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Eloy is Cuban now?

That’s the true definition of talking shit this offseason, any scenarios with Correa or Seager or even Scherzer to the Sox… (Although, once every 25 years or so around labor disagreement periods we sign an Albert Belle.)

Severino will save the day…OR, we’ll have one of those miraculous seasons when something like 2012 when 13 rookies (predominantly pitchers) contributed, although I doubt our system was consensus bottom 5 at that point. Would have to look it up.

Kiké Hernández

The only way they would give Semien five years is knowing a TA extension was out of their budget…but then Semien wouldn’t likely be a top flite SS from 2025-26. Heck, could say the same thing about all the dream/fantasy SS, even Correa and Seager.

To conform by changing name back to Conforto…or maybe Concerto would break the string of NL position players laying an egg with the Sox. (Although I’m sure that someone will argue Grandal has been close to great…the general trend over a decade.)

Still haven’t finished it…have tried to watch it twice now. This comes from a huge fan of her American West-themed indie work. In fact, throwing in an Eternals South Dakota scene seemed even more forced.

Losing Taylor, Kike and Seager (these past two off-seasons) makes it highly unlikely since their control of Turner is limited, too. They need to be more and more careful playing Muncy there as he ages, too.

If he gives up more than $5-6 million to trade Kimbrel, picking up the option will go down as a massive mistake compounded TWICE.

Unless you count all those guys like Seager, Baez, Story, etc., as 2B…but we clearly won’t be moving TA for anyone, not even Carlos Correa (who will get $275-325 million anyway.)

Would be interesting to see if there was any month to month defensive regression too…as he went from Gold Glove winner to indifferent/unfocused at best.

Robbie Ray most definitely won't be a Sox sign....less chance than Semien, even. Also, still having a hard time imagining $175-200 million going to TA entering his age 31/32 season in 2025.

Avi in CF >>> Burger at 2B

1B/DH/corner outfield types beware.

That's a far better example...unfortunately, we weren't able to leverage that successfully like the Lynn extension. (Obviously, the keeping McCann in-house vs. Yasmani acquisition instead has been analyzed to death, and then some.) The bigger point is that two of the most "under the radar" moves (McCann, Rodon) that only a few baseball insiders noticed produced All-Star seasons.

1) The White Sox didn't break through early in their windows like three classic rebuild from Ground Zero teams we could all name... 2) 1994/2022 parallels...still sting/lurk. 3) TLR...overall lack of advanced analytical approach. 4) Kimbrel and Rodon leaving a bad taste with some if not many. 5) No changes on major league coaching staff after watching the last two months and Astros series. 6) Not (yet) being pushed by AL Central teams to motivate front office responses.

But the Braves were 12th! You're only going to hear about payroll for the last two months of the 2021 season or current commitments being #6, which includes bad contracts like Keuchel and Kimbrel. Which only proves the unprecedented financial flexibility was/is almost gone without even adding a Wheeler, Harper or Machado. As it stands, the odds are at best 50/50 retaining Giolito or TA, for that matter. If our standard is out spending the Twins, though, hooray?

Except investing so much in guys like Robertson, Hendriks and Kimbrel has gotten the White Sox where, exactly? Plus, if they had succeeded with Collins, they wouldn't have had to give out the biggest contract in team history to Grandal. They let Narvaez and McCann go when both were much cheaper options. I guess it was worth it if you believe the White Sox miss the playoffs in 2020 without Colome, but they could have bought a closer for $8-10 million and kept Omar, too.

Probably no luxury tax/redistribution and/or a minimum salary floor for those 5-7 teams that are raking in money but simultaneously making little effort to compete...too bad they can't do yearly relegation like the EPL for the bottom 2 teams changing places with the Top 2 AAA and maybe even a rare AA franchise on a yearly basis. Obvious problem is those minor league records don't mean anything, it should be based on some combination of attendance/revenues/innovative marketing, etc.

How many teams would rationalize losing a compensatory pick as "giving them some sort of home-field advantage with Boras," especially an organization that has rarely dealt with him until the last decade...and generally doesn't buy top-of-the-market superstar players anyway? How many times has a player tied to Boras taken a less than market value contract to instead give a team the 'ole "hometown discount"?

No way in H.E.L.L. the Mariners would go for that trade proposal...

He must be invested in a car company that's struggling due to lack of world chip capacity AND/OR Taiwan Semiconductor/SMIC...definitely the commentary of someone really into their investments. Sounds almost like the chipper spontaneous business riffs of a certain former president free-wheeling away.

https://www.fangraphs.com/players/yasmani-grandal/11368/stats?position=C Look at his results for 2015-2019. Now if you want to argue that he was more effective in his productivity per game, compared to a full or cumulative season. But he averaged exactly 5.0 fWAR over those seasons, compared to a 3.7 this past year. And he's the most expensive contract overall in Sox history...so it's hard to argue he overachieved his deal or was a "value" acquisition. Not to mention that not having a capable back-up really hurt the White Sox this season, especially defensively and pitch selection...you can't BLAME him for being hurt, but his absences really had an impact on the team (which you could also blame on Hahn, I guess.)

Pretty unusual to see Boras calling out a GM in such a way...while simultaneously praising him for managing his load well (preserving an "asset"). That said, with our draft luck, the compensation pick (especially a high schooler) unlikely to have much of an impact on sustaining the current window anyway.

From all of Hahn's comments, you don't get the sense that you will see this move. More like standing pat with Vaughn/Sheets/Engel and then mixing and matching at DH. Obviously, that leaves you with a pretty terrible defense outside of CF, and the times when Engel's in right (assuming he is back again.) Really would like to see either Marte, but trading Vaughn and some of the other contracts expiring means everything would really be in a state of transition in 2024...like the Twins have found themselves at this season and heading into next year with Buxton, Maeda and Donaldson.