WestEddy

And he should totally wear one of his Pope Leo 14 White Sox jerseys when he does this.

1 - "why are you comparing the White Sox to the Brewers?!?" 2 - who gives a s%*#? Start that string. 3 - losers do that. 4 - again, who cares? The Rays have the connotative connection to winning through development and trading a player a year or two before the end of their control to stay in contention. If you're going to be like this, I will request you send your replies directly to me before posting so that I can grade them and tell you what you're allowed to reference. Good day to you, sir!

Now comes the content about who are the best unprotected prospects in the game -

I get that you usually answer a simple statement with a flurry of distracting questions that have nothing to do with the statement. When did this motif become a rule where we're restricted in our comparisons? You compare the White Sox to whatever team crosses your head. As for the rest of your questions, Hahn/KW assembled a team not built to last, did not establish a depth of prospects to replace that team, and Reinsdorf dithered while other factors cut into their operational budget. Tampa Bay is a fair comparison, as the Sox are in a cycle where they're cheaping out because of bad business decisions, and under those restrictions, the Sox have to become lean and mean.

A lot of teams run a lot of garbage out there at 1B. One NL playoff team might even be starting Andrew Vaughn. The best defensive 1B in 2025? Ryan O'Hearn. I think that if Lenyn Sosa hit 25 HRs, he'd be fine. MLBTR wastes their keystrokes on analyzing Josh Bell's free agency outlook.

I think Sosa, Vargas and Baldwin get dinged at Fangraphs because of the utility. Sosa is passable at 2B, and doesn't project enough power to hold down 1B, LF or DH. I can certainly imagine him hitting 30 HRs as he matures, and that's nothing to turn one's nose up at. As far as his perception here and in podcast-ville, I hear the comment "low baseball IQ" thrown around, and I don't want to really touch that. There's some bone-headedness, but I don't think he's as bad as we've all conjured up. Looking at his splits, dude sure ain't streaky. I think he can and should get regular at-bats this year. He's a nice, cheap 2B option who could hit you 20 dingers. I would think that's marketable right now, and should bring back a steady OF or starting pitcher. Or he could plug in for four years.

I believe that's in the window where they can compel Ishbia to begin buying them out.

Not looking it up and just guessing wildly about it, I think starting in 2029, JR has the option of initiating a sale. That remains in effect until some time in 2033, at which point Ishbia then has the right to initiate the sale from his end. So, if JR passes before 2033, the family can compel Ishbia to start buying them out. If JR is still alive in 2033, Ishbia can begin compelling JR to sell to him.

The Sox pick 2nd. Even picking up a free reliever is a viable strategy.

By putting Hill through waivers and outrighting him, they'd still owe him his arb salary. They could ask release waivers, or whatnot, but seeing as they didn't need the roster spot, and it's free in the offseason, I believe the non-tender deadline is a cleaner release.

Oh, I agree with this. Just calling out Holden for his obvious contradictions. JR sucks, Hahn/KW did horribly in backing up their roster and extending it to the future.

You just scolded Cali for not recognizing Tampa's playoff runs in his diatribe, but now you flip flop and contradict yourself...proving my point.

Not to you and your ilk, it wouldn't. Playoff appearances only matter for other teams.

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.