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He's lost money all over the place. I even remember him wanting either his A's or Blue Jays contract all up front instead of being paid over the course of a season.

I hate to say this, but Frank has always had budget problems. I am sure that didn't get better in retirement.

Definitely not an exclusive list.

The Sox have managed to burn down Nancy Faust, Hawk Harrelson, and now Frank Thomas in recent years. How's that for some red flags.

There are young 29 year olds, and old 24 year olds. I think PCA goes the route of abusing his body and falling apart quickly.

This is what I am curious about. I know that there are agreements with current players, but I would be curious how it works for former players. I also know that Fanatics just came in and took all of these contracts, so I wonder if that has something to do with it.

This is one dude I would still love to see make it. His love of the game was infectious.

Also it is purely a feeling, but the way he plays, I would guess he doesn't age well. Quick peak, quick fall.

Maybe we can get Kenny out of retirement to deliver the message?

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Like I said last year, it was obvious the Sox weren't super high on him when they didn't call him up at the end of last year. With as bad as their pen was, there was no good reason to not do so. We will see how it plays out.

The Cubs should be embarrassed by their insistence on crying poor. While it is annoying when Jerry does it, the Cubs are literally one of the most profitable franchises in baseball, both on the books, and their off the team investments around the ballpark. Them going cheap is a kick in the nuts to all of their fans. They made almost $100,000,000 last year, and then pretended their couldn't afford the top end FAs.

And the I REMEMBER THE 1959 WHITE S9X crowd is very quickly leaving us. We need to tap into the next generations if the Sox are going to remain viable, because lord knows Jerry had burned this once proud franchise to the ground

They are paying Andrew Benintendi the same amount of money over the next two years, on the exact same schedule, whether they cut him today, tomorrow, or run his contract completely out with his corpse in LF. Pretending we are doing this move at C because we might be competitive in 2026, and then running Benny out there in LF is completely contradictory. There were literally lectures about the White Sox not being able to afford to replace him, complete with BS about budgets and everything else, yet this move happens and what would have had a MUCH bigger impact on the quality of the roster just rots on the vine for essentially the same cost. You will have to excuse me if I don't just gobble up the company line here. And when everyone gets on about how people react to the teams moves, this is EXACTLY why. Frankly it is insulting to pretend otherwise.

Meanwhile LF still exists.

That's literally the point. We COULD do things to improve the team, but we get oversold on a move like this that HAD to be made, meanwhile other moves that would help the team more in both the short AND long term get ignored, but that's NBD because we somehow can't.

You seem to be some off-hand excuse for the front office, that we are supposed to automatically accept as their creed.

Then you shouldn't be on a baseball message board telling everyone how great a move is if you don't understand how a 40 man roster works.

Yet two seconds later, the team can't afford the same money to make a much bigger improvement in LF, because they are broke and have to stay in a budget because everyone has a budget. While the temptation is to look at every move in isolation and pretend to not understand why people aren't happy, but when the moves actually contradict each other, not looking at them as a whole makes it easy to ignore that. If we are managing for today, manage for today. If we are managing for tomorrow, manage for tomorrow. But don't piss on my leg and tell me it is raining when the moves don't add up together.

He's mocking the White Sox for being cheap, not making an actual quantitative statement on the quality of the player based on his salary.

Or released Andrew Benny and paid his replacement a near league minimum salary instead of blocking that position for no reason.

I agree with you, but probably not for the reasons you believe.

Do teams generally hold 40 man roster spots for Spring Training catchers who apparently can't catch? Or is it just the White Sox?

They have a ton of guys to serve as ST catchers. They didn't hold a spot all winter for that, and if they did, we have much bigger problems.

And if you aren't willing to play him to see if he can improve, why is he taking up a 40 man slot all this time when you could have had another guy you like better?