WestEddy

Robert isn't part of the extended future of this team. I can understand moving any of the players on this roster (except Monty and Teel) for a return that sets the Sox up better than the traded player does. To me, keeping him makes more sense than trading him for a minor league bullpen arm.

Wow. I've so gotten into your head that you now think your thoughts are actually mine? LOL. Buy a guy a drink, first. The choice here seems to be that either Chris Getz and the entire White Sox front office are so completely in over their heads that they are regularly misjudging the market for Luis Robert, or Robert's their CF this off-season, and they'll move him for a non-trivial return. I can understand how breaking nonsensical narratives down to simple realities confounds you, since you're the one who has chastised the entire board for not being embarrassed enough that you thought Vinny Capra and Oliver Dunn are better players than Shane Smith because the Brewers rostered them while exposing Smith to the Rule 5 draft. I prefer to run with the explanation that requires fewer yoga classes for pretzel-shape twisting. Seriously, before you start typing "make it make sense", or "I'm just laughing at...", consider that for multiple trade deadlines and offseasons, the Sox have entertained trade talk for Robert, and wound up keeping him. A rational person might surmise that Getz looked at the offers and decided that plugging Robert back into CF is worth more to the team than the unsatisfactory package or return the market is offering. If you really think that Getz is receiving offers that are worth more than playing Robert, it's incumbent upon you to tell me something more about these offers you know exist instead of pretending to be laughing.

Those who subscribe to the hive mind are generally shocked by those who can step back and look at the big picture. You don't have to look on in awe from the outside. I'll bet you have it in you to do it too.

I'm coming around to the thought that the White Sox aren't repeatedly marketing Robert and failing, but they made the decision that he's the best option as their CF, and if another team wants to change their plans, it's going to cost them.

Something called "ClutchPoints" hypothesizing a Sox/Mets trade return Will Watson, R.J. Gordon and Jose Chirinos for Robert.

Really? Any particular reason why? I think they just changed international scouting director, but I wouldn't think they'd cancel everything over that, unless there was some shenanigans going on.

Somebody using Grok to scrape the net for Braves' rumors...

Interesting string where it's posited that the Mets need more international money to sign their whole class.

Ian and James always put out a podcast worth a listen. The most interesting is the convo about Baseball America's raving about where the Sox are going with Development (BA thinks the Sox could have a top ten system after the draft), and James talks a bit about what he hears the Sox want to add soon. Give a listen.

Garfien had a good talk with Phil Nevin about why he came to the Sox and what he does.

Interesting argument for German Marquez.

Non-compete clause. If he quit, JR wouldn't let him work for another team for the duration of his contract.

Let's set down our pretentions. All jobs suck.

Mama Mia!! If he was wearing a White Sox uniform, that jumping high ten landing would have resulted in a blown-out knee.

He looked like a dubious #5. I thought he could get something like 1/3 as somebody's rotation depth.

Kona Takahashi goes back to Japan.

I think that's what they're doing. If somebody comes banging on the door with a package, the Sox will listen.

In your article, you name Outfielder Sebastian Romero but then refer to somebody called Rivero. Are there two different players, or is it Sebastian Rivero, and you mistakenly subbed in Francys Romero's name?

Verdugo, Verdahgo. They're all just bodies, pile 'em up, run 'em out. Feel no shame, all teams do this. Kelenic is their particular poison this spring. The weird thing is that MLB has completely f-ed up their off-season, so teams are still building their rosters in the middle of February. It gets tiresome refreshing Twitter for 3 months.

That's the problem when ball players get out beyond "can just play one game at a time" and all that gibberish. Somebody had him on camera and probably asked him to comment on the signs. That's the thing he remembers about Segura. It would be weird if he knew about that struggle, and then only talked about his sunflower seed eating, or whatnot.

And if the Sox make him the nominal offer, they get the 2nd overall pick as well as their regular 1st rounder in next year's draft.

Have you missed all the kvetching around here over Taylor starting his MLB career in the bullpen to ramp up his innings?

"How did you handle getting unwanted advice from more established Japanese players when you really just wanted to figure it out on your own?"

Don't we have that in Tristan Peters and Dustin Harris?