WestEddy

The Bryce Wilson domino has fallen

The Sox are rebuilding on the cheap. The Brewers are a perennial playoff team at this point. The Sox should have scrubs on their roster. I made a great comparison. Study and learn from it.

The Milwaukee Brewers declined to roster Shane Smith after the 2024 season while Vinny Capra was on their 40-man. Every team in baseball makes the kind of moves you excoriate Chris Getz for.

1) The assembled playoff core fell apart, all at once. They had better pitchers. They traded them. That's what teams do in a rebuild. 2) Why was Shane Smith the best pitcher? Why is anybody the best pitcher? Somebody has to be the best pitcher. If it turned out to be Wikelman Gonzalez, then we could joke that the Sox had to get their best pitcher from elsewhere. If it was Davis Martin, then we could joke that the best pitcher was a 14th rounder coming back from injury. If it was Cannon, then the joke would be that a #5 junk-baller was their best pitcher. 3) I get the point people were making. Our best pitcher was left off another team's 40-man. That's great that you find that sad. I don't get the points you're trying to make. Why don't I get to say Crochet? He was on this team. They traded him. Cease was on the team. They traded him. They had 3 starting pitchers pretty much ready to go. Martin, Burke and Cannon. Smith was better. So what? Why do I have to be embarrassed or saddened by that? 4) I also don't get your obsession with reminding me that Hahn was the GM when Crochet was drafted. So what? 5) Are you also implying that the Sox should have had an entire top prospect team ready to go in 2024 when the old core fell apart? That's not how rebuilds work. 6) But really, the funniest part of all of this is RayRay saying that Vinny Capra was better than Shane Smith because Capra was on the 40-man, and Smith wasn't, and by extension, because Smith made the All-Star team, Vinny Capra was the best player on the White Sox in 2025. That's the messed up part.

The funniest part of this is the inference that Vinny Capra was on the Brewers' 40-man after 2024 because he was better than Shane Smith, and by extension, Miguel Vargas and Edgar Quero. What part of this is supposed to embarrass us?

Wait, this is about the guy who was making fun of somebody who didn't know how embarrassing it was to have a pitcher make an All-Star team. The same guy who badgered the people who gave the Sox a B grade for the season, and wouldn't let it drop?

I'm pretty sure that drafting one pitcher who becomes successful doesn't set a team up for a decade of playoff appearances.

At least one of Gilbert or Hudson have to be on the bubble. Neither has options left, and that's the most valuable thing about any of these guys.

yeah, Taylor going 3 is essentially throwing a bullpen game once every time through the rotation.

LHP Ryan Rolison claimed off waivers.

I would like to know what prospects the Mets wanted the Sox to pay down Robert's contract for. Any time is the right time to question the NYPost's reporting.

If the player goes through waivers unclaimed and the original team declines, they come off the 40-man. If the original team takes them back, they come off the 40-man.

Why is Seal Team Six waking me up on my billionaire's orbit of Earth flight to notify me of this?

the NYPost regularly trots out pro-[certain president] BS, so why are we assuming their sports coverage is beyond reproach? Imma gonna wait until they report on actual names and amounts before I pretend to get mad. The end.

Your need to reframe a process that all 30 teams participate in every year to pretend that the White Sox ate some other team's excrement in selecting a player in the Rule 5 draft. That confuses me.

I think that's what I came up with to Caulfield earlier - when all is said and done.

Oh stop. Then player development doesn't exist, because the players all had the talent, so the White Sox are exactly even with the rest of the league.

Yeah, you don't seem to be able to participate in this convo without playing games, so don't start it.

I said Zavala was an example of a guy who was a poor defensive catcher being developed into a good defensive catcher. I suppose you're saying that developing players is now a bad thing.

xo

Smith wasn't a castaway. I'm confused. Are you now claiming that identifying Shane Smith was a scouting failure? That's just dumb.

Can you define this scouting term "didn't think enough of them"? It feels like you want to say something else, but you know this phrasing will get more of a reaction.

Besides my face hurting from laughing at the supreme effort to turn a scouting and coaching victory into a negative, yeah, I'm fine.

So now, an All-Star assignment is a full-proof method of judging talent? LOL.