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Or just another Monday for a Jerry owned organization.

It's wild because I used to think that we ran one of the most color blind organizations out there, and it didn't really matter what you looked like, we hired whoever fit best. A mistake like this seems like a big one though, especially in an organization with established and long term leadership in the PR department. How do you not know that a guy like Frank Thomas should be one of the first people you mention in a black history month context? This is the easy stuff.

Look, if your roof leaks, you don't blame the rain for finding a weak point to get through. You fix the roof.

Keith Law had the highest ranking for the Sox system out of the major publications.

Now where I have heard that one before.

This exactly.

Eh, I can judge deal by deal instead of blind allegiance to one side or another.

Agreed. Every single person I have talked to about going to spring training describes it as one of the ultimate experiences for huge baseball fans.

I look at this deal as the Sox doing the other thing you hate in buying prospects essentially by taking on money from the Hicks deal. I have no problem with someone's valuation of Sandlin because I know very little about him. My theory is that if he ends up a back end starter, or some sort of a usable reliever, the White Sox win the deal for sure. For me today, I want to see a well thought out deal, and the Sox using their insane lack of payroll to buy somewhere between 1 and 3 guys they like is exactly how they should be approaching fixing a reportedly shallow minor league system. That's all I really want to see. Last year at this time we were sending 18 year old starting prospects to Boston for 33 year old inexperienced relievers, so hopefully this franchise is learning from its mistakes.

There is no way this deal is the same if Leasure is in it. There HAD to be some extra guy/s in the deal for Leasure.

I mean the Sox pretty much bought themselves a prospect or three by picking up Hicks like this. I know this is Getz, but he is already telling people that Sandlin could be a mid-season starter. Hicks seems like the type of reliever that should have a market at the deadline. at least of a mid tier prospect kind of guy, and if you can push him back into his pre-2025 work, probably around a top 10 system guy. For what we are giving up, and the cash we are getting back to cover him, even if Sandlin busts, this is a solidly thought out deal.

There is one easy way to do that. Cut him.

The NFL is a national contract, with provisions that games be broadcast into local markets assuming they are sold out at the home stadium. The thing where each team has a local deal is very much an MLB thing.

This is one of my bucket list things to do. Going to move it on the soon list once this team is worth paying to see again.

Trying to get an idea of how these deals usually look, apparently the "average" of these deals is 8 to 10 million per year.

I am just glad it actually happened.

If it is a copy/paste job, it could have been picked up from the original text

In other words, he wasn't going through waivers, so the Sox got a little something for him.

It is nice to see. I wonder if the CME money is why.

It has been 0 Days since your favorite franchise did something embarrassing.

They also closed that loophole

It might mean they reworked the deal to give the White Sox a chance to look closer at other players to make up either for the injury potential, or for not getting their first choice because of medical red flags.

To start with, they can't be players on a 40 man roster, nor recently drafted.

So the Sox took on contract to get a prospect

Mike Clevinger on line 1.