caulfield12

If the VPN is turned off, the Chinese firewall blocks everything on Twitter. If the VPN is turned on, the site turns into a slow crawl and constantly double posts. I'm guessing at that time I couldn't even see the embedded post, so that's why I was responding as if he hadn't signed yet. WestEddy Posted yesterday at 08:04 AM "This guy's name was bandied about as an option for the White Sox, in places." That is all the information that I had to respond to because the VPN was turned off. Unless I am supposed to interpret your post that he a had ALREADY signed because of your use of WAS there.

Some people just want to find things to complain about. Obviously we all are paid so well for our various posts online lol...

Because there is a 14 hour difference. So basically I'm supposed to check SoxTalk every hour and then check MLB Trade Rumors and then double check all the time stamps when it was the third item from the top of the board when I looked at it here this morning on mlbtr???????????????????? Tell me why none of the free agent signings by other teams are not being posted in Diamond Club. Reds ink closer Emilio Pagán, have more work to do on 2026 roster Story by Pat Brennan, Cincinnati Enquirer • 1h

Excuse me for sleeping in China when the signing happened.....maybe we should just pin the MLBTradeRumors site at the top of the page and not have any free agent discussions since none will actually involve the White Sox. So all should technically be in Diamond Club...which is a veritable hub of activity these days.

Where is the offseason signing thread????? Everything gets announced all over the place in SoxTalk because almost no one looks at Diamond Club anymore. So shouldn't there be one thread where ALL the FA signing would be updated? 90-95% of them are ending up so read across all these various threads. A couple of people in recent days were speculating about possibly SIGNING Pagan, yet it wasn't significant enough to warrant its own thread because the odds are the White Sox won't sign a "significant" free agent...meaning over $5 million per season for them.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/#post-876580 Reds resigned closer Emilio Pagan 2/$20 million high leverage but non closer for most of his career prior to 2025

Not counting on Colorado to ever come out of Dodgers’ division any time soon. Even a WC seems far-fetched. And DePodesta has been away from the sport for a full decade.

Of course, the clear and obvious difference is the Rockies have always been a profitable and diversified positive revenue-generating enterprise regardless of their on-field product or one playoff victory since Monfort took over as control person fifteen seasons ago. So the pressure to actually win has pretty much been non existent, even now after 43-119 and the worst RS/RA differential ever recorded. "Coors Field is a gem of a ballpark, and the Rockies pack it more often than you’d expect for a divisional doormat. The team has finished in the top half of the league in attendance per game every season since 2008 and did so again in 2025, despite the abysmal on-field performance. One former player jokingly described the yard as “a beer garden with a ball field.”

and changes.. Just thought it would be interesting to compare/contrast. So many similarities are quite obvious, because that's all Sox fans read about the last three seasons...what was wrong or rotten. "DePodesta’s hire was surprising, especially given that the Rockies were reportedly deep into talks with Cleveland’s Matt Forman and Arizona’s Amiel Sawdaye, two well-regarded executives with real influence in their respective organizations. But the man who inspired Jonah Hill’s character in “Moneyball” is, at the very least, an outside voice, something that couldn’t be said about Colorado’s previous two top baseball ops execs. The task ahead of DePodesta, Byrnes and whoever else heeds the call is downright monumental. This is an organization in disarray, depressingly behind the times.” Two separate sources recounted a story from the beginning of the 2024 season, when the team prohibited players at multiple levels from throwing bullpens in front of trackman units, mobile devices that capture and display pitch data in real time. “I remember somebody more or less tricked an intern into giving us a TruMedia password,” a former Rockies minor-league player recounted, referencing the data analytics platform used by a majority of MLB clubs. “And it was just, like, one TruMedia password spread across a pretty good chunk of the org’s players so that they could see game data." https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/whats-ahead-for-the-rockies-can-an-mlb-team-stuck-in-the-past-finally-join-the-modern-game-011248598.html

https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/the-value-of-risk-in-mlb-why-front-offices-have-become-more-risk-averse-and-what-it-means-for-the-trade-market-213559935.html The value of risk (mitigation) in prospect trades and why it might be shifting back again Sale for Moncada trade cited, everything but Orioles' recent "prospect hugging" level of status quo inactivity

SoxMachine and Margalus has been throwing around this same $90 million figure. Right now they’re projecting at $67.5ish million, but just not seeing them adding another $20+ million. It’s not like Kay or even O'Hearn would sell a single season ticket package in and of themselves…nor would they guarantee even 70 wins. Fans have just felt burned by so many B/C free agents the last fifteen years or so that they’re eventually going to have to do something that demonstrates a TANGIBLE and sustainable commitment to winning long term, not just 1-2 year deals or ones that have either club or mutual options.

Madrigal N.Lopez Shewmake Murray Vargas Meade J.Gonzalez Meidroth (maybe not all top prospects or first rounders but a general type) Romy Gonzalez could at least hit. We’ll see if OBP and more doubles can carry Meidroth. And time will tell about Antonacci and Carlson. Not sure if Baldwins fits, but no standout defensive position. Did show more power in 2025 than previous years.

Probably a reliever at this point.

https://blog.spiveyconsulting.com/justin-ishbia-interview/ Thought this was interesting... Looks like brother Matt will be heavily involved in MSU "Push for Sparta" $1 billion fundraising drive for improving/updating sports facilities. https://statenews.com/article/2025/12/msu-launches-1-billion-fundraising-push-for-sparta

5.3 fWAR over last three years, 2.3 in 2025 but turning 30 and limited control. Doesn't make any sense with timeline 2-3 years away.

Losing to Oklahoma at home is a pretty hard one to overlook as well...as offensively challenged as they have been since the Texas game. That UGA win alone doesn't offset both FSU and OU.

Well there's always this ownership risk "Ballmer has also ruled the Clippers according to the one thing we know about him — that he is one of the richest men in the world. He was supposed to be a breath of fresh air, a fun-loving personality who cared about fielding a contender. Instead, Ballmer has steered them right back to where they started, as a joke. The Clippers are under investigation by the league office for allegations of salary-cap circumvention. That seems like a big deal, and it is, as Ballmer allegedly funded a corporate sponsor, Aspiration, which then paid Kawhi Leonard roughly $50 million for a "no-show" job, according to noted finder-outer Pablo Torre. Chris Paul left the organization in 2017, pushing for a trade to the Houston Rockets, and ever since Ballmer has collected every big-name player he could get his hands on, no matter the risk. In one fell swoop, he signed Leonard and traded for Paul George, sending out Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and every available draft pick in the process. When a partnership of oft-injured stars yielded three playoff series victories in five years, Ballmer turned to James Harden, who has made the Clippers his latest vanity project. Not in a good way." yahoo sports

If you want to pay similar or slightly less money than Devin Williams or Helsley. You're overpaying a second tier closer coming off his career year and he's getting older, too. Regression risk is quite high. But the getting more wins in 2026 only pushes back your draft position to mid teens from 11 or whatever. If they were actually going to attempt to legimitately compete in 2027...sure, then it makes sense.

That doesn't make any sense...even to Getz. If it was more than $10 they would have just given him the buyout and moved on.

If the goal is improving outfield defense, then just put Bleday on a corner. Having watched a lot of O'Hearn, just really worry about his having peaked first half last year and buying high before a dip down or perhaps worse to mean career numbers from last year's outlier. At any rate, Fuller would be able to make the right call on OHearn. Seems like Pereira will at least platoon in RF...or replace Robert in CF when Braden theoretically comes up mid season.

1k Diamond giveaway for 10 Kay k's to ten lucky fans...? Wouldn't be that difficult to insure. Kay not a high volume strike out guy so odds of paying out pretty negligible. Maybe 3-5%? PS: Anything better than rehashing Vargas April 23rd swing change.

O`Hearn (not really an everyday OF), W.Castro (terrible after trade) Yazstremski and Kepler are your Tier B/C LHH corner guys. Yuck!!! Other Free Agent Corner Outfielders: Tommy Pham (nope), ***Michael Conforto, Lane Thomas (30), ***Dylan Carlson (at least younger), Chris Taylor, Mitch Haniger (almost 35), Hunter Renfroe, Austin Slater (not happening again), Kiké Hernandez (LAD), Jason Heyward (retiring?), ***Alex Verdugo (29, -0.3 bWAR) So 7 options...none all that appealing, O'Hearn best fit but not in the OF. Buy low/pillow on Castro? Kepler/Yazstremski both familiar with Central. So Benintendi to DH full time? That would block Sosa perhaps unless you play him at first.

But remember he has to now adjust from majority flat swinging "dead ball era" hitters in Japan to more common lift and pull/uppercut swings in the US. One side or the other will prevail. But two totally different games/styles.

Well Fedde went south pretty quickly after the trade. Houser slipped as well. Just depends on how much impact Katz and Bannister had. Remember...these guys AND Kay are/were all vets and in their 30's, so the odds were always going to be against them being around for the 2028-2030 "competitive window." Not sure either guy would have been offered more than $5-$7.5 million per season to stick around anyway. The goal was always to limit the number of bigger contracts on the books for the 2027 lockout year when attendance might really bottom out depending on how bitter the dispute turns out to be (1994-95 was particularly devastating to almost all teams across what is now the AL/NL Central, the Heartland and Rust Belt down to Cincy.)

It means they really don't plan to compete in the division until 2028...unless all the lookout issues are somehow miraculously resolved before December 1, basically one year from now. So Getz has what is in essence a 4 1/2 year run of rebuilding.