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I fear you are going to be really disappointed in Munetaka Murakami

A true collector’s item…

How can this be if they don't have Luke Keaschall?

The message that of course the White Sox couldn’t pay a couple million to significantly improve a prospect return because the message that the White Sox need money and are poor poor poor and deserve all the bailouts and a tax cut and a new stadium is a message we could never hear anywhere else.

This isn’t necessary. Sincerely, f*** off. I understand wanting more than Luke Keashall if eating $$ was necessary. They still ultimately made a very underwhelming trade though.

Polanco completely forgot how to hit last season and hasn't played SS regularly since 2020. Not sure he offers more defensive utility than Rojas, and certainly not at twice the cost.

Acquiring Vargas instead dropped them to #2.

Such a development success story.

Your follow-through to look it up and do the math is appreciated.

Mr. 3000! Only 2,762 to go

He might get hurt signing the contract.

Jealous anyone?

Damn you blew it. Was quite the streak of unresponded to comments

They've been able to take pitchers in rounds 2+ and turn them into major league starters. Once they're able to do that with hitters, they will have a bona fide minor league development system.

This is heartening, but it will be nice if they can get guys like Wolkow, Bonemer, and Saucke hitting like major leaguers.

Obviously it's cool that we're viewed as having a strong farm system, but my main takeaway is that we're ushering in a new Evil Empire in baseball with the Dodgers having more money than god AND the top prospect pool to play with.

I dont think it's quite that good but it's in the Top 10 for sure.

I would 100% take Crawford right now. Sounds like The Phillies wouldn’t do it, but if they had some balls and actually want to beat the Dodgers in the post season they should swing for the fences with a Robert trade.

“Jerry shouldn’t throw good money against a bad rigged game” ”might as well come out to some games” and put money in the pocket of the owner who won’t spend 😂😂😂 all time favorite tray boot lick right here. And in consecutive sentences, right after he calls his fellow fans peons this guy is the man of the Sox people

Jerry won’t pay for pretty much anything to improve returns, minor league depth is worse than ever, the teams in front of us by 40-50 games have similarly ranked farms systems, but things are magically going to be fixed. Death spiral is a perfect way to describe this franchise right as they pat themselves on the back telling us how great of a job by refusing to do even a decent part of what it takes to win today in MLB.

The industry's changing as MLB tries to condense minor league levels. They're proposing eliminating a minor league level in the next 5-10 years. Keith Law is saying that minor league depth is much worse than in the recent past. Prospects aren't given the leeway to suck for a couple of years while they learn the professional game. Somehow, that becomes a victory for the people who hate baseball, and criticize their teams relentlessly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_mill

If it looks bad for the front office if published, of course our insiders “wouldn’t buy it”.

Plus you put Sasaki being able to make his own choice after a few seasons playing professional baseball on the Dodgers that tends to tip the scales quite a bit more than a trade that never happened likely due to multiple reasons. Plus it continues the trend of negative focuses no matter what good news pops up. I don't think Getz has done a great job but he is balancing the scales a bit after he probably wasn't quite prepared how to approach his 1st season as GM under Reinsdorf's monetary restrictions. He's done much better since the Grifol firing to bring in new people highly thought of in development circles. He's clearly leaning on Bannister to try to develop and create arms out of thin air. Among the 6 Sox prospects in the top 100 ESPN also put 5 Sox in the 101-200 range, most closer to 200 than 101. So if other ranking services did the same the 2nd 100 would be a lot different than the 1st 100 is from each ranking system. 2024 sucked from the MLB perspective but it was pretty good from the MiLB scene. Of course it was jump started by the trades made before Getz was hired just to be fair about it. I know it also got a huge boost from Crochet unexpectedly coming out of nowhere to pitch more innings than almost anyone thought possible. It happened under Getz' , Bannister's and Katz' watch but not everyone wants to say they had anything to do with it despite Crochet himself praising those involved. Being fair is not everyone's cup of tea. Many vloggers and bloggers are starting to see some progress and every new hire has been pretty eloquent expressing the necessary optimism inherent in coaching youth and the opportunity to work from the ground up on building something strong. They're doing pretty much the only thing they can without much allocated to player payroll. How long it takes to see anything resembling even a .500 team is anyone's guess. The franchise still has many different directions it can travel in the next 5+ years.

Madrigal has to go down as one of the worst draft picks in history. He has to be one of the lowest ceiling players ever takin in the top 5 at least in recent draft history. He had zero percent chance of playing SS, zero percent chance of being a high impact base stealer and less than zero percent chance of ever developing power. Just an absolute abomination of a top 5 pick.

https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/news/tim-anderson-ready-for-new-chapter-with-angels-2025 Kind of an apt summary for Sox fans too getting nothing out of the rebuild "We did fall short of what the plan was, and it was disappointing,” Anderson said. “We kind of got nothing out of the deal, you know? Just some real moments, but the whole goal was to win a World Series. So, we kind of fell short of that. It goes down to each individual, how bad you wanted it." "We can look over the course of those years, and we can tell who wanted it and who didn’t, from top to bottom. If you ask people throughout those years who laid it on the line and who fought for what we were trying to accomplish ... that’s enough to say about that.”

Tim is always a thoughtful guy. I appreciate the quotes you shared, I’ll read the full article later on. But I’m really rooting for him. I’m skeptical of the profile, babip merchant that can’t play d, but I’m always rooting for him.

I don’t think Keaschall was ever a realistic option personally.

In a way, technically haha #61 prospect now per mlb.com above 3 of the Dodgers T100 (and just above Quero).

I wonder if someone can fail a physical for not being physical.

"They've only put themselves in a better position to compete with the White Sox..." KW

Really sucks how damn expensive tickets are now. Always wanted to go to the Rumble, but not for 350 a ticket just to get in the building

They have done nothing to change that narrative why should we expect anything different?

And friend

https://sports.yahoo.com/even-with-all-the-dodgers-spending-there-will-never-be-a-salary-cap-in-major-league-baseball-204545090.html

They have? Are we talking about the Guardians?

Sox probably asking for Arroyo + Collier in return.

Sox need to hold onto Robert until the trade deadline, gives us something to talk about.

Eh…if you’re not sure if the guy is going to stick at SS then the thing you want for him is time to focus on being a SS. Reps at SS, drills and practice at SS. Play him there until you decide you’re moving him, because once you move him, he should spend all his time improving at that position. Id also worry that playing 3b even part time might be an issue for his back, if that is the problem.

Too young for us

Thorpe not eligible for this list and he was the centerpiece. Honestly, there is still time for that trade to pay off, but they need one sure fire contributor out of it and it can’t just be Iriarte as a setup guy. Either Thorpe has to come back healthy with a bit more velocity than we saw and make his fastball less hittable or Iriarte has to correct his fastball shape and get his K rate back in check or Zavala has to fix his swing / approach and be a dude who can make some contract and impact a baseball.

You don’t think Jerry is pushing for the organization to operate profitably again on annual basis? Come on man, he’s leading the charge…

Re-watching Ted Lasso with my better half in the evenings and I said to her the other day "boy, these Richmond fans really love their club no matter what" and my wife commented "kinda like you and the White Sox" to which I responded "Not any more, I hate them." I then proceeded to check in at Soxtalk.

I don't think the White Sox should be eating any $$. He makes $15 million this year. It's perfectly reasonable.

I'm still hoping during spring training a team decides they're a bat short and offers something decent for him.

I’m not counting that offense out until I see it fail. Regardless of who is calling plays, the offensive personnel is elite and should be able to overcome any changes

Return was fine. Could have been better.

I’m in my joker era, I’m choosing all three MUAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAH

You’re just a hater, troll, or Cubs fan bro

Show your books or shut up…that’s where I’m at with these owners crying poor. I don’t expect every team to be the Dodgers, but I’ll never believe these teams can’t turn a healthy profit spending $120+M on the roster

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.