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You're forgetting the history of the White Sox for the last two plus decades pushing up Top 5ish positional prospects that are usually not finished products, but are considered to be so due to their time at the top level of NCAA baseball. That's almost aways been the profile before Montgomery (and Tim Anderson), not wanting to wait a full 4-5 seasons for true preps to take in contributing at the major league level.

If it's Wetherholt, someone who can stick at second. Cags, at least we finally get rid of Vaughn and/or Sheets...allowing Sox fans and front office to FINALLY move on and make a clean break with the end of Hahn's positional players in the next 4-9 months, (to go along with Moncada, Robert, Jimenez and maybe even Benintendi.) The problem is the Sox outfield future looks pretty underwhelming right now. Well, it's WORSE THAN that even.

Robert FINALLY back over the Mendoza Line, now at .206. At least .230's or .240's would be much nicer for Sox trade purposes....reversing his downward trend line.

Underestimated how "average" the Braves' offense was after the Top 3 hitters and ofc without Ozuna. Riley, Olson, Murphy, Duvall, Arcia, etc., were all much much better last season. Same with Albies having a disappointing year...Marcell Ozuna is REALLY carrying that line-up at his age, pretty astounding when he almost looked like he might end up out of baseball entirely.

And Grifol brings in arguably one of his 2-3 worst relievers on the entire roster in Justin Anderson. SIGH.

The Padres have SEVEN original/natural SS's in Profar, Merrill, Tatis, Machado, Kim, Bogaerts and Cronenworth.. The White Sox have only Robert with "up the middle capability," caveator emptor being he's not anywhere close to 100%. Moncada, ONCE UPON A TIME, was considered a generational talent. Ofc, the real problem is that you need to combine Baldwin, Jac.Gonzalez, Ramos and Montgomery into ONE PLAYER instead of 3-4 with various flaws/weaknesses.

It's almost guaranteed. "We just wanted to go with the hot hand and ride him as long and hard as possible..."

Well, at least he's worth a lot more than Julks, Pham and DeJong. Not so much pressure on him in ATL compared to NYM and Seattle. With Ozuna out now, doesn't have to constantly worry about playing opportunities, either.

at least the idea of giving intl Chinese and Indian students green cards for graduating successfully from a US college or university, (must be fully accredited, unlike Trump Univ., lol) is one of the more interesting/controversial policy ideas worth debating since 2015/16.

The only things that are worse for a film critic than following the Sox are Trigger Warning and the other relatively new Jennifer Lopez/AI film with Simu Liu and the really successful African-American actor from THIS IS US.

Only 19 games back on LAD. Even worse with Guardians.

Hard to compare Ruth and Ohtani...or even Mantle, if players took better care of themselves health nutrition and non drinking.

Flaherty excellent this year so far...that has to sting. https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/stats/_/id/31053/kyle-gibson Kyle Gibson too.

Think I would just go home with t-shirt about right now...

3.33 nobody really expects Fedde to consistently beat LA even without Betts Sox always play like crap in front of biggest home crowds.

7-6 3.84 Looks to have righted the ship his last two times out.

Except on the pitching side...Kjerstad, Cowser, Beaver/s, Mayo, Basallo, etc. Holliday obviously won't be dealt at a lower value (see Yoan Moncada after his playoff disaster with K's at the end of previous Red Sox season).

One prospect White Sox should demand in any trade with Dodgers, Padres or Mariners (msn.com) Should be targeting de Paula (LAD), Cole Young (Top 25 prospect, all of MiLB) or Chris Snelling (I would add DeVrieze as well, who's currently struggling at age 18-19 in Lake Elsinore (CAL League), not hitting for much XB power at all.

You would rather have NYY over the Orioles????? WHAT???? Well, it's hard to blame them (Elias) until he knows exactly what they have to work with the Ventura Capital/Private Equity side with the new ownership group from this spring. I mean...look at SD absolutely crippling themselves by trading for Clevinger, Austin Nola and then both Soto trades. Cease deal and Arraez deal look much better (so far). WASHINGTON is almost to the point with CJ Abrams, Gore and especially James Wood (one of top young hitting prospects in the game) that they could now knock the Padres out of the Wild Card race THIS YEAR. Could they use Josh Naylor about right now? Or Quantrill? Part of the return for Seattle (Austin Nola deal, obviously he flamed out too) is one of San Diego's top prospects, outfielder Taylor Trammell (bust). Other players included in the Mariners' haul are infielder Ty France, catcher Luis Torrens and right-handed relief pitcher Andres Munoz. (Basically, one of the studs in their bullpen and a starting caliber 1B when they...SD...don't have enough "depth" bats on the current roster). Then whoever Taylor Williams is (reliever) for Matt Brash. Another bullpen stud to go with Munoz, when the back end of Padres' pen other than Suarez is a mess. SO the reason we can't entirely fault the Orioles/Elias is because they don't have a green flag to up the payroll to $250-350 million like SD did. If you reversed/undid all those trades, you'd arguably have missed out on the 2022 NL Championship series BUT be much better positioned for 2024/25/26. You also wouldn't have had to sign Bogaerts to what now looks like one of the worst contracts in baseball at the current moment. Trading prospects to compete now (see KW philosophy) backfires more often than one would think. It's not automatic that Elias has to deal from his Top 5, and they got Burnes for one year without having to cut into their real core (granted, Ortiz has been unexpectedly good).

Heck, even Flexen...just to cover 4-6 innings per game and he's certainly a better option to do so (especially motivated by being on a playoff contender) than Keuchel. Almost to the point where the Sox need to be concerned with covering "missing" Crochet innings the last three months and the likely loss of Fedde and/or Flexen. That leaves just Cannon, Thorpe, maybe Nastrini, Inciarte, Eder, Bush, etc. A lot of AA pitchers to push through to the big leagues without challenging them with Charlotte first. What's the latest with the Davis Martin rehab process???

See Giolito when drafted by Wash. Could be injured top #3-5 value pitcher with TJS.

All the pitching. Guardians consistent with this. Plus losing Bieber to FA.

Half Dodgers/OHTANI...half giveaway. Royals and A's would always have fan protests against "evil empire" Yankees. Now it's the Dodgers. Guessing nice weather too?

AL East much toughest.. .Nobody saw the division (Central) playing out like 2006 again.

Toronto and SD as well…