LittleHurtCG

Who really knows. Maybe they catch lighting in a bottle again with Sale and Q as the anchors of the rotation and sneak into the playoffs one year? What is 100% a reality is that the Sox were not prepared internally to do a complete tank job back in 2016. They thought thye could just copy what the Cubs and Astros had done without putting in any hard work. The decisions to tank back then are still being felt today.

No it wasn't. It was built on an extremely flimsy foundation and was bound to collapse.

Is Yoan Moncada the biggest bust in White Sox history??

The Sox never should have done the first rebuild and traded away Chris Sale. They did not have the proper infrastructure in place back then to do a scorched earth rebuild. We are still feeling the reverbarations of all the horrible decisions made by Rick Hahn and Kenny Williams starting back in the Winter of 2016. Chris Getz has only added fuel to an already raging inferno.

Has anyone from the Chicago media got a quote from Getz or anyone else in the organization yet on the likely possibility that this Sox team is the worse in the history of baseball? Has this trajectory even been acknowldeged at all by official Sox media? Also, they are truly missing a unique marketing opportunity here. They should be promoting the march to infamy in different fun ways to get people out to the ballpark. Instead it is just more Elvis nights and bobbleheads..

Nope. Fedde, Kopech, and Pham all packaged together couldn't even get one top 200 prospect. LMAO.

This is the same organization that thought Manny Machado would prefer to play one season with his cousin and BFF over 50 million guaranteed dollars. They are not a serious organization at all. There is definte smoke around attaching Beninentdi to a trade for Crochet.

Tick tock goes the clock.

This seems like wishful thinking and not reality. Neither Crochet or Robert Jr are getting moved. Fedde may not either if all the offers are weak. Also, there are rumblings that JR does not want another rebuild and may instuct Getz to bring back Fedde next year in an effort to compete. Kopech is still under control for next year and there is no pressing demand for Sox to move him now. No legit contender wants anything to do with Flexen, Pham, and Dejong. They will likely stay on in hopes that the Sox can avoid setting the worst record of all time.

Exactly. This White Sox team is 50 games under 500. They have a roster full of terrible players that no other team wants besides Crochet, Robert, and Fedde. Why are people surprised that other GMs want nothing to do with the crappy players the Sox are trying to trade?

Let's extend Crochet and build a nasty rotation around him, Thorpe, Schultz, the new lefty kid from Arkansas, and Cannon!

How many innings do we expect Crochet to pitch tonight? Doesn't seem like it makes sense to run him out there for more than 50 pitches or so.

There isn't going to be an open convention. Kamala is going to get annointed the candidate by the big $$$ DNC kingmakers.

It would awesome to extend Crochet and see the Sox form a nasty chimera of left handed starting pitchers in Crochet, Schultz, and the new kid they just drafted top 5. Let's bring hope back to the South Side!

Yep. No more old dudes with no upside like Charlie Tilson, Ryan Cordell, Zach Deloach. Let's get some young dudes with helium.

They are plenty around here who will argue that the Sox didn't have a choice back in 2016 either. We had to tear it down and tank back then and we have to do it again now. There is no other way! s/

I concur. Build around Robert and Crochet and trade everyone else. Don't trust Getz not to get taken to the cleaners in any trade of Robert/Crochet.

Tanking for usre played a part, but it cannot be the whole picture. Their scouting and player development people seem to know what they are doing. In hindsight, Rick Hahn and company didn't bottom out enough after the Sale trade. The Sox really needed to put together at least 3 or 4 straight years of 110 plus losses to guarantee a couple draft picks at 1.1 and 1.2.

How in the world did Baltimore acquire so many legit prospects? Their farm system is something else.

The Sox should have become an internet meme back in the early days of the rebuild as well. They didn't bottom out enough back then and never got the 1.1 pick multiple years. Totally cratering with 3 or 4 or 5 100 loss seasons in a row would have helped the rebuild big time. It is how you end up with dudes like Bregman, Correa, and Ruschtmann instead of Nick Madrigal and Andrew Vaughn.

TLR was in no way, shape, or form the only problem with the White Sox during his tenure here. The problems started way before TLR's arrival when your guy Rick Hahn traded a future hall of fame pitcher to Boston for a bunch of stiffs. TLR hung an absolute nobody and a total basketcase out to dry in Yermin Mercedes. This had no bearing on the Sox falling apart whatsoever. His whole Mercedes thing is quite comical and absurb actually. The whole Sox rebuild did not collapse because TLR hung an absolute stiff like Yermin Mercedes "out to dry". Last I checked Yermin Mercedes was totally out of professional baseball. The rebuild collapsed mainly becuase it was architected by one of the worst general managers in the history of baseball.

Yep. MLB as an employer has every right to do business with legal sportsbooks and write out a policy that places restirctions on what players and employees of mlb can bet on. If the players or employyes of mlb don't like the company policy, then they are free to find another job. Also, every major sports organization sells booze and has partnerships with companies that produce alcholic beverages. Hell, Nascar has lucrative parternships with beer companies, Doesn't mean that they still don't have a policy that drivers can't participate in races while under the influence of alcholol.

I'm calling BS on the high roller at many casinos statement. True high rollers do not make announcements like that on social media.

Monster year for him so far. Him and Witt Junior both going to finish in the top 5 for MVP if they keep it up all year.

Nope. Madrigal was a wasted pick the second it was announced. Tanked a whole year and used a top 5 pick on a guy who can barely clear the yard with a wooden bat during batting practice.