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I'd probably put a decent wager on the White Sox signing 0 of those guys.

Love how people are chastising posters for reacting to a 2 month sample because they had a single good game.

Good lord. They didn't give a 30+ year old SP $13 million for a year where they have no chance again. Calm down.

A left handed middle of the order bat is not the most important thing in the history of all lineups. Teams win without them.

I think Bumgarner could have a late career resurgence. Though, Farhan Zaidi is there so I'd expect better info to get to Bumgarner, and maybe he's just stubborn. But I hate the sinker/cutter mix he has moved to, and maybe there is a lack of control to it, but he just pounds the middle of the zone with them. Everything is down, and it diminishes his curveball. He still has great spin, it just seems like he overreacted to the loss of velo on his fastball.

derek dietrich

Absolutely sincere. I can’t believe people continue to under estimate the abilities of Avi. He came up young and struggled early but continues to get better. He will win multiple MVP awards before he retires and certainly be enshrined in Cooperstown. People lament the trading of Tatis Jr. but letting Avi walk for nothing will be viewed as a much larger mistake in the long term.

Luis Robert has to take a shit Twitter: Definitely a broken back or something

Yeah, Hahn already wasted enough money on garbage like Nova ($9M), Alonso ($9M), Herrera (2-years / $18M), Jay ($4M), and whatever they had to pay Santana to leave after 3 starts. Jesus, that’s $40M+ total wasted in one offseason. But Keuchel at 1-year / $13M for the Braves is a nice deal. Hopefully, Hahn will learn from this going forward, start signing difference makers over veteran has-been’s, and improve on his FA signings. But I sincerely doubt it.

He pull a Paul Pierce?

Starting to wonder about twitter.

Collins .261 in AAA with a .907 OPS. Like it.

"Andrew Vaughn has raw power? I'll show them why @Lillian will love me!"

He is clearly pissed that Vaughn was drafted. Dude has damn near hit more homers this week than his entire minor league career.

I think they'll land Glass and Gladney for sure. Trenkle and Krogman are the two I'm waiting for. I'm doing the tracker updates this year though so feel free to let me know if anyone hears anything.

The Cubs are in a place where the Sox hope to be in a few years. The Cubs ponied up for Lester before their contention window opened up. The Sox had the opportunity to do the same with Corbin, Machado, or Harper but walked away once they saw the asking price. Where is all this pitching in the Sox minors? If we have so much of it, why are we seeing dudes like Nova, Banuelos, and Covey as mainstays in the rotation?

Moncada is on pace to have a 5.3 WAR season. He has been really good.

The Cubs are putting their $ where their mouth is unlike the Sox so far. The Cubs also spent before their contention window was open unlike the Sox. This offseason is very pivotal if the Sox plan on competing anytime soon. Will the $$$ be spent?

No, it doesn’t mean that. You are loading your opinion and presenting it as fact. Dude that’s not a fact they are rushing him or is it fact they are promoting him because of his line. Everything you said is 100% pure speculation, which is fine. I tend to think Madrigal is a guy who will have a similar line no matter what level he plays at: close to .300 BA, close to .350 OBP and a who cares slugging %. He will still be successful in most base stealing attempts. He will score tons of runs. If somebody fast bats in front of him, there will be a lot of 1st to 3rds. He will be the guy everybody loves up in the 9th because you know the ball is being put in play. He wasn’t drafted for some OPS line. People gotta come around to that. Now if he doesn’t do the shit I mentioned we’ll have problems.

Everyone was so focused on Machado as the perfect fit that they lost sight of the fact that Harper was the better fit for this team all along. Sox really missed out on Harper at a reasonable rate of ~$25M AAV to boot.

On a bright note...Covey has had 3 respectable starts in a row.

Needed to find an adult to fly with him

If they didn't send Giolito down last season, they're not sending Lopez down this season. /thread

Andrew Vaughn should wear #99 in spring training. I'd find it comical, especially when playing Cleveland That being said, there's a chance the kid has never seen that movie

Dumb stupid twitter

The White Sox play a horrible brand of Baseball, hahn is the general manager, these are his players, and I can care less if he is a Harvard grad, hahn is a horrible general manager.

Keuchel just signed with the Braves. JR + Hahn are not going to sign any premium free agents. This so called rebuild is going to be done as cheaply as possible. Hopefully the White Sox farm system will produce enough good players and this team can start winning again sometime in the near future.

I don't know why this front-office Kenny should be given a pass. The past decade also happened and the Executive VP of Baseball Futility is still around. The only thing the print media reports about him is he and his wife -- "one of Chicago's true power couples" (gag) -- sold their townhouse. References to him in electronic media attempt to legitimize him. This forum is a great outlet for a frustrated fan base. I appreciate the optimistic posts but I say keep up the front-office-bashing (I do my best to contribute). The negativity is harder to process but it serves a purpose. Something along the lines of those who don't know history are bound to repeat it.

They should do like the NFL. You get a comp pick if you lose more free agents than gained and nobody loses a pick. Its like an extra round built into the draft.

Let's go Madrigal! And man does W-S have even less to follow prospect wise especially on the hitting side. Pretty much just Steele Walker (although personally I like Dedelow).

The makings of a pretty good Sox team are right there. It will just require JR to open up the wallet.

I spoke to Krogman's dad yesterday. He said he's taking the week to make a decision

Agreed. If you can't get a bunter out, then you don't deserve a no hitter.

Also it's clearly not helping teams keep their talent, it's only benefit would be player salary suppression.

How on earth is Anderson a ? He has an 8 career WAR in 1850 PAs. That translates to almost 3 per complete season. He's above starter level, slightly below all star level, having an all star year. Not a question mark.

Nope, I post about the failures of our ownership and front office... factual stuff.

No shit

It's a good thing that the Cubs got Kimbrel from our perspective. It eliminates the team with the weakest prospects from the bidding.

Sorry but your response is a cop-out. What do you think a .272 / .346 / .723 line in A+ equates to in the majors? Now obviously Madrigal can improve and the Sox must think he will but to promote him to AA based on that line just means the Sox are fast-tracking him regardless of whether he deserves it or not. So don’t use Madrigal’s promotion as a sign of him doing well in the minors. The Sox are just pushing him forward, regardless of his actual production.

I can’t stand when Steve Stone says that a closer’s ERA doesn’t matter.

Gio is a lock unless he goes in the tank soon. Moncada will make it. Baseball will reward a young star. That will be it unless Abreu gets in. No way on Colome or McCann. And nah on Timmy. I guess Timmy could replace Moncada.

Those trades don't happen and you're still looking at a team trying to make do with Sale, while starting guys like JB shuck in the outfield. No use crying over spilled milk. All this line of thinking does is paralyze you when it's time to make moves.

Colome just dropped out of the AL top 20 in relief pitcher ERA today.

You all are forgetting about John Jay

On Windows it sounds like iTunes is staying. On Mac, the app is splitting into three (podcasts, music, TV). Based on what I'm reading, the store will still exist for music and video and will be accessed through their respective apps.

Magdrical and Robert need to be called up in April of next year. If we are in contention for a playoff spot next year, Vaughn should be called up later next summer after service time deadline passes.

Leury/Tilson/Cordell won't cut it on a contender. They won't cause harm necessarily so you may be able to live with them. Bad starting pitching does cause harm and you can't contend without 5 good starters. The Sox have 1, with another 1 or 2 passable half the time. The also lack real impact bullpen arms...most of these guys can pitch a clean inning against the Royals, but dousing a rally against the Astros or Twins is another question.

Blaze Jordan just reclassified to the 2020 class. https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/prep-standout-blaze-jordan-reclassifies-for-2020-draft-class/

Law mock people. Law mock.... Oops. Wrong thread.