WhiteSox2023

Even if this is true, why would acquiring Lux with only two years of control remaining make any sense for the White Sox in their current state?

It’s a minor league deal. He’s likely going cost the Rays nothing. If he sucks, they’ll just cut him.

“She'll like it too.”

Minor league deal. Talk about a fall.

Yeah, the pitcher is shortening his pitch to the catcher by a couple inches due to his increased velocity. Definitely a Hawkism.

I like the Wilson signing. Seems like he should’ve gotten paid $3 million from someone. Lipcius has some good minor league numbers. Not a fan of trading anything of value for a guy like Booser, but if he is eventually flipped for a better prospect, so be it. Initially, I thought the Sox would spend a little money and that a Quintana signing would be probably. But it doesn’t seem that way now. The highlight of the offseason will probably be a Ben Rice trade but hopefully they don’t pay too much for him.

I bet you made this same post during the last rebuild. 🤣

How much value can Rice have? Good minor league numbers, but struggled in his first taste of the majors and turning 26 in a month. I believe he was ranked as high as 12th in the Yankees system last summer. But Michael Busch was a top 5 prospect in the Dodgers farm system and also a top 100 prospect in the MLB for several years. Rice shouldn’t have the same price as Busch did. I wouldn’t expect the Sox to have to give up much for a guy like Rice. If they give up a similar return as the Cubs did for Busch, that would be a disappointing trade.

It’s pretty crazy. Getz is slashing payroll to Athletics numbers from last year.

That McGuffey apparently didn’t know who Grant Taylor was because he didn’t correct him.

This is quite frankly some of the best and most hilarious Twitter bullshit out there.

And makes very little sense for this team in its current state. Boston acquired Crochet from the White Sox for prospects but then sends this older reliever to the White Sox for a prospect? If Boston thought Booser would be a reliable reliever for their team that is actually trying to compete in 2025, why didn’t they just keep him in their bullpen?

Years of failure under the same owner. This isn’t at all difficult to understand.

Brandon Marsh in CF. He was worth 3 WAR last year. I think Robert to the Phillies is dead.

They were specifically talking about current Sox minor league pitchers that could potentially be in the 2027 Sox rotation. The discussion starts at around 31:20 in the video and Ely mentions “Logan” Taylor at 34:25.

The Sox might win 54 games instead of 50 with Robert around next season. I’m not sweating him being traded.

Agreed. Is it a bit surprising that all he could get is $1.05 million after his last two seasons of performance? I mean, he made a million from the Brewers last year. Seems like he might have a bad agent or something.

Ely questioned some of Getz’s call-ups last year and also the pitchers he didn’t call up. He also made a joke about trading some of the Sox young pitching for established hitting but that at some point the Sox would have to pay the hitter. Definitely comments from a guy who is on his way out and doesn’t care about getting reprimanded.

Did Ely call Grant Taylor “Logan” Taylor? And the hosts didn’t correct him? They don’t know the correct name of the Sox 8th ranked prospect?

Well, they are both owed basically the same money over the next three years but there are opt outs in Robert’s deal. But Robert plays CF while Suzuki is a corner outfielder and three years older. However, Suzuki has stayed healthy and has put up an .840+ OPS in back-to-back seasons while Robert is always injured. I wouldn’t be too shocked if Suzuki does have more trade value. It would be no contest if Robert wasn’t perpetually injured and had such a horseshit year last season.

Because he’s got less power than both Nick Madrigal and Nicky Lopez after numerous cycles of roids.

The Sox should be looking to create guys like Booser and trade them away for youth, just like the Red Sox did. Not acquiring guys like Booser. The Sox are going to be terrible next season. They have plenty of opportunity to pitch guys from their own system that could be the next Booser. Like @Balta1701 said, isn’t it funny that the Red Sox, a team that is actually going to compete in 2025 unlike our Sox, would rather have the 18-year old Fajardo in their minors than Booser on their MLB roster?

Dude wasn’t good at 25 either… ”Booser, a 25-year-old on the Rookie-level Elizabethton Twins, had pitched 2 2/3 innings this season for Class A Advanced Fort Myers, allowing one run while walking seven and hitting two batters over three relief appearances. He went 0-4 with an 8.53 ERA, 34 strikeouts and 31 walks over 25 1/3 innings for Class A Cedar Rapids and Fort Myers in 2016.”

Yeah, definitely can’t have bullpen issues for a 50 win team.

You don’t even want to know.