WestEddy

If the Sox aren't close to having bodies lined up for their entire international pool?

They probably had an agreement with Boras to not give a QO with the $3M flier.

Would part of a trade be something like, the White Sox send $500k of international space, they get player X, and the receiving team also points 2 unsigned prospects to the White Sox?

They held Rodon back a month or so into his rookie season, and Boras praised the Sox for their handling of Rodon. This was while the Cubs were messing around with an obviously ready Kris Bryant.

Amaya and Shewmake being launched sets the SS battle between C. Monty and Brooks Baldwin with Sosa and Meidroth as backup to that plan. Nick Maton can also cover SS, I guess. I'm happy for both Amaya and Shewmake to be gone, as there is no temptation for either to start a full week between IL stints of more capable players.

Works for me.

I guess this means no Jakob Junis.

I'm not following. Are you saying that the people we draft nobody else wants?

One year, $5M.

Old friend alert:

I'm not sure if I'm one of those people, but nope. I think four rotation spots should belong to Cannon, Martin, Thorpe and Burke. After Getz' rough first off-season, I think they have to be prepared to run a good dozen guys out there to start games. There will be injuries, retooling, as we saw last year with Flexen and Cannon, and maybe one or more might be better suited for relief. Just like the Rojas signing, I think they're going to need bodies to run out there.

I don't know if it should get it's own thread in the FutureSox heading. Prospects1500 does a top 50 prospects list of White Sox, writes a paragraph each on the top ten. https://www.prospects1500.com/top-50-lists/chiacgo-white-sox-top-50-prospects-2025/

I looked on B-R to make sure I had the names right, but I remember the hub-bub at Jim Margalus' SouthSideSox when they didn't add Jordan Guerrero to the 40-man to "protect" him from the Rule 5 draft. Like, he was a soft-tossing lefty reliever.

Old friend alert. Patiño had TJS in April, still rehabbing.

Sure, but it's probably more indicative of the resources available now that nobody was speaking about Jordan Stephens, Spencer Adams or Jordan Guerrero the way we talk about Mason Adams, Tyler Schweitzer or even Yhoiker Fajardo today.

There's always a mystery team.

I mean, if people are so desperate for Reinsdorf to spend money, maybe hang outside of Alinea on the odd chance JR takes his family there for dinner, and they can watch.

Thanks for posting this. I'll probably get to reading it tonight.

The White Sox ate $11M on Leury's contract when they cut him in ST 2023. I don't see that as a harbinger for how Benny will be dealt with, tho I agree with Chicago White Sox dude that Benny won't be here in 2027. As far as the 2026 FA market, there's always non-tenders we won't know about until November, 2026. Austin Hays is a cheaper dude with no strings (QA) attached who could probably be gotten cheap on a one year show-me contract. Leury is also the answer to "last time IF moved to OF successfully". FanGraphs didn't hate his defense.

There's a few guys here with new-borns. I'm guessing sleep-deprivation.

Because you won't acknowledge any counter arguments, then move on. You're arguing philosophies. The Sox aren't going to jump in and sign Santander, probably for all the arguments registered here, and mostly because that contract would just be too big a hit to a cheap crisis budget. You're not going to change minds. If your feelings are hurt, you should probably say that, take the hits for being a baby, and move on.

You were recently much more positive. Who hurt you?

Dude, when Loyola has a deep tournament run, or Northwestern goes to a bowl game, suddenly, everybody's walking around my neighborhood wearing Loyola or NW swag. Yes, people get excited by a winner. Then they decide to become further invested, or not. If the team has sustained success, then, yeah, people consider themselves Rambler fans, or US women's basketball or whatever fans. When something becomes popular, people follow it. Conversely, when a team starts losing, people stop going; stop watching. That's really not some profound discovery. I really don't understand the manufactured panic of "OMG!! nobody will be Sox fans!!" If they win, they'll come out of the woodwork.