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A potential injury isn’t the only risk. There’s also the risk of poor performance. We all think about his 2022 season and feel like he can get back to something closer to that, but the truth is nobody knows.

You’d rather get nothing in return than an underwhelming return?

I’d hesitate to call what the Sox have a surplus of starting pitching. What they have are a lot of bodies, and they need a lot of bodies because pretty much all of their starting pitchers are questionable.

Come on man. By that logic they should never make another international SP signing again.

The Colas have gone flat.

Huh. Huh?

This team needs more veteran leaders to show the other veteran leaders how to be better veteran leaders.

It sort of feels like year -1 of the rebuild, at least on the offensive side, considering the ages I added to CWS’s reasonable guess at the opening day lineup Average age 30.1 ?

Trying this out as the new marketing slogan. White Sox Baseball: It's so interesting to create a team identity of old guys with no offensive upside that rely on their reputations as good defenders

Love bat only guys that also don’t have a bat

No one has offered what the Sox want. What he is worth is completely subjective.

We all know this division sucks, but I think you’re vastly underestimating how wide the gap is between the Sox and the Twins.

Of course. I just think it’s rare to hear professional athletes acknowledge that they’re playing for their career.

The apparent lofty goal of being just mediocre enough to contend for the play-in feels a hell of a lot like the Sox general approach of kinda sorta trying to be slightly less shitty than the other shitty teams in their division. Great stuff JR.

Obviously file all this under non-story/what do you expect them to say, but I do think the below quote from Soroka is kind of refreshing in that it’s more honest than most of the cliche things you’ll hear

What

You’re saying that Cease won’t end up being traded at all, and that a trade was never going to happen from the get go?

Lol

Isn't waiting until they have a good season to bring it back more cowardly than bringing it back after a bad season? Don't get me wrong. I'm nowhere near ready to give them the benefit of the doubt on anything, but I don't really follow your logic here.

Hire an underwhelming but local guy? BAD Hire a seemingly talented and qualified but non local guy? ALSO BAD

They can continue their self-own tradition ala the Guaranteed Rate down arrow by flashing "We Have Defeats" on the scoreboard after each loss.

Arby's Park let's go

This aged poorly. Glad they were able to keep their practice squad intact.

Wonder if the Ravens regret not trading for Cease

“While continuing to speak into the microphone, please consume this pulled pork mac and cheese funnel cake sandwich atop a slab of baby back ribs, during which you must display an unattainable level of elegance and sophistication.”