WestEddy

Romy Gonzalez blossomed into a solid utility player who has a good manager that picks his spots to succeed. If Gonzalez was on the WSox, he would have started at 2B, become overexposed, and wound up OPSing .540.

It's not even timing. A team can't run a farm system by relying on only their first rounders to succeed in the majors. It's getting an international scouting flow working, it's maximizing the draft, and it's being able to target and grab players who are underperforming in other systems.

Grandal is treated like a punchline here, but the stat-head, framing nerds loved him. That was a big signing when it happened.

At the 45 minute mark - he talks about not spending right now, basically about being on the right point of the win curve before you splurge.

Old friend alert:

Josh Bell just signed for $6M, and Vaughn was a "league average" OPS+ last season. Bell is essentially the same hitter as Vaughn.

James talked on the latest FutureSox podcast about how the Sox should be scooping up pitchers on international dollars. Those guys are so cheap. The Dodgers could have somebody they promised $250k to they could deal for twice the money. I'm really just throwing poo against the wall. I will not dig in on this. LOL.

Sure it was. We're just speculating, but Rodon probably accepted their incredibly low offer for the stipend. The Sox tendered Kimbrel a contract, there was no QO sitch.

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/