Dick Allen

It would depend on what was offered in return. These logjams usually have a way of working themselves out either by injury or performance. I do expect Eloy and Vaughn to be more productive next year. Sheets really surprised me. There was a point where it seemed the league had figured him out, but apparently he adjusted. Abreu doesn’t have a lot of years left. Burger is a great story and looks to me like he is going to hit, but is probably on misstep from being done.

I agree. I understand tanking, but it really sucks. It would be a lot better if everyone was trying to win every year. Tanking has always been around, it's just that there are a lot more tankers now than ever before.

I ordered from Grubhub, app said it was delivered. Went down to my lobby, no food. I call Grubhub, food isn't here. Grubhub says sorry, we will issue a refund. You should see it in 5-7 days. WTF? You can't call the driver and ask where he dropped off the food? You can't resend the order? No. Once driver hits delivered button, nothing can be done. I asked the same thing, you can take my money and tip instantly, why can't you refund instantly? No response.

You can't keep doing it unless you want to start a rebuild by 2024. It can be done up to a point. The White Sox aren't ever going to flirt with a luxury tax, so their point comes way before some other teams.

I think I read to expect it to take 4-6 weeks. I just had mine applied to my season tickets for next year. Now I only owe a little more than $50.

Forget about the White Sox trading Vaughn, Crochet, Kopech....they make no money. These are guys that must be kept around or you are going to have a huge problem really quickly. The Cubs had the problem, and the Sox aren't close to them financially. It's another reason why trading Madrigal really stings. He's easy to replace if you blow up your payroll.

There is no way they are picking up that option. I have liked Cesar, but his time with the Sox, after a pretty nice start, was godawful.

I don't know why so many want to mess with Hendriks. He's the best closer in the league. Leave him there. Let him pitch mulitple innings if the schedula allows. Why mess with it? Let Kimbrel go. I am not a Kimbrel hater, but it wasn't working the 8th inning that screwed him up. I was at a game vs. Boston where he got the 9th and blew the save. Leury bailed him out later.

It wasn't just Bob that reported the plan. ESPN confirmed it as well.

Where? The Mets? The Mets are New York’s White Sox, except they have a shitload of bad contracts.

I bet if you asked at the same point last year, Rick Renteria would have been in the same boat.

$18.25 million for a 3.7 WAR in 93 games is pretty damn nice. If that is aging, I will take it.

His lack of pitching recently probably hurt his command and his slider wasn't sharp. He wasn't awful, but the walks and HBP killed him, just like it did every White Sox pitcher in the series. Hopefully what was holding him back was just fatigue. Even if the White Sox don't re-sign him, I hope he can have a productive career. He definitely has unreal stuff when he's at full capacity.

Exactly. And why would they fire him? They didn't fire him from 2013 until the rebuild. Now, KW is a guy I can see moving on, whether it be in baseball or just kicking back and living life. His wife quit as an anchor on the NBC local morning news.

Why would Rick Hahn move on now?

Is there a catcher alive that would actually throw runners out the way the White Sox pitchers let them get jumps?

You're right, Ozzie could never manage the White Sox again. But his opinions do have more weight than a guy like Our Chuck.

I don't think Jr would let Marrioti in the ballmall.

Abreu gets HBP at about half the rate he did in Cuba. Of course the majority of pitchers are better skilled, but pitching him in is obviously the book on him. I would insist he at least wear an elbow guard. Let's face it, numerous times a year he has been centimeters from being out for months. The HBP isn't going to go away, but I actually agree with Ozzie and Tony to a point. The Sox need to retaliate. If it makes one guy hesitant to go in on him, it pays off. Whether yesterday was intentional, I really don't know, but they did throw almost behind him. That is usually a giveaway. Someone mentioned the pitcher was looking into the Sox dugout just before the HBP. I don't think that proves anything, because the previous pitches were in, and I am sure the Sox dugout was chirping.

Even in the less than 1% chance there is any truth to this,I think the Sox could get something better than Santander with the $15 million they would save just letting Kimbrel be a free agent. The one thing we as fans have going for us, is they won't be able to sell they are really close, even if they are closer than this series made it appear. They got whipped.

That was the formula in 2005. They lost the season series to both Boston and LA that year. Different story in the playoffs. The problem is despite playing really well at the end of the season, the team played really poorly vs. Houston. The offense was great one game. The pitching was terrible all 4 games.

One thing I hate is coming and going out of your seat. There is no etiquette. Especially with these 4 1/2 hour games. There is so much down time. Yet someone gets right in front of you to go to their seat, or go spend $100 on overrated food just as a pitch is being delivered.

Tony would recommend Dave Stewart. He did a great job trashing the D Backs.

I don't care how thin the market is, no one is going to give you something useful and pay Kimbrel $16 million after the way he finished the season. If there was a little regression from where he was with the Cubs, fine. But this was too much. Just admit your mistake, pay him the $1 million and move on. Spend the $15 million on something else. At the end, he wasn't even striking people out.

Everyone is praising Tepera, but he missed a ton of time too.