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I thought the story was that Getz wasn't allowed to dump guys on multi-year contracts and this was his first chance to shape his coaching staff with Venable? At least that's what we were told six weeks ago.

That's also fair, but there is a decent chance that by the time Carlson is getting here and looking to establish himself, if Montgomery is still a thing, and pans out like he showed in his hot streak, he is looking at a $500 million contract very soon. At the very least, but the time Carlson gets here, he is decently into his arb years.

100% agree here.

I don't know how long Carlson would take to get here, but I have to imagine we are talking probably 2029 for a raw high school bat, even with his supposed gold glove type skills defensively. Caleb Bonemer is probably more of a late 27 to early 28 track if he keeps going, so I don't think that is a worry in the near future, but could definitely see that happen in a couple of years.

Looking at his status, Vargas actually hits arb next year, so I wonder if there is something to his name showing up on a list like this as more of the Sox floating him out there, versus someone actually asking about him.

Looking back to confirm, Vargas ranked 16th of 18 qualified primary 3B's this year with his 1.3 fWAR. The two that trailed were Minny and LAA. Pushing it out to 400 PAs instead of qualified, Vargas sits at 22 of 28, with probably the Mets as the only team being represent as a potential playoff team for 26. (others include LAA, STL-2, MN-2)

That's a great way of saying it as well. Looking around MLB, how many teams 3B or 1B situation is worse than Vargas? How many of those teams would be willing to pay up to get him? I can't imagine that list is very populated.

I don't see Vargas having the value to make him worth trading rn, to be honest.

Yeah, I can't see anything else bigger ever being done on that site. If anything they tear down the Bears monstrosity and restore it to it's historic self.

What they have done without these guys is pretty crazy TBH.

It still works.

Can someone investigate him fo r point shaving? Oh wait, he just doesn't play defense.

https://www.mlb.com/amp/news/breaking-down-white-sox-four-big-offseason-decisions.html

Get back to me when he is 35 and looking for a MiLB deal -CG

I was under the impression that was his brother. I do expect there will be more spending for sure, I just don't know that we are looking at a Stearns situation either.

To maximize value of the franchise and still minimize the tax hit at the same time.

We will see when he is the guy writing the checks. It is an easy thing to say now.

I guess I was operating under the assumption that staying in Chicago WAS going to happen.

While I know the story is technically "new", there really isn't anything "new" in there besides Ish reaching out to The Pope. We have known forever that the Sox are working a new stadium, and that they were looking at places which aren't 35th and Shields. We have also have had multiple discussions emphasizing the current lack of decision making power for Ishbia in the sales agreement, and what the time period for the transition looked like. The fact that Isbhia is publicly deferring to Jerry isn't new. I am sure behind the scenes they are working on the bigger picture items, as there is no way that a guy making a 2 billion dollar investment in a MLB franchise is doing it without having some sort of a say so in a franchise altering decision such as where the team will play for the next generation or two. The one insight I take from this article is the definite effort to put Jerry out in front of what was going on now, which definitely jives with the conspiracy theory that Jerry is going to be the guy who goes out and throws punches to try to get deals done on a stadium and baseball labor, while Ishbia quietly sits back and waits for the clouds to clear and his time to walk in and take over is here. I feel like the bad cop/good cop thing is real and happening right in front of our faces.

It's always been garbage because of the size of hte database.

Yes master, I shall only post things approved by the great and wise Cali.

Don't do this.

Most of Soxtalk honestly.

Ah, so we are back to not wanting open-mindedness, just bald name calling and wanting to hear your opinion parroted back at you. Glad to see your rant was entire self-serving and not self-reflective.

Even more than his "defense" is that his baseball IQ seems to be non-existent. He's just a baseball dumb player. I also feel like LF is a better position for guys like that too. If he is going to hang on, he has got to figure a position to stick on, and with the Sox current make up, it almost certainly isn't going to be 2B, and he doesn't look to hit enough to DH.