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The Robert courting?...Harper and Machado, would have been the closest. Wheeler? Tanaka was the only other really massive fish we were pursuing in the last decade since Dunn.

Check the tail numbers on private jets. Crickets.

How many are actually playing the "right" positions where they are ideally-suited, lol? Well, that's pretty much Robert, Anderson and Moncada. The Sox law of veterans regressing means Harrison will look more like Jimmy Rollins than his 2021 version, especially when you consider his 2-3 previous seasons that paved his way out of Pitt, where he was once a fan favorite.

AZ has to be NOT far behind. Cleveland has too good of a front office, and a nightmarish post-season history. Pitt is irrelevant. Baltimore, ditto. Miami? Has to be in there somewhere. TB and Oakland are both well-run franchises hamstrung by financial/stadium/fan-base issues largely beyond their control.

https://mobile.twitter.com/jonmorosi/status/1503530173483864069?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1503530173483864069|twgr^|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbleacherreport.com%2Farticles%2F10029935-padres-fernando-tatis-jr-reportedly-undergoing-surgery-on-wrist-injury then they really need to move either Myers or Hosmer...after realizing their mistake with Frazier and already gifting him to Seattle

If he was so valuable, and seemingly treated so well by SFG, one of the best front offices in the game, then why no QO? Throwing darts against the wall would lead to better outcomes with Kimbrel and Carlos.

If we fly any more under the radar, we'll be permanently stuck somewhere between Midway and Meigs Field.

If for no other reason, Harper's presence would block nearly all these penny punching moves, force the White Sox to get creative with youth or dive into places like the Pacific Rim. Anything's better than 2016 stance, albeit now undertaken with double the talent and a competitive advantage vis a vis the AL Central...but no ultimate end game in sight. Just feels like we are flailing our way along.

Prediction: Ron is going to protest you getting so many responses. Threats of converting to Cubs' fandom have extremely limited shelf life.

But he has the best arm of them all!!! And the range of 2007 Jermaine Dye, but after a second broken leg. (And yet somehow still faster busting down the line than Burger, Vaughn and Sheets.)

Joe Morgan cursed the Sox in 2003 asserting we were the best team in baseball that August. How many of the White Sox relievers in Spring Training last year intimated it was going to be one of the best pens in the history of the game, inviting comps with the Nasty Boys in Cincy and 2013-2015 Royals’ pens.

I feel like Balta is now going to cite every “short deal” free agent since Jeff Keppinger and how little return of investment we’ve actually gotten back other than Rodon for one season and McCann for two.

We’ve reached the point where we now believe getting rid of Hahn/KW would/will actually be more productive than dumping LaRussa. Wow, how the villains have shifted. Feels like a half decade since Renteria was managing.

The best we’re going to get is a half-hearted attempt to knock over a buffet table in the clubhouse…and lots of meaningless legal-speak. Maybe a writ filed.

Kind of like how we ALMOST had Soto, Robert, Tatis and Vladdy Jr. on the Sox simultaneously…or was it Acuna, Jr.?

https://www.coveringthecorner.com/2022/3/14/22976853/hey-guardians-its-not-too-late-to-sign-joc-pederson “I have been personally trying to will Joc Pederson to Cleveland for the better part of two years now, and the first time there appears to be real smoke to my imaginary fire. According to Jon Morosi, the outfielder is “drawing interest” from the Guardians, which, on the hierarchy of vague free agent terminology, means they might have at least called Pederson’s agent to see how much it would take to get him to Cleveland for a season or two. That’s enough to get a little bit excited. Pederson, 29, split time last season between the Chicago Cubs and eventual World Series Champion Atlanta Braves. It was his first year out of Los Angeles after making a name for himself as a solid bat over seven years with the Dodgers (including a championship there in 2020). He slashed .238/.310/.422 with 18 home runs over 137 games for a wRC+ of 94. Probably not the kind of line you want heading into an opportunity at a big payday, but he believed in himself enough to decline a mutual $10 million option with the Braves and enter the free-agent market. That leads us to today, where he has apparently caught the interest of the desperate-for-an-outfielder Cleveland Guardians Baseball Team of Ohio. Some of the sheen may have fallen off Pederson since he was rumored to be on the way out of LA ahead of the 2020 season, but that doesn’t mean he can’t help Cleveland in 2022. There is one major caveat with him, though: he needs to be platooned. A left-handed batter himself, Pederson has a career wRC+ of 68 against fellow southpaws, but is well above average at 123 against righties.” $12 million for a platoon bat when we already have 5-6 DH’s on the roster sounds about right at this point. At least Lilian will be pacified, somewhat.

I think Hahn already got “disappeared” by Thanos and is completely out of the game at this point. Unless we are bringing Dayan Viciedo back from Japan…

Hell, we might as well go full Rays at this point. Convert Joe Kelly back to a starter. Let Crochet start in AAA for 2-3 months to see how he fares with his stamina and secondary offerings. Convert Hendriks back to starter. Make Kimbrel the closer until he restores most of his trade value.

No way in hell based on these going OF prices that we are even in the conversation for Conforto at this point… Joc Pederson or bust.

The fact that we’re still having to live with it into 2022 is the unacceptable part. Move on, part ways like they did with Hernandez. This degree of stubbornness is just asinine. Usually the best gamblers know when to cut their losses to avoid making things even worse. Now we’re compounding that mistake with multiple bad moves all set in motion by the fact he was never going to be a great fit as a set up guy converting on the fly.

Wow…if you’re the Rays and have Glasnow out the whole season, do you finally burn it down? The Orioles basically amount to Means, Mullins and Rutschmann. God, it must suck to be an Indians’ fan. Bieber has to be next, keeping him now makes almost no sense. Karinchak and Clase are going to attract interest as well. The White Sox might as well go after Plesac or Cy Civale.

If you did buy him out, why would Kimbrel take a pay cut to be a set up man for merely $10-12 million when many were suggesting he was fairly priced at $15-16 million as an “elite” closer? Wouldn’t doing that make him even LESS likely to be happy with the Sox than he already is stuck in limbo due to this situation?

Ray Ray is right. We are a lot closer to 8-9 than #2 in the majors. Especially with how thin that starting rotation actually is…even one season ending injury there to Gio/Lynn/Cease and they’re quickly behind the 8 ball in May/June desperation mode and sporting the worst farm system in baseball to trade from.

He just symbolizes the frustration of how difficult finding a solid all-around LH-hitting RFer and legit replacement for Madrigal has become. I’ve watched enough Twins/Yankees and Twins against anyone but the A’s over the last two decades to know how this ends. Right now, most Sox fans would be pretty darned surprised if this team made it to the World Series in one of the next three seasons. Anything’s possible, but that doesn’t mean it approximates likely.

But we still manage to keep Kath, Colas, Popeye Rodriguez and those three young pitchers!!