over $70M. (All numbers from Spotrac.) In 2020, their active payroll was $107M. In 2021, it is $117M. I'm leaving out several spending categories from these numbers -- Injured list, reserve/exempt, retained salaries, player pool, and signing bonuses. So, if you compare just that number, the Sox went from $70M up to $107M in the first year after they lost on Machado. That's a $37M increase. What did they spend that money on? Yasmani Grandal: $18.25M/year Dallas Keuchel: $18M/year Jose Abreu extension: approx $18M average for 3 years Luis Robert contract Yoan Moncada extension Edwin Encarnacion: $13M Gio Gonzalez: $4.5M Nomar Mazara: $5.5M Aaron Bummer 5-year extension with 2 club options at $7.5M each Lance Lynn: $8M for 2021 Liam Hendriks: 4 years, $54M Adam Eaton: $8M avg for 2 years Attempt at signing Zack Wheeler, who took the Phillies offer of $23M/year. Signed Keuchel and Gonzalez instead for about the same amount. If you look at these numbers, I would think it would be pretty easy for Rick Hahn to defend the comment he made in February 2019. The Sox active payroll is $47M higher than it was when he said that, and with built in escalators for all the players they have locked up long term, or who will enter arbitration over the next several years, that number is just going to go higher during this window of Sox contention whether or not they add more free agents. See my 3-5 year window post here. I know we all want the Sox to spend more. Me included. But, in fairness to Rick Hahn, I don't think he was lying to the fans. I think the plan all along has been to spend about what they've spent while trying to put the best club on the field that they can for that money. I think they've done better at that this year than last year, when they wasted money on EE, while Gio and Mazara were busts.

And neither of them are even plus defenders at those positions

As suspected, with willful and proud ignorance of the situation and relevant issues. Sorry, the real world can't stick their head in the sand and pray mommy and daddy will make it all go away and give them an ice cream sundae for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert. You should refrain from your own bitterness, with attacks on others pointing to resources explaining issues you have the inability and/or interest in understanding. Unlike what's reflected in your post history, there are adults here who have the ability to discuss issues beyond those of which a child can grasp.

Collect Operator: "Will you accept a collect call from, Jerry Reinsdorf?"

Best possible non White Sox outcome. No AL Team. Not the Dodgers.

Jerry clearly doesn’t want to be overshadowed by Cohen here.

They may have to carry three if Vaughn doesn’t start with the MLB club. I’m assuming Collins or Yermin DH?

He'll be pitching opening day for the Sox in 2022 $0

Is this the good news Hector was talking about?

People wonder why I'm so pessimistic about the Sox....... It's up to the organization to earn my optimism.

I was kidding with that last line. I can see your side a bit too. I just don’t get the constant criticism she receives. I don’t think she would if she was male. Not saying that’s what you are doing at all.

It has to be the Dodgers and Mets. I am not sure why people are even entertaining this by the point.

If JR trades off Giolito, Anderson, and other high-end players because he wants a deeper pool of gold to swim in, count me out as a fan until the man takes his permanent dirt nap.

So just back to Kade McClure here. The write-up re-summarized what they had written previously, that he's now a mid-90s pitcher, but his secondaries aren't amazing but just average. That said, their previous report said he was just super effective at getting outs. This is where I'm hoping that despite stuff maybe not looking amazing, his 6'7 frame ends up creating more deception and ability to get outs than appears in a scouting report. I'm just hoping for a really big surprise somewhere in system because damn does it need one.

I can't wait for you to start sharing what you were on when you made this post.

Then let's hope for a rainy spring. A rainout every 5 days through April and May.

fast forward to 2:13

For everyone that says every outing was an adventure - I'm going to plainly state he was an excellent closer for the White Sox. Flat out he converted saves at a high level. Whether I bet on him being able to maintain that balancing act, maybe not - but at $5M this was a great use of resources for the Twins.

Good luck Nick. One of the nicest guys on the baseball field. Easy to root for this guy!

Just dawned on me: let’s assume for a minute that the “it’s a business” argument holds water. If that’s the case, and a decade ago you were top ten payroll and now you’re middle of the pack, what does that say about the way you managed your “business” relative to your competitors?