Leaderboard

Opening Day?

@caulfield12 seems to be taking this news well

Welcome to Soxtalk! 😀

I tried to include that when I mentioned the offense. Kingsbury has been excellent, guys are doing their jobs, and it is working, but Daniels making throws and runs has been notable as the icing on the cake.

baseball is pointless to watch now, and it's even more pointless if you're a Sox fan I'm hoping that Sox attendance drops significantly next year to the point that it damages the brand for at least a decade. they all deserve worse.

$1.1 trillion... You just somehow spent more than the Dodgers and the GDP of the entire country!!!

No they WANTED the money already spent 11 months before that, so it wouldn’t go to waste at the end of the period.

Thanks. God forbid anyone express any optimism about anyone. Negativity until proven otherwise.

The last swing was absolutely nuked.

This truly is the doldrums. The Sox Twitter feed I set up is all Bears' head coaching arguments.

Caulfield, take a break from Soxtalk for at least 48 hours for the rest of us.

Why is everyone concerned about how good the Dodgers are? There are 28 teams between the Sox and the Dodgers right now. Achieve “not the worst team ever” and then we can start worrying about the Dodgers.

What? This is fuckin weird.

He was their hitting coach last year and they won the Southern League title

https://www.futuresox.net/2025/01/17/white-sox-international-class-comes-i/

https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/story/2025-01-18/dodgers-roki-sasaki-mlb-investigation MLB finds no evidence of pre-existing handshake deal with Sasaki before posting.

Washington has a legitimate GM. The Bears shitshow hired Waldron over Kingsbury. I think Raiders give Johnson a crazy amount of money and Bears end up with their Johnson blowing in the wind.

It's funny that people being light-hearted about the Sox makes you so desperately angry.

I had to bring back this epic post. What baseball people and players? Players that Getz fished out of a dumpster and managed to sign for peanuts? Why not Sasaki? Because he isn’t fucking stupid.

Can you send some of those STEM thinkers over to do unpaid internships with the Sox analytics dept.?

I will give you one thing, your classmates could learn a lot from your water carrying work ethic. Maybe they too could spend days defending the undefendable.

I had some hope this past offseason for the first time in a long time, but I was wrong.

The Commanders aren't a dysfunctional franchise. I don't know where you got the idea the Bears would be anywhere close to what Washington Commanders are today. As long as the McCaskeys own the Bears, they will keep being a shitshow.

The Sox aren’t Cleveland even though we all wish they could be as good. The Sox are a fucking dung heap compared to how well the Guardians run their team. You already knew this though. I’ve never seen so much apologizing for every stupid, cheap, and lazy move the Sox make. It’s quite impressive.

You act like this isn’t a common theme of the White Sox. They usually trade their cash away for garbage.

Very few from last years international class are coming stateside. Jurdrick Profar is and Yhoiker Fajardo was going to prior to being traded.

You got a weird way of referring to yourself in the third person, no one.

Save the excuses, no one really cares.

I agree. Also of note to the people screaming for the Sox to sign dudes in the last weeks of December with what's left in their allotment, all the known guys are signed. It's like we want them to scour the beaches for young guys throwing rocks in the water, and if somebody looks like a pitcher, give him $100k.

The Padres doled out massive contracts like candy and now it's bit them in the ass. They aren't exactly a poverty franchise. No one held Preller at gun point and forced him to do the Boagerts deal or constantly empty the farm. Yes, the Dodgers can spend more. Just like the Yankees and Mets can. But the Padres have been using all of their ammo and now their fans are moaning that baseball is unfair? Their franchise is practically built on the hubris and stupidity of the White Sox. Blue Jays fans, I get it. Padres fans are just being whiny.

They call him the "WestEddy" of the Padres' board... https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/how-roki-sasaki-shohei-ohtani-compare-as-pitchers-at-the-same-age/

I feel like this is reserved for Deshaun Watson or Julio Urías

I hate it, but yeah, this.

Meanwhile, MLB's leaguewide revenues reportedly grew to $11.6 billion last season -- a figure that represented year-to-year growth. "We've had a good year," commissioner Rob Manfred said during the World Series. "Our business was strong."

If they win a couple, that’s an easy way to get me to lose interest in baseball. its no fun when the villain wins every time.

Dodgers are baseball oligarchy.

Nobody else had a seat at the table. This was decided 2 years ago.

Come on, it’s hard to complain about this one they didn’t shell out some crazy contract. Amazing place to live, top tier team, close to Japan, another Japanese superstar on the roster. Why wouldn’t you choose them?

Baseball is so fucking broken

What's so funny about it? He had success last year. Can players who weren't all that great not be good coaches or something?

More career home runs than Charley Lau and Walt Hriniak combined

You're conjuring up nightmares of him and Jerry Dybs.

No date for Dick Allen bobblehead day yet hmm

Tito Fucking Landrum, that is his given name is it not, was the PTBNL from the Orioles to the Cardinals after being traded the other direction.

Pitching factory in Toronto. They keep players healthier by and large. Favor splitter usage there...his favorite pitch. Asian community/intl city. Direct flights to Japan. Still play against Yankees Os Red Sox etc. Less media attention by far compared to LAD. Insulated from wildfires and earthquakes...father and grandparents died in a natural disaster in Japan. Also Insulated from border with Mexico in terms of safety.

You get to be the guy.

Yep. He did not have a good first season. I don't think the Sox are gonna bring him stateside this year, which would be a terrible sign. Herrera was a typical Sox International: R/R mature physically, power over hit, defensive questions as to whether he'll stick at 3rd. Cruz is rail-thin with much more projection left, hit over power, and supposedly a very good defender. But he's still a Paddy guy and Keller sounded a little skeptical in his presser. We'll see.

Go Brooks...you da man!