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Plesac takes me back to hawk and wimpy. With the right partner will be a lot of fun.

Totally, you can tell you really loves the Sox. Stone if he ever did has lost his passion. We still stink but at least we're more than competitive against the other bad teams this year.

He is inevitable

His approach is so mature for his age. The power will come. He is going to have some tremendous offensive seasons.

Yeah don’t tell us how important it is to find up the middle talent in the draft and then not do everything you can to develop Montgomery.

Law REALLY wanted to work that pun in

Imagine having that 93 team morph into that 94 monster team, then spearheading a strike to remove your team from a chance to go to the World Series, then selling off the next season when Cleveland is on the upswing. Could never be me

It was fun watching people scream about giving up Dane Dunning.

Maybe next year when he's a free agent. He'd be a better upside play than guys like Tauchman, Slater or Taylor.

McDougal is close to the innings he pitched last year. Maybe they’re gonna budget him the entire second half?

They are running the table in the 2nd half.

Cruz is so bad out there.

That was beautiful by Quero

This has been quite enjoyable so far

The Getz regime clearly prefers hitters that will work at bats and take their walks. Sosa walks at 2.7%. His best minors rate is about 5.5% which is well below a 10% preferred rate. If he got to 5.5 % his ops+ is closer to 110 which could work. He has always struggled at a level then improved. League average to slightly better is nothing to throw/give away. He is 25 years old so still time to improve with all facets of his game. He plays winterball. Wonder if he should try outfield then to further the utility profile

I also hate that he’s not playing SS, but I don’t think this is a case of them deciding Colson can’t play SS. I just think with a lefty pitching, this was a way to get the nine guys Venable wants out there into the lineup.

And if you have already decided these guys can't play a defensive position why in the world would you let them play it for years in the minors only to make them learn a new position in the majors, while also learning how to be a major leaguer? Let them at least be playing something familiar in the majors. It's not like they are being blocked by some superstar at the major league level that should block them defensively.

Almost like the stupid chucklefuck that was in charge of player development during the last regime was promoted.

For all of the talk about how new and great everything is, we still do nothing to put the kids in a position to succeed, just like we did during the last regime. Both Vargas and Montgomery at the peak values would be playing their toughest possible defensive positions, but we have already punted on that. Weird how that hasn't changed, right?

They need to start doing the constanza. Whatever they think is best, just do the opposite.

This idiot should be fired for letting Colson play anywhere but SS right now

Yea Sosa has some value on a contender looking for a fairly "safe" 1.5 WAR type to plug in at 2B. I think he's the obvious man out at the moment if we do decide to trade an IF. I like him, obviously, but a 2 WAR 2B isn't making any difference any time soon for our team if we can package him to get a quality like B+ type OF prospect that would be fine.

Don’t forget allowing the GM of his other team to run the greatest player of all time out of town a few years later. Orgs win championships you say? Seriously, get fucked Jerry.

Exciting. Joe Doyle talking glowingly about LaCombe recently.

I certainly cannot think of anyone willing to shoot BOTH feet

Law's draft review for the White Sox. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6500452/2025/07/18/al-central-draft-grades-picks-mlb-2025/?source=emp_shared_article

LaCombe since June. 20.6 innings 2r, 6w, 25k. MLB has him as our #29 prospect pre draft additions. Just turned 23 so needs to move up

@greg775 Try not to suck any Witt on the way to the Parking lot!

The Trade Winds forum is OPEN FOR BUSINESS.

Welcome back! Full slate today. McDougal for Bham https://www.mlb.com/prospects/stats/affiliates?teamId=145&date=07/18/2025 https://www.milb.com/scores/all/all/whitesox?affiliateId=mlbcom-milb

https://www.soxtalk.com/forums/forum/96-the-trade-winds/

They are both mid rotation ceilings IMO. Very similar to Dunning indeed. None of something that is great, but they are decent and seem to suck up innings in general.

Man, some of you just don't get that Burke has a chance to be really good. His stuff is better then Dunning. Don't sell cannon short either as a productive 4 or 5 for many years

And people wonder why most of us are ready for something new.

-It is universally thought of as one of the most underwhelming facilities in baseball, typically residing in the bottom three. -There is no aesthetic or beauty to the park. -There is only game day revenue from inside the park, as there is literally zero to do besides a game in the area. -They absolutely did nothing to take advantage of their location within Chicago to emphasize the view or skyline. -The commonly held belief is that the area it is isn't safe, despite the neighborhood around Wrigley having a higher crime rate.

Couldn't tell if him signing under slot was just a set-up for a bad pun or if that was a scenario.

It's almost like having a great young core in 2020 be ready to take the next step, only to bring in an ancient dinosaur of a manager to lead the team and watch nearly all of the players regress and rot away. But nobody would be dumb enough to do both of those things.

I just wish Sosa could field better because he seems to have the league ready bat

If you suck, you always have a hard schedule cuz you don’t get to play one of the worst teams, you.

And the year the Rangers won a World Series.

Oh greg the troll, how far you have fallen. Apologies for stealing your thunder @Quin

Its going to cost at least $900 million for the infrastructure for the 78. They are not going to spend that for 20 Chicago Fire soccer games. The 78 needs the White Sox at that location. The $900 million will come from the TIF funds.

just wake me when Dombrowski gets involved with some finality

1) Jerry Reinsdorf dies and his kids sell the team. 2) Reinsdorf actually goes through with this deal to sell to Ishbia, and he upgrades the team to MLB standards at a minimum.

It’s always the lower priced guys that do the best

"Massive power bat" is nice. James Taussig College & Amateur Leagues Statistics | Baseball-Reference.com

These three never would have overlapped. Expecting to keep elite SP past their arb years is silly for literally any org. Stupid mental exercise.

Yea same. Imagine chasing off an insider who routinely would feed the board tidbits on draft intel, trade info, and knowledge on the inner workings of the org. Shows how shitty and petty some of the posters here are.

Interesting study just published on the 2021 scouting event in the DSL. For the pitchers 93% had some rotator cuff pathology, 76% had Labrador pathology. 82% had UCL abnormalities. 70% had elbow osteophytes, 12% had non-union in the medial epiphyseal plate. 6 % of pitchers had complete tears of the UCL, 24% had partial tears. These kids are really pushing themselves just to get to these scouting events and are coming "pre-injured" to teams signing them.