WestEddy

So you're saying they're absolutely going to lose 132 games?

Good, then the abused baby mama has more to sue for. I hope she gets it all. I want my taxes to pay for schools, and I want my White Sox entertainment money to go towards unwed mothers.

About taking wild guesses for idle conversation? Please tell me where I'm advocating DFAing everybody right now. I surmise that Slater could come off the IL facing a full 26 and 40 man situation. Sure, all 6 of their veteran OF options could keep see-sawing on and off the IL through July 31st. But by then, Brooks Baldwin and Ramos could force the issue for OF time.

Yeah, but Sosa has shown he can hit enough to be a productive Andrew Vaughn, which is what we have now. All things being equal (like hitting like s%*# well into May) Sosa's cheaper, and is out of options. They're going to keep looking at internal options and grabbing the odd Corey Julks off the waiver wire.

Giants, Pirates, Mariners - other teams are getting worse out of their 1B choices. Of course, nobody's "trading up" for Vaughn, but he's a type that will make the rounds for the next few years.

He was one of the three guys who was hitting in April. Like, DeJong, Lee and Sheets.

And the Sox didn't even have those 3 games last year, which is another way to measure 2025's offense being better than 2024's. In the first 17 games, the White Sox scored as many as 7 runs once.

Or the Sox finally realizing a glut of OF and IF prospects, one of whom plays their position worse than the rest, and can be slotted in at 1B. I see Lenyn Sosa as an early version of that.

Dude, it's a side-conversation about how Slater may encounter a roster crunch when he returns from injury as early as June 1. Nobody's talking about an open roster spot for Montgomery. Key word "maybe" applying to Monty being "ready" contributing to a roster crunch that might leave Slater on the outside. It matters to you because you don't have the ability to contribute to a conversation without carving out a word or sentence, and making it about your own inane tangent nobody was talking about.

It's weird that you feel that viewpoint is under-represented here.

And I thought you were using "competitive" as in competing for first place. A 2 run loss is still "competitive", as in, there was a chance for the losing team to win.

The entire organization has been revamped and restructured. It's pretty dumb to expect a complete rebuild to take "months". But you go ahead. I'm sure you could milk ESPN's Power Ranking for more angst.

Boston, Detroit, Cleveland and the Angels are all at .500 or above, and the first 3 are considered to be "competitive" teams. I don't see where I indicted where I "thought" they were close to competing. Perhaps you could help me out with a reference?

I have no idea what you're going off about, here. We're talking about roster spots.

Full "strength": C - 2 of Lee/Quero/Thaiss/Narvaez (Lee has options, Thaiss doesn't) 1B - Vaughn IF - Sosa/Baldwin/Meidroth/Vargas/Amaya/Drury/Rojas OF - Benintendi/Robert/Tauchman/Taylor/Slater My guess is they eventually go with 6 IF and 4 OF, Amaya being DFAed, and one of Slater/Taylor being cut/traded. They only way to roster Elko is a straight replacement for Vaughn. Vaughn traditionally hits a *little* better in May, and is full throttle in June. If they see any value in Vaughn, they may wait until July 1 to cut bait. If Vaughn continues to OPS at this sub-.500 rate, maybe they consider Elko end of May...?

8 of their 13 losses have been by 3 runs or less, 3 have been walked-off.

If Slater comes back June 1, you're talking about Drury, Lee, Tauchman, Benintendi, Rojas, and maybe even Colson Montgomery being ready for roster spots. Slater will be in competition with Taylor for backup OF with Drury, Baldwin, Rojas and Vargas all able to play a corner. It's not impossible, but they're going to have a 2 month roster crunch from June 1-August 1 if they don't start making some trades or cutting some OFs.

I don't really consider a listicle ranking to be a "problem". LOL.

And Slater may not even play on this team again, this year. When Benintendi, Tuchman and Drury are back, there's no room to carry 5 dedicated OFs.

Mason hits lefty. Elko is a RHH.

after 17 games, 2024 - 36 scored, 91 against, for a -55 run differential 2025 - 54 scored, 68 against, for a -14 RD

I've already laid out my opinion. It's a new regime with new people. They don't have a track record for anybody to vote them "best front office". It would be stupid for anybody to say they're the best front office at this time. I'm not sure what "puff pieces" you're talking about.

Wow, those are teams with some numbers next to them. LOL. The White Sox must be doing pretty good if you need a silly listicle to take victory laps over.

Ironic, like a result that was the direct opposite of that which was intended, almost as if to mock?

Lance Lynn doesn't have a front office executive's view of the White Sox front office. He has more of an ex-employee's. And with the turnover still happening this off-season, there's nothing for other executives to "see". I would imagine they're reserving their judgement until they see any kind of track record to judge, be it in development, trades, scouting, contract extensions, drafting, whatever. Getz had one TDL, one draft, and 1.5 off-seasons.