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I wrote about Kelenic today: https://www.futuresox.net/2026/01/01/white-sox-add-jarred-kelenic-to-jumbl/

What a fucking clown to do this after incorrectly saying we got him last night

Chicago White Sox is like “ok, So it’s a negative of a double negative, and I think that makes it a positive but I’m not sure, but he also negated another prior negative so that’s like *counts fingers on hand* five or maybe even six negatives. We are golden, fellas!”

This deal wouldn’t make much sense for Sox. If he’s good, you basically signed him to a one year deal and paid his posting fee for his next team. If I had to guess, Sox were ok with money and years but not the opt out after year 1.

Phillip Rivers has inspired a wave of 40+ year old athletes.

@Chicago White Sox will be holding a wake at his house at 4 pm, if you want to pay your respects for the club's loss of Imai. Coffee and pastries will be provided.

I don't know what happened last night. But Bob is legit. Harold was legit, etc. I sat this one out because I have an actual career and the nonsense isn't worth my time. I'm not sure Sox were ever even in this one. Jerry was never doing a deal with opt-outs.

Finally a reason to hate the Astros.

You’d think he would have took the 3 minute journey to disprove entire countries before the original tweet.

I actually wouldn’t be surprised if they were in on him once he was looking for a shorter term, but bowed out once opt-outs came into play.

I couldn’t vote “No” any quicker

No shot, they’re not competing in 2026 anyways. Smith needs to work on so much anyways.

For those who need more confirmation that Moccbomb is a fraud, he reported Imai signed with the Cubs.

Hey, before you go attacking posters who actually wanted Imai, just remember we had this in the bag before you decided to body shame the little guy!

Or... hear me out. He's as good as his contract. This place runs as follows. "OH we should sign this guy!" "Oh we NEED this guy." *signs with another team to completely reasonable contract* "Phew, we really dodged a bullet boys. Glad Jerry didnt spend his money on this guy. Gotta save it for the next guy" Rinse and repeat year after year.

boras is a wizard. Horrible deal for Stros. All downside no upside.

Jerry is just saving the bag for Tucker.

#BobWasRight

RIP

Just realized this guy is likely 5'10.

This guy gets it!

Just went through and read his messages. What a geek.

The dude literally flip-flopped in all of 10 minutes at almost 1 AM Central Time on New Year’s Eve/Day. Does he have spyware on Getz’s phone? It’s almost like he quickly realized that the tweet that he was responding to that @ChiSoxFanMike shared here earlier that said Imei’s signing was imminent was simply a repeat of the original Yahoo Japan news.

Not worried yet. It’s not really their style. Sox can just take the player. He’ll sign. Only potential issue is not knowing how much you have throughout rest of draft.

I'm sorry but I have to use some serious sarcasm here: You're right, starting out in the bullpen just destroyed Chris Sale and Garrett Crochet. Oh my God! It ruined both of them and their careers! I am surprised that so many people are against this. Do the fans here have no sense of history, no memory of Sale and Crochet? I've been thinking the Sox should move him up for the bullpen since watching him in the AFL. He is a strikeout machine, and since the Barons' playoff run and in the AFL, his walk problem has really improved (or become less bad). Plus the White Sox really need help from the left side in the bullpen. Plus, with a quality bullpen (Get a closer, Getz), I think there is a very real possibility that the White Sox will be competitive next year. (My definition of competitive is to win around 75 games and be able to claim you're in the hunt for the last wild card spot into early September) Plus, I want to go one step further: After you put Hagen in the bullpen, now you can start working on making Grant Taylor the starter that he wants to be and should be. Are we not worried about Taylor's psychological makeup at this point in his career? Only Hagen's?

Don't we have that in Tristan Peters and Dustin Harris?

Honestly, I’m fine with going cheap in the OF for now as long as they add another decent SP and leverage reliever. I think some combination of Benintendi/Baldwin/Pereira/Kelenic can hold it down in the corners for the time being.

Agreed. The numbers can especially be misleading for pitchers because we don’t know what they are being asked to work on.

That sounds like a restaurant in Hawaii that serves great Japanese Polynesian fusion.

Paying the Ron Tax to start the new year. Wish ignored users wouldn't show up on my threads as well.

The problem with Kelenic, and this has been true ever since his first MLB season in Seattle, is that he's incapable of playing CF and is in fact a below average corner player as well. He's -16 runs below average in a corner for his career. It's fine to pencil in 240/300/400 as a cromulent CF or even an above avg corner OF, but being below average puts so much pressure on his bat. Very similar profile to Beni imo. Kelenic has a much better arm but their sprint speed and range metrics are similar. Beni was objectively pretty fast when he was in his mid 20s according to statcast, but has fallen off to below 50th percentile in his 30s. Kelenic, either through injury or just premature aging, was a horrific 19th percentile in sprint speed last year. He was 70th percentile just a couple years ago. Something has sapped his athletic ability. And because this is a forum and not a court of law I'd speculate he was a juicer in his late teens and early 20s and for whatever reason has stopped. A shorter guy carrying 200 lbs that "naturally" as a teen isn't usual. I'm not sure there's any there there, which of course is why he's basically a NRI at this point in his career. For a former 6th overall pick that's gross. Maybe it lights a fire under him and he finds that stroke and athletic ability again. I highly, highly doubt it. He'll probably be cut in camp imo.

it worked for Sale and Crochet. Seemingly it's a viable way to get acclimated to MLB. Although, I see Schultz more so in that role than Hagen based on their respective injury histories. In a perfect world, Schultz and Hagen both come up and start and relegate Kay and Newcomb to the bullpen though. I voted "yes" but I wanted to vote "I dunno, maybe, it depends".

I think thats what they used to call the children who benefitted from Jerry Lewis hosting the Muscular Dystrophy Telethons for many years. Jerry's Kids was in the vernacular back then.

Also Y2jimmy0 I completely get that the Yahoo article kind of gained alot of steam. But it only took this guy a tweet from a Japenese reporter(I guess that's what he was?!) retweeting from the same article for the guy to start waffling about what's happening. For me I don't grade on a scale of if you get there that's all that counts. I think all of on here take your reports as gospel but I don't think you put out anything that your not 100 percent on.

Heard sox had the best offer, but the oompa loompa jokes here pushed him to the stros.

This dude is now giving me a sob story about how much hate he got last night. I have to say I don't know how we have all these weirdos who say they have sources but they are all amusing in their own way.

Yeah, gotta make sure we save that money for Jerry's kids.

Yep. Dude is a clown and a sham. He didn’t say we got him, but he did waffle and say there was some hope… for all of 3 minutes cuz he bought into some random Japanese dude’s overreaching tweet.

I gave him a little s%*# for doing this.

Alright so I missed all this from last night...but this guy was acting like he was getting live updates like JFK during the Cuban Missle Crisis. That was embarassing. He's still probably right but that was not a good look.

The fact he was nervous enough to say it was a possibility it all I needed to know.

Yeah, regardless of what happens, this late night (actually early morning) wishy-washiness makes me think NBB is a sham like most of the others.

Uh-oh, now NBB is getting on board and NBB is legit per @Y2Jimmy0 and @fathom. @Chicago White Sox is going to be busting geysers once he sees this.

Somewhere in the ‘States, Imai is very intoxicated, and most likely smoking cigarettes. Good times

Paying Robert’s salary up to the trade deadline would be around $13 million dollars.

Even if it was never going to happen, whoever in the Sox FO that is allowing the trolling to take place getz it.

Maybe he hits a bunch of dongs there and gets another chance in the majors next offseason. I do like the Kelenic pickup over him though.

What the hell is happening.