WestEddy

They could have just added Palette, anyway. Hill is probably non-tendered on Friday, now that they have Pereira. I'm guessing that from any trade banter, they sense no interest in Palette, and want the flexibility.

Apparently, 2020 and 2021 never happened for the White Sox. Just abject failure.

I'm not so sure about that. If Getz revamps the entire front office, gets international producing again, starts popping major leaguers out of the minor league system, wins some games, I'm not sure why Ish would rip all that out and start over. I can't imagine he's not being briefed on how Getz is proceeding.

Pereira has zero options left, so he has to make the team out of spring training, or...something. I don't mind it. Power hitting, young, corner guy to work out his issues in the bigs like everybody wants. I think an interesting sub-plot is that the Tampa Rays see the White Sox as a team to look to for rehabbed pitching. The White Sox also quietly disperse with one of their Friday contract tender decisions in Wilson. Also, the Sox had 5 open roster spots, and now they have 4.

As per Alex Speier on BlueSky: The Red Sox acquired C Ronny Hernandez from the White Sox in the deal sending LHP Chris Murphy to Chicago.

A large part of it has. Quero has made the jump to the bigs, and didn't put up a .375 OPS. He hit. Sure, he still needs to grow into the different corners of his prospect, but he's no longer a complete unknown prospect. His gap power will expand as he grows up. I think Quero has a lot more value than the top AAA catching prospect who still hasn't played a game in the bigs. Sure, Quero putting up a very solid full season offensively and defensively would increase his value, but you're going to burn a cheap pre-arb year getting to that value. It's a limited market. A team who doesn't see themselves ready this season, but having the spot for Quero to grow into - may not want to wait a year to pay more for him. This is mostly academic, as I don't think Getz is going to move Quero or Teel for anything short of a monster return relative to their respective values.

I don't think he would. I'm arguing with the notion that moving Quero would be "selling low". (I don't want them to trade Quero.)

That's my contention. Quero's played half a season in the bigs and held his own, offensively. Robo-umps take away his biggest drawback, and if a team doesn't think they can teach a first year catcher how to block better, they should sign Grandal. Quero's a top prospect who hasn't been exposed by MLB pitching. 6 years of control of what looks like a solid starter. That's not "selling low".

Sure it is. Especially after making multiple comments about 'getting back into the Asian market'. It would be incredibly stupid to pay a scout to watch baseball games in Japan just to be able to "say" something. That's great that you will wait for 'results' until you stop tagging onto every comment that statements are BS. Something tells me those goalposts have wheels on them. They always do.

Here's what you said: "The Sox haven't even tried to get into the Pacific rim baseball market since then. I seriously doubt they are going to start that now." My post was in response to yours. They declared that they intend to get more serious in the Asian market, and they have scouts looking at one of the prime offensive guys this offseason. But you're right. Being a doubting Thomas is meaningless, and not really an argument about anything.

Mike's a nice guy, but it's a blog with either "here's something that's been reported", or "here's something the Sox should consider doing" articles. There's no original reporting. And there's about a half dozen platforms that do that. Bleacher Report, Fansided, SportsMockery.

I think a lot of Japanese players have. Once they get a steady diet, their eye speeds up.

They have been making public statements about their interest in getting back into the Asian market, as soon as this off-season.

I think one of the free agent predictions lists by MLBTR or somebody had one writer of four pick the Sox for Okamoto.

What part? The "met up with Fuller" or the "3 most recent seasons" part? Fuller did seem to pull him back from the abyss of a horrible season, and I think the Sox saw an opportunity to get a bounce back guy cheap. Hey, if a team knows they're going to only shop in the bins by the back door, why not grab the guy you know the most about first before everyone gets grabbed up and you're looking through lists for a guy who *might* have a comeback in him?

I've read it surmised between $90M-$100M.

Sure, but since he met up with Fuller, he's been producing right around 20% better than the average major league rate, and that's the 3 most recent full seasons.

That's not a bad comparison, but O'Hearn seems to be more steady over the season, whereas Sheets seems to get "found out", and then has to be protected a bit.

Me too. I think Mason Adams is the only guy on which we disagree, and I'm with James Fox that he's just the kind of guy a team would grab up and stow, if they wanted a #4-#5 rotation guy end of the year. It's more about who is at risk of getting picked, not who would you miss. Every team has a bunch of guys who throw hard but not for strikes, so they wouldn't be grabbing one of ours to tie up a roster spot with all year.

Older SoxMachine article where they ponder the Rule 5 issues: https://soxmachine.com/2025/09/white-sox-40-man-roster-has-room-for-all-necessary-offseason-moves-and-then-some

New MLB.com article on the toughest 40-man decisions for each team: https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/news/toughest-rule-5-draft-decisions-2025?t=mlb-pipeline-coverage

Good for them. Probably the least surprising signing this off-season.