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Korey Lee should be our catcher

Lol Chuck talking about how excellent Maldonado is defensively and to ignore last years stats. Literally a second later he airmails it into center on a stolen base.

Poor Aaron Bummer just can't escape his tragic BABIP luck...

Moncada heard they were going to play the last five games like regular season games, so…

Still don't know why you aren't GM. Your eye for talent can't be beat.

Soroka has really good ST numbers. How has his stuff looked?

must not be a Grifol guy he wasn't FAST like me

56-61 for me. I don't think some people have caught on to the new schedule quite yet. We're going to get beat up by the West and East and the Central too, to be fair.

Bell curve is starting to form nicely. I went with 76-81. Not that I think its plausible but more so voted so on the off chance it happens I can say "I told you so" to everyone.

7 7 wins.

If everything goes well I can see them going 75-87, The other thing I wanna see is good play. Good play even in losses. It's a building block to take the next step. Yeah I'm high on silver and black kool-aid

I'm hoping that the team surprises us by not being the worst ever but I can't see them winning more than 70 games.

79

I really like Braden.

Miss me yet?

When I met him at a signing he was kind to myself and hi8is Sr.

How dare you doubt the skills of Martin Maldonado

Every day on MLB trade rumors, there's another story about a pitcher going down with arm problems. It seems like that's kind of a risk of pitching. Or maybe 30 organizations are abusing pitchers by making them throw baseballs hard. Pitchers pitch. If they're healthy, they throw 90-100 pitches a game. Weird how, in 2022, Rodon went to SF, in a system overseen by Brian Bannister, threw 90+ pitches in his first 6 games, and didn't break down. Some of those were with only 4 (gasp!) days rest. Look at his 2022 game logs. Pretend he was pitching on the White Sox that year. Pretend he got hurt like he pretty much did every single year on the White Sox. Now make up an argument about how he was misused. See how fun this game can be? Seriously, I don't care who you think has credibility or not. You think that a pitcher should take years and years and years to come back from injury, or turn from reliever to starter. I'll stick with listening to the guys who are getting paid to oversee pitching for major league teams, and not an internet guy who complains about every single development.

Yeah, this isn't like how it was 2 years ago. We play our shitty division less.

You know, 7 wins a month would get them between 40 and 50 wins...and unfortunately I could see that happening. This is a good time to remind everyone that great seats are still available.

So we're EXTRA FAST?

I think they're that bad that they might lose 110 anyway despite the fact the ALC is ass.

This dude owes us a semi-team friendly deal (buying out arb years and at least one year of free agency) if this works out this year. Started his service time in the same year he was drafted and lost a year of control due to missing a whole season.

118 wins

I'll be shocked if they don't absolutely suck. With that being said, I'm still looking forward to getting this season started because you never know and yes I know I have a problem....I'm a White Sox fan.

Bob Feller was something of a prick in real life (early teenage memory). He had a pretty bad reputation at autograph shows of being fairly surly and resentful of the money that modern athletes were making...whereas he was forced to hock his signature all over the country to make ends meet. Another reason that Mickey Mantle autographs (featured at ST recently, lol) aren't nearly as valuable as one would expect...way too many of them out there. And now, back to our regularly scheduled programming.

This is the nastrini train sir

So Soroka looks like a stud

Flexen is obviously one...Deivi Garcia's a good possibility for 5th, after Nastrini for now.

lol why the f*** would you bring the infield in there? It's DE LA CRUZ! Grifol is a fucking idiot.

Soroka is looking good. Breaking ball looks to have some bite. Maldonado however sucks. Jesus christ.

So this is pretty much the putrid starting lineup right?

From a pure stats standpoint, Braxton Jones had a PFF grade of 68.7, ranking him 33rd among 70 qualified OTs. Darnell Wright was at 62.4, ranking him 52nd among 70 qualified OTs. LT can absolutely be upgraded, but I believe there are better uses of that pick at this point.

Part of me feels like better than last year, but that isn't saying much. We also are missing any real decent pitchers this year, like we had for parts of last year, which is scary. I guess we see who steps up, but it feels like the depth is much better than the last few months of 23. I wouldn't bet on it, but it feels like a Beatles year... when I'm 64.

71 wins. Better than last year but doesn't make for a great season. There will be other more telling things than win totals.

Too generous

71 - 75 wins... There I said it....

This is bold as hell after our last two big trades. We can’t wait until Moncada and Eloy are gone and Kopech just got demoted to the bullpen. At least one of the four big names from the two trades panned out to recoup this trade.

It's the same tune that can't help but mention having a 25th-30th ranked farm system for most of the last few years until recovering in the most recent calendar year. Let's put it this way. Ozzie always said you win with talent as a manager, first and foremost. And Don Cooper is undoubtedly the "best" pitching coach of most Sox fans' lifetimes. He had the greatest collection of young arms in baseball from 1998-2001 coming up through that system. Other than Buehrle (on the periphery of the Top 10 prospects lists back then) and Garland (for Karchner), he won a WS with Contreras, F.Garcia and the likes of Jenks/Politte/Cotts, etc. Was Cooper a failure with youngsters like #1 prospect Rauch, Kip Wells and then all those guys who got hurt...or were they all pretty much overrated...or was he a near-genius due to the Sox results from 2004-2012? Once again, somewhere closer to the middle than genius. Maybe it was Herm Schneider who was the real genius for keeping them all so healthy until Danks. Or was it Cooper who's equally to credit for teaching the pitchers not to go for max velocity...? Anyone watching the Sox from mid season 2021 through the end of 2023 would identify lack of talent as the #1 issue with this organization, especially on the pitching side as the veterans aged out or got injured and Cease (2022) and (previously) Giolito and Rodon (2021) had their runs at Cy Youngs.

“Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday’s success or put its failures behind and start over again. That’s the way life is, with a new game every day, and that’s the way baseball is.” - Bob Feller

The Sox org is allergic to using the term 'opener' but that's essentially what this will be. I still think this has more to do with desperately trying to pump fan interest and sell a few more OD tix than it does win a game or a pitcher's development as a starter. Best case scenario IMO is that he pitches well as an opener every 5 days and is flippable come the deadline.

How is it a “fun development” though. He’s simply the only option that’s been on the team. We have no ace and we don’t even have a #1 starter by any decent team’s standards, so you go with the guy who’s been on the team the longest. You are correct that it’s a lost season. That’s why the reactions are mostly people who just don’t care. The ones getting upset or defensive are likely just doing it as a coping mechanism due to the repeated failures of the franchise. The people upset about it are Randy Quaid in Major League. The people who don’t care are all the empty seats around him.

I'm gonna call Nastrini, Quero, Leasure, Eder, Bush and Lee the Hahn-core..

Id much rather see this experiment happen in the minors. Not only do you gain a year of a control for a season that might actually matter, you also protect yourself from losing a ton of it if he hurts himself again. So what happens in July in the off chance that he hasn’t hurt himself? Shut him down? Move him back to the pen? Not the route I’d have taken, but all you can do is hope for the best.

And I like it when my trains are engineered properly and stay on the tracks.

Also the sheer number of notre dame fans that live in chicago where it was the only game they saw of him and how fans love to take the position of someone being "overrated"

I think we will look back on this trade in 10 years and all agree it was an A+ return when Zavala ends up being a legit star posting .400 OBPs year after year with 25+ bombs per and Thorpe has made 200 (mostly quality) starts for us.

I will state - I wish Justin nothing but the best. He was a class act in Chicago and I hope he does well in Pittsburgh. I also hope Caleb Williams ends up being a total badass kick butt stud qb for the Bears!!!

We thought the same thing.