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My offseason plan remains the same. Sell the team.

Really hope he goes to the Brewers. Seeing him on the Cubs or Guardians will suck.

Bump

Not adding in free agency when you are in the middle of a contention window seems like a strong strategy as well

He must’ve really fucking hated playing for the Sox

Wow that’s surprising and good for the White Sox. Probably wanted to run away from the clubhouse mess!

I know yesterday makes this no longer a financial emergency situation, but seriously, Grandal, Zavala, and Perez are your catchers and they should be. This is not a spot to be throwing more money at. Play out Grandal’s contract, get the last dregs of baseball out of his legs, and try to have Zavala and Perez ready as a cheap catching pair the following couple years.

Lux hit .175 in more at bats when he was 22. Getting started can be tough, but Sosa has always hit. If given a chance Sosa and Rodriguez will both be above average players in the majors. As a rule, the Sox are impatient with rookies.

If he’s anything like how he played in 2022 I’d rather trade him and “Change the Team” vs “Change the Game”

Glad we’re maxed out at the end of our contention window and can’t fill our couple major holes with legit talent because Hahn is spending $40M+ on a bullpen and $5.5M on a shitty UT guy. That takes a special kind of bad.

Have felt for a few months this is going to be a very annoying offseason. They got lucky with Pollock leaving, but I see very little chance for Hahn to make this team a lot better given his previous failures.

Losing our best bat seems like a strong strategy, I love it

Andrew as a full time 1st baseman will outhit Abreu the next 2 seasons.

Thanks for everything Pito, we'll see you back to retire your number some day.

Ha I don't trust Soxtalk and I don't have the education necessary but as owner I would upgrade everything behind the scenes related to player development , biometrics, analytics, scouting,allow Marco Paddy to do his job without any restrictions and fire just about everyone else. I'd hire as many people from the Rays and Houston as possible to accomplish all that. I'd emphasize middle of the diamond and LH and switch hitters, defense , starting pitching, speed and power. 1st base and catcher would be last on my list when drafting either internationally or college.

There's also probably zero chance you purchased the winning lotto ticket at Joe's gas station in Altadena, but I'm hoping it was you so you can buy the team and let SoxTalk be you're GM.

Yeah. Especially if Bellinger becomes a free agent you sign him and he can be your reclamation project at that point

Yeah I don’t think I’d want to part with the little talent the Sox have for a bounce back candidate.

I certainly hope not. You can easily find the same level or lack thereof production out of a league minimum guy.

I honestly think he's the least likely to go.

Absolutely. And I'm not convinced Grandal is completely washed. I don't think he will ever be what he was in his prime, but I expect him to be much better than last year if he can stay healthy (yes, I know that's a big "if"). Hell, we're only about 14 months removed from a time when Grandal was completely carrying the offense.

I'd buy low on Tucker Barnhardt. Not as a regular, but he would be a pretty decent back up.

He was a bust but I don't blame him if he despises the organization like most of us do. I don't despise the White Sox franchise, I despise the Reinsdorf organization and can't wait until he sells the Sox, I'm not getting any younger.

Alright, let's go get the Judge.

So what shitty 33 year old bullpen arm do they spend these "savings" on?

For sure possible, but not even sure that convo needed to be had, think that writing was sort of on the wall. The guy has played his entire career on the West Coast. He's also made over $70,000,000 in his career counting the buyout he just got from the Sox. He was in line for 13 mil and took 5 million to get bought out, so even if he signs back with the Dodgers or D'Backs for like 6 million, he's costing himself 2 or 3 million and in the grand scheme, I can understand wanting to play where you want at age 35. BUT...there is a reason he declined an extra 8 million guaranteed dollars, and my guess is it's not just playing time, especially given he received nearly 500 PA's in 2022 and put up a 0.6 WAR..there isn't going to be a ton of OF starting jobs up for grabs for a 35 year old Pollock.

Why is it too late?

I still think it's the stupidest s%*# ever. If it's so well received why aren't they doing it in the postseason?

Thank god we didn’t sign Machado because we would have been tapped out in 2028 in addition to 2023. KW always thinking about the big picture saved us though.

Honestly, I think I’m back at the trade Cease & Anderson for hauls scenarios. I just don’t see how Hahn can address our holes via trade. Montgomery is the only minor leaguer who can headline a deal for a controllable impact player. Even if you could move him, Ramos, etc. for Bryan Reynolds, how the f*** do you address the rotation when you’re tapped financially and prospect wise? I’d rather do a semi rebuild leveraging our couple assets that are worth something substantial than do the traditional half ass “go for it” thing this organization loves to do. Between being cheap and continuously rewarding incompetence, Reinsdorf really is the worst. Can’t wait until we’re finally free of his tyranny.

How many years can we as fans continue to say we need a RF, a 2B and a SP and the “professionals” keep trying to patch it together with dog s%*#

Sarcasm

Joking right?

Jerry sure loves waiting until the deadline to address off-season needs

Was bummed I lost this. Absolutely was planning on buying a media blitz pressuring JR to sell team, forming acquisition group, showing them my annual spreadsheet to convince them I should be chairman.

I think he's unlikely to be a major leaguer this year, but power + lefty + still good defense. Put up good numbers last year. I thought he'd be washed out in single a so I was pretty impressed where he was at. probably require trades for younger guys that don't need 40 protection.

I'd love to trade for Brujan

That's just a really odd way of putting, almost as if giving it the even worse case scenario without context of other teams having free agents to replace as well. Take a team like the Dodgers who are losing around 20 WAR to FA without any turned down options and non-tenders. Apparently the Dodgers need 20 wins of improvement by this scale? Or the Yankees are in the same boat chasing about 20 WAR in free agents. They need 20 wins of improvment? Well, I am sure there is an alternate rationale to explain everyone else except the Sox away.

Yeah. Hopefully it gets properly allocated to shoring up the bullpen.

I didn’t say he didn’t have value. I was a big fan of his a few years ago. But a lot of people will look at that sub .200 average and freak out adding it into the mix with Moncada and Yaz. It certainly would fit the bill as a buy-low and hope for a bounce back to career norms.

Apparently Kevin Kiermaier has an option with the Rays likely to be turned down. He missed a lot of 2022 with an injury and hasn't been the paragon of health in recent years, but clearly he can be a defensive backup in CF as well as the other OF positions. As a part time player, he seems like a perfect fit. https://www.si.com/mlb/rays/news/tom-brew-my-two-cents-tampa-bay-rays-outfielder-kevin-kiermaier-fresh-off-hip-surgery-says-i-will-be-back-but-will-he

Those guys suck.

This is simply false.

This man hated this organization so much he gave up 8 million dollars.

Sounds like got halfway through that answer before he realized he wasn't supposed to tell us Abreu is a goner.

Adding via trade instead of just signing a FA?

Uh Huh, sure sure

Wow, didn't expect that one but I welcome it. Thanks AJ.....don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya.

I’m so done with these quacks 😆

AJ must have gotten used to the weather and glamour of LA along with championship vibe, and could not adjust to the bad vibe of the SoxSouth side.