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Hahn trading for a LH bat scares me. He seems to lose almost every trade for MLB talent. And you've got to keep Montgomery and Vera.

I think more aggressive ownership would help. This team never has splash free agent signings to spur on ticket sales. Ok I shouldn't say never, but the Albert Belle signing was 26 years ago. It's probably not going to happen in Jerry's lifetime. Jerry is 86 years old and father time ticks even for billionaires, so he's probably in the home stretch of his ownership with the White Sox. Speaking of the Bears in Arlington Heights. I think there's a good chance that becomes a model for potential future White Sox ownership. The Bears are likely to be highly successful in their move, and that will be noticed by potential buyers. The Sox probably would draw 3 mil+ fans if they move to a good spot in the suburbs. Where in the current location it will always be an uphill battle.

IMO it would send the Sox back to the dark ages. They'd probably have to give up their top 5 prospects....just as they are finally digging out of being the worst system in baseball. And he's 100% going to be gone in 2 years. I couldn't think of a worse idea for this franchise than trading for Soto. And remember, with the draft changes. Big market teams like the Sox can't draft in the top 10 in back to back years. So we can't just shriug and say let's do the rebuild again when it predictably fails.

But why get him when you know our current owner won't pay the money to re-sign him? How is that less laughable? Honestly I thought this was just joking around...you're actually serious that they should get him?

Are you Rick Hahn on a burner account? I was a fan of the guy...but look what he's done to this rebuild. It's truly awful, man. You can spin crap however you want. All this talent and this team is sitting here 1 game before the allstar break as an under .500 team. Holes like right field should of been filled years ago. Bryce Harper was there and couldn't find a team to sign him.

Sure. Sign him in 2 years when he is a free agent. But it's not happening if our current owner is still alive and in charge of this team.

The only type of team that should ponder trading for Soto would be the Dodgers, Yankees or Red Sox type teams. Because most others will all lose him after 2 years, and you will have just emptied your farm system for 2 seasons of one player. No thanks,

I wonder if his high walk total nudged him out? He is leading the AL in walks currently. Fabulous year so far, though.

Well whoever it is that put this leak out, and we know it was somebody - now we know there's finger pointing going on. It's going to get interesting if these next 2 4 game series don't go well. Hopefully they do go well, though.

So nice to see. I know he hasn't done jack for 2 years. But Eloy might be our best hope. If the real Eloy can come out to play this summer, it could light this offense on fire.

This is what you call taking one for the team. Thanks!

I understand why you and others want to cut bait on him. I'm nowhere near that myself, though. I still think there's a monster lurking in there and that its worth the Sox trying to see if they can fix his health and bring the beast out of him.

It could do a lot of good if they think Eloy still has a chance to be one of the best hitters in baseball.

If the Rays wanted Sosa, that would set off alarms to me. I would trust their judgement more than our scouts. I haven't looked up Sosa's numbers against righties, but I think they maybe should consider giving him a chance with the Sox soon, no? And in the end, I think the ship has sailed on big additions. They decided in the offseason to sit on their hands and leave these holes wide open. And now they would be a lot harder to fill. A middle reliever is probably a more realistic get at the deadline.

Going off the obvious belief that all 3 are big disappointments. I'm going to disagree, only because of the 3 - the only I see as having a snowball's chance in hell of coming up and killing it is Eloy.

There's a lot to rip him for. But he carried the offense in a way that our 'top guys' have been unable to replicate since. I wish the guy well.

For sure

I'm surely alone on this. But I'm going to add, that getting rid of La Russa removes his bad influence on roster decisions as well. I'm convinced La Russa is the root of the Sox loading up their money on relief pitchers and utility infielders instead of bonified impact major leaguers. Him running his mouth to the media on a few occasions sort of gives it away that he is the root to some of these bad decisions.

Didn't you just apologize for acting like this? What are you doing?

I hope he gets better, but this isn't going to hurt the team

That argument can go both ways. Pitchers need to adjust how they pitch a hitter to stop him for exploiting his strengths. All the shift has done is shift the onus from the pitcher to the hitter, and made the game more boring to watch in the process.

I'm all for banning the shift. Similar to an illegal defense in the NBA. I get the use of analytics and the importance of them. But they've stained some parts of the game, and really, the only way to peel that back is via rule changes.

Why are you always so fast to quit?

Even if it was movable, you aren't getting anything for him. The Sox no choice but to hope he gets it together. But that doesn't mean they cant move him over to 2B.

Or leave him at third, and if Moncada decides he wants to play again, throw him at 2B. Moncada should not be the priority unless he decides to pick up his game.