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It's 100% on what Ishbia wants to pay for.

You basically listed out a 90th percentile outcome for every player and said this is what you think will happen. I’m not looking to poop on anyone’s parade, but all of that happening is way too unrealistic. You essentially have a 60 win team jumping 20 to 25 games as your base case assumption. Beyond that, you think a team coming off triple digit losses should rush prospects that aren’t fully developed to fill major league needs. I’m all for optimism, but we aren’t even remotely close enough ready to start sacrificing our future to win a couple extra games now.

Sweet

Issue: Bears could choose Indiana over Illinois for their new stadium. Response: ThE TeAcHeRs UnIoNs ArE to BlAmE!!!!!! ThEy CoNtRoL IL ElEcTiOns!!!!!!!

I have a really hard time viewing the Jerry Reinsdorf owned White Sox as victims. The system most designed to screw the Sox is the one JR operates.

Tragic really.....and did you know The root word of tragic is the Ancient Greek tragos, meaning "goat" or "billy-goat". It originates from tragoidia, translating to "goat song" (a combination of tragos and oide, "song"), likely referring to the goat-skin garments worn by performers in Dionysian festivals or the goats given as prizes in early Greek dramatic competitions.

MLB is wrong.

I agree and keep saying that my O/U is 75 wins. Baldwin, Colson, Sosa, Quero, Teel, Vargas, Meidroth - half may do better, half may fall back. That may still balance out to the offense that was on a 70-win clip from the ASB on. Your starters gave you 7.2 fWAR in 2025 (less some starts using openers - I don't know how to filter for that on FanGraphs - even still, just looking at total data gets you to 8.4 fWAR for "starters" in 2025.). That's less than 2 WAR apiece across 5 starters for 2026's rotation to match or do better than. The bullpen looks stronger. That's got to pull them up closer to their Pythagorean. Murakami, Acuña - The White Sox clocked in with a -0.4 (minus) fWAR in 2025 at 1B. I think Murakami could top that. The Sox did 2.3 fWAR in CF last year, so maybe they give a little of that back, and cancel out gains at 1B. But for me, the baseline for the 2026 team is 70 wins if they do status quo, and 75+ if some dudes progress. If guys like Colson, Murakami, Shane Smith and Burke show any part of their ceiling, .500 wouldn't surprise me. It takes a lot of wish-casting to get them to "competitive" for the wild card. But hey, I love me some wish-casting.

Like Ramos on the Cards though. He actually has a path to playing time there.

Fantastic news on both accounts. I was confident that Iriarte would make it through waivers due to his stuff (and results) going backwards, but was uncertain if Romo would as well. Glad we’ll have him in AAA and gives us more flexibility to make a Lee trade if we so choose now.

He must have been the DFA for Blaze Alexander. I wonder how Orioles Hideout, or whatever they're called is reacting to that.

Flip a coin with Taco Bell

It's going to be a long one. I'm going to enjoy this year as much as I can.

The Tiger’s payroll is up to $215 million, more than double the limit for the Sox. They have a larger revenue stream, and bigger attendance. And yet, they have a Competitive B pick they cannot lose. The current system is complete BS and seems designed to largely screw one team: The Sox. The frickin’ Cardinals get bonus picks for crying out loud. I hope to God it changes in the next CBA so that every team operates under the same rules.

I was kind of surprised to not see people here talking about him getting a shot to start. He threw 101 innings last year, a lot of multiple inning outings, I think he would be primed to start and get up to 140-150 innings this year. He should be given the shot, would be awesome if he turned into a good starter. He started in the minors and he pitched well enough last year

No way that 102 is a reference to his current mph...right?

The Sox have 4 decent to good lefty options right now. It’s one area Getz seems to have focused on. Not sure they would be interested.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2026/02/dodgers-designate-anthony-banda-for-assignment.html?utm_source=twitter Anthony Banda DFA'd. I'd love it if we could pick him up, lefty with solid recent ERAs and way more deserving of a roster spot than say Tyler Gilbert

I have 3 (Brondell). 4 if you count one in a morothome (with no heated feature - more the Winston-Salem model)

*English Nerd Warning!! I'm currently teaching Beowulf Hwæt! I am the Filth-Slayer, foe of the Tree-Scraper! I wash the Seat-King whiter than the Pale-Hose. I wield the Wave-Spear, a pure South-Side-Surge. The Shadow-Stain is vanquished. Next we could go medieval and have a story telling contest between the players while on a road trip.

I said when they first claimed him this would be their plan, but figured the Orioles would wait more than a couple of days to try and sneak him through.

I think a week

I hope Romo clears but doubtful.

You keep forgetting The White Sox Are Coming, Tra La, Tra La!!!!

There's a few angles that make sense. We can argue until we're blue in the face about the timing, and the direction over time, but... This is a very good draft. They have a shot of being very very bad rest of the year and positioning themselves in a way that they have a shot at an elite player. I think it's a really deep draft too, so 10th might be great. They're freeing up a ton of cap space, and acquiring a ton of picks (obviously 2nd round picks are basically worth nothing so big gripe here). So they could try and trade for Zion this off-season, say, and sign Austin Reaves while getting a high draft pick. They won't because we're the Bulls, and we're a joke, but it's there for the taking.

Statcast has some flaws too. It still needs a decent sample size. We often just look at the numbers but forget about how big the sample is they are grading. I used to constantly tell people that despite Andrew Vaughn's adequate LF rating his 1st year in the OF that he was much too slow for that assessment to mean anything going forward. He caught what he was supposed to catch and didnt botch fielding hits. But there is batted ball luck for fielders too and he didn't get a lot of difficult chances and once the sample size got bigger we'd get a more accurate read. And we did. No one with Baldwin's speed should get a 4 out of 100 in Range like we see on Baseball Savant. We saw him look bad on some routine stuff. Reading flyballs off the bat takes time. Doesnt seem like he's spent too much time in the OF in his life. If his bat develops like we saw in the 2nd half of the season and the reps improve his range his upside is high 700 or low 800 OPS. At that point it'll be his defense that determines how high his WAR can get. I don't think his arm will rack up assists so he'll have to improve his defensive fundamentals. If everything works out he's our future Leftfielder with Braden M. in RF. Venable has already said to keep an eye on Baldwin early in the season at Soxfest.

I prefer Mune’s bidets.

Interesting discussion with Laurence Holmes on WGN TV with Tahman Bradley about the Bears stadium IL vs. IN saga: https://wgntv.com/video/104-3-the-scores-laurence-holmes-talks-bears-potential-move-to-indiana-the-point/11496735/ A few takeaways if you don't want to watch the 10 minute video: - Bears stadium deal with IL was a lot closer to being done than Bears were leading people to believe - IL officials surprised by the timing of Warren's letter given the progress they've made - Warren/Bears didn't have a good understanding of city/county/state politics officials and that hurt their progress. They have a better understanding now. - Holmes thinks a deal for AH will get done, but the chances of them moving to Indiana are not zero.

Pardon if this was mentioned already, but I just saw on mlbtr that Vasil is preparing as a starter?

Best Old English poem since Beowulf.

This sounds like something George Costanza would want to be installed in his office and the clubhouse. " If they feel cleaner there, they will feel better and they will play better"

Better / not terrible / entertaining…sure. Good enough to rush prospects to fill major league roles when we have numerous long-term holes in the rotation? Not even close IMO.

Disgusting

Least surprising player arbitration win ever.

Dang we can’t even have clean butt talk around here

🤣 It's not like a hot tub jet or a firehose.

This is the comment I have been waiting for... not the oddly insecure ones.

Questions to be answered: Heated seats? Heated water stream? Built-in dryer function?

The Cubs getting an A is insane to me. They let Kyle Tucker go. They're going to take a step back this season i predict.

Spending their Cash Considerations on Ass Considerations

Yes. One of the best purchases I've ever made.

Now that I’m here. It’s time to unburden my soul. It always bothered me. For your sakes… I pretty much know most of you don’t put paper down on the seat. Bidet only does half the job of a clean rear end I assume. So you proud bidet people only cleaning your innards, and soiling your outermost bits are suffering from a great delusion.

If the state is balking to this level for the Bears, it makes me think the Sox won't be going anywhere but across 35th street again.

This may come in handy when yet another season goes down the crapper.