LittleHurtCG

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.

No more tanking. It is not the way. Losing 95 plus games only to draft guys like Nick Madrigal and Andrew Vaughn doesn't work.

Flip Santana in the offseason after his strong 2017 to a team in go for it mode. Get a guy like walker Buehler or Jack Flaherty

Well you might not be able to see it, but I certainly can. I haven't see any AL Pennants or World Series banners yet with the rebuild either.

Cleveland likely outguns them in 2017 for sure. 2018 is another story as the division was wide open. Sox get in and anything can happen as Boston doesn't have Sale.

Maybe? You asked for some ideas and I gave provided some.

Don't know about most significant offseason of a lifetime. Was he not alive a few years ago during the Machado/Harper debacle?

I understand the phrase lighting in a bottle perfectly fine. It is the only way this organization as currently construced will ever win a championship. They can't draft and develop players worth a damn and they can't afford to eat at Michelin star restaurants every night like the big boys. Lighting in a bottle with a veteran team is the only way.

No. Like you said they could have signed Charlie Morton and found a way to get a guy like Ervin Santana a couple years earlier and while he was still good.

Trading Carson Fulmer and Carlos Rodon for Nelson Cruz. Trade for a guy like Jonathan Schoop at trade deadline. Sign Justin Turner and Kurt Suzuki. That is a start anyways.

Sale didn't have TJS right away and Q was still a valuable player. We don't know know what would have happened if the Sox didn't go into tank mode. We do know that they tanked in an attempt to copy the Cubs and Houston and failed miserably.

I just gave you something. Sorry if you disagree. They could have done a number of different things besides tank. They could have continued the 2005 approach and struck lighting in a bottle again. Sale and Q was a nasty 1 and 2 punch in the rotation. We will never know what would have happened if they didn't tank.

I agree 100%. There is no incentive for the FO to do anything creative. There is no fear of losing their jobs. They can and will do nothing.

Didn't all the MLB teams just get a bunch of Disney $? JR and company can the raise the budget and make it work if they really wanted to. Billinoiaires always seem to find a way.

This FO can't get creative. They don't have the talent or skills to do that. They can and will RH speak all day long. They have been doing it for almost a decade now.

How long of a timeline do you give the new coaching staff to fix all the Sox broken players?

This times 1000. The Sox are going to need a legit closer if they want to win anything significant. Trading Hendricks is dumb.

Fire Rick Hahn the second he brings me the idea of tanking cause he saw the Cubs and Houston doing it. A new front office could have build around studs like Sale, Jose, and Q. I also don't need the benefit on hindsight. I was against the tank from day 1.

Disagree. The move is simple. Spend some damn $ on impact players since you can't draft and develop them yourselves. Tanking will never work for an organization like the White Sox as long as JR is the owner. The 2005 lighting in a bottle approach is the only way to go.

It worked in 2005. It could have worked again in the last three years of the Sale contract. We will never know though. All we have is the results from the tank job. Life is short and tanking is for losers.

Not sure if the rebuild made things any better. Most Sox fans didn't sign up to rebuild and become the Minnesota Twins for two years.

Hell no. Wanted nothing to do with a tank job in the first place. Tanked a whole freaking season for Nick Madrigal. Is it still too early to call that pick a massive bust?

Disagree on the tanking part. 6 years later and no playoff victories is not fine. There were other ways. They are back to running around in nuetral. Will there be another tank job thread this time next year when there are rumblings about dealing guys like Cease, TA, and Eloy?

The best option now and back in 2016 is the 2005 lighting in a bottle approach. Make a few veteran player trades ala Carlos Lee and buy some short term contracts to fill in around the edges. The Sox had Sale, Q, and Abreu to build around. Tearing it all down and trying to mimic the Astros and Cubs without bringing in a totally new front office and player development staff was destined to fail.