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Murray is basically Shewmake from the Bummer trade... Probably ends up performing like a combination of Maton and Amaya. Anyine miss Brent Lillibridge? And why did they draft Jacob Gonzalez again?

Everson Pereira needs to be in RF... but that's never stopped the Sox before. And Hill is pretty much abysmal offensively, don't even need to look at the stats. Just goes to show how unproductive the system (and Getz) have been at developing ANYONE to replace Robert in CF that can both hit AND field.

Elicits what exactly?

Won't the Popemobile take up at least two spaces? Up charge!

Nope, there's going to be an additional gateway charge per month to access the new ESPN packages that are all getting bundled together under one banner (if you've been paying attention the last 2-3 months to their marketing.) Also curious if the out of market radio feeds and MiLB.TV remain as is.

Interesting addition of Mariners.

How many season tickets will that sell? Actions speak louder than words. Nothing happens without actually opening the wallet.

https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/if-cubs-let-kyle-tucker-walk-toward-a-possible-400m-payday-elsewhere-whats-their-plan-to-replace-him-051943620.html Cubs facing reality of moving on without Kyle Tucker

At any rate, this board would be a whole lot more civil if posters didn't attempt to insult each other in nearly every post. Ironically, our Real World educated Transportation Secretary just announced that if air travelers go back to the 1950s and 60s style of wearing suit and tie, that will make them more civil, somehow. Not when the root cause is political divisiveness, zero leg room, cattle calls, low budget service, alcohol overconsumption and the "me first" attitude typical when getting off to rush down the aisle ahead of others or even stowing a simple carry-on bag. Every aspect of flying is now a high stakes battle. I can't begin to tell you how many times I've had to call a flight attendant in China to correct passengers deliberately sitting in the wrong seats with gf wife family... or someone leaned their tray table back all the way even during meal times or took off their socks or whatever. So dressing up won't suddenly change all those prevailing attitudes. Filibuster died an ignominious death around here years ago... but the politics instead just shifted to which side of the Getz/JR divide you've decided to take.

CNN isn't objective either. They made their own bed beginning in 2016 by deciding to represent the opposition and it cost them significant viewership in the process. You're talking more the classic 80s and 90s version of CNN that a lot of people grew up with. Just having Scott Jennings on as a counter-panelist doesn't make them balanced, either. At any rate, retired educator. And teaching Chinese students how not to fall into stereotypical thinking when representing Japan India or Africa in Model United Nations isn't exactly a walk in the park. IB programs supposedly inculcate that same balanced academic viewpoint and TOK even teaches one how people think, literally Theory of Knowledge, but few take it seriously due to its only representing 1/45 points on the total grading scale. Remember you're fighting against 80 years of propaganda and indoctrination... AI/ChatGPT decides for students and they don't even realize how subtle it is because anything to avoid actually writing critically in a second language is highly valued and MUCH harder to prove that its not genuine or authentic. You should try spending a week or two here in Okinawa and then going to convince the Chinese Taiwanese or Japanese about the legitimacy of the other side. You won't get very far just by playing Devil's advocate like you decided to do 2-3 years ago around here. That just makes your own positions more intransigent and resistant to change over time.

The White Sox have plenty of history to support that skepticism. Likewise, there’s not much joy buying into empty promises, either. Even the most loyal and faithful fanbases…for example in St. Louis, can become cynical and jaded. I’ll put it another way. I’ve probably spent almost as much time following fantasy football and Iowa men’s and women’s basketball as watching the White Sox in the last year. Over the last 2-3 weeks, the women’s team has lost months-long recruiting battles to Notre Dame (for an Iowa native) and to the University of Texas. While it’s momentarily disappointing, Iowa has taken pride in turning 2-3 star recruits into stars, and it’s not the normal state of affairs to be bringing in McDonald’s All Americans by the handful. One a every couple of decades is more like it. Now two in consecutive seasons. Which is why having increasingly higher expectations and selling out every single game and having that type of home court atmosphere has been so enjoyable to experience despite missing out on two national championships in a row. MEANWHILE, every single year watching Iowa football we’ve come to expect 7-5/8-4 and a secondary bowl game. A national title just isn’t going to happen, and hasn’t since the 1950’s. For men’s basketball, no Sweet 16 since 1998, but we still follow all the games faithfully. For Oklahoma, my dad’s alma mater, it’s to compete for a national title every year despite waiting (1999 in Stoops’ second year) as long as Blue Jays fans almost since their last WS teams in 1992/93. Expectations. For the White Sox, it used to be life or death…like following the Dolphins in the 70s 80s and early 90s. I remember one game down the stretch in 2008 (Carlos Gomez Game) that the Sox blew that made me upset for days afterward. Yet most still watched the next day and every single game down throughout that excruciating pennant drive the last ten days or so where every game was season-altering. Like a rollercoaster. So I’ve sort of adopted the Chiefs (ten years living in KC when they couldn’t buy a playoff win to save their lives) and teams like the Royals Padres and now Dodgers just to maintain my love for baseball, despite my ten year old caring a lot more about Player Unknown Battleground or Minecraft. I will never regret falling in love with the sport itself, but sometimes I question the rationality of having a favorite uncle that loved the Sox and his union beer and another less likable one who loved the Cubs and how that has impacted so many thousands of hours of my 56 years on earth, lol. So I’d love to buy into the concept at least of the Sox providing that level of entertainment again, and there was Shane Smith the first 2-3 months and Colson in the second half, but man it was a drag to force myself to follow the team for 7 1/2 months these last 3-4 seasons. Well, hopefully the Pope’s pride and optimism about the team can rub off on everyone who’s currently questioning their fandom the last decade or so of Sox baseball. Finally, one of my best friends growing up in the Quad Cities who shared his White Sox fandom with me since 1983 and Tito Landrum/Jerry Dybzinsky gave up on them finally this year, and I perfectly understood where he was coming from and didn’t bother to argue or or attempt to convince him that things would eventually get better again. That’s just where things stand.

"Kona Takahashi put up the best two seasons of his nine-year NPB career in 2022 and 2023. These seasons vaulted him into the conversation of the next Japanese pitchers primed to move stateside. After the Seibu Lions denied his off-season request to be posted, he will assuredly be posted come the winter of 2024 if he puts up another productive season at age 27. While Takahashi doesn’t post the strikeout numbers of other top pitchers in NPB, he prevents runs as well as nearly anyone. And in the lower run-scoring environment, he has thrived as a pitcher who challenges hitters with his offspeed and breaking pitches in the zone." sportsinfosolutions.com Not to be confused with younger fireball throwing Hiroto Takahashi. Numbers have been much more pedestrian in recent years. Think a tier above Sugano, but no sure thing for breakthrough success in the majors unless his off speed-dominant reportoire can somehow mirror the success of Imanaga in his first season with the Cubs. Korean/KBO infielder posted as well. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/11/kbos-kiwoom-heroes-post-infielder-sung-mun-song.html

Kona Takahashi posted, a right-hander who turns 29 on Feb. 3, was 8-9 with a 3.04 ERA this year for the Pacific League's Seibu Lions, striking out 88 and walking 41 in 148 innings. He had gone 0-11 with a 3.87 ERA in 2024 after compiling a 22-16 record in the prior two seasons. Takahashi is 73-77 with a 3.39 ERA in 11 seasons with the Lions. Under MLB's posting agreement with Nippon Professional Baseball, the posting fee would be 20% of the first $25 million of a major league contract, including earned bonuses and options. The percentage drops to 17.5% of the next $25 million and 15% of any amount over $50 million. There would be a supplemental fee of 15% of any earned bonuses, salary escalators and exercised options. espn.com

It would be nice if they shared the plan with fans, because 3-4 more years of acting like a feeder team for the rest of MLB is going to get quite old…especially if the results of a prolonged labor impasse don’t seem to improve the team’s future outlook either. Even the Bulls have a puncher’s chance to make the postseason. We’re still much closer to the bottom than the top of the Central after three full seasons of this already.

"I really don't think the Sox are building for a window. This is the "steady flow" of talent Hahn always dreamed of... " The 1998-2000 and 2017-2019 waves of talent put this recent one to shame. Even then, injuries and non performance wiped it out to the point where F.Garcia/Contreras/Jenks and all those other KW moves put that team over the top. They went from 7 top pitching prospects down to Burhrle and Garland. Moncada Robert and Jimenez were all higher ranked than guys like Teel and Braden. Colson. is the only comp in terms of a teens prospect ranking, but he fell all the way off many Top 100 lists entirely. Then you have Burger Vaughn Madrigal Crochet in the next wave. Even if all the positional prospects live up to their billing, you're left with a Bottom 1/3rd offense...especially in the power department. Almost nobody expects Colson to repeat his pace of 2025 and there are injury/positional concerns due to his back. 2027 Braden Montgomery RF Baldwin ????? CF Baldwin Baldwin LF Vargas 3B Bonemer Colson SS Bonemer Meidroth or Antonacci 2B Sosa 1B Mead (neither are close to ideal fits) Teel and Quero catcher Rotating DH (Benintendi primary) Once again... only three positions that project out at above average MLB production: C SS RF. Not even sure that beats upside of Twins with Buxton, a healthy Royce Lewis, Jenkins, BLee, Keaschall, Jeffers, Clemens, Culpepper, Emmanuel Rodriguez, Larnach and Wallner. On paper it doesn't. Ofc their bullpen will be a mess and pitching in shambles when they trade Joe Ryan and/or Pablo Lopez with Z.Matthews M.Abel Taj Bradley behind them.

Heard over and over again that Burger was too old at 27/2....and now there's basically no way to sustain this current wave of players into the 2029-30 season when they will all be late 20s. Then another rebuild...but with Ishbia bucks behind it? Crazy to me Ishbia has spent more time talking to fellow owners in one year than JR in the last 10-15.

Probably A's ownership...Fisher. The one Ishbia didn't meet with.

At least zero in-game power... That's always the test of every corner hitter, having at the very least gap if not home run power to the opposite field on a neutral field without any wind.

They can't rehire Showalter at least...

And if that's not enough to wet your whistle... there's always Jacob Gonzalez, a former first rounder with no discernible elite tools whatsoever. Well, at least his team did well at the College World Series...just like Madrigal and Jared Mitchell.

Candlestick Park as well. The Mistake by the Lake that CLE stadium was universally referred to...

Well at least they're not ex Royals. Moving over to a more competitive division.

Nobody "watches film" anymore. That's how KW scouted Iguchi from afar. It's all iPads and digitalized info.

Did you know that he made a significant swing change on April 23rd? He actually did it during the season..!! Amazing. Actually surprised no Comeback Player of the Year votes with Schiffren all over his junk for months and months. You would have thought he was a 3-4 fWAR contributor.

JR >>>>> Getz Both are terrible, and Venable might have a chance to survive all this. Maybe. Maybe not. Getz and Venable are merely puppets or figureheads to deflect blame and criticism directed at JR from the fans, in the same way Robin Ventura's sterling reputation was sullied by his almost forced association with the team post KW/Ozzie. And the wheels on the bus go round and round... with JR the one holding the entire franchise in limbo for over a decade due to capital gains taxes. Just like the Pohlads in Minnesota.