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Until they actually sign him I'm not going to worry about this.

SWINGCHANGE, EVERYONE DRINK!

Since the offseason is the chance to dream, If the Sox fix him I will donate 25 dollars to a local Jeep dealership in loving memory of Ursula.

“Recently, in 2019, Conforto was one of the top power hitters in the league. The Sox coaching staff has helped Mike make a few tweaks to his swing and he thinks this will be one of the biggest years of his career.”

This thread need a ConfortNo

I heard those donations actually go straight to the White Sox Assistant Director of Amateur Scouting.

Here’s my write up on the class: https://www.futuresox.net/2026/01/17/white-sox-ink-18-player-class-to-open/

Very next post: “I was a die hard Cub fan back then”

I can’t fathom him getting less than Ardolis Garcia. $8M to $10M is basically like 1 to 1.5 WAR money. I think his $20M salary is probably closer to reality.

Did you know Miguel Vargas made a swing adjustment at the end of April?

Seriously. Even an optimistic timeline should be September, not the Super 2 deadline. This kid has barely gotten wet, and hasn't experienced any failure or struggle. Let him simmer a bit.

Braden's played one season in minor league ball. He's had 143 PAs as high as AA, where he only OPSed .780. He still strikes out way too much. Some here have spoken about B.M. being up as soon as May, and I think that if he rakes at Birmingham, maybe he's up at or near the TDL?

DRINK!

In his defense, it’s really tough to get playing time on the Dodgers. Could immediately get at-bats in LF or RF here.

Holy s%*# he is going to be an all star. Swing improvements let’s go!!!!

Damn you. I read this in his voice and now I’m preemptively mad about a signing that won’t even happen.

Schriffen will love him.

That sucks. I remember those travel days and packing and getting to the next city is a nightmare. Those short trips make it too quick.

They made Purdy look slow. Meanwhile Purdy ran circles around the Bears defense.

Act like you've been drinking for years like a real Sox fan.

To finish the job that Rick Hahn couldn't do.

If Tucker is $60 million and Bo Bichette is 42 per, $20 million for Luis Robert is NOTHING.

Good for you on that opinion. I’m done arguing with people about Robert. Hopefully you can come back to this post and point out that I’m wrong

You know he's made the team when the talk turns from he's an asshole to he's our asshole and just misunderstood.

Like three days ago

The amount of fluff pieces on Kelenic in the local media tells me he might be a bigger part of the Sox' plans than we anticipate. White Sox' Jarred Kelenic ready to show swing improvements at spring training - Chicago Sun-Times Give him an honest shot to make the team. Please don't hold him up as some exemplar of experience in growth.

Lockout happening for sure now. 😏

NBA probably more likely. Cap complex, floor assures veterans getting paid. Nba would actually work pretty well on mlb too because issue in basketball is 2 elite guys are enough to carry. Thats not the case in baseball.

Because their revenue model is completely different.

Hey dude, Conforto used to be a 4 WARt player.

Super teams get built with Max contracts and salary caps too. Competitors want to play for winners. A salary floor probably fixes nothing.

The point is that baseball is a zero sum game when it comes to players. If more teams actually spent money on free agents then you wouldn’t have this problem. 20 of 30 teams have a payroll below $200 million. 7 below $100. There’s easily a billion dollars per year in potential salary pool to pry these guys away from LA. And if these other teams truly can’t afford to sign an Ohtani or Tucker away from LA, even with potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue sharing money per year, then they’re clearly terrible business people and should be forced to sell.

The Sox should be way closer to the Dodgers than the freaking Pirates and As. The freaking Padres can do it.

Again, two things can’t both be a problem. Got to stick to one thing and blame that at all costs…it’s the American way!

Again, why is this an either/or thing? Both are fucking problems and should be addressed.

Or, we could just move our own surplus IFs to the OF and save our assets.

Hahahahaha

Illinois is going to lose the Bears, aren’t they?

Good SoxMachine article on Kelenic's set-up change: Jarred Kelenic comes to the White Sox with a swing adjustment already in the works - Sox Machine

As far as I know, Shaw got permission from his team to miss a game to attend a memorial service, and he also discussed it with some of his teammates. Regarding Kelenic, I never said that he was a completely awful teammate but I did see more incidents that could potentially associate him with that status than with Shaw. I am too lazy to find links for everything so here is what Google AI spit out…

Flipping topics here, I heard (not sure how true) on radio that Indiana will pay for the Bears stadium. The radio conversation was that the Bears make billions so they should not move. I still am of the thought that the McCaskey family has wealth from owning the Bears but it is mostly on paper. Yes they have money but not enough to walk away from the offer. Indiana knows what it is doing. They can build for $2B what will cost Illinois $3B. Tie it in with Hard Rock Casino. It's closer to me than Arlington Heights.

Tomlin is done in Pittsburgh.

Loveland was the most athletic TE I've ever seen at UM and we've had some good ones. He has unreal hands and fluidity for a guy that big. Some of the catches he made in big spots for UM were the definition of "game breaker". In the championship game against UW he caught a ball that I think even 90% of NFL TEs don't catch and he made about 40 yards out of it, got UM the momentum back. I believe it would have setup 3rd and long if he didn't catch it, instead it was a huge chunk play. He tried to play through a badly injured shoulder his junior year in a season that was over really before it began with Alex Orji and Davis Warren the QBs. He could have just shut up shop and gotten ready for the draft but he reinjured it instead and it cost him his first NFL training camp and lord knows how many weight room days leading up to the combine. He's a gamer on top of everything else and wants to play even when it might cost him personal stats if he can help the team anyway he can. Willing blocker and has a mean streak too. Other than maybe not being roided up like Brock he has no weaknesses. Create a player type guy.

I'm a Broncos fan

I appreciate Cairo even more after last night.

I wrote the international signing preview for FutureSox here: https://www.futuresox.net/2026/01/03/2026-white-sox-international-signing/

I’ll have preview out this weekend for FutureSox. They have some monster classes coming if the rules stay the same.