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If we are concerned about fit, I wonder what the pursuit of Norby would be saying about the "high floor" second base/SS prospect we just drafted. If it's just about gathering available asets, cool.

Only if the Sox are surmising that recent negatives on Cease are real issues that can snowball out of control the more time passes. If not, you wait it out until you get what you want, or saddle Cease up until the trade deadline, and let him recoup his value “ his ERA more than double from 2.20 to 4.58. Cease’s velocity dipped by a mile per hour, his strikeout rate fell three percentage points, and he yielded far more hard contact than he did during that elite 2022 campaign.

Possible. Morosi would have to pay a price for taking clicks pay. There’s a capital sum that is spent. We know the usual suspects that report things now and people roll their eyes.

Also, I’m not sure how close Morosi really is to Getz, if Morosi is being used as a mouthpiece of disinformation.

Aha! Sanity prevailed.

Interesting. FWIW, the multiple prospects return is preferable provided the floors are likely. Regret the names we are talking aren’t carrying superstar ceilings. If you want the superstar ceiling, you only get the one prospect 1 for 1. In general I don’t understand why the Sox want to do this at a time of the offseason where the least amount of pressure exists for the other teams to fill out their rotation. The Sox are playing a weak hand, and not optimally. The normal expectation might be to expect the high price not to be met, and for a team to be forced to wait until spring when the pressure ramps up for those that missed on free agency. But we are talking about the White Sox here.

At this point, the Sox just need assets in the organization. A center field asset is a need in general, and a good commodity. If the Sox are indeed pursuing valuable assets, that has to be enough with the state of things.

The relatively bad year Cease had may mean something, may not. But it definitely will cause other teams to hold onto their most elite prospects for him. We will be getting the less brighter. And I say again, if the Sox are truly rushing this process, they are degrading the ultimate returns.

The Sox probably think they can scout by reading scouting publications and using their typical evaluation process to subsist, rather than investing in quality to their own scouting department. Whatever the Sox know, other teams know more. Yeah yeah, I know the Sox might have paid lip service to some sort of change in MO. Whatever it is, Jerry Reinsdorf won’t let it be anything but substandard. The Sox are now going to stop letting other teams poach their own talent, and smoke the Sox in prospect trades all of the sudden, for sure.

As to the bold, that’s not how it works. You can take the stats of dozens of NBA guys that come off the bench and project them out for 36 mpg and impress yourself with the results. But they come off the bench for a reason. Alas, Eloy is at the doctors office frequently for a reason. His body is not going to become more healthy as the years go by. Eloy gets injured more in the batters box, and running to first base than he does in the outfield probably anyway.

Not that the Orioles would be lowballing the Sox, but they or any other team shouldn’t be expected to be putting their best offers on the table before Spring Training. If the Sox are impatient and insist on getting a deal done even before winter meetings, weakness is apparent, no doubt there is blood in the water

I would never take a shot at those two. We need six more. Especially since we lost Burger at second base.

if the best talent is first base talent, this draft is perfect for the Sox

Just stop fighting, lay back, and enjoy it.

Interesting to put the entire team up for trade, Ill just say that. Remains to be seen how much of that is real or not. But it is not very likely anything will happen for a long time It’ll be all lowball offers until spring training

What it seems like the plan is, to establish an identity on the ground floor of adding/promoting the real talent to the roster later. I guess in this case, a defensive identity. Perhaps a grinder mentality. In other words, the ballyhooed quick turnaround may amount to a turnaround in style orientation rather than a turnaround in the standings.

Unless Chris Getz is a sleeper genius, This moment seem precarious. Not that I object to blowing it up. The organization needs a complete overhaul. But dealing with the sharks of the League is scary. Tak care Chris.

Ah OK. Never mind previous comment. Catching up on the goings on. If there's no money savings, I guess 5 players is better than 1.

That sounds about the idea

It may be a wise move for the Sox to stay away from Dombrowski.

I’m not a fan. But I am still irritated by this.

If he's coaching the same dudes, yeah.

His boss seems to be LaRussa too. I don't know what's going on.

after being thoroughly unimpressed with the Getx signing, he does this. Something Kenny and Rick would have not done. So, there's that.

The Bears pulled the same crap with Ryan Pace, who was allowed to keep digging the hole unabated. These franchises, maaan. Nobody can see the speeding trains coming to avoid further wreckage. Not sure the ultimate people calling the shots care enough to look up from their poofy brunches and dinners cares until their body men poke them on the shoulder to tell them the frothing media has surrounded the compound.