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I'd worry more about Jacob Gonzalez being a wasted pick, over Hagen. At least Hagen has a big arm, even post surgery, that can play in the bigs. JG's skill set has so little upside for the big leagues.

This is such a dumb post

There is no doubting the Sox should have taken a positional player in hindsight and I’d argue they should have probably done so at the time of the draft. The Sox taking Konner Griffin wasn’t a slam dunk decision at the time though. No doubt he had his fans and some posters here were championing for him, but Smith over him specifically wasn’t necessarily a crazy proposition draft night. Regardless, I think it’s fair to say Smith can turn out to be a really good pitcher while also acknowledging Getz sort of bungled the pick by over-ruling his Scouting Director.

Trading him would be insane. Find a way to get teal more ABs at 1B and DH. Not rooting for injury but Beni going on IL to start season would be just fine.

Fedde done after 2IP. No hits, one walk, 2K. Dominguez in for the 3rd

While I know it's silly early to be concerned about anybody, yet, Kelenic should probably be looking at an apartment in Charlotte.

There is a webcast for the home game https://www.mlb.com/whitesox Direct link: https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/video/spring-training-cws-tex-194600?partnerId=web_video-landing-page_video-share

What's your point? Maybe he was working on things in college.

It was a bad pick at the time, even if Smith would have turned out as good as advertised, because they chose a college pitcher who already had Tommy John instead of any of the plethora of high upside hitting prospects, the most notable of course being Konnor Griffin, but there were other options too. To be at the absolute nadir of a rebuild and make the choice that had the highest bust potential and the shortest time window of return potential was, I think, the type of thing that would have gotten certain people fired at other organizations. No one in the entire league would have argued that Smith was clearly the BPA at that slot, there were many players in the same talent tier. It was a dumb pick the second they made it, and I still believe he’s gonna be a productive major leaguer.

Went from spending his summers in the PNW to Charlotte. Hope he saved his first round bonus check.

An Erick Fedde Revenge Tour would be a nice highlight to the first half of the season.

More billions.

Leadoff singles both games for Vargas & Meidroth

It looks like any updates on the Bears stadium saga will have to wait a few weeks. The IL House committee advanced the mega projects bill, but now the assembly is adjourned until March 18. IN's governor signed their stadium bill into law yesterday, but it looks like the Bears are willing to wait until the IL recess is over next month. https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-bears-news-illinois-indiana-lawmakers-taking-stadium-bills-thursday/18652916/

The Padres play in a top-tier ballpark and have averaged fewer than 26k per game only once since Petco opened in 2004. They've drawn over 3M three years in a row and just missed 3M in 2022. They're also the only team in San Diego among the 4 major sports leagues. I can see why they're valued greater than the White Sox even though the Sox are in the 3rd largest market.

Eh. Detroit could do a lot more. I think the Illich's are content with what they have on the field because of the terrible division.

I mean he looks like a drunk reliever tripping for the first time. Who picked this man?

He isn't on the current top 100 college draft prospects list at BA, but in their weekly chat this was asked.

There you go, praising Getz again. </sarc>

Sox on 35th recap: White Sox win one, lose one in Friday's split-squad action | Sox On 35th SouthSideSox wrap: Split decisions: White Sox beat Rangers, fall to Brewers | South Side Sox Daryl Van Schoewen of the SunTimes takes a look at rotation hopefuls Sox need big things from rotation of they want to entertain the notion of being contenders - Chicago Sun-Times Paul Sullivan of the Trib revisits "The Getz Gaffe" Column: It's back to business for Chicago White Sox GM Chris Getz

February 27, 1973 - Coming off of his 1972 M.V.P. season, Dick Allen signed a three-year, 750,000 contract with the White Sox, making him the highest-paid player in baseball. While contract details for early baseball are sketchy, this is believed to be the first time a White Sox player had been the highest-paid in the game. Allen earned his deal by leading the A.L. in homers (37), RBIs (113), on-base percentage (.420), slugging percentage (.603) and OPS (1.023). It would be 24 years before the White Sox would boast the highest-paid player in the game again, when Albert Belle signed a deal that paid him 11 million for the 1997 season.

Schultz pitched today. Threw 2 innings against the Brewers.

We all know that KW has too much of a temper and ego for this own good. But yeah, I mean it was only a few weeks ago that we were discussing the Sox vs. Thomas spat over their Black History month statement and KW has been gone for several years now. This organization simply does not tolerate former players who don't kiss the ring and it all comes down to the person in the organization who just became a nonagenarian.

I assume you meant to type south part of the lot. Looking at the rendering below, it doesn't appear to me that a Fire stadium would block much of the skyline view. I don't imagine the soccer structure would be any taller than the top of the upper deck of the Sox stadium and most of that view is blocked by the scoreboard in LF with a Mets player on it. And yeah, it'll be up to Ishbia. If he wants to privately finance a new stadium there, it'll probably get done. Only time will tell if that's what he wants to do.

KW contributed a lot toward this team leading up to the 2005 championship, but I'm so relieved that he's gone. As far as throwing former players under the bus who aren't total loyalists after they're gone, seems like par for the course for this team under Jerry Reinsdorf

Quero is so good. Another RBI, this time a double.

Quero is a run producer. Sends 100mph back up the middle for an RBI single

Remember when the Sox acquired Ken Griffey Jr.? “General Soreness”

We didn't get a 2/26 thread so i'll just post this here

On the date the sale closed, the SP 500 closed at 1410.49. Today it is at 6869 as we speak. That would have been a return of 487%.

I do often with jealousy

He's lived a great life. Not many people can boast of owning a World Series winning team and NBA championships. Happy Birthday.

Getting back to this question, though it may enrage anyone on SoxTalk who is apparently monitoring my post count, I found this article from last June a couple of weeks after the Fire made their stadium announcement. https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/sports/mlb/chicago-white-sox/could-chicago-fire-fc-white-sox-stadium-projects-share-south-loop-site/3770673/ “There is a lot of room at the site,” David Baldwin, Fire FC’s President of Business Operations, told NBC Chicago’s Lexi Sutter. “Obviously we are the anchor tenant, (and) we’re really excited to catalyze this development. If it makes sense once our stadium is open for one of the other teams, if it makes sense at that point we are open to having a conversation down the road. and Related Midwest had said in a statement last year that they were “actively exploring the co-location of dual stadiums” for the two teams. It might not leave a lot of room for a sprawling entertainment district, but probably enough to have some development there. The riverfront and close to downtown location perhaps outweighs the need to create some sort of sprawling "White Sox Village" development like they'd need to do at a suburban location or even on the parking lots of the current stadium.

Would be nice. Not sure why they didn’t protect him in the first place.

See Royce Ring/Aaron Poreda.

He was the one player among the top 10 that I begged they not draft. He looked like a pure reliever to me. Should have taken the Middle infielder in 2024 and the pitcher in 2025.

At that time, there was the belief they pretty much only had success with LHP…Gio/Cease were the outliers. Sale, Quintana, Rodon, Crochet, Schultz, etc.

If I’m being honest, both of these projections feel low to me. The Sox pitching staff put up 11.5 fWAR last year. You are basically assuming we get like 5 fWAR total from the rotation and like 3 from the bullpen, which seems super pessimistic when Shane Smith should provide 2+ and Taylor 1+ respectively. I just don’t buy the other four SP’s combining for 3 or less wins and I don’t buy the other seven relievers combining for 2 or less wins. The Opening Day rotation is bad on paper, but there are a fuckton of arms coming and I think Burke is going to blow his projections out of the water with his slider fixed. The bullpen on paper is way better than last year’s and that one combined for 4 wins. I get bullpens are volatile, but can’t accept it getting worse than last year with the additions we have made and further usage of Taylor. My median projection for the broader staff would be closer to 12 wins and I think any reasonable floor is certainly above 8. Your positional projection feels more reasonable to me, but I’m definitely a bit higher than you. Steamer also his this group around 13 wins, but I think they are too low on certain players (Colson, Teel, Baldwin, Sosa, Antonacci) and too high on Chase. I expect the former group to outproduce their projections by 4 or 5 wins in aggregate and Chase to come in a win light. As such, I expect something closer to 17 to 18 wins from this group, which would have been about league average last year.

Agreed, and I love that Getz claimed Romo and that he passed through waivers. He could cushion the loss of Korey Lee. Never stop claiming/dealing. There’s always someone better than the last player on your 40-man.

Fucking epic… I love how he waited until Jerry greeted him in response to say it. 🤣

Said it many times Spring Training is 100% worth it if you've never been. Even for a bad Sox team.

JR is one day closer to giving up control of the franchise.

Nothing burger for both sides. We'll see if Fajardo ever makes it as far as the Boozer trade. A+ ball players are usually still likelier to make it to the big leagues than intl draft pool "lottery" signings. AZ isn't hurting all that badly...they still have a lot of young high-quality depth, especially on the position player side of things.

Hope he stubs his toe getting into bed.

I think you guys are reading too much into things. What does it have to do with Jerry? Well, besides what the article is about. I think Stoney's quotes are more or less how I feel about the team especially in terms of, "to judge a general manager is to look at who he has surrounded himself with...the front office right now is the strongest we’ve had in a long time". Getz has made some really strong hires, I think we all mostly agree on that point. The staff is a lot more solid than it was even in 2020. In terms of the intellectual fanbase, it's obviously true. I do some tutoring with little kids, and the ones raised to be Sox fans are super knowledgeable about the team. The Kubz Kidz like Wrigley but don't know any of the players. Go look at a Cubs forum some time and all the people posting there are dumbasses. I don't care for booing our own players though.

Placed this here because it talks about how the Braves environment made them a lot of money last year: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7070967/2026/02/25/atlanta-braves-annual-revenue-report-surging-finances/?source=athletic_thewindup_newsletter&campaign=16987985&userId=602876

the female version of Chris Collinsworth?

some of us are not doing so well