Balta1701

I actually thought that last year one of the (many) problems was they had so many NRIs in camp for spring training that the guys who made the roster didn’t get enough actual game work in the spring.

In general, I hate using spring training to decide on a prospect. But this goes triple for Montgomery. Montgomery’s problems last year as far as we know were some combination of a lingering back injury, an inability to hit fastballs, and maybe some personal issues. In spring training, he won’t be playing every day and on days he does play he may get taken out early. So, if he has a back injury that might flare up when playing everyday, spring training does a poor job of testing it. Furthermore, in the spring, many pitchers aren’t throwing their hardest because they’re building up their arms. Combine that with guys working on specific things and the occasional A ball pitcher who takes over in the 7th inning, and it’s hard to say anything meaningful about a good performance because fastballs will get tougher in April. Send him to Charlotte, let him play everyday, let him show me he can handle that pitching and stay healthy, and we can see him in May. If he can’t, if he can’t catch up with fastballs or his back can’t play everyday, then we will be happy we didn’t start his big league clock. One obvious risk is you call him up and he has an ongoing back problem, you wind up with the situation like Kopech where you burn through a bunch of his control.

If you put Colson on a normal schedule he'd have been in AA most of last year, moving him up to AAA to start last year was an aggressive assignment - and it flat out, 100% did not work. He was bad, just not good, at AAA, no way around it. If you're trying to win games, you send him to Charlotte because he would have been worse than what was on the 121 loss roster last year. If you're trying to develop him, you send him to Charlotte where the competition is lower quality until he proves he's better than him. Make him hit his way up.

Colson Montgomery has absolutely not earned a big league promotion and calling him up would be the classic Rick Hahn callup based on things other than his performance. He clearly needs more time in the minors or he would have actually performed well in the minors. His fail to perform in the minors was a vibe killer for the organization, what would his failure to perform in the big leagues be?

Ooh that's a level of F***ing up the people that I hadn't even thought of yet. Put Rojas in at 2b and now you've screwed up 4 different positions. Nicely done, super White Sox.

I remember being clearly told he could be the backup CF as well so we didn't need a backup for Robert, and having to go to "Range factors" in the minors to explain that this looked really unlikely (with that being the best stat I could get).

It can’t hurt to put the call in but no I don’t expect the GM of the NBA champs to change jobs. When I hear I’m delusional I can’t figure out how wanting competitive BBall in March most years is delusional. An Indiana/Big ten tournament late round competitive game will be one of the highest viewed CBB games of the year, but we can’t even get this half the time.

With the amount of resources available to that program, the amount of fan interest, it just shouldn’t be this hard to be a regular tournament team. It just shouldn’t. You should not have a roster of high level transfers and 5 star recruits and miss the tournament. This isn’t unreasonable.

1. Rojas will clearly start the season as a starter if healthy, so put him at 2b. -for those saying none of them are as good as Nicky, please note that Rojas is being paid more than twice what Lopez is being paid this year. 2. They keep talking about Montgomery coming up to start the year. 3. The other obvious way to mess things up is to play a person at a position where they’re not as good. 4. we must bench someone who could potentially be good so that they can turn into a rotation player on another team in 2026. So let’s try to put a mistake at each position. Meidroth at 3b, Colson at SS, Rojas at 2b. Make every coaching and development mistake possible and you have a white Sox format.

There is a March ******* basketball thread that we’ve been using. I can’t believe Mike Woodson has been this bad at the non-recruiting parts of his job, but he looks soon out.

It’s seriously worth pondering if this would work at all with the way the NBA cap is structured. If you have a LaVine type contract (maybe White in 2 years) or a contract a guy isn’t living up to, either one will seriously hamper your roster. The only teams that seem close to this setup now have like 7 recent first round picks in their rotation to allow them room to sign extra contributors.

Unless you think Tatum and Brown on Boston don't count last year...Detroit in 2003.

How can you possibly not clear Vuc out this year?!?

No, I said that Prince Fielder was substantially better than Alonso throughout his career, was younger, and was coming off a much better season than Alonso had last year. Alonso getting comparable money even after salary inflation was silly.

Is truly tanking and bottoming out a viable strategy in the NBA these days?

Don’t worry, it won’t be on TV.

I’m not sure how I will feel about this a year from now. On one hand there’s a possible position fit. On the other, it feels like Todd Frazier. a guy with a bigger name than his performance justifies because of a home run derby win. Especially if he has a decent year this year it feels like they’d add him on an Abreu like contract and wind up with Abreu like the Astros got.

I would have no interest in this contract. Hes not there long enough to be on their next actual decent team, he’s not likely to bring a big trade return. I don’t want to waste money stupidly, that’s Hahn classic. Save the money there, use it when a good fitting player comes up.

At that point Hahn’s suckups told us he was going to get this done. Getz suckups are now going “a payroll above $60 million? That’s unpossible.”

Assuming Robert is gone one way or another, the only thing on the White Sox’s 2026 payroll is Benintendi. Even the only arb eligible guys look likely gone.

I can at least pretend the white Sox would be a professional franchise when an obviously fitting player comes along, just indulge me.

That would be how it worked if I bought a tv or radio package, yes. They would be providing me an improved product and giving me a reason to spend money on them.

Excellent, a 5+ WAR RF would be perfect for the White Sox next offseason, they've struggled to fill their RF spot for a number of years and hopefully they've built up more talent this offseason.

That was the report yeah.

If that's what Bregman gets, he turned down $150 million from the Astros earlier this offseason.