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Exactly what I’m drinking while reading this post. Except they ran out of Old Style. Good man. Did anyone go to SoxFest?

I'm intrigued, give the kid a shot, I just think we're really gonna miss Luis's glove and Mullins replaces 90% of it at a fraction of the cost. Still like that Astros dude Jake Meyers as a medium term replacement in CF. Wouldn't give up a real SP asset for him though and I think HOU stopped shopping him. Next guy I'd look at is Brenton Doyle but I think the Rockies give him at least another year. I think CF is this team's biggest weakness going forward. The prospects we might expect in the next couple years look like fine corner outfielders, the best outfield prospect who looks like a CF is 19-year-old Marcelo Alcala and I sure hope we're competitive before he debuts.

This signing ranks somewhere between Josh Rojas and Mike Tauchman for me. Mullins was the guy I wanted this year on this kind of deal, not so keen on Acuña being evidently gifted the CF job. Ely "Duke Ellis with a bat" Brown can't join the MLB team soon enough.

I think Griffin Canning could show out here for a $5mil-ish deal. Márquez would be a lot more disappointing. I'm surprised he hasn't signed yet, his injury is probably pretty concerning.

'emo night' lmao. 12-year-old me is hyped. 'reggaeton night' present day me is hyped.

hopefully it's just coincidental. but that's fucked up.

$7.5mil AAV isn't that much if he never performs. $6.6mil if you have to buy out the club options (+ whatever the buyout amount). That rate of pay to lock up 4 years of UFA is a risk worth taking IMO. It was worth it to me for Eloy, Moncada, Robert even if it didn't pan out for them. I'd take a risk on these kind of contracts. But I could see the Red Sox trying to get out of the contract at the same time. I wouldn't want to give up too much value, but it seems to me like a 'buy low' kinda move. I like Campbell better than Acuña.

Absolutely. I'm not sure how common this is in MLB though, taking on a bad contract with a prospect sweetener. Feels even less common for a Jerry Reinsdorf team. Henry and Fenway Group might be keen on such a deal, they have an expensive, middling soccer team to pay for. But our Sox are absolutely in a position to do a deal like that if it's available. Hicks's contract is not so bad, he can kinda play, he's just pointless to this team in a vacuum.

Kristian Campbell, Ceddanne Rafaela, Jarren Duran are three guys I like that could potentially be available to varying extents. Big no on Hicks and Sandoval. Big yes on Bello but I doubt they're dealing him.

they called me crazy when I said Bonemer was the best player in the system and placing Carlson above him in lists was patently false.

bottom tier free agents? how do the white sox signings compare to every other team in the AL central?

Acuña is kind of a player. Don't think we needed another infielder necessarily. Know nothing about the pitcher. Would've rather just kept Robert tbh but the return is better at this point in time than I might have expected. Watch him go out and produce 5 WAR though. Beats declining his option at least. So who plays CF? Acuña might be able to tbh.

No Cubans?

It means bourgeois. It’s a wealthy area. Take a Time Machine to when the projects existed. We wish they still did.

what year do you think this is? 1992? this area is boug as f***.

Joe Ricketts has said a lot of really terrible s%*# that aligns pretty well with the nonsense Kirk was saying; Muslims don’t belong in America, it’s funny when Mexicans die in fires, etc.

i woke up this morning and realized it wasn't a dream

this isn't a "who" guy

I'm a LuBob fanboy to be sure, but I think he could be a part of this team on a new deal even if continues to hit, like, .680 OPS. His glove is too good and CF is too important of a defensive position. There's no clear replacement for him in the system. I like Ely Brown, but he's a 12th rounder who may or may not be up to the task, akin to Duke Ellis. If Marcelo Alcala keeps up the good work, maybe he's the guy, but he's only 19. We might hope to have a center fielder prior to 2030. Trent Grisham might be the only realistic FA option in 2027 to fill CF and I'm not sure I'd trust him to maintain his production. You wouldn't want to pay him $20mil for his recent level of production and injury history, but I like him a lot better than Cedric Mullins at $7mil for example. Not many center fielders have his tools and ceiling.

pretty much. Hawk was a total homer and he's the best Chicago broadcaster I've listened to. Neil Funk was really underappreciated too. Major troll, very amusing, until he lost his eyesight and started confusing Taj Gibson and Tyrus Thomas. I think Schriff could get better if he actually tried at his job. And didn't put his foot in his mouth 100 times a season. I ain't mad if he's gone after next season, I'm also not mad that they moved on from the guy who has grander ambitions than local announcer. Mike Breen is also a great national announcer but sucks listening to on Knicks games, Clyde Frazier does all the heavy lifting. I couldn't imagine Joe Buck, Al Michaels, etc broadcasting local games. These guys all have national interests they don't want to piss off. Benetti knows how his bread is buttered and it isn't by Chicago or Detroit. It's not so much homerism as actually rooting for your team. Every 50-50 call, Benetti is all like, "hmm, I dunno, it's pretty close..." like come on man, support the team.

good luck, Jason! I wasn't mad they moved on from him. His careerism impacts his ability to call local games. "hmm, I dunno, I don't think that call should favor the Sox" is not the attitude to have. Dude also has no depth perception, could never tell a home run off the bat. He's much better at both football and basketball. Loved when he filled in for Bulls games. Try to catch whatever NFL game he's announcing. He really reminds me of a better, non-lame version of Joe Buck. His future is bright. But I got tired of listening to his constant "unbiased" haterade at the local level. Make or break year for Schriff. I think it's a contract year. Derrick Rose took a leap and won MVP his third season, maybe Schriff will do the same. He'd be fine if he knew anything at all about the sport. Maybe somebody told him to watch some baseball.

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/jimmy-johns-settles-illinois-lawsuit-over-non-compete-agreements-idUSKBN13W2J9/ reminds me of this. sometimes you just want to take your talents to quiznos…or the anaheim angels. I could absolutely picture Hahn as a sandwich artist.

Is the public ponying up the TIF dollars for a pointless red line stop?

it worked for Sale and Crochet. Seemingly it's a viable way to get acclimated to MLB. Although, I see Schultz more so in that role than Hagen based on their respective injury histories. In a perfect world, Schultz and Hagen both come up and start and relegate Kay and Newcomb to the bullpen though. I voted "yes" but I wanted to vote "I dunno, maybe, it depends".

it's about time