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I don’t even know who this guy is but he has to be better than Connor McKnight or Zach Zaidman. A small victory in an otherwise awful offseason.

Yes. I mentioned this already in another thread. Typically, just the announcement of an agreement to build a new sports stadium will increase the value of a franchise. Months after the approval of a new Tennessee Titans stadium to be completed in 2027, the franchise’s value rose by 26% to $4.4 billion dollars. So JR could just be trying to raise the value of the Sox prior to a sale, and it’s possible that neither he nor his kids end up footing the entire bill for the eventual new ballpark, as the new owner(s) could be on the hook for it instead.

The same owner tossed aside any decision-making by his GM and went back to the well to bring back his favorite manager and buddy after 34 years, 76 year old Tony LaRussa. We all know how that went. In his press conference announcing the promotion of Getz to GM, JR also praised Branch Rickey as his favorite baseball executive and said that David Eckstein was his favorite player. “He couldn’t run, he couldn’t hit, he couldn’t throw, he couldn’t field. There was only one thing that he ever did, and that was beat you.” Basically, this was JR’s reasoning [excuse] for his new GM to sign all the cheap and scrappy [crappy] players we have seen this offseason. JR is most definitely living in the past and thinks it’s his way or the highway. The problem is, the game has changed and his way doesn’t work anymore.

I think you are reaching. Like many companies, the Sox just hire a lot of terrible people that keep their jobs for far too long. Remember this image that was posted to the official White Sox Twitter? Not to mention the Senior Vice President, Chief Revenue and Marketing Officer whom apparently didn’t like how Jason Benetti ate ballpark food on air, which was leaked by the media. When you see this trend of frequent occurrences of incompetence and stupidity, is it even a surprise anymore? @Balta1701 also mentioned another good [embarrassingly bad] example above as well. However, the theory that there is a super evil genius and master troll working in the Sox marketing / PR staff that is clowning every stupid decision the Sox make is pretty awesome to think about.

Poles wasn’t going to hire Harbaugh to tell him what to do.

He’s no Eberflus.

So basically, you just want to convert the 30+ year old GR Field into Old Comiskey? Would this really make sense to you over building an entirely new and modern ballpark or are you just in it for your own touch of nostalgia?

Less booing at least.

Thanks for the direction to the other thread. Looks like they have since deleted the tweet, unless I’m mistaken. So I read about it here: Apparently, they also posted a “highlight” video of Gonzalez grounding out.

Why anyone would want to invest more money in a bad ballpark in a mediocre location is beyond me. If the team is going to suck for years, at least the promise of a new ballpark in a better location is some sort of excitement.

The Cubs poop money and none of these potential contracts are going to impact them very much in the grand scheme of things. They aren’t like our Sox in which one bad signing like Benintendi screws their payroll over completely. Also, would you rather have your favorite team be in position to sign a guy like Bellinger, or would you rather see your team’s big offseason acquisition be Fedde?

I wouldn’t sign Chapman to the contract he is expecting to receive as a Boras client, but I don’t think he’s done. He’s probably going to be productive for a couple more seasons, but he’s going to receive too many guaranteed years. But this is the running theme of most MLB contracts these days, especially when Boras is the player’s agent — the player is productive for about half the contract. Why do you think Bellinger is unsigned as well? Boras is asking for the moon. Is Bellinger done too?

Neither Chapman is “done”. No idea what he talking about.

Agreed, been saying this for awhile. No one wants to pay these two guys big bucks but they fit the Cubs needs. The Cubs do have a replacement for Bellinger in CF in PCA. And unless the Cubs want no bat Madrigal or no glove Morel starting at 3B, Chapman still makes sense for them. No one has signed them yet. Both are Boras clients.

Busch is likely their 1B and they could still sign Bellinger for CF. Hoyer is slow-playing the market so as to not overpay.

$6 million less that he got from the Twins last year. He sucked terribly but the prices on these mediocre veteran bats are dropping for sure. Getz must be excited. Hahn probably wishes he was still GM to have a shot at all of these washed up vets on the cheap. @Y2Jimmy0 is right. Sox will probably end up with Merrifield at this rate.

If you listened to JR’s press conference announcing the promotion of Getz to GM, there is no doubt that he was talking about the Sox being competitive in 2024, not in 5 years. 5 years would be a full rebuild and JR wanted nothing to do with that, per his comments that he may not be around that long.

Maybe Getz should have tried harder to push for change rather than simply falling in line with the rest of JR’s loyal servants just to keep his cushy gig?

They won’t be similar though. It’s likely that only one will be the next Stroud, and they have to pick that guy at #1. A stud WR still isn’t worth close to what a stud franchise QB is.

Probably. Santos felt inflammation in his right elbow in September but all of his medical reports came back clean.

Sheets is listed far too many times for my liking.

He’s a lottery ticket. A productive season in the KBO is not the same as the MLB. He has a 5.41 career ERA in 6 seasons in the majors. Maybe he has learned a new pitch but I wouldn’t put my money on him to be a good starter in 2024.