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This reads like the kind of careful answer you give when you need to pretend he's not already your guy

Only posting this because Bruce misspelled both his first and last name.

Getz should get drunk tonight and sign an outfielder.

This is the best news they could have received from these meetings. I do question Getz referring to it as an honor. Dude, it pretty much means your team really sucks.

Pope Leo, please bless us on this day. Amen!

You know you suck when one of the most valuable things about you is you can be sent down.

28, poor k rate, poor BB rate,poor HR rate, but other than that, he's pretty good.

Not sure I understand why it should be sad or embarrassing that the Sox found value in their Rule 5 guys last year, when finding value that other teams didn't see or couldn't realize is exactly what they should be doing with their timeline and plethora of available innings/ABs? Basically every avenue of player acquisition other than drafting 1.1 involves your organization committing an amount of roster space, development time, draft position, money, etc. to a player that other orgs didn't think was worth it at the time. Is getting a surprise hit in the mid rounds of the draft "sad" because a player other teams passed on ended up outplaying existing options in your system? Or is it possible that being correctly ahead of the "market" on a player is a good thing actually? Maybe even key for a team in this position? Like sure, I guess in a dream world the Sox just have a rotation of 5 WAR aces with no room for Smith. In a world where the Sox aren't losing 100, he's not their "ace" or all star. But it's odd to talk like he's a bottom 5 SP who would never crack a single other MLB rotation. He was an above replacement level player on a team in dire need of them, so I don't get why we should be using the Brewers' particular 40 man machinations as a demerit against his production. Almost every piece of Rule 5 coverage leading into yesterday hat tipped the Sox for finding two objectively solid pieces last year, but on here nabbing a fine starter for $100k and a versatile reliever for free is a shame for the Sox because...they should have already had better players? Because another team was willing to gamble on leaving them available in a Rule 5 draft where few players get taken and even fewer stick? Improve the roster but also never acquire talent that other teams didn't see first is an awfully tough needle to thread.

Feels like it’s too early to trade for need. I don’t see the rush in dealing him.

I'm quite a Quero truther, so it would take quite the return to make me not hate this.

All else equal, I’d be hard pressed to take a HS prospect over one of the best college SS prospects in years. The latter provides a high ceiling without a ton of projection & development, which is what makes the pick so valuable in the first place.

Roch, Colson, Carlson, & Bonemer is going to be a fun problem to have.

The Pope!

With ABS being a thing next year, the value of framing will be decreased (although definitely not eliminated). Quero's biggest weakness is his framing, it cost him about 1.5 wins of value last year. I say we wait and see how his power develops and how the new ABS rules affect his value defensively as a catcher before trading him.

This is missing an arrow from SS to C. It’s called the TA line. im sorry but that will never stop being funny (to me)

Sox officials are claiming that they’ll eat money for a better return. I was skeptical as well but that’s what’s being said.

The White Sox could win 76 or 77 games and it won’t change their draft position in 2027. Why not try to be decent. A couple of crazy things happen, and you have a fun summer.

Give Ishbia the team already you cheap asshole.

Real Estate in Manhattan is super expensive for a reason. I am fortunate enough to live there now. Pretty great honestly.

Can't stress enough how I hated not protecting him. Classic rule 5 pick profile. More importantly, a guy you invested millions of dollars and resources into and who mostly performed last year in a position of need and you let him go for nothing while having an empty 40 man roster. Makes 0 sense. Hopefully we get him back. I'd prefer him to our own rule 5 pick I would think but with the empty (and bad) roster, not like it's an either/or.

They can turn their fortunes around by plugging Luis Robert into CF.

And that's fine. BA suggests he could be put into the OF or 3rd.

Roch has to be the favorite but Grady Emerson is also a mega-prospect. Lefty swinging shortstop from the Dallas area who does everything well. One scout said the only downside on his card is that Emerson isn't quite as good at the same age as Bobby Witt Jr. So, good year to be picking #1.

We just injected a potential 30 WAR into the next 7 years at no real financial cost. This is a big deal. Don't screw it up.

No. But there's miserable people on here so now's a good time to take the good news and cancel it out by reminding us that the world is hell.

I know Justin Crawford is a divisive prospect, but wonder if he could be bad for Quero. Phillies will need a catcher if they can’t / don’t bring back Realmuto.

All depends on what they get offered. If they feel it’s not enough, just hold onto him.

this is stupid. just keep developing him. there's plenty of ABs to go around.

I’ve never seen first basemen written out like that and it nearly broke my brain.

What am I missing? Soxtalk is now mad at the team because Shane Smith was good?

If they take a pitcher I will lose my god damn mind.

As someone who left NJ for eastern NC, I hated ever going into the city. I prefer my 1.3 acres, inground pool, 3000 SF house, 1000 SF woodshop and only the sound of animals at night on my outdoor patio while I drink my bourbon, smoke my cigar and watch the sox blow the game in the 9th while I cuss JR with nobody to hear me but the coyotes and deer. All for a fraction of the cost of Manhattan. But it's really personal preference. Glad you enjoy it.

He wasn’t held back. None of these HS guys go to Low A in their draft year in most cases Nobody is getting full slot. That won’t be an issue. I think he’d have to tumble quite a bit to not be the pick.

We didn’t have Pallette as a top 30 prospect anymore

FanGraphs on Paez:

Bit early to be that drunk imo.

Meidroth at 2nd, Roch at SS, Colson at 3B and Bonemer in LF? that feels like a group ready for 2027...which is why Roch should be picked over any 17/18 year old prep.

That's why I live in the FutureSox forum.

Harold brings it home!

Harold Baines invited to all cookouts in Chicago.

Get a good return and I'm fine with it. I don't think having him DH and mixing in as a backup catcher is the best use of resources in the short or long-term.

The Sox refusal to move their catchers around to different positions with literally no one worth blocking on the roster is just bizarre. I get the Sox have some catching depth, but does the return justify the means? We have to get another starting position player back who has AT LEAST 5 years of control to justify any deal here, unless a prospect deal of similar value can be put together. This can't be another failed former top 100 prospect.

The adrenaline of pitching in front of sold out crowds at the Rate will offset all of that.

While getting Roch is nice, it’s as much about getting the extra $2mill or so for the rest of the draft. I may be off but, whatever the delta. Nice to have.

The High School SS behind Roch seems to be pretty well regarded.

ROCH BOTTOM LETS GO

Holy f*** Something good happened to this crap organization

How so? If you can get a promising OF in return then it's trading from a strength to improve a glaring weakness.

How is this roster churning? They have two catchers that should be starting 120+ games behind the plate and a third who appears to be a very capable backup who can slot in against LHP. To me, this is 100% the right move if you can return a similarly valued young player at a different position.