WestEddy

When they're winning, the Sox wind up in the top 5 for payroll. Which of their starters do you think they should be extending besides Cannon? Maybe Fedde should get 7/210 also?

Plan? Who cares? He's adjusting. And whatever he's doing, it's working well...

So why do you need the Sox to do more than what the rest of the league normally does?

They extended Lynn after Danks. I don't think they should be giving 10-year deals to pitchers, either.

The Sox were talking to Giolito, and it never got close. When the team was losing 100 games in 2023, do you think they should have started extending that core who could never string two good seasons together? The Sox figured out putting Lopez in the bullpen, then traded him. All of this is a distraction from the main point that the White Sox have extended their pitchers when they're winning, and to suggest they never do that is trollish BS.

You're not even making a point. Yes, they extended Lynn. Neither Kopech or Lopez warranted it, and Giolito and Cease were going to do free agency. Do you suggest they give Jon Cannon 7/200 just to say they did?

Then say that initially and stop moving the goalposts. You say s%*# you know isn't correct, then keep throwing sand to obscure your obvious error.

Looks like a Cannon start tomorrow

Not really an old friend, more like the blind date you cancelled the day before, and never looked back

Hooray!! We're saved!!

The best GM candidates have answers and strong opinions for all of these questions.

Both Sale and Quintana. Buehrle was either extended, or allowed to go to free agency and matched, once. Danks was famously extended. Floyd pitched past 6 full years for the Sox, and I'm sure one of them wasn't for free. They also had talks with Samardzija and Giolito; both were set on testing out free agency. Y'all carp on about "historically..." There is a precedent for the White Sox under JR for extending pitchers.

Yes there is.

No, you're projecting. I'm simply comparing this team to last year's 2nd half.

No. They lost 100 games last year, and the team in the 2nd half was night and day compared to the first half. If they wind up 62-100, and Hagen Smith, Schultz and McDougal are in the rotation? Mune, Colson, Teel, Ant-Man, Vargs, Meidroth, Quero and maybe Pereira or Acuña are productive, that's a great core to add to.

what do you mean dissected? Burke, Martin, Fedde and Kay all look fine. Venable said only the first time through was going be a ramping up period. I know you love to call everything Sox related a failure before it even gets started. The rotation will probably be Schultz, McDougal, Hagen Smith and 2 others by August. That was the plan. Paez was quickly jettisoned, and they have replacements. Shane Smith needs work, and they have a half dozen prospects at AAA to step in for him, not 38-year-old AAAA dudes. Really, you could certainly pretend that 4 positional starters getting injured 2 weeks in was bad planning. The rotation looks fine, and working as planned. That's called a good job of roster building.

Sure, but again, they're just trying to get to the point where the starters are getting stretched out and regularly going 5+ innings. Schweitzer, Davitt, those guys are fungible.

No he isn't. Murphy is.

It's almost like a few starters are injured, or something.

Very nice throw by Murray.

Brains are so broken, they think Reinsdorf is a God-like presence, guiding each and every individual player into constant failure. And really, Nardi, the vomiting of invective is all your fault, because you "accept losing", whatever that means. I'm not sure, but I think urinating oneself laughing over a possible career ending injury is how one doesn't "accept losing", and is the more noble path of action.

Weird that people who are angry about a baseball team show their anger by taking a victory lap and gloating over the incompetence of a player collision. And then those of us whose reaction is "Hmm, that wouldn't have been my first reaction" are the real villains because we're not gloating, also. I'm just curious at what point is the organization is supposed to teach outfield fundamentals to a second baseman? And should the player retire for a year or two to take classes on all of the "fundamentals" before they step back on the field? The people laughing and high-fiving each other over a serious injury seem to know the answers to this question, but they're not telling us.

Schweitzer was fresher. I think they're going to bounce a few guys around if starters can't start eating innings.

Maybe we should be complaining about how the Rangers, Mets and Rays teach fundamentals to the players they trade to us. I am aghast!!

Sure. I think I'm in the camp of "just trade him and let's move on". Truman Pauley's going to be a beast. Schriffen's call for that has to be "You, my good hitting friend, have been served up one Hyannis Port strikeout. Now be a good sport and take a seat to give your teammate a go of it!!"