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The next Big Red Machine, speaking of the Reds. Under construction. Getz is now a genius, life comes at you fast.

I definitely appreciate the idea of crossing off worries over 2026. Yet OTOH, there isn’t much difference in potential good outcomes whichever path is chosen with regards to Robert. Keeping Robert until the deadline on the off chance he rehabbed some trade value is as reasonable choice as any. And as a bonus, it would be a lot more fun to watch this lineup with Robert bracketed by real left handed threats. For potential entertainment value alone without very much downside to worry over, the option of keeping Robert around for awhile grows on me.

It’s not about 2026

He could use a little more lean mass, less baby fat

You know how the Sox work. They’re opening a Japanese pipeline

Aliens concerned about all the nuclear powered weapons

A really good pricetag, awesome!👏 A really good pricetag, uh oh. 😕

Stopgap moves are actually encouraging if you’re looking for a vote of confidence in him. I ain’t mad.

That can’t be the basic rules. But it is a quantum theory outcome that by definition does exist.

Getz was a Trojan Horse of basic competence. We were bamboozled. But this should be easy. Just copy Ryan Poles’s plan, but don’t copy any of his work until last year.

Should have gone in house with a guy who already knows the franchise for a quicker turnaround!

Font size intended as a Rorschach test. Either as a post of the absurd, or we are on the way to supplying the majors with surplus talent 🤤

Since the hire of Brian Bannister and the start of the Chris Getz era, the White Sox have sought to become a development juggernaut and have had some early examples of success https://southsideshowdown.com/the-unknown-white-sox-pitching-prospect-primed-for-a-breakout-season-in-2026

I read somewhere that with the new hirings starting with Getz, the Sox intend to be a talent and minor league development titan of some note. That was music.

Unless the Sox are an American League juggernaut already by the time Ishbia takes over and there’s no need, gotta figure he makes a big splash in free agency at least once right away.

If I’m Ishbia, I’m wanting a cleared deck and a clean slate as much as possible before I take over the spending. Maybe we will see modesty as the plan out of deference to the agreement

Carlson can’t play second? Or maybe they just keep Meidroth and trade Carlson.

Even we aren’t so cursed as to get #7. Right?

Yah. Jerry is smaaaht.

Every time I suspend my disbelief that the Sox aren’t changing fundamentally, being informed of things like that little comment bring me back to earth a little. Japan is not some vast untapped resource of talent, just that it’s especially the Sox that need to be invested more in scouting foreign prospects historically. This is not a scandal or anything. I hadn’t actually thought about this before to be completely honest. And I do have hope that the Sox will be more efficient and effective with their resources than before after their most recent FO changes. But true change to me is in doing things first class in the first place.

The Sox are a year more likely two away from intelligently looking to spend money importing a talent at any position unless it’s franchise cornerstone type. Trust the process for now. Just like the Bulls. The Bears have just arrived at this stage of potential progress, and being a salary capped team, they boned themselves by spending prematurely. The Sox should just chill for now. We’re picking at the top of the draft for crying out loud.

JAGs like Vargas, all you need to ask is what can I get for him if he’s in demand. Keeping him or not keeping him is not really a big concern either way. The Sox are in transition. I’m not projecting him in any future lineup on purpose.

“Patient minds”. Jerry loves it. If that’s how you want to fan, great. Everyone fans different. The impatient minds amongst fans and media are what makes underperformance in FOs sweat their underperformances however. Which seems a reasonable environment to foster for a major city professional sports franchise.

Don’t worry, Cholowsky incoming 😎

I would argue that being an organization with the capability to draft, develop and sign all stars would have been the turnaround we are looking for. In light of our inherent handicaps and hardships, we hopefully make plan B a relative success as much we can.