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I'm not saying I ever wanted Schwarber. I don't think I made very many posts about wanting him, if any. Plus you can get wrapped up in WAR numbers all you want but he did lead the league in HR's and saying that he was worth only 2-2.5 wins makes it seem like his power hitting wasn't worth that much. You can play that game only so much. A Schwarber signing by the Sox probably would have meant someone else wasn't signed. Perhaps Kimbrel gets traded for young and cheap player instead of Pollock or if a decision was made to go after Schwarber early enough they don't even pick up his option. Maybe they don't sign an injured reliever for 2 years $17M. Maybe Leury isn't given 3 years. Maybe with Schwarber here it inspired the rest of the team to ditch the Menechino approach to hitting and more guys hit more HR's. If you just go by the numbers you're discounting any butterfly or domino effect a guy hitting 46 HR's has on your team. If you are truly saying signing Schwarber would've been a terrible move given what actually transpired this year. I am very very hard pressed to believe it.

If that was the intent I didnt see it. He didn't specifically mention the Sox offer being a large % incentive based in his post . But if that was his intent it's funny in a pathethic kind of way .

Um no it won't. And I'll go so far as to say that over 50% of his contract will be guaranteed money vs your 20%. It may or may not get $100M but the majority of it will be guaranteed.

That didn't stop the majority of the board from thinking it best not to try to resign him because of his injury history. If Nimmo gets $100M which he probably will, I guessing however many teams that are in the bidding won't care too much about his injury history. That's how you make your team better. There is no such thing as a signing being 100% risk free. People didn't want Schwarber because he couldn't field. Yet we endured the play of Sheets, Vaughn, Pollock, Leury and Eloy in the OF and injuries that kept Eloy and Robert off the field and the ineptitude of Grandal and Moncada's LHH .The OF, offensively and defensively and the LHH was a hot mess.

He should. Not many teams are playing service time games anymore And a team that's supposed to be a contender absolutely shouldn't be playing those games any way. He's a good fielder . He left handed he hits for power. I thought he should've been up at the end of last year to get acclimated to RF at home and to get some experience in a pennant race. Other's disagreed siting service time of course. Backwards thinking. It's better he get some growing pains out of the way in a season that was going down the tubes or at worst desperately needed defensive and offensive help from the left side and in RF. So the Sox either feel he wasn't ready or they wanted to wait til May w/e it is to get as much time from him as possible while sacrificing wins . If you want guys to have 150 game seasons it's best to call them up and let them play and contribute as soon as they can. He's already 24 why f*** with him? He's already lost too much much developmental time to going from Cuba to Japan and to the US. It's fairly amazing he got his act together in one year in the states. He deserves a reward not more " I own and want to make sure I own you as long as possible" BS.

I heard a lot of that about Rodon . Nimmo played 151 regular season games and 3 playoff games. Please tell me when one of our core guys plays 151. Career year no doubt but he walks, plays good defense, has some pop and is LH , all things the Sox need.

It won't be cheap at least 5yrs. $100M.

My 2023 White Sox OF: LF Luis Robert, CF Brandon Nimmo, RF Oscar Colas. Or since Nimmo really won't be considered: LF Benintendi, CF Robert, RF Colas.

The Getz thing was started by @Harold's Leg Lift and Harold just said he no longer thinks Getz is a possibility.

No "if" about it . https://www.nbcsports.com/chicago/white-sox-talk-podcast . Start at the 13 minute mark. About 10 seconds later Garfien said it.

I don't know the timeline for when someone said Guillen would be interviewing and when Guillen denied it. But The podcast had only been listened to less than 100 times when I listened to it this morning. The podcast was released early today. Maybe things changed but I doubt Garfien would say it if it wasn't true since he did the post game shows with Guillen and they are "friends".

Real easy . Listen to the Garfien podcast with Jenks and Toby Hall. Somewhere a little after 13 min mark. Garfien said Ozzie interviewed with Hahn, Getz and Haber on Monday.

That was a good podcast. Pioneer League was basically full of UDFA guys. Jenks and Hall were the team's only coaches . So you're playing guys who basically didnt go in the 1st 20 rounds of the draft and having your players coach the bases. As far as the we're ready quote goes. Toby Hall said that. Jenks was more diplomatic saying managing Grand Junction could be a stepping stone to eventually get to the big leagues . They don't even know if they have the job this year . Ownership change.

He was interviewed on Monday Oct. 24th.

Nice win over a very good Panthers team. More than likely not a playoff team but that's a step up from what I was going to be the most dismal season ever. It still could be but the payers seem to have bought into Richardson's leadership. 1st time in almost 40 years the Hawks have won their 1st 3 home games of the season.

This could've been posted at just about any time in Sox history and been accurate.

Good info there. SO much better than tweets from know nothings.

Roquan heckuva game too.

Totally unexpected offensive showing on the road. 200+ yards rushing. Now 33-14 !

Obviously not much interest in the Blackhawks right now. However, I like their Coach Luke Richardson. Seems like they got much faster. Domi and Athanasiou are playing well. The PK has 4 shorthanded goals already which is 2 more than all of last year. They are forechecking well. It may well turn out to be the high point of the season being a game over .500 now but they've been an enjoyable watch so far.

Nice play by Fields to get that pass under the arms of the blitzer for the easy TD. Refs being generous. Fields shouldn't have taken such a hard hit after the throw. Just because he runs a lot doesnt mean he can get smashed when in the pocket . Woo hoo Bears get a turnover !

I'm surprised there's so much interest in who the next manager is. The window is gone and they are building a wall in it's place.

You piggybacked my post about brownies ! You're a piggybacker ! Foodies are the tweeters with food as their name like...umm yay ! I can't think of one. I'm good with that !

Wake me up when the World Series is over. All this isn't even yawn worthy.

Brownies anyone ? Tasty and great for manipulating your mind.