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Somehow they're the co-favorites with Milwaukee...

And if Robert hits 3+ he's likely traded too...not sure anyone else even approaches 2.

None of the QBs drafted high will out produce even Nix unless Cam Ward goes to a team with some weapons like the NYG.

https://global.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/43359363/mlb-offseason-2025-roki-sasaki-free-agency-team-beat-dodgers-padres-mets Seemingly nobody here has the Cubs in the mix. That seems like a mistake. Mariners feel like a dark horse but there's just no history of consistent winning or huge payrolls unless you go back two decades. SD has this new ownership fight between Seidler's brothers and ex wife that's a distraction at best...Sasaki is pretty the key to their entire off season at this point. Have already seen Kim Scott Profar into FA and Cease King Arraez Suarez not that far behind. I actually think Wolfe knows it's better for baseball in general were he to end up in Toronto Seattle SD Chicago...

They won't take a hs SS unless they believe he can make it to the big leagues in just 2-3 years. Fans won't even be left by 2029/30 at the projected rate of this rebuild.

Being a Blue Jay has him out of the intense media spotlight, still leaves him playing the Yankees Red Sox Orioles Mets Phillips Braves....eastern time zone so more media exposure, and he doesn't have Ohtani and Yamamoto's shadows hanging over him. Toronto has a pretty decent Asian population cosmopolitan city with intl airport hub. No wildfires or earthquakes. The big concern there is that Bichette and Guerrero both might be gone a year from now and Springer's facing already. Not exactly great odds of making a playoff run compared to the Cubs Dodgers probably SD...either.

I'd say winning more than 60 games would definitely make him a strong candidate.

Who is left? Dodgers Cubs Padres Blue Jays?

That last line is why sort of hoping for horrifically bad instead of 55ish wins seems the most rational thought for fans who know "open spigots" spending and a beautiful new stadium aren't ever going to be in the cards from a Reinsdorf family member.

Then they're doomed because the Guardians Twins Tigers all run rings around the Sox in identifying and developing young talent...and Witt Jr. alone is more productive than the entire White Sox offense. Not to mention you've got the Twins for sale...already. So they're going to get the jump on whatever happens with the Sox down the line. "The games count the same, and the pain of a third consecutive miserable summer will take an even greater toll on the shrinking portion of the fan base that is capable of feeling." This line is going to prove prophetic...

Very simple. Roki Sasaki is not going to sign with the Dodgers or Padres. https://torontosun.com/sports/baseball/toronto-blue-jays/sasaki-courted-jays-reported-visit

"Wyatt Langford and Max Clark were the top-ranked players of Wasserman’s 2023 group, and representing those players provided Wasserman with information about what the teams picking up top might be thinking, while others like Rhett Lowder, Nolan Schanuel, Aidan Miller, Colin Houck, Nolan Schanuel, George Lombard Jr. and Adrian Santana helped offer clues into how the middle and final third of the first round might unfold. “We had an idea of how we thought the draft would go,” Abbot said. “We played out the different scenarios. So Max and Wyatt were kind of in one collective group, and then Rhett and Nolan were in that second grouping. And then we had our high school shortstops—Santana and Houck and Miller and Lombard—they were in that next grouping for us." https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/inside-wassermans-33-million-first-round-war-room/ Wasserman/Wolfe don't mess around. Walker Jenkins one of the ones that went with Boras Corp. in this draft group.

https://bluejaysnation.com/news/blue-jays-scouting-report-on-christopher-polanco-the-top-international-prospect-linked-to-toronto-for-the-2025-signing-period White Sox need to go after SS Christopher Polanco (DR) assuming the Jays will need to let him go to sign Sasaki instead.

https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-rumors-trades-and-signings?t=trades-and-transactions Blue Jays fit all the descriptors...but not sure their fans can handle another disappointment after the Ohtani flirtation last year. That he flew all the way to Toronto is pretty telling. Thank god the White Sox don't have to compete in the East...it would be completely hopeless.

Maye has looked solid, Young in Carolina down the stretch too. Penix with flashes...we'll see next year. Some organizations have so many flaws that they just screw up everything they touch. Jax CLE Bears Jets Raiders immediately come to mind.

Maybe bleeding over from Orioles' hate...might as well throw Nats in there too, Ravens, etc.

https://www.mlb.com/news/2025-underrated-mlb-free-agents Lists seven...more candidates for Getz to sign and flip. Well, other than Nick Pivetta, that is.

Texsox was just bored and trolling SoxTalk like Greg likes to do occasionally....getting both sides all riled up. What would never fascinating to see is the 'ol KW Big Board with future free agents listed on it. Getz implied we were eventually going to sign a $100+ million player...but there aren't a lot of realistic options for the OF coming up. For example, does anyone see Bo Bichette coming off a strong rebound season in Toronto signing with the White Sox??? They will need CF, LF and likely SS through a potential Robert trade/2025-26 draft/FA. Maybe they get pretty lucky and Zavala or Wolkow fill another corner spot to go along with Braden.

Yes no Pallette Schoenle Adisyn Coffey...pretty sure they had P.Berroa from the Santos trade.

He was also a multiple Gold Glove 3B...but Seager was the face of the franchise at that time and Machado was a rental.

Column: Sell? Move? Tank? Is this the end of the Padres’ Camelot era? Ninety days ago, the San Diego Padres closed within one game of eliminating the Dodgers in the National League Division Series. On their march to the World Series championship, the Dodgers had survived their toughest test at the hands of the Padres. The best rivalry in baseball would endure. On Monday, in a bombshell lawsuit, the widow of beloved Padres owner Peter Seidler suggested the Padres themselves might not endure, at least not in San Diego. Sheel Seidler, the widow, wants to take control of the team and said in a court filing that a reason Seidler’s brothers have prevented her from doing so “may well be … efforts to sell, and perhaps relocate, the team, over Sheel’s strident objections.” https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2025-01-06/padres-lawsuit-peter-seidler-widow-brothers-sued

https://www.mlb.com/news/each-team-s-top-international-prospect-2025?t=mlb-pipeline-coverage Quero voted the White Sox top international prospect. Look out in CLE, another Chourio coming up, and that Tigers' catching prospect is winning a lot of accolades as well.

Moncada obviously came up as a middle infielder...got moved to 2B largely because of the presence of Bogaerts/retirement of Pedroia and then got moved over to 3rd eventually by the White Sox when he struggled at second. I'm not sure about Moncada's range and injury susceptibility at SS...if he EVER could have protected his legs there, when he couldn't handle the wear and tear of 3B as it turned out. Part of it was fielding injuries, the other part related to baserunning, but time will tell if he can ever recover even 75-80% of where he was in 2019 (pre Covid). https://www.thebaseballcube.com/content/player/196857/ Colson usually grades at a 55 arm, it's not 50 and lacking exactly...but it's usually not 60+ either, which would be zipping the ball over there at 90-95 mph pretty consistently.

Every single thread between now and at least 70 future wins by the Sox will be referendums on Chris Getz, for and against...

But it has never been explained...why those two specific teams...Hahn and Kim Ng never got along? Because KW spent a lot of time in Miami? And why was the simultaneous Anderson trade by Hahn denied/voided?