WestEddy

Dude, pretty much everybody tip toed around this argument all day. I'm certainly not in charge of anything here, but you can either message SS2k5 or just invite him to 4chan. Bring up a hairbrained trade idea. Or link to some Twitter dude's s%*# trade proposal. We can sure use it.

Acuna is supposed to have some CF ability. I think his bat profiles as a defensive specialist, although there's bloodlines, and he has hit in the minors. The White Sox have lusted after him.

If the Sox traded Robert for Senga, Acuña and I don't know, Clifford? Ewing? I suppose that gets us back a starting pitcher and CF, and there's your "prospect". Maybe there's an lower or unranked dude who Shirley/Keller liked.

If the Cubs didn't say it, I've seen it bandied about that Shaw works as a Brooks Baldwin-type utility player for them. Frankly, where the Cubs are right now, I'd see Shaw as more of a sweetener for a pitcher or a bat they're trying to acquire, or whatnot, not somebody to move because they're blocked.

But I'm guessing that every team runs into the same problems. If they're going to pay down a guy like Rodriguez, they still want value for what they're sending away.

Newcomb expects to start 30 games. We'll see, I guess.

Okay, here's a SouthSideShowDown blog post about how the Sox could get a prospect for taking Castellanos off the Phillies' hands. White Sox could help Phillies pursuit of Bo Bichette with this unconventional trade First of all, could somebody tell me about all these trades that happen where teams send top prospects to other teams so they can pay their own players to play for someone else? Is that like Free Money day at the bank? Seriously, the White Sox sent international budget money to the Rangers for them to buy out Dionner Navarro's option within the last decade, and the world went mad with rage over how stupid and cheap that was. When else does this even happen? Looking today, there aren't even that many situations where teams roster players they might like to dump. Here's my list: Toronto - Andres Giminez Boston - Masataka Yoshida Houston - Carlos Correa Oakland - Luis Severino Philadelphia - Castellanos, Taijuan Walker Mets - Kodai Senga(?) St. Louis - Nolan Arenado Rockies - Kris Bryant Some of these, like Bryant - is just too cost-prohibitive to take on. Toronto seems to be happy with Giminez, Houston with Correa. The other teams listed have been shopping these guys for a couple of years, now, and somehow, they haven't been moved with "prospects". We don't need a DH. We already have Benintendi. Nobody's been beating down our door trying to trade for him and Hagen Smith. (Maybe 10-D and Jacob Gonzalez, in reality). I just don't think these deals happen, anymore. But everybody on Twitter and other boards keep throwing this fantasy at the wall, like every other day, teams are throwing prospects at teams with space to take their overpriced contract.

Quite ironic that Shaw's job was taken by an American citizen.

Like going to a Stones' concert after the long-retired Bill Wyman died to "support" Mick Jagger.

I mean nobody cares regarding a player taking time off from the team to attend their mother's funeral. Oh, the bolded part. My point was that they showed up to play those games. They didn't take off to go protest or attend a rally.

Players take bereavement time regularly. Nobody cares. We even know about this because of the context, not politics. I had to have a little cry over agreeing with Ray Ray, but if person at work finds out that a family member died, everyone starts telling them to go home and be with their family. It's like, "why are you still here?" The fact that he had to ask teammates is telling. He wasn't "mourning". NFL players knelt during the National Anthem of games they showed up to play in. NBA players wore "I Can't Breathe" t-shirts during warm-ups of games they showed up to play in. The media portrayed that as "controversial". It's fun to pretend things that didn't happen. If a baseball player skipped a key game in the homestretch of a pennant run to attend a No Kings or George Floyd rally, I can't say how I'd feel about that. I can't remember anything like that happening, so I'll have to wait until it does.

And 10 of the top 11 are WSox draftees. McDougal, Oppor, Antonacci and LaCombe are lower round picks everybody's been clamoring for the Sox to sneak into their top prospect lists.