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The only other guy who has been able to go this "route" was Ohtani.

In the 4 major sports, 78 teams received votes. The White Sox received 0 votes. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6007317/2024/12/30/nba-nhl-nfl-mlb-front-office-rankings?source=user-shared-article

The monetary differences are minimal because this is bonus money from the international bonus pool, so it has to be based on other things. He's looking for his home for the next six years and has absolutely every team in baseball wanting him. It would be odd if he didn't take his time

The best thing they can do for the defense is get an offense that keeps them off of the field for much longer stretches of time.

Yeah, you either have to get Campbell with your first pick or see how far down you can go and still get the #2 OL guy. Then you build from there. Whether it is draft picks or free agents, you need to just nuke this group and start over with real anchors.

A lot of these guys will end up as obvious fat in short order.

Any time you make a list of guys with that little experience and ceiling, stating they all should be ready on Day 1 is a nearly impossible statement to make happen in reality. Injuries and subpar performance will make sure of that.

Forget about Colas. He has been bannished for crimes against Humanity and Chris Getz.

It also gives you a guy who can eat s%*# innings, without worrying about their development

Sure. But a portion of these guys will get their asses kicked bad enough that it isn't worth it for them to continue the ass kickings. It would be nice to have some stability and more predictability for the rest of the staff to depend on. A Jose Quintana, or similar, pitcher would not only be an outstanding person for these guys to learn and follow by example, but could also generate trade interest to open up a slot later on.

Again, looking at this list in terms of 2025, but how many major league starts they have. Jon Cannon 21 Davis Martin 19 Drew Thorpe 9 Nick Nastrini 8 Ky Bush 4 Sean Burke 3 Jairo Iriarte 0 Mason Adams 0 There is a whole lot of learning curve that has to happen with literally all of those guys. The most experience you have is 2/3 of a season for 2 guys. It would be nice to have some guys sitting on the bench next to them who have been in the trenches before, and can lead by example.

This is not a maybe. You have to give a QB time.

Both of these guys should be playing over pretty much any of these dumpster dives from the winter. Now is the time to figure them out.

Definitely more than 2. Even the position players we have a good chunk of them are really young, and that is just to get them here. If they aren't instant successes, which most aren't, it will take a year or two (maybe more) to settle in.

And at the end of the day the list of names of guys who will start this year for the Sox is almost exclusively made up of guys who have top ceilings in the 3rd to 5th starter range, and that is everything goes right for them. I still think Thorpe is the one guy who could be a front line guy if he figures out how to pitch at this level, but reminiscent of Mark Buehrle, his off days would make him t-ball practice as he doesn't have the pure stuff to miss bats when off. And while thinking of ceilings is important, remember every single pitcher on this list is ultra young in terms of MLB experience and still has to figure out the mental approach of being a MLB pitcher. When you ceiling is back end rotation, again, there isn't much room for error and learning on the job. With a group like this you hope you get decent progress out of a few of these guys, and then start to sort through who the never will be's (which will be many) actually are. This is a year where we actually should learn about how good Bannister and Katz actually are.

Except they wouldn't be ND's with this offense.

What do you know about relationships with professional athletes?

They have already seem to have given up on Fletcher.

They also had around $150 million of expenses not related to players, because their last numbers show they lost 28 million on $288m in revenue with $187m described as players expenses.

Trading it would have involved a return, which is better than losing it for nothing.

The White Sox are a pretty unknown team, at least at ESPN.

MLB could also preserve the 2nd team rights in Chicago and sell that franchise for $2 billion as well, that is if Jerry was stupid enough to leave.

And a ton of the value add is tied to this market

The pick that should have changed is Odunze.

There is zero reason for the Sox to not significantly out spend the entire ALC for starters. Same with the Cubs in the NLC.