WhiteSox2023

Fajardo is currently the Red Sox #25 prospect according to MLB Pipeline, and likely moving up soon.

Yes, yes he does.

Hill is a nothing burger. He turns 30 next month.

Maybe he’s going to Japan or Korea? He could crush it there.

Anyways, how about that Booser trade? Good job, Getz… https://www.milb.com/player/yhoiker-fajardo-823369

I believe this was the reason he wasn’t traded. His daughter’s doctor was in Chicago. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQrdbyVjqNz/

“To Thine Own Self Be True.”

“That’ll be $27 dollars your eminency.”

I wanted to share these old pictures from when my son (#96) was in grade school and played with many of the current Downers Grove North HS players for the Downers Grove Panthers (Bill George Youth Football League). Quite a few current DGN players were on the team. #2 is Owen Lansu and #24 is their RB Caden Chiarelli. The head coach with gray hair and glasses is Lansu’s dad. Oh, the irony of the last picture. How crazy is it that life brings you back full circle?

Thought this was a cool pic from earlier in the season. BR QB CJ Gray and the beastly OL that protects his ass…

I do think Getz is doing the right thing by acquiring guys like Vargas, Mead, Pereira, [Canario 🤣], etc., but make a decision and either go all in on tanking or don’t. Jerry was and is never going to approve enough spending to make this team a contender until he sells it. So as the GM, don’t make short-sighted moves like Mena for Fletcher, or Fajardo for Booser. He should never be in the situation to trade another young prospect for an older reliever. It makes no sense for where this team is and where it will still be in 3-4 years. If we are even talking about trading Vargas, that’s all the proof I need for this post…

So if he breaks out after this season, do you keep him or sell him high? The timeline of Ishbia taking over tells me to sell him high. But for right now, I doubt trading him gets you much so it probably isn’t worth it.

I think technically he could still be 29 if Ishbia takes over in 2029, but I could be wrong. 😀

True, but Vargas could also be 30+ by the time Ishbia takes over ownership of the team and the Sox finally spend some money to try to win. But I agree with you. I don’t think right now is the time to trade him but it definitely could be after next season if he improves on his 2025 season.

Jerry must’ve imported tons of cheap second-rate Christmas lights from China at pennies on the dollar. Sounds like similar spending as our White Sox offseason. ”You can’t spend a dollar if you only have fifty cents.” https://lightofchristmas.com/locations/chicago/

I still hope he breaks out. It’s amazing how a guy can crush it in the minors like he did and then look completely clueless in the majors. But like Fathom says all the time, it just seams like he has zero power.

He really does hate him, but he did bash the trade right from the start. I just like calling him Meadiocre because it’s such a perfect nickname.

Replacing mediocre with Meadiocre. Always a good way to improve your team. But honestly, at this rate, neither player may end up being a part of a winning Sox team so it may not even matter.

Yeah, let’s have Meadiocre replace Vargas who is no great shakes himself but is still better than Meadiocre.

You mean the same two guys that Getz acquired first? 😉

I’d love for that to happen and he gets dealt for a good return at the deadline. But does Getz have the balls to hold onto him that long and hope he doesn’t get injured. And is that even a wise play to make?

Looks like you misread his post. He was talking about a scenario in which a team took Adams in the Rule 5.

Could just be the case. It’s interesting though with guys like Canario and Pereira — they could just be who they appear to be, but it has to be tough to get into a groove when you only get sporadic at bats across a season in a game here or there every other day or play in only two to three games a week.

Hahn had a similar strategy though, didn’t he? Acquire aging former top prospects that hadn’t panned out on the cheap. I just checked Jordan Walker’s numbers and it looks like he struggled again. I thought he had started out hot last year with a swing change but I must be wrong. I wonder if the Sox would still be interested in him at this point. He’s still only 23.