Dick Allen

They obviously will have the Bulls and Blackhawks with them. Chances are they stay where they are at, except the games on WGN will probably go away I wouldn't mind them thinking outside the box and working something out with someone like Amazon. Get a prime membership, watch the White Sox wherever you go.

60% of what we are hoping is one day a championship rotation is currently on the team. To not have a team who can at least think they can compete behind them, especially since your supposed championship middle infield is also in place, is really playing with fire. And who knows how Kopech comes back. Matt Moore didn't exactly dazzle after TJ surgery. Who knows how Cease will hold up? Who knows what will happen with Dunning's elbow. Who knows when or if Robert breaks out. People are already complaining about Madrigal for some reason. Collins, I think he will be OK, but probably not a 1-1 guy Hostetler said he would have been had he had the first pick. Burger, another question mark. Rutherford has always seemed to be to be a poor man's Ryan Sweeney. Is that something to be excited about? Face it, Moncada, Anderson, Gio, Lopez, Kopech, Rodon., Eloy....the Sox need at least a couple of these guys to be all star quality, and a couple to be really good players if they are only going to buy off the clearance rack.

It's 3 guys out of 50 who played for them.

If they aren't going to land any of the big guys, see what's left at the end. There will be bargains. If signing 2 or 3 of these guys is going to make it so they can't afford anyone when the time comes to win, how the hell were they ever supposed to sign Machado or Harper?

Because most of the players on those teams were nowhere near Houston when they started winning. And the few who were still there developed, and performed. The White Sox guys we are all hoping for so far almost to a man, need to take a rather large step. Best case scenerio is great, and maybe somehow they all get good together. But something needs to light that match. It isn't trotting the same guys out there and hoping Palka and Delmonico aren't the guys who were let go for nothing from other teams, and Yolmer, who strikeouts out like Ron Kittle, but hits homers like Julio Cruz, isn't beloved because he pours water on his head. It isn't watching Adam Engel continue to show us he can't hit. It isn't trying to figure out if Minaya and Infante are indeed the same person. Maybe getting some wins, or at least coming to the park really thinking they can win will help Moncada. Maybe it will help Anderson and Giolito, and Lopez. Because if those guys don't step it up, it's going to be a while.

Hector Santiago is a nice guy and all, but why go after a guy like that? What is the upside? As for spots in the rotation, this team hasn't been .500 since 2012, and pitchers are not ever locks to remain healthy. If they have too many starters at any point, which I think is pretty silly to think it actually will happen, they will make someone a reliever or they will be trade bait. Too much pitching isn't a liability.

I do think the Sox need to do something even if they don't sign a Machado or Harper. You can't have these guys staring at the same teammates after that ugly season. I would like to see them get something that can inspire some confidence. Whether that or those players will be around when the team actually contends, who knows? But you can add pieces and still develop players. Then when the time comes, bring in someone new. Even if this rebuild works, players are going to be swapped out year after year.

It won't be too long before there will be betting windows at ballparks.

That was pretty brutal. He seems to really struggle right at the end of games. Hopefully he will learn something. If he ever figures to close out games, he will really be a player.

I think the Sox should wrap Eloy in bubblewrap and put him in a case and display him on the concourse of GRF. Maybe rope it off so no one can get too close, so something can't go wrong. . Have him spend the next 6 seasons as a museum piece. No sense putting him out on the field. He might get hurt.

The Cubs win 95 games and tell their manager to do more managing. The White Sox lose 100, and their staff is so great, they won’t change a thing.

They wouldn’t cut him in spring training. I am guessing he either agrees to a contract significantly lower than his arb figure or he gets non tendered.

A fungo bat, and a Nicky Delmonico signed ball.

I do not think it would move the needle much, but I do agree with your previous post, if they draft top 3 again, there are big problems with the rebuild.

That is because basketball is different. Super teams wouldn't work in MLB. 2 or 3 superstars and a bunch of scrubs doesn't work in baseball.

If the Sox were going to sign Harper. Donaldson is a guy you may bring in to make it more attractive, but preferably for 2 or 3 years, averaging less than he is going to be paid by the Braves.

If waivers works now like it does during the season, every team except the Cubs and Sox has passed on him at least once, many twice. I would not be surprised if he is already on waivers again. No one really wants him on their 40.

Has any team ever lost 100 games and won the pennant the next season?

Must be because of all the upgrades they made. They only lost 100 playing one of the easiest schedules in the league.

Draft lottery for all teams not in the playoffs. Equal shots. Maybe after the top 3 or 4 picks, go in reverse order. If there was a cap, the playing field would be leveled a bit. ESPN, Fox, and MLB Network might not like it. Anything that helps big markets is good for ratings.

That's why MLB needs a salary cap. In other sports with the cap, It just goes crazy right when it starts because guys need to sign with teams before they run out of money. Either that or maybe remove the draft pick loss and international money forfeited on qualifying offers if the player signs before a certain date. It would be motivation for teams to make better offers sooner.

Good luck with that. 36, coming off a PED suspension, owed $120 million over the next 5 years.

Shocking. Just shocking. They knew what this guy was before they drafted him, and took him anyway. And they are now releasing him.

The problem is the guys on the major league team we are all counting on in the future are currently strike out machines with relatively low OPS.

If the White Sox actually had hitters with supreme OPS, it wouldn’t be a question at all. But they had a .700 OPS as a team and set a major league record in strikeouts, and so far it has cost neither the people who put together these players, or the people who coach them anything. So it is very understandable why White Sox fans in particular are sensitive to high k totals.