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What else is there to be excited about with the major league team at this point in time? Meidroth breaking at second base? Teel and/or Quero at catcher? There's simply no other prospects or young players that would really move the meter with fans....Baldwin pretty much came out of nowhere and didn't have a long run as a ranked prospect in the system, Sosa's seemingly been around forever, Vargas has already lost a lot of his shine in the last twelve months, same with Colas and Ramos to a lesser extent. Montgomery was the name that every single Sox fan has heard about over the last 2-3 years, especially when he rocketed up to near the Top of all the MiLB 100 lists in 2022/23, Keith Law accolades, etc.

Rodon? Simply due to Boras? Of course, they gave Moncada/Robert/Jimenez early extensions...but where else would it have been relevant? Tim Anderson? Burger was almost a non-prospect when he came up, so they weren't as concerned with possible 6th/7th years. Madrigal and Vaughn? Well, those both never seemed like "generational" type of players...but one could take the Vaughn "rush job" as 1) they cared less about service time with him and 2) they were desperate to fill a hole in the outfield without spending additional FA money. Crochet was the last player that this issue became increasingly relevant...but they never "stowed" him away last year in AA/AAA to try to claw a year back.

https://www.mlb.com/news/front-office-executives-poll-for-best-prospect-tools-2025?tduid=b6dd798f978ff149be0edfc627ce4b3a&progId=363688&affId=2953820&utm_source=tradedoubler_us&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=Skimlinks+US A lot of Andrew Painter fans. Schultz slider (3rd in the offspeed category), Smith FB get particular accolades, Meidroth's overall hit tool/feel for hitting.

It doesn't make ANY sense...it's not like it will result in 500-1,000 extra season tickets being sold. It's not like JR and Family is rushing out to give him an early extension (see Bobby Witt, Jr.) after what happened with Robert/Moncada/Jimenez, either. Everyone around baseball knows the smart play here is to wait until May, and especially coming off the kind of season and various physical and psychological challenges that Montgomery went through last year. That's not all simply "cured" by a strong AFL campaign...where he wasn't even playing SS on a consistent basis.

For those following...Roki Sasaki is expected to announce his decision on the 20th, and not closer to the 15th of January, the first day he would be eligible for the new signing period. January 23rd is the FINAL deadline for everything to be completed, fwiw.

Floyd Hoiberg why not TJ Otzelberger?

$7 million in signings announced in one day...get some extra operators taking season ticket inquiries in the marketing dept., Brooks!!!

Their payroll is over $140+ million... https://www.fangraphs.com/roster-resource/offseason-tracker/twins The answer is not much of note.

Well, according to KW and JR, to finish second or third and put lots of homers on the board/exploding fireworks. They cut the fireworks costs pretty considerably the last two years due to their inept offenses.

Those betting on the under 49.5 wins love this plan...especially Sosa at SS.

Watch out Pirates ... here we come!!!

All the former Padres...except for ones that can actually play SS.

Marinara Sauce is the favorite to close right?

949 Each Team Is Getting 200+ Million Each In Revenue Sharing? And Teams Still Refuse To Spend? (self.baseball) submitted 1 year ago by Chicago CubsBaybears “Under the new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) negotiated in 2022, each MLB team pools 48 per cent of local revenues with the total amount split equally between all 30 teams. This results in each team taking in 3.3 per cent of the total—an estimated $110 million USD, if not more. Teams also receive a share of national revenues, totalling around $90 million USD per team.” Source: https://www.thetribune.ca/sports/mlb/#:~:text=Under%20the%20new%20collective%20bargaining,million%20USD%2C%20if%20not%20more. “It's comical how many people are out there in comment threads on articles or in threads on reddit crying for a salary cap and yet they continue to defend these owner's that refuse to spend on their teams. If Tampa Bay would just spend some god damn money on their roster they'd have probably won multiple world series over the last 10 years at this point. It's ridiculous. People cry over wanting a salary cap and yet you have these teams that aren't even spending their revenue sharing money. In the next CBA they need to mandate that if you want to receive revenue sharing that like at least 90% of it needs to go toward player salaries. Enough of this s%*#. If you can't afford to spend 100 million minimum on your team's salary when you're receiving this much in revenue sharing then you have no business owning a major sports team and should sell it.”

https://harris.uchicago.edu/files/inline-files/Chapter 5%2C Mark Siedentopf.pdf Read pages 88/89…the total cost of all the Bears and Sox renovations and refinancing them three times comes up to $1.19 billion dollars that Illinois taxpayers will owe, well over double the original cost of the renovations themselves. So there’s just no way in hell Reinsdorf will get another dime from the State, nor should he.

According to a 2017 financial report, ISFA’s combined fund deficits stand at $207.5 million. And taxpayers are still on the hook for debt repayments following a series of renovations at Guaranteed Rate Field and an overhaul of Soldier Field completed in 2003. Through Chicago hotel tax revenue and a combined $10 million in annual state and local subsidies, taxpayers can expect to continue shouldering these costs for decades. More recently, a cancelled concert at Guaranteed Rate Field cost taxpayers more than $1 million in 2017, when ISFA failed to obtain a full refund for the $1.6 million spent on the event. Chicago taxpayers are also picking up the tab for stadiums outside ISFA’s purview. For example, the recent construction of Wintrust Arena, home to DePaul University’s basketball teams and WNBA’s Chicago Sky, cost taxpayers $82.5 million. “If the White Sox attendance falls below 800,000, the Illinois Sports Authority has to make up the difference to protect Reinsdorf from losing money. So in effect, horrible attendance protects them from losing money, except of course, for concessions and other things. So, as I understand it, if no fans showed up, he would still be made whole, and only lose whatever he would’ve sold in concessions and Parking...” https://www.illinoispolicy.org/30-years-later-taxpayers-still-on-the-hook-for-white-sox-stadium/

Wasn’t it just $277 million last year?

Well...we're pretty much the anti-Padres at this point. Despite 7 $100+ million contracts (injured Musgrove, Cronenworth and Bogaerts the worst) and a tiny media market, their stadium and game atmosphere/weather have pushed them past the Sox in franchise valuation. If you're on the Cohen side of the ledger, a completely stripped down model (but lacking a viable public stadium plan) certainly would be attractive if you were willing to invest into your product to kick start things.

https://www.mlb.com/news/roki-sasaki-potential-teams-ranked Somehow missed the Orioles signing Charlie Morton, but Baltimore still in the mid 20s as a projected rotation. No mention of the Mariners here...but CLE instead.

https://d3data.sportico.com/MLBValuations2024/MLBValuationsList.html Crazy that he's already driven the value of the franchise down from $2.2 billion to $1.9 billion. This was once a consistently Top 8-12 valued franchise. Somehow the small market Padres have even passed them...by spending enough money to deliver Top 3-5 attendance on a consistent basis. And even more revenue is possible if they land Sasaki. http://www.google.com.hk/url?q=https://www.forbes.com/lists/mlb-valuations/&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwiKhMmg6OWKAxWmG9AFHV7dIqkQFnoECA0QAw&usg=AOvVaw3XtKuuBKQuFkF4q23GBMIa Here they are 15th at $2.05 billion...

Don't forget Michael Morse the one time 6'5-6'6" SS...

Plus you had Rowand and Crede...those were the big two of that time. Forgot Majewski, he had quite a long big league career as a reliever, just like Biddle and Rauch. James Baldwin flamed out pretty quickly but there's always the first half of that memorable 2000 season.

https://www.thebaseballcube.com/content/prospects_team_year/2000~7~BA/ Kip Wells, Jon Garland, Aaron Myette, Jason Stumm, Matt Ginter, Danny Wright, Lorenzo Barcelo, Mark Buehrle Also Jon Rauch...Baldwin, Jim Parque, Rocky Biddle, Kevin Beirne, Jon Snyder (LHP), Brian West

Cease's prospect profile was still quite strong...it just wasn't up there with Jimenez, quite. He (Dylan) already had the reputation for great stuff but not going deep (enough) in games. Giolito at different points was perceived to be the best RH pitching prospect in baseball...just like Kopech, but the bloom was off the roster for both Lucas and Reynaldo after their initial struggles in Washington at the major league level. Reynaldo ALWAYS HAD THE RAW STUFF, but tons of concern about his durability/frame and secondary stuff developing enough for him to be a consistent starter. But all these guys were clear top 100 prospects, whereas the White Sox still basically have just their Top 2. A number of people are salivating at Grant Taylor's potential, but he might as well be Alec Hansen or Erik Johnson as far as penciling him into a future rotation at this point.

With the Rays and A's playing in minor league facilities...that means our only real competition is that monstrosity of a stadium in MIAMI they've tried to tone down a bit under new ownership. Obviously the Pirates have a beautiful facility with PNC Park, but not the willpower on the part of ownership to even climb over a $100 million payroll.