Jack Parkman

As much as Chris Sale has been injured, this is only true from a player standpoint. Boston has a banner from 2018, so I guess they accomplished what they wanted to accomplish. The Sox do not. In terms of a player for player standpoint, on a long term basis, I agree with you.

Makes him a typical Rick Hahn acquisition then

Anyone see this? Not that I think that account is credible whatsoever, but It's a weird thought.

They better not play Fields, otherwise they're idiots and it will undermine a lot of patience that I have for the new FO/Coaching staff. Fields needs to sit through the bye at least.

They can't put him out there with this.....right? Right???????

Did anyone entertain the idea of playing Eloy in LF again?

Don't underestimate Cleveland again.

Delete, dumb question

Opinion: He's out through the bye, but they're debating about whether or not to just shut him down. The OL blows, and they know it.

Yeah Colas got adequate to good reports as a CF from scouts this year.

https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/chicago-white-sox/payroll/2023/ Is the $180M budget in real dollars or in Luxury Tax dollars? If it's in real dollars, then they might be ok. If it's in luxury tax dollars, the offseason looks pretty grim. Real dollars: 22.5M to play around with Luxury Tax dollars: $6.5M to play around with (!!!!!) not good.

I thought they were at $173M including Pollock. So then when Pollock opted out that would put them at $165M. That's an increase of only $3M from what I thought. So, then that would leave them $15M to play around with. In that case, any upgrades whatsoever would have to come from trades for pre-arb or arb 1 players.

Potential Sox targets: Quintana: 2/32 (16M AAV) Manaea: 2/28 (14M AAV) Clevinger: 1/10M Wacha: 1/9.5M If that's where Quintana and Manaea are at, then they're firmly out of the Sox price range.

Aren't they at $168M with arb estimates even with the non-tenders?

They don't have the pieces for Reynolds.

No, sadly I think he's too expensive. Unless they trade Hendriks pretty much everyone is too expensive. They're probably going to have to trade some of their lower level prospects for prospects that are MLB ready or ones that had a bad rookie season. If the budget is $195M they have room for 2 FA signings. If it's $180? They have $12M in space as we speak.

This is a really bad look. Who in the hell signed off on that? I'm kinda pissed.

You can't consent if you're drunk. That goes both ways.

Correct.

That is the lane I picked, but that's not the lane the Sox are going to pick. They're going to try to be as competitive as possible.

I thought that the Bears secondary was ok but they got torched there. Gordon was beat immediately on the TD.

I don't think you're getting Clevinger for $12M. More like 15-16M. All reports are that the FA market is very strong this winter. Sox could get priced out of even guys like Cueto, Quintana and Manaea.

I agree. They still need someone to man SS and fill 2-3 rotation spots depending on what they do with Giolito. I guess you could see what Davis Martin has over a full season. Basically what I was saying is that if their payroll ceiling is $180M, then they're basically forced into a rebuild and spending less than that because there's no way to compete with the current commitments and roughly $10M in payroll space.

At a $180M budget, I don't see how they avoid being a ~77-82 win team in 2023. Really, as has been said before, if the budget really is $180M they should be trading anyone with a high value for prospects. Players like Anderson, Hendriks and Cease. (Idk who else is worth trading tbh) Then fill the holes created with cheap filler players and hope they have good years and you can continue tearing down at the deadline.