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According to Merkin, Meidroth will be starting in Charlotte. Kind of a surprise.

There's no doubt Getz has done good work on the front office and hired some really good people to (hopefully) steer this team in the right direction. As far as the on-field product, things don't look nearly as good. We all know his hand are tied financially by the owner. The trades have been more miss than hit. The Crochet trade looks, as of right now, to be a potential win. The Cease trade, even before Thorpe went down, looked bad. The Fedde/Kopech trade looked ridiculously bad from the beginning, although Vargas is looking better. But, man, that was a true headscratcher. This season looks to be horrendous from a win/loss standpoint, so we can only hope we start to see good development from the young guys and the beginning on a brighter future. Getz has A LOT of work to do to show he can be a good GM.

The problem is Bolingbrook Nicky isn't alliterative. Maybe Bolingbrook Buntmaster? On a side note, I don't see the fit. The Sox have plenty of (mediocre to bad) options at SS. No sense in adding another.

Things should shake out for the 26-man over the next few days. With Colas apparently not breaking with the club, it will be interesting to see who makes it for the outfield. Benintendi and Robert are certains. RF may end up being a platoon with Tauchman and <insert random RH hitter here>.

Robert, Benintendi, Vargas, Drury, Lee, Vaughn, Tauchman Robert, Benintendi, and Vaughn hit at least 20 Robert hits 30+, but about 20 with the Sox before being traded.

Olympic sprinters look very fit. But in regards to the oft-injured Moncada, maybe endurance isn't the right word. It seems like he and Eloy are not taking care of themselves properly for the sport they are playing. Constantly pulling/tearing hamstrings, tits, and other body parts tells me they are not doing what they need to do to stay healthy. Baseball is a unique sport in which different positions require different levels of fitness on different parts of the body. Think Lance Lynn, Bartolo Colon, etc. However, a guy who should be a power hitter, a decently quick runner, and have fast reaction time needs to be in pretty good shape. I don't know what Moncada's problem is, but it seems like he hasn't made the adjustments necessary to stay healthy.

It seems that many commenting on how long it should take to walk or run a mile have never walked or ran a mile. A good, fast pace for walking a mile is about 15 minutes (I'm not talking about Olympic speed-walking). I do a three mile walk every morning, keeping a quick pace, and average about 15-16 minutes per mile. I'm in my early 50s, so I'm sure younger, in-shape folks can walk quicker. A good pace for running a mile is 6-7 minutes. The world record is just over four minutes. All that being said, judging a professional athlete on how fast they can walk or run a mile isn't adequate. Moncada and Eloy may look to be in shape, but their bodies a constantly breaking down for one reason or another. Maybe they do a lot of lifting but don't focus on endurance and stretching. Whatever it is, these guys don't seem to take total fitness seriously.

Going with 53-56. That's a big improvement from 2024 (with still a miserable record). A lot of things went wrong last year, on top of just being a bad team. New manager, fewer asshats, hopefully more caring and less moping.

Drury's hot spring carries over into the regular season and has a 2023-like season...before being traded at the deadline. Robert stays healthy, hits 20 HRs before the trade deadline, and is traded for a decent package. Penn Murfee is one of the best bullpen arms. Vargas has a nice season, batting .260+ with 25+ HRs and 80+ RBIs. Clevinger is the go-to closer to start the season, pitches very well, and still no team wants to trade for him. Drury, Martin, and Perez are all stars.

I agree he's still not a great hitter. My point was he's better than Nicky. However, I will admit that the last few years of White Sox fandom has made me willing to accept less than I deserve. White Sox are saying, "Here's a somewhat better version of Nicky Lopez for second base," and I'm saying, "Thanks."

And Nicky Lopez has a career OPS of .626.

Eh, he's better with the bat than Nicky. If he bats near his career average, we'll be happy, especially with the plus glove in the field.

Maybe this involves funding for a new stadium.

Yeah...I guess that describes just about every thread.

Greg is actually Greg Ishbia, the little-known sibling of the billionaires.

There are a handful of people that know what's actually going on with Ishbia buying more shares of the Sox, and none of those people are on this board. However, it's probably a safe assumption that he wouldn't drop his bid for the Twins if there wasn't a plan in place. What that plan is, we don't know and most likely won't know until it's executed. There are now 33 pages of speculation, arguing, and insults, and we're no closer to knowing what's going on.

Despite an atrocious year for the Sox, the two Chicago teams had almost 4.3 million people attend games. And before last year, they saw 4.5 million+ annually. I might agree that Chicago wouldn't get two teams if MLB was to start today, but there are more than enough baseball fans in Chicagoland to support two teams. If (hopefully) the Sox get a new owner that actually wants to spend and put a good product on the field, the Sox could get back to having attendance of 2 million or more. Build a new stadium along with a better team, and attendance won't be an issue.

The Sox have enough guys in camp to fill the hole for a few weeks. It will be interesting to see who makes the team who may not have before the injury.

Yeah, I think the biggest increase was 35 wins. Winning 36 more games would put the Sox at 77 wins. Holy hell that's depressing. We'd be ecstatic, and Venable would be in the running for manager of the year...and the team would be 10+ wins away from sniffing the post season.

Schultz and (Hagen) Smith looked great yesterday. I saw some folks on X saying Smith reminds them a lot of Rodon. I can see it, too. His slider is absolute filth. These guys could see time with the big league club this season.

Well, he hasn't been knocked out in a fight yet.

White Sox fans are so miserable that when news leaks that the team may get a new owner, we're arguing on a message board that maybe we don't want a rich owner who has a history of spending because it might get worse. You know the expression "The grass isn't always greener?" Well, in this case, there's actual grass over there vs. a barren desert with nothing but tumbleweeds and dust devils here and now.

I'm looking forward to watching some of the prospects that make the team out of spring training and those that end up not quite making it but are close. If Ishbia does end up taking control of the Sox in the next few years, some of these guys are going to be ready to be paid. We all know on a JR controlled team, none of these guys will be on the Sox if they become studs. And I'm looking forward to seeing and hearing from a manager that is not Grifol.

If Ishbia abandoned plans to buy the Twins to buy more into the Sox, there must be a larger plan in place. Hopefully that means he will take over majority ownership in the future. Whether that's when JR kicks off or not remains to be seen. Maybe, just maybe, there's some light at the end of the tunnel for White Sox fans.

There's just no reason why he should make the team out of spring training. So, why even bring him in?