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1. Signed Conforto tonight 2. Trade Kimbrel for Marchan + prospect 3. Sign Tepera 4. Trade Collins, Burger and prospect from above for Bassitt

Sheets for one year of Bassitt would be so White Sox. I really wish we can finally turn the page in short-sighted trades like this.

Gonna be very surprised if Sheets is still on the team next week.

It's 2:29 Central Time on March 10, 2022 and Craig Kimbrel is still a member of the Chicago White Sox

Now sign Michael fucking Conforto tonight.

Don’t come telling me “no one could have seen this coming” when two of those starters are down at the same time if nothing is added.

I thought you predicted that there wouldn't be baseball until 2024

Hell of a birthday gift for me. You guys can thank me later for wishing hard enough lol

Lets Go

Let me get out ahead of Sox Talk on the FA efforts by the Sox:

I was so close to hitting the reply button but I stopped myself. Give me a gold star please someone. Took alot of strength.

You stopped?

GMs right now.

True signs of Spring. 1. Jason emerges from his shell and starts closing threads.

This is when I knew it was a done deal. BASEBALL!!!!!

I would easily take Bassitt over any of the free agents still available.

Reading this again just made me sick to my stomach. good lord.

I'm as optimistic on Kopech's career as basically anyone. On a per start basis, I think there's a good chance he's the best SP in the rotation. But anyone expecting him to follow the career trajectory of the best pitcher any of us has ever seen on the White Sox is wishful thinking. People are also operating under the assumption that Gio, Lynn, & Cease will all take 32 turns through the rotation each. Which would be great, but the odds are guys will get hurt and miss more starts than we're expecting. Keuchel is fine in a depth role but just because he's making big money this year shouldn't guarantee him a rotation spot. If David Price could open last season in the Dodgers bullpen, there's no reason Keuchel can't do that with the Sox.

The rotation isn't full. The average team uses like 10 starting pitchers in a given season. We all feel good about Gio, Lynn, Cease, & Kopech. But there's no scenario where Kopech is going to pitch ~180 innings next year. He will get skipped and have short starts. Guys will get hurt. Keuchel and Lopez are both best suited starting the season in the bullpen. Particularly when there's really no credible upper minors pitching depth behind those guys.

I would not like that trade. Not opposed to using the Sheets bullet, but not on that move. He has legitimate value to this team even without a clear starting spot. I’d need to really like the return.

Sorry if this has already been mentioned, but Sheets being involved in a trade for one of the Oakland SP's would make a lot of sense. He's a viable, cheap alternative since it seems like a given they'll deal Olson.

Feels good to watch a bunch of idiots like me arguing over how shitty or not shitty the Sox will manage this off-season when we all know in our heart of hearts, it'll obviously be shitty!

Where are the damn transactions!? They gonna make us wait til tomorrow!?

im very thirsty for a transaction

I get it’s his job, but got I hate Scott Merkin sometimes.

They have to convert on a middle of the order run producer. Castellanos, Conforto, or Schwarber.

Aaaaand there go the goalposts.

This picture reminds me…drug testing starts up again. Somebody will get busted.

Well I see Jack doesn't need to report for Spring Training as his posting is already in midseason form.

Get fucked Boras.

So is the universal DH effective this year?

Congratulations on a great birthday present!

Maybe they should put less superstars with mega contracts on the executive board. Who couldn’t imagined this series conflict of interest.

I tried to call Manfred but got his voicemail....so I left the proposal that each MLB team can skip up to 10 8th innings a season....that skipped inning would be called a Kimbrel.

White smoke = deal Black smoke = no deal

The lawsuit gonna be the dealbreaker ?

So the MLB wants $200M over five years for pre-arb, and the players want $375. Split the difference, and you are at $287.5M. Start it at $50M in year one, and increase by $5M each year (50+55+60+65+70 = 300). That would lean a little more toward the players in terms of total dollars, but it would be much closer to what the MLB wants for an initial amount.

Kopech is stretched out and should be in the rotation on day one with zero restrictions. He's 26 years old and 3.5 years removed from TJ. He's as strong as he'll ever be and there is absolutely no reason to hold him back any further. I had a lot of questions about him going into last season and he answered them all. Let the man do his thing.

They're definitely trading him. My guess is it will be for a package of minor leaguers then they will use those players as part of another trade.

Tex, he is the main point of negotiation. He has multiple talking point missteps and fuck ups. He is the commissioner. This shit is on him

This whole disagreement about the international draft, and the publicity of it, could be what ends the lockout. The purported importance of the draft was rather sudden, and both sides feel strongly about it. However, it seems like there's a very vocal, albeit smaller, group of players who are vehemently against it that seem to be the driving force behind the MLBPA's stance. Scherzer's tweet was a bit telling as it sounds like it was brought up in Florida, and at the time the union was told it wasn't a bargaining chip. Now it seems to be THE bargaining chip. Both sides are now blaming the other (nothing new there), and each are playing dumb about who brought it up first. The owners are probably still the bad guys here, but public perception has changed a bit after yesterday. Many of us armchair general managers look at the international draft as a way to get the lockout ended and our teams back on the field. And there's enough information out there for us to know that the current system for getting Latin American players into baseball is pretty corrupt. The draft is not THE solution, but it probably makes the situation better...if done properly. I think the players' last minute proposal, which ironically and supposedly was Manfred's proposal, is a good one because it allows the league and analyze it and hopefully implement a draft that actually improves the process. One thing is clear after yesterday: They should have been having these day long bargaining sessions a month ago. There's a lot of fan mistrust of both sides now, and that can't be good for the sport.

By God! It's Manfred with a steel chair! *cracks chair over owners' heads* That killed them! As God as my witness they're broken in half!