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That would actually be a devious as hell move. Have a deal agreed to, but not "done". Call him up, and then announce the deal so you get both the extension, AND the extra pick chance. Wonder if MLB would look at that?

It's always wild to me that the 18 year olds are forgotten after thoughts, when in reality, we know way more about them, than we do the 15-16 year olds in these classes. I wonder how many guys like this fall through the cracks with things like growth spurts or similar and end up being as good as the million dollar guys.

I have both of those. My comcast has been fine for a while. My Verizon cell still isn't working unless I am on WIFI. Try going into your PC and emptying the Soxtalk cookies and see if that cleans it up. Currently using Chrome for both.

Based on the draft slots, this is the Sox top 3 picks. $11,350,600 $2,446,100 $1,086,600 If the Sox were to sign Roch to $9.3 million, which is $50,000 more than the former record, it leaves them an extra $2.05 million to use for the rest of the draft. In simple terms, it means they could take that extra money, combine it with the money in their #2 pick, and have about $4.55 million to spend. That number is on par with #18 pick slot in this draft, meaning if they could convince someone around the 20th best player to put up an outrageous demand, they could push them down to #41 and still pay them essentially full slot value of the #18 pick. That's huge. Put another way, the ENTIRE LA Dodgers pool for 2026 is just under 4 million. The Sox could pay their #2 guy about 500k more than that, and still have plenty left over for the rest of the draft. Add to that, the Sox can go up to just under 5% of their total pool OVER their total, which is ANOTHER $879,605, minus a penny. In other words the Sox could still offer #18 money at #41, and they based on JUST their overage, could pay their last pick over a million dollars, even if every other player went to slot value. If they pushed that money up to the #41 pick PLUS a 2 million cost savings for Roch, they could pay their #41 pick about $5.4 million, or the slot value of the #14 pick. Or the Sox could use this where they have 3 slots over a million dollars, and turn it into multiple extra million dollar signings, potentially 3-4 depending on how they spread it out.

It's an interesting footnote, but is still missing the big picture. The Sox should have paid off of the contract and gotten actual top prospects. The Sox let Robert's value deteriorate to almost nothing by the time they traded him. His window was long before this spring. Either way, it should have never been Bady vs Vientos vs Acuna.

NGL, that one hurts.

Lot A is the best lot anyway. Right out on to the Ryan.

So there are numbers floated pre-draft for sure. A player will say I want X million dollars to sign, or I will go back to college, so teams will have an idea of what they are up against, but once they ARE drafted, the ONLY team they can negotiate with is the team that picked them. There is nothing stopping Roch (or anyone else) saying I want $12 million to sign. Or full slot value of the #1 pick, or whatever number they want. But once they are picked, they can only negotiate with the one team. Most likely the team and player will have exchanged numbers and either be on the same page, or close enough where they feel they can work together. In a case like this, Roch's people say we want full slot value. The Sox say well the previous record was $9.25 million, what do you think of $9.3 million? Now BEFORE he is drafted, Tampa can say, hey we will give you $10 million, and he takes that number to the Sox and tells them he won't sign for less than that, or don't pick him. Now the Sox have to decide whether it is still worth it or not. They do this little dance ahead of time and either move to a general agreement space, or the Sox feel they can't sign him, and maybe they move on. Maybe they play hardball knowing he won't go back to school as a senior. Maybe they pick the guy who WILL sign for $9.3 million allowing them a top pick AND another 2 million dollars to use in the rest of the draft to push down another good player.

They can try to convince him to SAY he doesn't want to go to the Soxm but if the Sox draft him, it doesn't matter a lick what the other teams have to offer. He belongs to the Sox, and no one else, and can't get an offer from another team unless he goes back into the draft as a senior, which won't happen.

The White Sox front office...

And then call him lazy when he fails.

The signature is the best response.

You have Verizon internet? As far as I know, everything else is working.

Thinking more about the idea that guys getting paid early makes them lazy, there is always guys like Corbin Carroll and Bobby Witt Jr to counter that. I think it might bring that out of guys who already had this in them, but for guys who are players, this is a HUGE bargain for the teams who get these done. Witt would have been a free agent in 2028 at age 28. What does a FA contract look like for him by then? We are talking Ohtani money, maybe more. Meanwhile KC has him locked up for about half that number annually until 2037.

A lot of players mentioned here, but this is the main course for Sox fans. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7160881/2026/04/01/mlb-draft-scouting-kaden-waechter-jared-grindlinger/?source=athletic_thewindup_newsletter&campaign=17447086&userId=6062851

Cool. Let them do it. I am OK with us not having to resort to lowest common denominator stereotypes. We can do better. There is no shame in that.

It's 2026, we should understand cultural sensitivities and differences to the extent where we can do better than nativistic stereotypes. Even if it isn't "offensive", it isn't good either. Be better John.

Turns out the Sox wanted Bady, were offered Vientos, and the teams settled on Acuna. Sports MockeryWhite Sox Luis Robert Trade Nearly Took Another DirectionNew details from Chicago White Sox trade talks with the New York Mets reveal the return for Luis Robert Jr. could have looked much different.

Where's that toilet flush when you need it?

Say what now?

Sox fans trying to escape Jerry. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/18QDk6ozCw/

Look, Venable has one of the worst rosters in baseball. Much like Grifol before him, he could be a baseball genius and he would look like moron with this dumpster fire.

I am pretty sure by our run differential we should be 0-6, so see how lucky we are!

You seem pretty fixated on balls. You good?

The draft is the one place the Sox haven't really crapped out since the new system.