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QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Nov 18, 2016 -> 07:45 AM) Aren't you the one that was advocating selling everyone including the hero Adam Eaton months ago? Nope. I advocated trading Eaton last winter to fill 2 holes. That's still a possible approach. I've never favored the Hahn proven veteran approach, however. So if the choice is Hahn ball or tear down I would favor complete tear down, because Hahn ball is a failure. Bregman is my favorite of all of these top prospect already in the majors possible, although unlikely, targets.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Nov 18, 2016 -> 07:24 AM) Sooo assuming Springer and Reddick hold down the corners and McCann and Gattis share DH and Gurriel being paid to likely play third with other options able to play 1B, where does Bregman fit? They should really step on the necks of the AL West and trade for Sale. I doubt it. But it sure would be nice. If the Sox could score Bergman, I'd move Frazier and hold there. Push Melky and Robertson and Jones in July. But I'm an advocate of the partial tear down.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Nov 18, 2016 -> 06:52 AM) This a joke? Obviously - the first part anyway.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Nov 17, 2016 -> 05:01 PM) Hero worshipping. He's elite. Pricey for a platoon hitter but the Astros are almost there.

QUOTE (ChiliIrishHammock24 @ Nov 15, 2016 -> 09:43 PM) How is everyone seeing "Swanson and Maitan should be starting points" and somehow ignoring Dansby Swanson's name? He's a GREAT starting point in his own right. So why not take a generational talent along with him, even if he's 4 or 5 years away? You don't want the Braves top prospect because he's too young? The fact that he's so young and thought of so highly should tell you enough. I wouldn't want Maitan is the ONLY centerpiece of the deal, but you're still getting Dansby friggin Swanson. Sounds good to me. I haven't seen any realistic proposals with 2 Swansons, which seems to be the objection here.

QUOTE (QuickJones81 @ Nov 15, 2016 -> 08:23 PM) Sorry, I know it's not a popular opinion, but I'm just not a fan of Inciarte. I think he is one of those guys that the metrics love but just isn't actually worth what the imperfect metrics say. If we're dealing with Atlanta I want Swanson, Maitan, and some pitching. Not really interested in Inciarte. He's not a good hitter. He's a throw in like a Swithart on the RedSox side.

This should be Hahn's show anyway. Don't need williams' toolsy players

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 13, 2016 -> 06:10 PM) George Ofman16 mins · TwitterHearing Whitesox attempt to trade David Robertson not going very well. Plenty of time, though. No kidding - he's injured and the time to trade relievers is in July....just hold him and, dare I suggest, actually participate in the July trade season this time instead of living in dreamland.

Inciarte cannot be a key piece of a Sale trade.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Nov 14, 2016 -> 07:11 PM) Fine with me. Then trade Q to Boston. I'd hold off on that; let's see what the sox can do with this bunch. Move Q later, if necessary. And if you move him, it's a full rebuild, so move Eaton.

I'd hold Frazier til July. I'd move Robertson and maybe Melky but I might hold them too. Sox pen has a chance to be good. If Burdi is ready plus Fulmer they would have 3 plus arms with Jones. That's a major improvement. A good Sale trade that adds 2 young starting position players (plus prospects) and get a Lf out there who can play some D and the Sox are a better team than last year, imo. That Redsox trade for Frazier looks like spare parts. Owens is nothing anymore. Swithart may be okay but not sure about his D.

QUOTE (Jake @ Nov 12, 2016 -> 10:16 PM) Lawrie is the type of player that a rebuilding team signs to see if he can pick up value and be traded. Seems weird to cut him unless there's something about his injuries that suggests the few million he'll earn will certainly be squandered Yes he is. What has always concerned my about rebuild is that JR could get nice and comfortable in the perpetual rebuild zone with salaries about 2/3 or less of what we have now. And I say this as one who believes that the Sox salary has been competitive enough to win. Yes the Sox seem to not get full value for a lot of players- plenty of giveaways. But that is a function of a front office that is not particularly adept at trade negotiation and really doesn't understand value.

There is no doubt that they could be in a great position to sell high. But selling vets high isn't the usual Hahn/Williams modus operandi....nor are they especially adept at executing that.

QUOTE (SpankyEaton @ Nov 6, 2016 -> 08:47 PM) They need an actual bat or multiple bats instead of just stockpiling arms. The Sox got smoked by their division last year and lost too many one run games. The Northsiders seem to win with home runs, why can't the Sox try that again? Keep drafting some hitters instead of pitchers, pitchers can be bought later when your team can actually contend. I just hope the Sox deal someone or some players to get some bats so there will actually be some offense and some young players doing something (like Anderson) instead of seeing the same old s***. The northsiders bought 1 pitcher- Lester. 2 if you count Hammels, who was bought, sold the bought. 3 if you count Chapman who was rented for a high price. If stockpiling pitching is what the Sox have been doing, on the whole, they've done a lousy job of it, with a thin pen and rotation. Now it's looking better in the minors recently, but so is the hitting. The Cubs drafted hitters, but they got 2 top starters from draft and a clever trade where they dumped a proven starter. Cubs also play superior defense, something not seen on the southside in ages. They hit home runs but aren't loaded with the slugger types that Williams and Hahn like. Top talent is not available very often and (and Frazier/Melky is not top talent).

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Nov 6, 2016 -> 06:33 PM) I think Hahn has actually tipped his hand a few times already indicating some sort of a rebuild. Here are my off-season plans in order of likelihood. 1. Modified Rebuild. Trade Sale, Robertson, and Melky for sure. Dangle Frazier as well. Sign some free agents to 1 year deals that could be spun later. That's my vote. Don't think they can trade Robertson coming off of injury, though. A risk of a total rebuild is that JR could get comfortable in that rebuild status.

QUOTE (GreatScott82 @ Nov 4, 2016 -> 07:36 PM) I remember when Kenny was pretty transparent about his goals for our team. 2 years ago Williams said that Sox fans "can dream again." He and Hahn thought they put contending teams on the field the last 2 years. Those 2 don't know what constitutes a good baseball team or organization.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Nov 4, 2016 -> 11:16 AM) The entire front office should be. They did a half-assed job at a rebuild while losing percentage of the fanbase year over year. Amen

QUOTE (ChiliIrishHammock24 @ Nov 2, 2016 -> 06:35 PM) Did you just compare AJ Pollock to James Shields and then randomly included Petricka's name in there? I don't understand your comment at all. Dumping 3 young pitchers when bad pitchers like Shields and Petricka are on the staff is the kind of move that put the Sox in this mess. My comment is that it makes no sense to trade all of those young players for 2 years of Pollock. Build. Develop. Appropriately scout and evaluate. Use analytics (With all of those gaudy degrees, surely Hahn knows what those are). Take advantage of opportunities. Make clever deals. You can't force it for one player people drool over because he was good 2 years ago. Many teams can add 3 veterans and, on paper it looks like they could contend. it doesn't work. Teams need youth and depth, particularly in pitching. The Sox have none, although the really young pitching is looking good. Stockpile it, don't trade it.

Why not?

QUOTE (ChiliIrishHammock24 @ Nov 1, 2016 -> 02:30 AM) P Carson Fulmer, P Spencer Adams, OF Jameson Fisher, P Jordan Stephens, 1B Corey Zangari to the Arizona Diamondbacks for CF A.J. Pollock What? throw away 3 young pitchers. Who needs them when the Sox have James Shields and Petricka coming back! More of the same. If it fails year after year, keep doing it.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Oct 31, 2016 -> 11:31 PM) They were playing to win. 3B sucked in 2015 and we traded fringe players for an all-star who hits 30+ bombs and plays pretty good defense. Were you against the trade from the beginning? Tons of people loved this trade and thought it improved our team quite a bit since we needed power. Yes I was against the trade from the beginning; he had an awful 2nd half of 2015 and it was 2 years of control and we traded a young player at a position for which we had zero in the way of replacement. I didn't see the players we traded as fringe and still don't. But I'm not going to like any of this type of trades in the current condition of this org. The Sox aren't close to a playoff team (imo), so now is not the time to acquire these veterans.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 1, 2016 -> 08:38 AM) The Frazier deal defines the big picture plan for the White Sox. They constantly believe they are one-two big name players away from competing for the wild card, and that failing to compete for the wild card every year is a mistake, so they should sell out whatever they can to get a big name player at a position of weakness. Put everything on the line and put as many big names on your big league squad as possible regardless of what it does to your organization. That's the Samardzija deal, that's the Frazier deal, that's the free agent signings of the last couple years, that sums up this team going as far back as bringing in Dunn and Rios, with the notable exception of 2014. Someone needs to tell Hahn that "Big name" doesn't equate to "big production" (if he used any sort of statistical analysis, he could find that out for himself beforehand). Hahn's "little name" acquisition, Eaton, has out performed each of his "big names"...and yet Hahn is disinterested in making Eaton-type trades, despite the fact that he outperformed the names at a much lower cost.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Oct 31, 2016 -> 04:15 PM) If the White Sox offered Trayce, Micah, and Frankie in a package this offseason, they would get nothing close to Todd Frazier. a)Debatable; I suggest it's closer to the Sox would get nothing close to Trayce, Micah and Frankie were they to trade Frazier now. b) Context. What in the world are the Sox doing trading 3 young players or 2 years of a veteran when they had a 76 win team (that, per pythag, wasn't that good). Not as idiotic as the Samardzija trade (especially as Donaldson was acquired for a similar price) but pretty silly. c)Frazier wasn't that great this year, which is par for the course for Rick Hahn veteran acquisitions. Hahn' talent evaluation skills are, shall we say, lacking. d)I expect more of the same this offseason from Rick Hahn, unfortunately.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Oct 29, 2016 -> 09:15 AM) Should have been able to? We did sell high on him. In no sense was Trayce sold high. The trade would have been defensible IF the Sox were in a position to win AND they didn't have a gaping hole at CF and pitching depth, particularly in the pen (of course those weaknesses, exacerbated by the trade, are a large reason why the Sox weren't in a position to win). A savvy trade of Sale plus another year of quality development by the young pitchers, and the Sox could be ready in 2018. But the usual out of Hahn will yield the usual results.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Oct 29, 2016 -> 11:02 PM) That's all the best team in baseball by far has to do. Where do you come up with this stuff? They had the best record in baseball, by far...largely achieved by mercilessly pounding the bad teams. They were just a few over .500 against teams with winning records. They have consistently struggled against good pitching in the post-season, both this year and last. There's more to winning than beating the Reds and Brewers.