The market was flush with quality pitching this offseason. I expected a premiere starting pitcher.
The White Sox had arguably the worst starting rotation of any team that was bidding for pitching, and they couldn't land one of the big three. What's more disgusting is it seems as if they didn't even bother to engage with Boras about Cole or Strasburg. If Wheeler was their guy, then they needed to overpay for him. I don't care what he says about being closer to NJ, money can change that and the Sox did not separate themselves far enough away from the pack to get it done. If they can't sign any of the next top SP available, this may wind up being a worse offseason than last. Because at least last year it was a foregone conclusion the team wouldn't be competing for anything in 2019. The expectations have shifted for 2020, as was stated by Rick Hahn at the outset of the offseason. Failure to convert on, at the very least, two quality starting pitchers will make this offseason nothing less than an unmitigated disaster.
The further we go along into this, it just seems to be the same BS as we've seen previously which is very disheartening.
