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This isn't an unpopular opinion, it's flat out idiotic and laughably absurd.

For most people sure. But for Jack, this is just Thursday.

This is probably your worst post on this site.

This might be an unpopular opinion, but if Eloy and Robert had stayed hurt we would have won the World Series. We played better with them out, and it worked for Atlanta.

Remember that time when I said your previous post was your worst post on this site???

“It isn’t under these conditions, ideally, that we are having this discussion, which of course, we would have liked to occur at the conclusion of a successful World Series Championship… however, we stand here today knowing that, ideally our window has not only been declared as open, but from an operational point of view we would, having our druthers, mean that a preview to our fans of sustained success can be recognized. When we set out on this path, ideally we were looking not for a single successful season but rather, multiple championships and we still feel we are along that path when reading the tea leaves. We want to acknowledge the work this club did, acknowledge Tony and his… lead…. His… grea… his great leadership that Jerry is certainly… proud of… and we want to acknowledge the great support of all our amazing fans… while still most importantly acknowledging that we have more work to do. Now, we look towards the ultimate goal of bringing a Championship to our great fans and we will continue moving on towards, ideally, reaching that goal in 2022, while still, making moves that set us up for also sustained success, the fruits of which, we are beginning to taste, which while we are pleased have been somewhat seen with the results on the field we all saw, the way the season ended did leave a bad taste in our mouth, and ideally we will see this adversity with a response which, ideally acts as motivation to return to the post season in short order while also, ideally, presenting itself with our desired goal. Until then our work is unfinished and ideally we sit here today better positioned to continue forward along the successful path we entered in upon a short time ago.”

Yeah and it's still a dogfight. I just don't think the Sox are all that good, even with a healthy Robert and Eloy. Only Robert took a step this year, and that was in limited and everyone else regressed. These seem a lot like the 2001-2004 teams moving forward, stuck in the 80s for wins, with not a lot of wiggle room financially. The Sox won a lot of games getting contributions from guys like Mercedes, Goodwin, et al. and I wouldn't count on that happening again. They probably overachieved by 5-7 games. This is an 86 win roster.

Long live this joke.

hahahaha

This might be an unpopular opinion but I think that if Cleveland stayed relatively healthy the Sox miss the playoffs.

We literally underperformed our Pythagorean by six or seven games. You are truly an abomination of a poster.

You're a strange man.

I just think they suck and they'll never win anything beyond an ALC title with this group, if they even win another one. Every major piece outside of Robert(so far) and Anderson is a disappointment.

McCutchen seems like a White Sox move unfortunately

Do you have an anchor rope for the rabbit hole free fall you are about to endure

Because oranges are purple and potatoes belong orbiting Jupiter.

I'm good passing on Cutch, the power might still be there but he is about to turn 35 and just put in one of his worst offensive seasons. Younger please

Castellaons for DH, Starling Marte for LF, Vaughn traded for young starting pitcher?

but the important question is did he hit a lot of infield popups?

By his logic, this is just Monday.

Didn’t need another right handed dh last time he was available, don’t need one this time either.

we need to get this guy stateside with all that swagger

Unpopular opinion, but if Yermin played second base we would have won some games.

The owners have always chosen new owners, the commissioner is their employee. Not the other way around. In every sport.

I'm sure you do.

I kind of hope Rodon and Conforto accept their qualifying offers. I want Rodon back and I don’t want to spend the off-season talking about Conforto coming to the White Sox only for us to be beaten out by another team who’s willing to spend more money.

This is silly. The sample sizes are so small. Take for example, Jorge Soler. He actually had a poor NLDS. He went 1/13. If you port that result over to the ALDS, we would have done even worse against the Astros! Simply put, we lost in the playoffs cause our starting pitching was poor. The ERA of our starters was 10.22. Sure it would have been nice to have a better person to stick in RF and 2B the whole time. But it wouldn't have really mattered. Maybe having a few better players to fill in at RF and 2B after the trade deadline could have pushed us over the top to get home-field advantage. But I doubt it. And it's not like we didn't try. All of those Braves players, except for Duvall, actually had a lower OPS than Cesar Hernandes when they were traded. We had rotten luck with Cesar.

I think Reynolds is a very good player, I just hate paying talent premiums for control. We have a core for now, would ather look for 1-2 year guys or obviously free agency.

We offered Joc more than the Cubs in the offseason and he turned it down. He then went on to put up 0.1 fWAR prior to being acquired by the Braves? You really think he was a guy we should have acquired to start over Vaughn, who posted a 134 wRC+ in July. Rosario had put up 0.3 fWAR at the trade deadline and isn’t really a RF. Soler had put up -1.1 fWAR at the trade deadline and is a absolutely horrific defensive outfielder. Neither guy was the answer to what we were looking for at the deadline no matter how hot they got during the postseason. Maybe you could of made a case for Duvall as a depth piece simply because he can actually play some defense, but he’s a low BA / OBP right handed bat with poor plate discipline who would have been more of what we already have and not a profile that typically does well in the post-season. It’s very clear that you’re using hindsight to suggest we should have made all these moves, when in reality a mix of Vaughn, Sheets, & Engel was probably more attractive than all of those options with the possible exception of Duvall. If the Sox were going to add a RF at the deadline, it should have been an impactful one like Marte or Bryant and not the scrap heap guys the Braves picked up since they needed to replace their entire outfield.

So if you just start service time and calculate free agency from signing date, doesn't that incentivize signing older players so you'll have control for more of their peak? Seems like we need a formula that uses signing date as a base but weighs signing age in some way.

BS. In any sport there are good and bad teams, including baseball. The difference is since Moneyball, FO are now brazen enough to sell fans that sucking for years and spending little to nothing on players is virtuous and brilliant. There were no competitive advantages to incentivize owners to spend little to nothing the first century of professional baseball (into the 1960s). Teams fielding losing teams made less at the gate. Their alternative was to spend more (players, scouts, farm teams) to attempt to win more, and ultimately earn more at the gate. There were no "luxury taxes", no international player spending caps, no MLB amateur drafts or spending limits on amateur athletes, no vast revenue sharing of massive television, internet, and other revenue streams, beyond the standard split of the live gate ticket receipts, for which a shitty team ended up with little both home and away. By increasing the number of playoff teams, from two out of 16 to 20 teams, to fourteen/sixteen + out of 30, it gives owners further reason to spend less, or for some teams even less than their annual league welfare checks (small market welfare payments) and league "socialist" 30 team 30 share revenue payments. It further incentivizes a growing number of "Cadillac Lamborghini Welfare Queen" owners of teams leeching and profiting as Congressionally awarded monopoly parasites on a host of live bodies, including taxpayers, cable television customers who have no interest in watching or paying for their shitty RSN, and amateur broadcasts of announcers in a bunker watching computer screens instead of being at the game, and the ever shrinking number of teams actually attempting to put a quality product on the field.

Are you trying to convince Hard Carl to take the QO by posting it twice??

The Braves might not want to pay him $9,500,000 next season...they can focus on profitability coming off the World Series. He's one of those guys who won't make your team, nor will he (likely) kill it either, a true complementary player. He's also 33 already. Just don't like adding any position players these days that are older than 32...

Agreed....if he bets on himself and shows he can stay healthy, he could get one hell of a contract next offseason....and that QO is some nice $$.

I wasn't trolling, I'm just having a bad day. I have to remember not to post angry and upset. I already apologized for that. I went back into my old bad habits and I gotta stop. my self regulation is really shitty.

I'm firmly in the why not both camp and Ketel Marte makes sense at 2B/RF and sprinkle in time at SS and CF and LF if need be. His AAV is 10M for the next 3 years and will help insulate as the core continues to get pricey. Trade Vaughn and Adolfo to the snakes Unfortunately while I believe in Adolfo the sand in the hour glass has run out for him in this org, and he is a nice lotto ticket for a team mired in a deep rebuild; they can give him a long honest look in the outfield. Vaughn immediately locks up 1B for them during this rebuild. This clears up the future of 1B for Eloy or Sheets, as Abreu is (rightfully) going to get the PK treatment and will play till he wants to hang it up. The trade simulator isn't the end all be all but its a good jumping off point.

Pittsburgh

Hall of Fame List worthy.

People will focus on the second half of the tweet rather than taking it holistically.

March Madness is great precisely because the tournament isn't a slog that is set up to make sure that the best teams always win. Its 35 games of huge upsets and random surprises. That is literally the charm of it. MLB actually has one of the better playoffs for the same reason, in that the "best" team doesn't always win. If only the best team over 162 can win, why do we have a playoffs in the first place? I want some excitement and some doubt. Chalk is boring. Get the teams in and watch the craziness begin.

Finally a few people can have something new to complain about.

I don’t want another DH unless some major trades are made to remake the team.

Supposed to happen tomorrow morning, everyone get ready for word salad with no dressing

Wow, never heard that story, if true all 3 are scumbags.

fathom creams pants

In actuality, it is the owners' job to choose the commissioner.

So your argument is the Sox should have acquired a bunch of garbage outfielders at the trade deadline because they happened to get hot in the playoffs. And the only one who wasn’t garbage (Duvall) has a profile that doesn’t typically do well against elite pitching in the playoffs and sure enough did not do well. But hey, if you’ve got a way to see into the future and tell which bad players will randomly start hitting in October then please share with our front office so they proactively add these “impact” players on the cheap.

You keep saying that until it will be too late. Get yourself to a nice gun shop this afternoon. I’d consider buying at least three. Something small and concealable on your person at all times. Then, in a slick car holster, something with a little more bang for when multiple bad guys are coming at you. Finally a good old shotgun for hunting up some food or stopping folks from stealing your provisions. Less than a $1,000 and you will travel and sleep so much better. Don’t forget the ammo!

Would Ketel Marte be an above average defensive RF? I believe so. I'd trade Vaughn + for him if possible. Then sign a second basemen (take your pick based on how much you think Jerry's budget is). Escobar seems the most likely. Then let Engel play RF vs LHP and mix and match Marte all over the diamond. Ketel would provide depth virtually everywhere and with 3 years remaining, his money would be coming off the books just as our core gets expensive and/or hits free agency. He is just too perfect of a fit if you can acquire him for a price anywhere near his proper value and offload some of our 1B/DH backlog. Conforto is very enticing and seemingly still has upside remaining but I'd really hate to hinge our entire offseason on giving up a pick for the right to outbid half of the league for him.