WhiteSox2023

Truer words have never been spoken. It makes zero sense, but the Sox are gonna Sox. Signing washed up vets last offseason worked so well to the tune of 121 losses and not giving young players enough at bats as a result. So let’s employ that strategy again this offseason! And you just know Drury is making the team as well. There quite simply is no fucking plan here.

Correction. The White Sox love their cheap washed up vets. The GM changes but the strategy remains the same.

I always knew you were Getz’s special assistant!

Once Robert is traded, will this be one of the oldest outfields in baseball!? LF Benintendi (turning 31 in July) CF Taylor (34) RF Tauchman (34) / Slater (32)

$10 million? Oh yeah.

We managed to retain a reliever that not one other team in baseball wished to claim, even though he will only earn $190,000 more than the veteran minimum for 2025. That’s a far cry away from the initial excitement about flipping Wilson for another prospect when he was first acquired in the Cease trade. 🤣

No one wanted the guy at $950K. Not even big money for a mediocre reliever. Hell, the veteran minimum salary is $760K! Yet another indictment of our great GM.

Instead of the fluff pieces about guys showing up to ST in the best shape of their life, our guys show up already banged up or injured.

This is the White Sox way.

Hilarious how he blames everyone but Jerry.

Probably not in Jerry’s mind. What will the next location be that Jerry asks for taxpayer money to build a new stadium on?

This is why people can’t always take you seriously and why you come across as biased. You say that the starters that Getz traded away will be selling insurance soon like Mena and Thompson, even though they had similar seasons in AAA as Burke and Cannon and Mena is only 22. Why are Burke and Cannon considered “strong starters” to you, yet Mena and Thompson are near guaranteed failures who will be selling car insurance soon?

Sweet, maybe they can steal away Getz first. Nah, he’s too easy for the Dodgers to rob come the trade deadline.

He doesn’t care about 121 losses. The Sox were trying to tank, even without the benefit of a top draft pick, and it is in no way a poor reflection on Getz. 🤣🤣🤣

If the younger guys have zero upside, there isn’t a point to any of this. Drury does jack s%*# for the Sox as a player and as a flip candidate.

$4.63 a ticket, but aren’t they even cheaper on StubHub? 🤣

I called the majority of them bums and you called them a shutdown bullpen. So who was right? Tim Hill sucked with the Sox to the point that Getz had to DFA him — a running theme with relievers he acquires (once again, refer to thread title). Hill pitching well for the Yankees doesn’t do a damn bit of good for the Sox. Those relievers still bouncing around the league just means that Getz didn’t keep the right ones. Funny how your point was that Getz is acquiring bullpen depth he didn’t have last year, considering he made 15+ reliever acquisitions last offseason. So what is different about this offseason? Getz failed with the bullpen last offseason but he has surely nailed it this offseason while acquiring even less relievers?

John Brebbia Tim Hill Chris Flexen Jared Shuster Alex Speas Justin Anderson Shane Drohan Bailey Horn Joe Barlow Jesse Chavez Brad Keller Corey Knebel Chad Kuhl Dominic Leone Bryan Shaw

Obviously they won’t be remembered because they will be DFA just like Getz’s great acquisition of Steven Wilson. And Getz already gave up prospects for these guys! Are you forgetting that? So you need to factor in whom Getz gave up for these guys in any mediocre trade return that Getz gets for them.

So Getz is multitasking by DFA’ing a reliever he acquired just last year for yet another reliever he will likely DFA in a year or less? That’s some multitasking talent!

Booser is turning 33 at the beginning of the season. How long do you think he’s going to be around, regardless of being pre-arb? Sox fans won’t remember these guys names in a year, which is why you would be wise to not hype up every mediocre-to-bad acquisition that Getz makes just like you did last year. Afterall, look at the very title of the thread we are posting in! 🤣

Why do you mention two acquisitions that no one ever claimed to be catastrophic, rather than the awful acquisitions of Fletcher and Vargas?

The relievers Getz is acquiring aren’t worth $5 to $7 million dollar contracts. They are mostly no name guys that have barely thrown many innings. Getz could definitely afford to sign guys on the same level as Booser, Gilbert, and Eisert. They cost a couple million at most on the free agent market, not $5 to $7 million.

Two teams made stupid acquisitions with one of those teams being the Sox, notorious for bad player acquisitions. This doesn’t prove your point. Frazier just signed with the Pirates for $1.525 million. But imagine trying to defend the Nicky Lopez acquisition this badly even after we all know it was a failure.

Lopez just signed a non-guaranteed MILB deal with the Cubs worth $1.5 million if he makes the team. $4.3 million is not the going rate for a garbage 2B. His arbitration number was too high last year, which is why the Braves were going to non-tender him, before Getz was stupid enough to swoop in and acquire him. Getz was also stupid to think Lopez would be a viable starting 2B.