WhiteSox2023

Their projection for the bullpen of -1.6 WAR is their worst bullpen prediction of all time. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/2025-zips-projections-chicago-white-sox/

Per Passan, the White Sox are not one of the three finalists (Dodgers, Padres, Blue Jays) for Sasaki. Shocking, I know. I still can’t believe some of the earlier posts in this thread that thought the Sox actually had a chance. I guess the Tadahito Iguchi connection wasn’t strong enough… 🤣

This was another thing that happened. But I also believe Machado shared a picture of his new glove while he was still a free agent and Sox fans were saying that the glove was in traditional White Sox colors, indicating he was signing with the Sox.

Remember the infamous Manny Machado White Sox glove? 🤣

In your wettest of dreams. 😉

Sasaki sent the White Sox’s PowerPoint deck straight to trash and blocked Getz’s email address.

The timing of this signing is probably all the proof anyone needs that the Sox are OUT.

Give him a break. He didn’t do any to anything wrong. All the guys he acquired last offseason were pretty good at some point like 5 years earlier in their careers.

Shocker… ”Baseball America’s Ben Badler reports the Dodgers and Padres are the most likely landing spots for Roki Sasaki.“

I’m pretty sure that @LittleHurtCG was the same poster saying that Fields was better than Caleb and he didn’t want the Bears to draft Caleb at all. Meanwhile, Fields lost his job to a 36-year old Russell Wilson and the Bears aren’t even going to get a 4th round pick for Fields because he didn’t have enough snaps for the Steelers this season. He still can’t throw. 6th round pick it is.

Two different OC’s and head coaches. LOL.

Well, to be fair, Stroud’s rookie season was amazing. He appears to have had a bit of a sophomore slump, even though his numbers are still good this year. But saying that Jayden Daniels is for sure better than Caleb at this point when they both had comparable rookie season numbers is a big assumption.

You don’t have a resume with any MLB experience so you can’t judge the godly GM that is Chris Getz! 🤣

Washington has a better OL than the Bears — True. Washington has better coaching than the Bears — I don’t see how this can be refuted with the carousel of coaching changes the Bears had this year. Caleb’s and Jayden’s overall numbers aren’t wildly different — Take a look at them. I think they might surprise you.

I think you are jumping the gun far too soon. Stroud is one thing, but If you look at both Caleb’s and Jayden’s stats on the season, they are very comparable. But Caleb did it with a garbage OL and moronic coaching. Meanwhile, Jayden is in a much better situation. I wouldn’t be surprised if you swapped both QB’s and put Caleb on the Commanders and Jayden on the Bears, Caleb would look like the stud and Jayden would have struggled.

You’ll get $5 million dollar max signings and like it! Anything higher than that is too rich for Jerry’s blood. 😉 Hays alone over the trash platoon of Tauchman/Slater would have been nice. Give Hays the full-time starting job and see if he can have a comeback season. Would have been a much better flip candidate than Slater and Tauchman who will net nothing of value at the deadline.

At least Getz quickly learned that defense and leadership doesn’t win games on its own. Your players actually have to hit and get on base. His big ticket prospect acquisitions at least show that he values these things, even though his free agent signings and other MLB player acquisitions did not.

Obviously this had to happen, but yuck…

What’s with the Washington hate? 🤣 They are exactly what the Bears were supposed to be this year with their rookie QB. I’m jealous of their team moreso than hating on them.

The only true flip candidate I see in that list is Austin Hays. All those other guys will get paid decently enough by some team. Verdugo will likely get a multi-year deal at age 28.

We really need a SS and CF to “complete” (probably still a pipe dream) this prospect rebuild. Hopefully they can get these two position players in the next draft and with a trade of hopeful comeback player of the year winner Luis Robert. And no more Jacob Gonzalez picks at SS.

Agreed with everything here. I wouldn’t be surprised if Getz looked to trade him at the deadline last year but no teams were interested in giving up anything worthwhile. So Getz decided to keep him around for another year at $6 million this season to see if he breaks out, unlikely as that is to happen.

Exactly. They have no idea what they are doing, as usual. They are going to waste time interviewing Marcus Freeman? The dude is making $9 million next year and is under contract until 2030. He is the toast of town. Do the Bears actually think their coaching spot is better than Notre Dame’s right now? Rude awakening — it isn’t.

I believe it is because Kenny had a good working relationship with both Cashman and Ng. He worked with Cashman on many previous trades and had a personal friendship with Ng. And Jerry was such a clown that he allowed this power struggle to occur between Kenny and Hahn. Ng was quoted after the Burger trade as saying, “I called up my man Kenny Williams and got it done.” See article linked below for more on Kenny’s friendship with Ng. Hahn supposedly had nothing to do with the trade and didn’t even want to trade Burger at all. Hahn’s trade of Anderson was cancelled by Kenny because he absolutely loved Anderson and saw him as the face of the franchise, from what I remember reading/hearing. In hindsight, it sure looks like Hahn was correct on both moves — trading Anderson and keeping Burger. But once again, like @Balta1701 said, Getz likely didn’t have anything to do with these moves. If there was a power struggle between Kenny and Hahn as the EVP and GM respectively, you know that Getz had almost zero power in decision making at that point in time. https://www.soxon35th.com/marlins-gm-kim-ng-shares-details-on-jake-burger-trade-with-white-sox/