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The Sox aren’t moving to Nashville or anywhere. Nashville will get an expansion team or nothing.

This series is exactly what baseball needs

How can you not love baseball

Ohtani has actually been terrible this series except for game 3.

The players don’t control how much the owner budgets to drafting, development, analytics, INT scouting, or to the major league payroll. The players have next to no impact on team construction. Every successful rebuild requires outside acquisitions somewhere. Perhaps the owner isn’t responsible for individual wins on a day to day basis, but to suggest ownership has no impact on winning is silly.

Yeah, it probably the White Sox who say the Schriff has to take a break. I know I like the broadcast better. McKnight might not be the greatest but at least he gives the audience some credit for having a clue as to what is going on.

It’s a bonus when Schriffen misses games. 🤣

It was also in all likelihood a "middle finger to the rest of the owners" free agent signing because JR was unhappy with what they settled for to end the strike. Also note that the Sox included a perfect opt-out clause that would allow Belle to declare free agency after only 2 seasons here. In the end, the Sox only paid Belle $20M total, not the $55M he was signed for.

k***’ eatin s%*# all over lol

Scherzer is getting the win. Would be very fitting for him.

Batavia beat Hoffman Estates 56-0, must have been something in the water. Hersey also won 56-0

Most of that WAR is gonna have to be developed internally. Between Hagen, Schultz, McDougal, Oppor, and lesser guys like Murphy, and all the guys coming back from injury, they have to find at least three guys to add to Shane Smith. I think it’s possible. You’re never gonna get 15 WAR outta the types of FA the Sox sign.

Or Keuchel 2.0?

This year’s FA class of pitchers is pretty meh. I would be fine with either a low dollar one year/milb contract with Fedde or maybe Perez, and I could see bringing back Houser, but multi-year deals for any of these guys feels like a bad idea. I just don’t want to end up watching the pitching equivalent of Benintendi.

Oops meant Liam Hendriks. Was one tier above Robertson, arguably.

Yeah, he snapped to, and was uncharacteristically good for short stretches this year. I just feel like he's got the big one (the career ending TJS) waiting for him.

The White Sox never signed Kimbrel. They acquired him for Nick Madrigal and he only played for us for 2 months appearing in 24 games for the South Siders. Dunn might be the closest to a top free agent that the Sox have signed, but he was nowhere near the same quality player as Tori Hunter, Manny Machado, or Bryce Harper. I can think of a lot of free agents over the years who were bigger difference makers than Adam Dunn. I wouldn't exactly call Grandal a marquee free agent. Maybe in White Sox World, a 4-year/$73M contract to a 31-year old catcher is considered an exorbitant, franchise centerpiece contract since he was the team's biggest contract ever at the time. Everyone else except the A's have handed out contracts over $100M. It was a good signing at the time, but I wouldn't exactly consider Grandal a franchise player. Robertson - again in White Sox World, that's a monster contract - $46M. A very good relief pitcher and great acquistion, yes. But a one-time all-star. For teams who are actually serious about winning signing someone like Robertson would just be one important piece to the puzzle. But for us, he's the one of the few shining examples of how Uncle Jerry really does spend on free agents.

Idk, watching Perez he kinda scares me. Soft tossing lefty, aging, he's bound at some point to just get hammered for like 4 straight starts and then will be fodder for the dfa

Actually, don't run anything. Hire good people and support them. Give them a reasonable amount of time and if their plan doesn't work move on.

Their business is headquartered in Chicago, and the purchasing brother is building a nine figure house in the burbs. Just because we haven't heard of talk, doesn't mean their hasn't been something happening behind the scenes. That is typically how this is done.

The clause that triggered his "out" was that he had to be among the top three players in the game.

Nearly 30 years ago. A baseball eternity.

Wheeler has been great for the Phillies, and he would have been a force at the top of the rotation here, but 26 y/o generational talents don’t come around very often on contracts that would be bargains after a few years. Losing out on Wheeler didn’t set the organization back the way bungling Machado & Harper did.