Dick Allen

They posted it after reading Jr's tweet. Jr may know something. They know a lot of players.

I think he's doing better with his conditioning. And it's one thing owners really trust with Boras clients. He is a conditioning stickler after signing big deals.

The sad part was as fans we had to sit this fun part out for years because the team was rebuilding. Now we have to sit it out because JR has a desire to die with as much money aa possible. I sure hope Jim Thompsons heirs are in his will. The guy getting GRF built made JR billions. Could you image how bad his teams in Tampa with their 1980s approach would be with half the revenue he gets with the White Sox. Not to mention how he probably would have been forced to sell the Bulls because he would have been public enemy #1, before their dominance.

Just a comedy of unforced errors by the self proclaimed right man for the job last winter.

But how do you replace him? It would be someone not as good and more expensive.

I like Rodons chances of staying healthy for 6 years at this stage more than deGrom for 5. But it is crazy. I do bet he gets at least 5 years, and who ever gets him will get more bang for their buck than the Rangers.. The one problem is there's a decent chance Boras drags this on for a while and if you don't get him you are SOL.

I'm the opposite. $100 million less for Verlander, and you'll almost assuredly get more innings the first 2 years, and who knows what deGrom is a couple of years from now.

If the Sox are addressing Catcher, glove first back up type should be the call. Murphy would cost too many assets, Contreras throws well but the rest of his defensive profile is not so hot, and he is expensive. And paying an aging Salvy what you would have to pay him should be a fireable offense.

The Sox either need to s%*# or get off the pot. If they truly trust the talent and think 2022 was a one off, they need to add to try to win. If they want to go their normal conservative route, and not be confident in the roster they have assembled, they shouldn't be shocked when the fanbase follows their lead. 2022 sucked. But they still were .500 with a decent chance to win the division in September. That'd with LaRussa and most other things going wrong. So I don't think the situation is as dire as some who apparently think the Sox have a 65 win roster.

So we can expect a higher FIP next year. Great. He had a ton of strikeouts in 2022, but he also sucked. There was one game he was only a pitch or two from an immaculate inning, and he wound up getting pulled 4 or 5 batter later. Way too many uncompetitive pitches. Followed by having to throw meatballs. All season long.

If the Sox anticipated shopping anywhere but the Salvation Army, there would have been Soxfest this year. They gave away they are cowards, they also gave away they weren’t planning on doing enough that would get Soxfest attendees minds off of 2022 this winter.

Maggs had an 8.0 WAR season his 3rd year in Detroit. If Vaughn is capable of 8 WAR seasons , getting rid of him before he even hits arb would cement Hahn as worst Sox GM ever, and he would be high on the all time league list.

Mutual options are never exercised by both.. Basically it's a 1 year 12 million with 4 million of it deferred to after next season. The Sox will be on the hook for the additional 4 million even if they exercised it.

Taillon is a 2 time Tommy Johner.

Usually they come from players with no trades.

I enjoyed that article. I hope it translates to wins. Even Jack and Balta would be hard pressed to complain about the plan.

They seem to have some pitchers on their roster. Granted, they haven’t developed many draft picks, but they did trad for a lot of guys that thEy had in their rotation as minimum guys in Gio, Cease and Kopech. They also developed Dunning enough the Rangers gave them Lynn. We will see if Davis Martin is useful. Where the lack of develop,ent has hurt them most is the bullpen. They do have Lopez and Bummer, Bummer they drafted and developed. If Lopez is effective, you won’t want to but you will have to give the Sox credit. Every team gets some players from the outside. Hendriks has been with his paycheck. What hurts is guys like Graveman and Kelly and Deikman eat up too much money. But guys are going to get hurt. To me it was pretty obvious Crochet was just a matter of time with surgery. If they could have developed a couple of relievers, they could have saved a ton of money. But you don’t believe in developing relievers. but the fact is the have developed some really good starters. A couple basically got them 80% of their current rotation in Sale and Quintana, and Rodon developed into someone pretty, pretty, pretty good.

I guess you forgot Kopech had 2 whole years off, so being part of a division champion rotation was pretty absurd. Besides, you just told us the Sox get no credit for Kopech because you don’t think he’s any good. So you are now whining about the Sox not using a pitcher you are whining about in their rotation when they won a division. You must be pretty popular at parties.

Who did they waste? Crochet? What type of evidence is there that he possibly could remain healthy as a starter.

He’s obviously great, but he would be my biggest red flag pitcher. He’s max effort and 35. The other older guys like Verlander and Scherzer do more pitching. His body parts have shown signs of failing. I think he’s elite for 2 years tops.

Gio was pretty awesome his first 6 starts of 2022. 2.63 ERA . A ton of strikeouts. I still believe.

You most be on Molly.

If you look at the history of White Sox second round picks, its pretty brutal. The only guy since the drafted Terry Forster 52 years ago, who signed and has a 7.0 career WAR or higher is Bob Wickman. Second in Ryan Sweeney at 6.9. Third is Trace Thompson at 3.3. But they are due to hit on one eventually. I have no idea what teams will give up for him, but I'm guessing not a ton, so why trade a guy who may be an ace at still a reasonable price for a year, and get the comp pick? If someone wants to pay up for him, fine, because there is zero chance they re-sign him. But the move seems too obvious to me.

Nice to see you were spared. It's always hard to see the images on the news when these things hit.

When Jeter was doing his good bye tour, the White Sox presented him with a container of GRF dirt. I was laughing my ass off. He had to be thinking WTF? I would bet everything I own he has no idea where that little container is today. He can say landfill, but he doesn't know which one.