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Say what you want about Getz but he is consistant, he traded Cease, Robert Jr, and now Sosa and received nothing in return.

A trade is with another team. Totally different. The Sox own Antonacci, his development and his plan. No one should be able to influence that but them.

The fact that there are any of you bemoaning the loss of Sosa shows you just how low the bar as been set for the Sox.

So 1/10 the total.

AAAANNNND there goes the thread.

Still better than Bruce Levine

Happy Noah Schultz Day! Although with the current forecast it's looking more like a Reinsdorf day.

Now let's get Hays and teel back. And maybe have a little better offense.. A little is the key word

they should call up Wikelman Gonzalez, small sample size (11ip, 6 games), but dude has been pretty much dominant 0.69 whip, 3bb/11ks, 1 ER

meh

Looks like there's a window, at least as of now.

Worst Holiday Movie EVER!

We Sox fans live in a combination of April Fools Day and Groundhog Day.

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I appreciate this post, it really highlights how Vargas is just as bad as Sosa is.

Nothing good. Vargas has been pretty darned good defensively this year, but neither are core pieces IMO.

Davitt was already optioned to make room for Cannon. I'm pretty sure Cannon will be sent back to Charlotte, hurt or not.

There is a reason this is one of the worst franchises in baseball, and it starts at the top. Watching people rush in to make excuses for it just continues to amaze me.

It's time. I don't agree with the end of the first sentence, agree with the rest of it. I won't be looking for another team if this happens. I will just back off baseball until Jerry is gone and there is hope for the future.

And when people doubt Getz, or his ability to turn around the Sox, a large piece of it is because of the Jerry factor. We saw first hand JR sabotage Hahn, Williams, and every GM and AGM before them. I sure don't have faith that he isn't going to knecap Chris too.

Pride and ego that has blinded him to the reality that this organization has become a total train wreck over the last 10-15 years under his leadership. Dead last in revenue in the MLB and two years in a row of decline in franchise valuation when everyone else is going up in value (some franchises significantly going up). He's either oblivious to this franchise's problems or just doesn't care. Firing Getz would likely mean some equally inept loyalist would take his place - probably with TLR involved in the selection process. Hey, he moved Hawk from the broadcast booth to GM once, maybe next time he can do the same with Schriffen!

No way the Sox are so incompetent that they'd change their plans based on an internet rumor/release.

The worst possible scenario is a knee-tweak on a his debut day.

I'll be there assuming the weather holds off enough. Always hate when we have the maybe or maybe not for bad weather effecting the game.

Looks like it will probably happen, but it might be a late night.

As any real Sox fan should.

MY DAMN JOB!!!!!

I definitely agree with this, it just seemed like the entire process devalued him a lot and you end up with a 17th rounder. Just seems very odd

For some reason, I don't think giving away Lenyn Sosa is going to cost the White Sox any championships.

Sosa is a better fielding third baseman and hitter than Miguel Vargas, so that should have been his position. Put Vargas at first (his strongest position) and DH Murakami (who can't exactly pick 'em), or vice versa. They could have traded Andrew Benintendi for some kid who will probably never make the majors. Better yet would be to actually improve the team now with any trades, rather than use this team as a baseball incubator.

Months and months of hyperventilating over Ishbia's supposed nefarious plans to treat the Sox as another private equity venture that he can suck dry. Curse him and the Ishbia brothers' billions in wealth! Plus months and months of hyperventilating over JR's and Ishbia's obvious plans for a new stadium at the 78. Oh why oh why can't the Sox keep the status quo and maintain for decades to come what we've experienced under Jerry Reinsdorf's stewardship and at a ballpark and location that has been problematic for many decades? I have found the ignore feature on this site to be a very useful tool to block out the incessant nonsense.

It seems to me there is a simple reason he didnt get tried in LF but as fans we are not privy to every decision made. That does not mean the Sox didnt think of it. Who knows maybe Sosa didnt want to or he's just not athletically what they had in mind for the position. Neither are most of the guys you mentioned and Benintendi. However , the Sox started 1-5 and what are they now 6 and 10 so playing .500 because of a big turnaround by the pitching staff and perhaps better defense including the OF. Certainly wasn't because of the hitting. They miss Teel, Baldwin ,Vasil ,Hays maybe even Periera. They actually have 5 OF who can play better defense than a guy with limited athletic skills and they might throw Antonacci into that mix. Some of the people suggesting he be tried in LF are the ones saying he had no value. If you think he couldve had more value playing in the OF that notion is rather odd. He was probably mentioned more than anyone besides Beni who had no defensive value. It's just hard to imagine that a guy with the Sox as long as Sosa was here (9 yrs) wouldnt have been tried in the OF if he had any desire to play out there or exhibited any of the skills necessary for it. Hell some people are bothered that Antonacci is playing LF even after he displayed the right attitude and said he'll play anywhere he's needed. The whole positional versatilty argument is odd here amongst fans. Most organizations draft a lot of middle of the diamond types who are the ones with enough athletic ability to do that. The Sox have done it a lot more than they used to. In general thats a good thing. Sosa likely just didnt fit the modern day profile for it nor is he particulay skilled at getting on base.

Already scratched/dud.

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I don't support JR but I'm still a fan hoping to outlive him and see better days. Could never in any way, shape or form root for the Cubs. Screw them and the horse they road in on.

Never really seemed like this front office was a big fan of Sosa. Not really sure exactly how much they were gonna get for him but they didn’t really give him a chance to boost his value this season at all

There's lottery tickets like Sandlin/Mead/Acuna/Vargas/Korey Lee. And then there's this crap... It's like they're running a race to outdo Minnesota for most embarrassing AL franchise. Another Getz development win for the ages. Even the Rockies seem fairly stable for now...already matching April 2025 team victories and surpassing it before the middle of the month.

Straight to jail.

I find average exit velocity to be a rather useless statistic. Not much different between a 60mph batted ball and a 75mph one but they have quite different effects on your average. And that's setting aside the other things you might want to know about how the ball was hit, such as whether it was straight down, straight up, or somewhere in between.

Put me on record — this is stupid. Offense-starved team refuses to give a shake to a young cost-controlled player who can hit a little bit. Maybe the skeletons will suddenly fall out of the closet to make this make more sense but to me this is just Getz not liking Sosa's game on an aesthetic level and feeling unwilling to figure out how to use him.

He missed the window twice when he could have gotten way more for him. THAT'S why this wasn't a great trade. It's letting your stock go from an all time high, to a 52 week low, and then selling.

I understand why they wanted out of the Luis Robert business, but I think the most likely outcome is Robert produces more WAR this season than Dominguez, Hayes, and Acuna Jr (combined) ever do for the White Sox.

To free up money? He was the one who picked up the option to spend the money a few weeks prior.

Or hear me out... the Sox could have paid Robert and Dominguez. Why you keep acting like they had to trade Robert to sign dominguez I'm not sure.

Exactly. @vilehoopster seems to think that a free agent can’t be signed until a player is traded away to free up money. That’s not how real organizations that aren’t a joke function.

You are presenting things that haven’t even happened yet, and may not ever happen. You’re only presenting made-up guesses of the future because when all facts are considered, your argument falls apart. If Acuna keeps hitting like he has been, he’ll be on the bench.

Losing Teel and Hays does not help for this lineup at all, not to mention missing Baldwin, thats 3 starting guys. We are putting 4 or 5 guys in the lineup every day who shouldn't be on a MLB roster. Other guys also regressing but hitting is contagious

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