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I love how Sox and reinsdorf live in this bubble where they think they can force the will of how baseball should operate and anyone should give a shit. But Im sure JR is doing his thing where he hamstrings the white Sox so he can play the noble martyr and shame the other owners into putting it in the next CBA that opt outs are illegal. Just like how we were forced to never go over slot when that wasn’t a thing. No big deal, just completely destroyed our farm for a decade.

No way according to KWs 10 year timeline that may impact signing players we have no idea if they are good.

Seriously. If we would have polled I guarantee. Machado was 10/300 and Bryce was 10/350

Exactly right.

Give me a break. If they were so committed just guarantee it

If teams don’t want you to hit your vesting option, you won’t hit it.

Or they platoon him at DH.

Damn can’t wait to be so wise

I think this may be true.

Ah sorry everyone. Let’s please discuss on the baseball message board how nothing actually matters and we should all just be happy there is no 500 internal service error. Sounds fun.

dude don't bother telling me that. My favorite teams are bulls and sox. This is torture. I know they are stuck and it won't change!

I feel like sox biggest problem is psychological. They lack ambition. They look at their international free agency and think "see? Micker Adolfo, Fernando Tatis, we are improving!" They are not comparing themselves against the best. They should want to be the yankees and braves or padres at intl fa. They look at drafting and say "look! Tim anderson in bigs, rodon in bigs, we are getting better!" They should be comparing themselves to the dodgers, astros and indians at drafting. They look at free agency and say "look we were at the table!" They should want to be david stearns good at free agency. They aren't concerned about what others are doing because they thing their process is improving. But it ain't enough!

Keuchel is a nice guy at least.

Oh man, yeah. Sigh, because I'm a sadist. I do think it's worth getting marwin and seeing if he turns it around. I am legit angry we traded for alonso and didn't give avi at bats again.

"If we do this, i will not sign a Mat Latos or Miguel Gonzalez ever again"

Why don't our lotto tickets ever hit again?

at least we have the best beat writer in baseball.

no please no. The problem is with machado/harper you had pieces part of a sustained run. This is just artificially propping up 2019-20/2020-21 when maybe you should just let it ride and allow more flexibility.

Lol TFW you realize the sox spent their mlbtv money on herrera, colome, alonso, jay and mccann hahahaha oh god oh god.

Right, big difference between this and JD Martinez, there were multiple suitors!

This is going to be a brutal opening for the nbcsn.

Yeah I think an issue is that while Reinsdorf used to be competent if not good, he has an old school mentality that hasn't evolved. You hire basketball people to run a basketball org and baseball people to run a baseball org. But the baseball people have changed, and his have not. The white sox org doing what its doing now may have been successful in 2005, but it is not in 2019. The best orgs are looking at the rules and looking to exploit every possible advantage. The white sox are just keeping an eye on emerging trends and will catch up if it proves to work, and by that time those teams have already evolved (check out the athletic article on narvaez using body tracking devices to improve his defense at catcher) He thinks that the progressive organizations are bad for the sport and now how you win, despite them all winning and his orgs falling behind. They need a changing of the guard badly. Hahn failed. Seriously my god putting together that list of free agent acquisitions over 6 years is unbelievable. You couldn't find a worse list I promise.

I don't know that i've seen a definitive answer but around 2017 I remember people whispering that it would be likely he would sell sox but keep bulls with michael. I'm sorry, I can't find any supporting articles though.

I still really enjoyed watching 2017. 2018 was tolerable. I thought this year would be at least interesting to watch it all start to come together. I ... have never been less excited for a sox year.

Ha! no not at all. But I'd like everyone that says manny is too expensive to look at the sum value of all of these "reasonable deals". Hahn's free agency is like going to target. As you pass by each one and put it in your cart you think "this is reasonable, could be useful!", and you pass by tvs and think "naw, too extravigant". Then you get to the checkout aisle with $250 worth of useless shit and you are like "where did this all go to?"