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Thank you ! Your dedication to the White Sox and the members of Soxtalk and your eye on the future is much appreciated !

Sosa, Vargas, Benintendi all DH types but need them in the lineup too if there's any hope of scoring a lot more runs this year. All 3 have to hit . No more room for Vargas and Sosa if they don't breakout.

Shane Smith's whole spring is important. The rule 5 is where you can pick up undervalued talent so what he does this spring is the determining factor for keeping him all year or cutting him loose.

Be kind, rewind .

Because I like baseball and I like looking forward to better times not wallowing in misery. I'd rather look at the 15 pitchers who pitched in the 2 games and say 11 of them didn't give up any runs. 3 HRs in 2 games and 2 of them came from guys not on the team last year. 6 of 8 pitchers didn't give up any runs against the Cubs 5 of them weren't on the team last year. 5 of the 7 pitchers didn't give up any runs against the Royals. All 5 of them weren't on the Sox last year. This is what coaches do. They accentuate the positive. Do you want your kids coached by guys who tell them they suck ? Kids become afraid to fail in sports because failure breeds negativity . They end up quitting rather than risk the hate that comes with failing in sports. They need to know you won't hate them like they see you hating on your favorite team yelling at your TV. If you understand that they are reflections of your actions then why wouldn't you want to be more kind around them so they aren't afraid to fail. It's like Lord of the fucking Flies in here. I get gallows humor but beating a dead horse because everyone's doing it is grim and horrifying. Kill the pig, bash it's head !

OMG really I didn't know that. I guess I need constant reminders of that until I come over to the dark boo hoo we're so bad why can't we have nice things side. Man up .

Gee sportstalk radio out over its skis .That never happens does it ?Sportstalk radio is like verbal clickbait and you've been fanning the dead flames for 4 years . Every question you asked is just speculation. Fans are looking for answers not 4 year old questions no one has the answers to. Hang in there till Feb. 28th and maybe something good but not earth shattering will happen but likely to create more questions than answers .

Caulfield been spreading that Melody Hobson BS forever. I found this on Reddit from about a month ago. Basically in 2021 the Ishbias bought somewhere around 5 % through Reinsdorf's sons SPV. The Hobson thing was never substantianted . Of course take this for what it's worth but it seems accurate based on the current situation. I don't know if what was bought by Michael and Jonathan Reinsdorf's counts as what JR owns. The whole family now could own more than the 20-25% that's reported as what Jerry owns.

Grant not Michael A. .

How dare you say anything positive. I realize good fans are listening to the game but to feel the need to put everything you see down is weird to me. I thought when you love baseball and the Sox are the team you root for and knowing it's a rebuild you'd look for some positive signs. But can't discount people's needs to be miserable.

I was not actually making fun of Tray there. I thought the same thing at the beginning of the thread. I generally think it's good news but you're dealing with JR and a guy who just used the Twins to get a good position to own the Sox. Being level headed is prudent. But sure making fun of people makes you cool and funny I suppose if you're in 3rd grade.

Without getting ahead of ourselves I would guess yes.

Well you were normal for a few posts but now it's back to your regularly scheduled programming.

Ha probably back to Sheets level RF defense too. And 2 RH guys screw up the platoon Getz set up so early in the off season. But it is interesting.Both teams end up with a little egg on their faces for their off season weirdness .

Oops my bad forgot they'd have to trade for him so would make no sense to just release him . The cost ends up too high because now you have to find a way to rid yourself of someone with a guaranteed contract. Doubt Robert is traded in the next day or 2 but in the event that he is traded before the season starts you need Taylor for CF. That makes Slater the odd man out which would be a bad look for the Sox considering they signed him 1st because of Fuller and because he's a good weak side Platoon bat and fit Getz OBP philosophy. And also raved about him being the main guy they wanted. That all makes Carnario too expensive to acquire. Both Slater and Taylor have incentive clauses too. It does suck when you're so desperate for a young power bat that when one pops up you can't take a flyer on him.

Lol I just edited my post and changed it to White but he's on that list Quin gave the link to. Someone is missing because I'm counting 39.

I'm not sure that is even up to date .41 listed - Scholtens and Bush leaves 39. I thought we were full. Who's the last guy added to the 40 Owen White ?

Right but one thing at a time.1st on the 40 and if you can't find room you release him. The Yankees just had a guy for a week from the Reds the Sox just picked up didn't they ?

5'6". Look if you aren't fast or don't hit HRs and you can't go above 9 and 10 foot fences in the OF and rob a HR once in a while and you're 27 , had a -.8 WAR and couldn't hit at Charlotte either your basically blew your chance.Julks got released and he's back not on the 40 right ? Colas is the other riff raff .I need to see every pitcher we have before any more of them get DFA'd.

You said $1-3M. I didn't see you list every team who signed players to those amounts for any number of years during the off seasons. Basically it's a task you can't accomplish without quite a few hrs of research. Most in that pay range turn out to be as they were thought to be. Mostly it's luck or whenever a team has a shortage due to circumstances. Or just bad team doing it more often.

As I've said before, just because Hahn and Kenny talked up certain things that failed or never happened and the whole front office seemed contemptuous to one another does not mean Getz doesn't deserve his shot to do it better . The proof is always in the pudding but it'll take years to know especially with JR running interference with the budget. People here are just ashamed of themselves for trusting JR all these years when there always should have been a healthy amount of skepticism. Thinking someone is giving a good effort does not mean anyone should trust a successful outcome due to that effort. It's going to take a lot of different people making a lot of right decisions.

How often does any team do it ? You're the one who said others teams are better at picking shiny garbage than the Sox. The burden of proof is on the one making that claim.

And he's tiny.

I liked Colas when he torched A+ and AA in the same year and got off to a promising start in AAA but somehow he did that without being able to hit a curveball according to Keith Law. He fooled a few others since he made it into the top 100 briefly . He and Fletcher are not long on the 40.

They could DFA Fletcher to make room on the 40.