southsider2k5

Still better than Bruce Levine

WHAT ARE YOU DOING WEGNER???

FWIw, sounds like the Verizon problem might be a 3rd party vendor

I think I subscribe to that letter.

Also an acceptable joke angle.

They must have forgotten Chicago...

In before "The White Sox keep winning the Crochet trade"

Old Friend Mike Vasil is learning to pound beers left handed during his rehab, giving Chris Getz the switch hitter he's been looking for.

What top 100? The White Sox one?

And then added and even cheaper ownership group in the Cubs

This was always going to be a dicey signing. There is a reason that the Sox got him for basically 2/40. If he was a slam dunk, he would have been a $200 million player. We need to see if he can adjust to MLB pitching. It doesn't take long for them to find a weakness and exploit it. Now Mune has to adjust back.

Instead he gets years of the fans talking about it, instead of just tearing the bandaid off and being done with it. It's a sunk cost. Deal with it.

They are eating the contract, in the same amount, and in the same increments, whether he is here or not. They are holding on to him in some fantasy world that someone eventually picks up some of his contract to save them a few bucks. You just saw his equivalent in Sosa (average hitter with no defensive position) with a minimum wage type salary get sold for absolutely nothing. It's a fantasy that will never happen. I would love to pull a winning powerball ticket, but I know the odds are 300m:1. Jerry needs to realize that the same thing is happening with Benny. He's the Springfield Tire Fire.

We just gave up 4 years of a similar player at a much lower salary to do so.

It's not much of a ... consideration.

I am looking more at his baseball IQ in general, and the inability (or willingness) to find a defensive position he could play.

High school draft picks almost never play the years they are drafted anymore, with the loss of rookie ball post draft. If you aren't an early pick, you might not even break camp the next year, and instead play complex ball until a spot opens up. As a 17th round pick out of HS, I am not surprised he hasn't played yet, even if they see something in him.

Exactly. That's why it surprises me they never tried him in the OF to see if they could either actually use him, or build some surplus value. Mediocre bats who have no real defensive position don't really get much of a return. Honestly, it's the fact of the rest of the roster being so bad, that he looks decent in comparison.

That's fair. I mean he can throw out a crazy number and try to scare teams off, threaten not to sign with them etc, but yeah, they have to believe he will go back for his senior year.

I don't.

Rutherford's stock was already falling, and we tried to catch the falling knife.

Look, Sosa has no trade value. He's the exact type of guy that returns nothing on the open market, and that is pretty close to what we got back. Honestly, while I don't understand why we handled the guy the way we did, doing absolutely nothing to give him a chance to succeed, I am glad they finally got something for him.

And in 10 years as a member of the Chicago White Sox organization, almost every single year of that time falling under the purview of either Chris Getz as the head of player dev, Ast Gm, or GM, he never was able to fix any of those same flaws.

It is absolutely absurd that you can see what has happened in Phoenix with his families investment in the Suns, including a WILD spending spree, and already be attempting to speak in absolute certainty about something like this, especially since the whisper was that the Murakami signing was because of Ishbia's checkbook. This whole argument is patently absurd when you look at the current 45 year long owner of the White Sox and realize that he LITERALLY used OPM to purchase the White Sox, has never been a majority owner of the White Sox, and it's never been HIS cash that did anything for this team in anything but a minority sense of the word. Jerry's wealth was built by pooling other people's money into real estate investments, including the CHICAGO WHITE SOX! Jerry is the definition of private equity. He came closer than any owner in the history of Chicago came to moving this franchise out of Chicago, and has literally stomped this original AL franchise into the lowest earning franchise IN ALL OF MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL. Ishbia doesn't have to be better than every other owner, he just has to be better than Jerry to seriously improve the status of this once proud franchise. Literally every nutjob fear tactic you keep using to try to scare people about Ishbia, HAS ALREADY HAPPENED! If you want the team to succeed, you should recognize this. It's like Roy Kohn is your ghostwriter using the old "accuse everyone else of whatever it is you are doing" tactic.

This looks like the definition of a lottery ticket, based on a couple of potential plus tools, and a very athletic kid. I get Sosa had pretty much zero market value, but eh.