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This is fine. We have a stockpile of quality pitching.

I absolutely loathe the Sox offseason. It makes no fucking sense.

True, but he’s the only one with the potential to put up big numbers and carry the team for a week or two. If he’s traded, this year’s roster makes last year’s roster look solid.

Come on, Eddy's just having a little fun with it...laughing at himself, if anything.

Always do a couple of months of rest and rehab first I know the majority of people on here just want to cut and push the athletes like pieces of meat but they are people. You avoid surgery at all costs, first.

That’s like Scott Merkin’s opinion, man.

And as I've stated here many times for all these signings, I'd rather just play the fringe young guys. If you're not going to see what you have with those types coming off a 121 loss season, while almost certainly staring at another well into triple digit loss total, may as well try to find out who can help you in the future. None of these garbage heap vet signings will help the Sox in the future, and even if they play amazing, you're getting trash in return. It's a terrible strategy.

Sure it does, they have no idea what they’re doing. When you view it through the lens that the entire organization is clueless…it makes sense

I am impressed he could type that while laughing at it.

Taking a victory lap because the guy wasn't good enough to be claimed by another MLB team is quite the flex.

It’s just trolling from a dude who appears addicted to derailing every thread

Why the f*** do they always wait until Spring training to do this? He was injured in September? Why must they constantly turn 1 lost season into 2.

Maybe rest and rehab? Can we delay a little bit more?

That lineup is scary, as expected, for all the wrong reasons.

This isn't a way to run a franchise. Have the fans wondering if you possibly can have a worse record this year than 2024. Absolutely no moves of consequence in the offseason. If we win 60 games he's manager of the century.

I had the lowest of expectations heading into the offseason, and somehow Getz managed to disappoint. Every signing seems to be of someone with absolutely no upside.

Had a solid .253 OBP last season, and is entering his ge 34 season, so you expect him to only get better.

$1.95M guaranteed deal. I really don't see how Robert isn't dealt soon.

We seem to be forgetting that Robert put up 0.5 fWAR last year, OPSing .657.

Robtert to the Mets makes a lot of sense. Take back Marte to even out the money for the Mets and grab two of their higher offensive prospects.

Before this ends up in the toilet, this is probably the most important post in this thread.

The Barons crushed him in my one look, so I may not be as high on him as others, but is it wrong that his hair is a dealbreaker for me? You got a first round bonus. Spring for some conditioner.

I feel bad for Bush as he is a young father and this year was a great opportunity for him. A year from now, he may be staring up at Schultz and Smith in the rotation and earning a shot would be that much harder. At least it explains why a guy who looked so good in AA could look how he did in the majors. Best of luck to him and his family.

"Old guy acquired in Cease trade cleared waivers after being DFA'd, thus improving trade" is certainly a viewpoint.

Didn't they know Steven Wilson was available?

Hopefully. It's been missed by more than the White Sox. Lorenzo Barcelo was supposed to be the prize of the White Flag trade. But he was always too hurt. They could never find anything. KW literally called him a p****. Turns out he needed elbow and shoulder surgery.

Thorpe has no structural damage currently. Tommy John right now would be a very surprising outcome.

You beat me to this. I was gong to say, "You mean along with Thorpe?"

Buckle up boys, this is going to be a rerun of last year.

Except they would have gotten him the year he collapsed, and not the year after like Getz.

If they don’t give Sosa an extended look in what will very likely be another 100+ loss season it would be an absolutely travesty. I pray they don’t prioritize giving a roster spot to Drury over him.

I think Brandon Drury will be on the team as well. Curious to see about an out of options Lenyn Sosa.

Nashville will not pay for a new stadium…full stop.

Yeah I still don’t get the Drury thing.

Man, I forgot about him. The Sox have a TON of guys for the infield. Let's just hope they end up with the best possible combination of players (he typed, trying not to laugh).

I see multiple DH’s in that lineup and Ramos isn’t one of them. It’ll be interesting to see how Venable mixes and matches things.

Rojas 3B Baldwin SS Sosa 2B Vargas/Ramos DH

All I have to say is let the young guys play

My God when you actually see this on paper it could actually be worse than the garbage on the team collectively from last year. https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/news/white-sox-2025-opening-day-roster I have flashbacks to the original movie "Major League." 🤯

No, I just don't think people like Shane Drohan should be included in any discussion about legit pitching prospects. If you just mean he's "a" prospect then sure, but that was not the nature of our conversation and you know it. Its questionable if this team even has 1 strong player on its 40 man roster, but you just declared that they have 5 strong starting pitchers headed into 2025. We definitely are not speaking the same language.

Man I think you're falling into the same trap you did last season when you touted the bullpen etc. This team doesn't even have 1 strong starter, the rotation is hot garbage man. I don't understand where this line of thinking comes from.

I certainly wouldn’t count on that

Their random American sports coverage might be AI-driven now (like Sports Illustrated tried to do under the radar), but it has existed for years as a clickbait farm.

In general, I hate using spring training to decide on a prospect. But this goes triple for Montgomery. Montgomery’s problems last year as far as we know were some combination of a lingering back injury, an inability to hit fastballs, and maybe some personal issues. In spring training, he won’t be playing every day and on days he does play he may get taken out early. So, if he has a back injury that might flare up when playing everyday, spring training does a poor job of testing it. Furthermore, in the spring, many pitchers aren’t throwing their hardest because they’re building up their arms. Combine that with guys working on specific things and the occasional A ball pitcher who takes over in the 7th inning, and it’s hard to say anything meaningful about a good performance because fastballs will get tougher in April. Send him to Charlotte, let him play everyday, let him show me he can handle that pitching and stay healthy, and we can see him in May. If he can’t, if he can’t catch up with fastballs or his back can’t play everyday, then we will be happy we didn’t start his big league clock. One obvious risk is you call him up and he has an ongoing back problem, you wind up with the situation like Kopech where you burn through a bunch of his control.

Out of curiosity, what metrics were you referring to that helped him at 2B?

God that Cease trade was pathetic

I think Sosa has to start at 2nd. He really came on at the end of last year.....this team has to figure out if Sosa himself has figured some things out in the MLB. He has a lively bat that has a ALMOST Marcus Simien type pop.

So, where are you sitting in full Padre regalia on the 18th? Bleachers or above the dugouts?