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His pick wasn't bad. This is a pointless year in terms of standings, so if he is a guy who you think can help you in 2028-29, you pick your spots with him, maybe DL him a couple of times, but you get him to the minimum service time needed to keep him. I just don't get putting him on the 25 roster AND THEN cutting him. If he wasn't good enough today, he wasn't good enough a week ago. Cut him then and save a roster slot.

The current record bonus is $9.25 million. If the Sox were to give that out, they would have an extra $2.1 million left over to spend elsewhere, even before the about $380k extra they can give from the 5% overage, and any cost savings on punt picks. Last year the full slot value of the 46th pick was just under $2.1 million, to give you an idea of how much extra space that is. If they combined that total with their 2nd pick at #41, they would be able to put about $4.5 million in front of someone, which is the 2025 equal of slot value for pick #18 in the first round. Even if the Sox gave Roch a new record bonus of $10 million, they will have an extra $1.35 million, or about the value of pick #65 from last years draft.

Don't let lack of talent confuse lack of hustle. Sometimes they can look like the same thing, though neither is ideal.

Weekend at Jerry's!

This was the period of time where we were supposed to be finding other teams overlooked players, and developing our own. I have said for a couple of years with the state of this franchise that 2030 was a realistic timeline for competing again. We haven't really done much to push that timeline forward. so that still looks pretty secure. -We needed our original Big 3 pitchers to turn into 2 frontline starters. So far we have one reliever, and 2 guys who have never been over 75ish innings in a season. -We needed all of these changes to rescue some of the guys from previous years. That hasn't happened. Guys who were uninspiring, have stayed uninspiring -We needed some scrapheap luck. Primarily we got Smith and Vasil. Smith had a great 25, but all of the sudden is looking pretty shakey. Vasil is probably gone until the middle of 27. By the time he gets back, he will be approaching his arb years. The scrapheap's we had short term success with, we haven't been able to turn into the second generation of players in the flip deals. -We needed to turn the vets we did have left into valuable pieces going forward ala Rick Hahn. The Cease trade was a disaster. The Robert trade isn't looking great, and we now pretty much have to turn the Crochet trade into Montgomery being an all-star level player to call it a win. -Looking forward some of the position draft picks look promising, but are now starting to hit the mid to high majors and we will start to learn what they are made of in the next year. -We need to hit a grand slam with this draft. The #1 pick needs to be a star going forward. We need to get premium position players in this draft as well with as many picks as he have set up early, and the savings sure to come from the #1 pick. It'd be really nice to figure out a way to add another comp pick in this draft as well. I still like my Team2030 prediction. It wasn't too long ago people were saying we could make it by 2027 or 2028.

Alcantra gets the Maddux.

White Sox pitching has given up 52 runs through an inning short of 6 full games so far.

Yeah, there is always the chance he got figured out. After a year of video on the guy, maybe MLB finally picked up something. It's an eternal game of move and countermove.

And if Velo is staying up, it's probably not an injury.

Sox IP by starts 1.2 4 4.2 5 5 3 total of 23.1 IP by starters or under 4 IP per start through 6 games.

45 pitches through 4 for Alcantra

If you aren't going to fire the people who put the pitching staff together, it doesn't matter.

THIS should be his breakout year. Last year he finally started pitching up near 100 pitches in games last year. Now should be the innings build.

OLE!

The IF is in

It's 15 extra days built into the schedule, so on day 16, they couldn't accrue a full year of service if they were on the MLB roster for the rest of the season.

Say hi to Ted Cruz for me!

Gordo all over it.

Hicks with 11 RBI already. The Sox have 16 runs all year.

All right, I will allow it.

Nope, it is definitely the game.

FIFY

Can you take a sizable chunk of the MLB roster with you? K tnx