WhiteSox2023

Whether you are right or wrong, look at @fathom‘s post of players and your own. Which players do you think the Sox are more likely to add?

This is a pipe dream. At best, they will hide him at DH more.

NorthbrookBob hasn’t recovered from his New Year’s party when he was out boozing with Getz and they were talking about the Murakami signing. Getz had one too many Shirley Temples and told NorthbrookBob, “Hell, I may just sign all of these Japanese guys. Even that pitcher Imai too!” NorthbrookBob took Getz at his word and reported it that night. Getz then told NorthbrookBob that it was just the Shirley Temples talking so he had to retract it minutes later.

It’s sad when you feel like you can predict the junk this team is targeting.

Affirmative.

Beat me to it. Canning is likely the starter target. I doubt they are going to spend big on Bader so the only FA outfielder names that make sense would be Conforto and Hays.

There’s still some good starting pitchers left but the outfielder and reliever FA market has pretty much been picked clean. https://www.mlb.com/amp/news/mlb-free-agents-2025-2026.html

Ahhh, good old Bruce. “Louis” Robert Jr. For a second, I thought he was talking about this guy…

That is crazy. You can’t make this stuff up… White Sox 2026 Payroll — $67 million Kyle Tucker’s 2026 Salary — $60 million Juan Soto’s 2026 Salary — $51 million

Just a matter of time. The Robert trade was probably his last piece of leverage.

So if a full rebuild takes 5 years and Robert was only here for a maximum of 4 more years with his option years, why not trade him after his best season ever? Surely the return would have been better than Acuña and Pauley, no? That was pretty much my point. No need to get salty when you can’t contest someone’s point.

I read this post and pictured you replying to @WBWSF which made it even funnier.

And how many years do rebuilds typically take? Because Getz literally started one the minute he was promoted to GM which was right after Robert’s best season in 2023. Getz then proceeded to trade his setup man, closer, best starting pitcher, and sign some vets to mostly 1-year deals.

So the argument is that we didn’t know when the perfect moment to trade Robert was, but with the benefit of hindsight we do now? Robert finished the best season in his career at the end of the 2023 season. Getz was promoted to GM on August 2023. In his first offseason, he had already started his rebuild — he signed some mediocre free agents and traded Cease. Are you saying that at no point in time after the 2023 season ended and Getz took over as GM that Robert wasn’t worth more than Acuna and Pauley and that it didn’t make sense to trade Robert considering Getz had already started a rebuild?

That’s impressive… Who knew there were so many ways to polish multiple turds?

Well, Getz pretty much has to say this. At this point, there is really no way for him to improve the outfield over Robert. Bellinger will be a Yankee soon and I doubt the Sox will be spending on Bader. What good free agent outfielders are even left at this point? https://www.mlb.com/amp/news/mlb-free-agents-2025-2026.html

Conforto to White Sox confirmed.

Anyone going to SoxFest? Should be a riot… literally… At least until they “please” the crowd with a live SoxFest announcement of a Conforto signing!

But who actually gets on base for Acuna to use his speed?

With Schriffen talking about Fuller’s swing changes for Kelenic, Acuna, and Conforto, at least we will all be too drunk to care.

If you consider Benintendi to be what he truly is at this point, a DH, the Sox literally don’t have a true major league caliber outfielder right now.

If the Sox are indeed at $67 million in payroll for 2026, I believe they currently have the lowest payroll in baseball.

One of the few.