WestEddy

Austin Hays is also part of that LRJ money.

It's a baseball team. You have no effect on the team, and the team has no effect on you. Being "skeptical" isn't smarter than anything else.

That seems like a really dramatic way for Hays to announce that it's really hard for him to resist gay sex.

Keith Law has the Sox 8th, and the Twins bottom third.

Maybe interest in Ramos is pretty heavy and the Sox can get an arm back.

The White Sox called Brooks Baldwin up on July 1. From that time to the end of the season, he OPSed .793. He needs reps to become a better defensive OF. I don't believe it makes any sense to waste his PAs in AAA. I believe he's secured one OF spot. They have around 5-6 AAA/AAAA guys who can battle for playing time with whatever Mike Tauchman they bring in. Acuna in CF, Pereira in RF, maybe Kelenic makes the team with a strong spring showing.

I can't tell if it's a bunch of dudes on the spectrum who can't let go of an imaginary grudge, an idiot (me) who can't just walk on by and leave it alone, trolls who love to get the idiots going, or all of the above.

Your comment didn't even register with me. You have pretty clear takes and they stand on their own. Somebody isn't encouraged going into this season. Great. Somebody pops in and tells me I have no self-respect because I'm enthused, and clearly tongue in cheek expressing that with the whole "Geek Squad fortifying my A key on my keyboard" joke? I get combative. I'll try to pull that back. (The combativeness).

Making cogent, logical arguments makes one a zombie propaganda slave. Got it.

Broken? If you don't accept that this team is rebuilding, they why are you watching? Why do guys like Ray Ray spend all day pretending to laugh at people following a team that has no good players, will never win 63 games this decade and actively injured all of their pitchers?

Which would still have resulted in a trade. I can't imagine 28 other teams had zero interest in Acuña.

Most of what you say is joking/mocking or making outrageous claims just to argue (Like Vinny Capra being better/more valuable than Shane Smith). Never is a strong word. No, a hum-drum closer doesn't bring back an Ohtani or Judge led package, or a "top player" that you only seem to be interested in. There's a lot going on in the game that may not be of interest to the casual observer.

1) they acquired a few relievers who will help strengthen the bullpen. 2) Exposing Pallette, and the travails of guys like Coffey, Kelley and Adler show that nobody's being blocked 3) most of the acquisitions are low cost 4) Dominguez may well be tradeable for prospects in July I'm not sure how this makes me a zombie propaganda slave.

No, they're rebuilding. That, right there, is a silly statement. If you can't see past the next 2 weeks, then maybe watching a rebuilding team isn't for you. And mocking people who are excited about the incremental moves a rebuilding team is making doesn't seem to be getting you anywhere towards understanding why the positive ones are excited about where the Sox are going. We explain, you argue, then start the cycle over again in a few days.

A team has the ability to multi-task. You've already admitted that guys like Dominguez, Kay and Newcomb won't be here August 4th. The Sox will have paid a percentage of their salaries and bring back prospects. This isn't a science lab. A team can bring along young arms (as they're doing with Taylor, Leasure, Gonzalez, Vasil and 2 Rule 5 kids) and have a few veterans to offer stability in high leverage situations. What I don't understand is that you seem to want to block prospects with older guys who won't be part of the next competitive team. But whatever areas the Sox improve, you then say that's too soon. That's great that you have beliefs. Go apply for a GM position and see how your vision sells.

I think Baldwin can be above average, offensively, then needs to learn his eventual position. Acuña has a high defensive ceiling. If they can straighten him out offensively, he can produce like an average major leaguer.

If you bring in two guys good enough to give you 65-80 IP each, those are great additions. I really don't understand your arguments. You complain that the team doesn't have major league caliber players, but when they bring in major league caliber players, you say they're not ready to invest in that. Most people don't sit in the stands, pull up payroll records on their phones, then cheer for salaries. They cheer for their team to win. Building a bullpen that can hold a lead helps the team win. That's just one part of building back the franchise. If the team isn't in the pennant race in July, they can then trade those relievers for prospects. You even said in another post that the Sox would barely spend about a quarter of Dominguez's total salary if they trade him in July. Newcomb will cost around $3M if traded.

As I've explained multiple times. This is a rebuilding team that has reps to give to post-hype players in the gamble that they get back on the path towards their ceilings. I don't know how you define "major league caliber". You either want guys like Baldwin to get a shot to expand on his last 2 months of 2025 where he OPSed .808 to see if he can hold down an OF spot, or not. I would have little interest in watching an OF of Hays, Bader and Conforto, which, last I checked, were all "major league caliber". I'm "singing the praises" of Acuña and Pereira in that they have talent and need reps to get there. If a rebuilding team bores you, so be it.

Shooting down a player as being paid less than Polanco doesn't talk about a player and his attributes. In this case, every prospect and rookie is a non-starter until they're getting real paid. Breaking down actual acquisitions to "obtained 4 players" just to pretend they're not exciting team-building moves is silly.

This must be a bot account. You keep saying the same 2-3 things no matter the convo. Gas-lighting. Moved the goalposts.

That's fine. Noah Schultz reached #10 on BA, Colson Montgomery #9 on MLB. Bonemer could be top 10 in time. Their 2026 first rounder could probably top out in the top 5. I'm not very concerned about rankings, as you named 5 guys who have never won awards and have put up three 5 bWAR campaigns in a combined 33 seasons.

He plays the same game regularly. You don't seem to have a problem when he misrepresents.

1) The Sox have signed 4 players. Well, that is one descriptor of the off-season. "The White Sox are a baseball team that participated in the off-season" is about as descriptive. Reducing the offseason moves down to robot commands is the actual gas-lighting. 2) A guy who signed for less than Jorge Polanco. That's a meaningless sentence. Yes, when I go to FanGraphs to evaluate baseball players, the main, high-lighted column on their stats page is their salary. Gas-lighting. 3) 2 relievers. This is bad, now? They lost, what, 26 leads after the 7th inning last season? Why is it bad to sign relievers? 4) possible SP. If Sean Newcomb pitches his way into the rotation, that's great news. If he doesn't, that adds to a strong bullpen. Again, not sure why this is bad, or how this gets downplayed. More gas-lighting. This is a team that is coming off of 102 losses. They're rebuilding. You even argue that it would be foolish to trade prospects for established stars. It would be foolish to sign 30-something stars to block the prospects. I don't want Ray Ray to believe in the off-season. I'm not trying to cheer him up and make him positive. I am answering his regular "I don't see it. They acquired players. Why should that get me excited?" gas-lighting.

I find watching a rebuilding team do the things they're supposed to fun. The board becomes one big demand for the team to acquire and play young talent. That's what they did. Now people are yelling for the team to block that talent with dead cats like Harrison Bader. I'm looking forward to the White Sox building an OF out of the handful of post-hype dudes they've gotten into the org. And if they don't progress, churn through.