WestEddy

No. They've shown their philosophy of drafting up the middle. The shortstops and CFers who can't move the best off those positions will move to 3B, 2B, RF and LF. The guys who can't play those will be 1B then DH. Vaughn has shown it's a waste of a top draft choice to draft a one-tool 1B in the first round. Jac Caglianone doesn't refute that.

I find it funny that everybody kvetches that they don't get straight talk from the front office, and when they do, they fall down on the sidewalk and cry. He was right about Himes. Shoot, I'm a Sox fan, and I'm pissed for Cub fans about Maddux going to the Braves and Ryno retiring for a couple of years. And it was only after Himes was gone that Al Goldis drafted Kerry Wood.

Which of Colson Montgomery, Billy Carlson, Roch Cholowsky and Caleb Bonemer is unqualified to play 1B?

Nobody said he didn't build a great team. If was any bit the psycho on the White Sox as he was with the Cubs, it was Reinsdorf's duty to warn the rest of the world. Maddux wanted to stay with the Cubs. Ryno walked away from the game because of him. Was that Reinsdorf making up those stories?

Ramos making the roster out of spring training is kind of a longshot. If he does, he's the best defensive 3B on the team right now (maybe equal to Monty).

only if he wore Florsheim wingtips to the plate.

Sure. But my question is - should you be drafting and developing 1B? Use that draft pick on some CC hitting outfielder and bounce your Ryan Galanies over there until a true power hitter comes along. Our Venezuelan shortstops seemed to have moved to 1B quickly as they bulked up. Drunken, World Series commercial naval gazing - if you're doing it right, you're going to have the shortstops and centerfielders who grow out of the position, and the one hitter who can't field can concentrate on 1B.

So with the Cubs, Larry Himes was a hot-headed psychopath who blew apart the team with his "personality", but he was unfairly fired from the White Sox solely because he wouldn't kiss JR's heinie? LOL. Which team was it that takes swipes at an employee's reputation when they're fired? 2 funny.

Should they? Why can't they repurpose the worst fielding, best hitting outfield prospect? Right now, Galanie and Caden Connor are the AAAA first-basemen on the clock. They don't have as much power but probably strike out less.

GMs generally don't generally get plate appearances in games.

Weird how Himes didn't win big time with the Cubs.

No, they aren't. But Elko is a poor man's Andy Wilkins. He's a AAAA slugger.

the true irony is that the one guy who most likely finally got Reinsdorf to invest in the right things is the one everybody hates and wants gone yesterday. Moar Ron Schueller!!

For as overmatched as Elko looked, he got a nice loooooooong chance. As I responded to WSBFW, the Sox didn't need to watch the guy look like a blindfolded child wailing at a piñata for 4 months in order to see what they had. Every single player move doesn't need to implicate the White Sox as big meanies.

I was told that the goal posts should move, and real sports fans should expect more and more from their team. Seems like all the old guys loved missing the World Series every year after '59. Is that emoji the clown who gave you balloons in the stands instead of World Series Championships? And hey, a quick search tells me that guys like Seaver and Carlton were 16 around 1960. Why wasn't Veeck scouting and signing them? Was he too busy at the circus scouting the next year's distraction from him missing the World Series again?

lol

A little more background on the Johnson hire: Orioles coach Sherman Johnson joining the White Sox as a minor league hitting coordinator | Sox On 35th

I read it as, "The White Sox where horribly run in the early 60's and wouldn't get better until Bill Veeck sold the team to a rich owner."

But do they do that? I think the most craven reason I've heard was the Sox used to not use the DL to keep their league numbers better. They'll keep a guy on the bench for a couple of days in the hope that he heals up, and the starter is worth more for 10 days than a replacement player is for 15. This year, they've even called a guy up for a single game, then demoted him just to have that 26th guy the one game before Robert came off the IL, or something. If they've tried to save one day of league minimum salary in the past, I'm unaware.

I agree with this. And they're going to be serious in the Rule 5. They're not going to spend money. But they're not going to keep running guys out there who aren't producing. In 2024, they had no depth. Last year, they had no depth but played the waiver wire well. Next year, they'll have group of pitchers to pick from.

You're not making an argument, now. The World Series isn't even over. There's an entire off-season to play out. You're assuming they will acquire nobody, will plug in the same 5 guys who finished the season in the rotation, and not replace them if they fail. They don't need to pick two winning Powerball tickets in the Rule 5 again. I'm really not even sure what you're arguing. I think I've explained my reasoning.

Burke, Cannon and Gomez were worth half a win between the three of them. I guess it's fun to pretend there is no way for a team to do better than that, they'll plug in 3 ineffective starting pitchers, and nobody will step up and outperform them. That's essentially the logic you're using.

Sure, that's all within the realm of possibilities.

They played .430 ball after the ASB. That rounds up to 70 wins over 162. Next season's rotation probably looks something like Shane Smith, Davis Martin, Gomez, Grant Taylor and a wily, cheap veteran. Burke probably competes for a spot, too. I contend that the same team develops further and adds 5+ wins to their 2nd half performance level. You seem to be implying that they won't be able to run a pitcher out there who can do better than Jon Cannon's -0.5 bWAR. That was a weird rule change where MLB stopped letting baseball teams add players in the off-season.