LittleHurtCG

The Sox refuse to up their payroll to cover their bad spending. They also have no pipeline of minor league talent. The lighting in a bottle approach of 2006 to 2016 is back. Better get used to it as it is the only way a franchise like the Sox can ever be succcessful.

Good question. I'm sure this Victor Bout dude is on his way to work at a Moscow orphanage as I type. Isn't that what all convicted terrorists do when they are released from over a decade in American jail?

This is the only sane post around here right now. Another job tank is never ever going to work with this FO and ownership group. Again, another tank job will never ever work The Sox need to add around the edges on this roster and at least get Sheets and Eloy out of the outfield. They are going to be in contention around the trade deadline most likely. Push in Montogomery and whatever else you can then.

Why can't the Sox afford to trade prospects either right now or at the trade deadline? The competive window to win is 2023 and maybe 2024. There is absolutely not going to be any kind of sustained success here. That ship has totally sailed. The Sox need to go all out to win a world series the next two years. They are going to be really bad in 3-4 years no matter what.

Another tank job is completely and totally out of the question. The Sox will stay in the middle lane of the highway driving an even 65mph. They are a staus quo organization.

How about they keep both Hendricks and Graveman? They are your closer and 8th inning guy in 2023. The Sox are a team with World Series aspirations. If the budget is tapped out then it is time to trade away some of the top prospects.

The rebuild was headed for disaster for the jump. Letting Hahn and company architect the rebuild was such a colossal blunder. This FO needs a $350 million dollar annual payroll in order to be considered legit contenders. Trying to rebuild when you have absolutely no idea how to scout, draft, and develop talent is a recipe for what we are seeing now.

Ha. Let's hope the Sox start handing out $300 million dollat contracts over the next few weeks. Then maybe we can compare the two.

Why in the world are the Sox trying to trade Giolito and Hendricks during a year that they are supposed to be competing for a World Series? Why create two big holes on your mlb roster? This is crazy talk to me. Why stop with just those guys? Dylan Cease is value is at all time high as well right now. Think of all the shiny prospects the Sox could get for him! Total insanity.

The "process" in Philadelphia has been an epic failure. Those bozos made their fans sit through 3 straight seasons where they didn't even win 20 games. All those years flushed down the toilet and they couldn't even win one Eastern Conference Championship. It will never happen in a million years but the "epic Fail" tank jobs by professional sports orgainizations should be punished heavily in someway. Ownership should be forced to pay back season ticket holders and the fanbase in someway. Relegation like in professional socceer should be implemented in some fashion as well.

No way in hell anything like this happens. No way in hell. The White Sox are a status quo organization. NOthing major is coming expect for maybe signing a guy like Gallo or Jason Heyward.

Very well put. We know the Sox saw the success that KC, Cubs, and Houston had with tanking and rebuilding and thought they should finally give it a try as well. Do we have any other comps for such incompetently run rebuilds in professional sports? I guess you could say the Pirates, Cleveland Browns, and maybe "the process" with the 76ers?

Hahn is already in his hotel robe sipping on a fizzy water and watching the new Willow TV show.

Have the Sox signed Robinson Cano and Jason Heyward yet? Kenny always gets his guys!

Cubbies aint making the playoffs in 2023. They will likely win a playoff series before the Sox do, however.

Trade makes a lot of sense for the Cubbies. Only a year deal and they can just cut him down the stretch if he continues to suck. If he has a good year he can be flipped at the deadline to an outfield needy team like the Sox or Twins.

No. The logical move was to fire Hahn and company after 2016 no matter what direction they chose.

Blind luck and few savvy trades and free agent signings and the Sox could have had a chance. Instead they rebuilt and became the Minnesota Twins for two seasons and the whipping boy of the AL West in the postseason. Tanking wasn't the only way.

I'm saying their were paths for the team to strike lighting in a bottle in 2018 when Sale was still in his prime. I showed a path on how that could work. Crazy things happen in baseball all the time. How many "experts" had the Sox winning it all in 05? You seem content with the results of the tank job which is fine I suppose. Most of the hardcore tankies I talked to said the Sox were on the path to be juggernauts like the Cubs and Houston.

Sorry you can't see any alternatives. That seems to be the problem with many of the hardcore tankies. They don't seem to understand that baseball isn't yet played on spreadsheets and prospect ranking aren't gospel.

You have no idea on whether or not they would have sucked if they never tanked. Things could have been much different if a new front office and scouting team was brought in. Again, they tanked a whole freaking season only to draft Nick freaking Madrigal. Lmao.

Sounds pretty good damn good to me.

You gotta fit Grandal in there somewhere as well.

Chris Sale was an absolute stud. Miss watching that guy pitch every day on the South Side. Best Sox pitcher I've ever watched in person.

Tanking is a legit option if you know how to draft, scout the international market, and develop players. The Sox cannot do any of that well therefore tanking is not an option for them. Another tank job by the Sox will only give the gullible fanbase hope.