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I've mentioned it before, I can't be a bigger Liam Hendriks fan both as a player and a person. He's been great as a White Sox, but if you can get something nice for him, now is the time. I worry about his elbow, and how the pitch clock may effect his performance. No one Is really talking about how the pitch clock can really change the guys with the max effort gas. A lot need more than the 15 seconds in recovery time.

Never, repeat never, trade for any player with a back issue.

They always have been.

I read his tweet as "the white sox should be doing everything possible to get Brandon Lowe since the roster deadline is 11/15" not "the white sox are going to get brandon lowe by tomorrow" in that way

Who are they playing hardball with? Themselves?

Every time the White Sox bring in someone from outside of the organization, the better I feel about this off season.

Seen on Twitter. https://twitter.com/soxmachine_josh/status/1591987289529671680?t=PdGb-17Wg1v9CZ_d2-LIZg&s=19 Take with a grain of salt. Lowe had a nice 2021, but regressed in 2022. Lefty power bat who can play 2b or LF and is 28. Concern is he has a low batting average tendency; which, for some reason, has been made worse in the past when players join the Sox.

The bar for being a World Series contender is much lower than people realize. Th 2022 Phillies, 2021 Braves after all of their injuries, etc were not great teams by any means. Building a team that's on the same level as the Astros or Dodgers should be the goal, but it's not actually necessary to win the WS.

Comparable pitchers to Graveman (Rafael Montero, Robert Suarez) have already signed expensive deals this off-season. The idea of trading him away is still much more appealing to me than Hendriks.

And that is just today.

Of course. But at least hes try trying something different and he has enough pride to say 2022 wasn't OK. I certainly wouldn't bet he is going to be what he was in 2021 except for more games. I would think he will be better than 2022, but the question will be is it better enough. It was pretty shocking to me , and I am a fan of his, how useless he was. But he was pretty valuable the rest of his White Sox career.

Everybody seems to include the move to pay TV on their "reasons I hate JR" list, but yes, Einhorn was running the show when it came down to media rights as that was his strong background. I assume the move was also supported by JR. EE was way more visible than JR the first 5 years or so of their ownership IIRC.

This is an instance where I feel like Gavin Sheets or Jake Burger is a throw-in and turns into a 30 HR, 100 RBI machine, because Rays.

I met Jack once and asked him for an autograph and he spent thirty minutes talking Sox baseball with me (he was exclusively Cubs at that point). Wonderful man and he clearly never lost his love of the Sox.

This was the thing Pedro was leaking out at his press conference when Rick changed the subject. This is good, or at least better than nothing.

Aww poor guy.

TLR was a disaster, but they still made the playoffs his first season. Biggest blunder was going to pay tv and dumping Harry Carey not long after buying the team. Lost a generation of fans.

One of the most ridiculous posts I have ever read on this forum.

I still wonder if the Sox will be in Chicago past this decade. Even though I think Grandpa Ricketts is a turd, the Cubs are actually run like a competent, large market team. The Sox are going to start bleeding fans whether to apathy or jumping ship. If I had a kid I wouldn't want them to be a Sox fan.

On paper it will be a lot closer than people realize. Especially if they get Abreu, Correa, and a good OF with that money.

Not saying what he did was ok but man out of all the things for the Feds to focus on…

“King of the mlb trade deadline…” ?????

OH Boy, I can already see a typical Sox move coming: signing Heyward as the lefty right fielder. I can even imagine how Hahn would spin it.... ”In Jason, we get one of the premier bats in the game, at a fraction of his 22 million dollar worth.”

who doesn't like having a boner?

dude, quit having a boner over everything i say. you nitpick. kind of getting tired of you.

It makes you wonder the What Ifs, as in what if Ed Debartolo would have bought our Sox?

If you start in 2016, Here's the number of wins by each title winning team. 103 101 108 93 43 88 106 5 of the last 7 champions (assume the Dodgers kept up something like the pace they do every year) have won 100+ games. At worst, 4 of the 6 that count. Only 1 Wild Card team has won a title in the last 7 years, and only 2 in the last decade (one of which was the Bumgarner series that got the Giants their third title). Only 3 Wild Card teams have won championships since 2005, so 3 times in the last 18 seasons.

At least he can catch and throw. That's an improvement over the last few years.

An;other thing JR did to piss off Bill Veeck was saying "We are going to run a class organization" implying that Veeck didnt. IIRC Bill then went to cub games. I swear JR is a one big PR gaffe

Please don't will this into existence

Yeah but Set-up men are like buying groceries. You pay what you have to. A closer is shopping for a car, way more irrational and romantic. And then graveman, who already had some success as a closer, becomes the budget closer and normalizes some of our bullpen spend. Probably not a great idea for a world series contender but hey.

Cubs have released Jason Hayward.

The only UHF station in Chicago at the time was Ch. 26, where you could watch Bullfights and Professional Wrestling!

We were also one of the first homes on our block to have a UHF TV, I want to say it was 1965 right before I enlisted in the USAF. My Dad wasn't a baseball fan and no one knew the Sox would be on UHF in 1968, we just needed a new TV and my Dad was always up on the latest in electronics so our new 19 inch TV had UHF.

Perfect timing.

I only listen to Katy Perry's booty hole

Have a feeling we're going to see more than a few trades from the current roster with a return of other MLB level talent. I'm calling this the Carlos Lee - Scott Podsednik offseason. I also have little faith that Hahn will have this team better on the other side.

I think people at $10M are hedging that risk enough. He'll likely get $15-16 just judging by some recent deals. I wouldn't touch him with ten foot pole.

I'd take Quintana over Clevenger all day long. I'd want no part of that F'n guy.

Brickhouse was the man who made sure Veeck had enough money to buy the White Sox the second time. Brickhouse introduced Veeck to a Chicago Business man who provided the extra money for Veeck to buy the White Sox. Brickhouse didn't want the White Sox to leave Chicago. Brickhouse always thought it was wrong that the Chicago Cardinals left Chicago for St. Louis. He didn't want the White Sox to leave also.

After this free agency the Cubs are probably gonna pass us. Let that sink in.

My blame goes to the defense giving up 31 and the amount of penalties they had. Fields’ INT wasn’t great. He needs to get better at throwing down the field instead of just evading people, even though that is a huge part of his game. I’ll take these losses that are close and hope there is improvement with an actual fully stocked team next year.

Oh interesting so he worked his way up to being an executive in one of the most successful orgs in the league before taking over a GM role and overseeing them make an ALCS, 2 WS births and a WS 5 years after their original? Let’s pump the brakes thinking he’s good.

Rick is going to get to attempt a bandaid for '23 AND get to tear it down again in '24.

James Click is a 30 fWAR per season upgrade over Rick Hahn. Do. It. Now.

How did we go from a young cheap core to a team of bad contracts.. very disappointed with some of these players

Great article. Thanks Lip! “The problem is some of these guys just don’t care, they want to win sure but they already have gotten their money with these contracts before they proved anything. Moncada would strike out and just walk back to the dugout like no big deal, he fouls a ball off and now he can’t play for three days? His contract makes him untradable but he needs to go.” Is there hope? “It could happen, maybe there’s a 5% chance this front office could get it right. But first the front office has to admit they made mistakes. The catcher (Yamani Grandal), third baseman (Moncada) and shortstop (Tim Anderson) need to go. They need to get guys with a higher baseball acumen, the lack of urgency, the way they beat themselves this season was embarrassing. Anderson needs to go because the organization gave him the keys to the car and he drove it off the cliff. And he’s getting up in years (Author’s Note: Anderson will turn 30 this season), get something for him while you can, some talented young players. The organization also needs a major off season from the scouts, they have to find guys they can buy low on with a good upside and hope they produce.” That's what I've been saying for a while.

Well, that's depressing. We need to plan a party and dance in the streets once JR becomes worm food.