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Robert for Lux/Outman would be the suggested trade...which I still don't like that much. At this point, rolling the dice and holding him makes more sense.

I remember back in the 90s asserting 4-5 years for a high schooler and at least 3-4 years for a power conference position player was pretty much the norm. The White Sox seem to have cut that time table in half as they continuously rush to plug holes in the big league roster. At any rate, someone was thinking that Braden could possibly be debuting for the Sox as early as next season.

Maybe Harold is a "double agent" working for the Dodgers secretly while getting paid by Getz lol.

Robert for Lux alone makes just about zero sense. At the very least, get someone back from LA that can play a credible CF....probably Outman, since they won't as easily give up Pages.

Maybe replacing Mike Gellinger's old role in the system...sort of a jack of all trades.

If he was a legitimate major league SS, I'd almost be for it....allowing Montgomery to concentrate more fully on his offensive game and making the transition to 3B (hopefully not first, where his bat wouldn't be as much of a plus or added value.) But we already have FIVE players (including Vargas and now Meidroth) who profile best at second base. Didn't we learn from before when the Dodgers told us by their playing time decisions that Grandal wasn't a strong defensive catcher and Pollock was definitely not a RFer by any stretch of the imagination???

Spectacular at what? https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/splits/_/id/40423/gavin-lux He was under a 678 hitter for every month but two...July and August he was white hot. But that only averages out to a .703 OPS, which still would have been right there with everyone's favorite 1B, Andrew Vaughn. 464 April 678 May 591 June 937 884 659 Sept -2.1 defensively even with the position change from SS to 2B...that doesn't scream the centerpiece of any trade, because two years of Lux just equals (maybe a QO) but likely another trade/flip before free agency. Then they start over again with the next iteration of Vargas.

Where the philosophy was typically to dump prospects for much more reliable veteran players...which eventually proved to be unsustainable as the 2005 WS team gradually withered away on the vine. But it was a competitive/at least "in the game" model for 13 years. And the Sox were certainly relevant as a historic franchise with an identifiable branding/logo.

When Fedde for $15 million/2 years was pushing the budget and guys like Sean Manaea are getting 67% more for just one year... Remember how long that Machado thread was and how many times we thought a signing was imminent...at least 2-3 ESPN headlines worth, we currently don't have a single FA in the Top 50-75 that we're known to be targeting, and that's pretty much 60-75% of every off season. Sasaki's clearly not going to sign here...but half the fun of this off season is just rooting for big names not to land with the Dodgers Mets or Yankees. Having just a glitter of hope over a potential new stadium deal (and not a team relocation to Nashville) would probably help as well...as even the A's fans have some hope now, right?

When is the last time they physically even had a single scout covering Japan Korea and Taiwan? The last original Dominican White Sox signing to make an impression was pitcher Jesus Pena nearly a decade ago.

C'mon now, who wouldn't want to emulate the Colts?

Well, we can't exactly score by hitting homers with Moncada Robert Jimenez Abreu Burger off the team, so...let's mimic the Royals' approach, but without their contact hitters and stolen base threats.

Isn't that supposed to be Green Beret/quality control guy Mahler?

Who was that when Grifol was manager...the so called "good cop"? Grady Sizemore was supposed to be the opposite...genuinely a players' manager. What is his role now? Nevin would seem like a non uniforned guy in this newmy established role...except perhaps when visiting minor league affiliates.

TLR "spy" inserted into the mix, lol. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Just more names for Luis Robert not to remember/recognize upon leaving the organization.

Angry they're thinking Sox fans would be equally as excited about coaching staff additions than actually improving the team through real talent via free agency...

That's probably what everyone would have thought about Wonder Boy Getz vis a vis "old/er lions" KW and Hahn...especially with the TLR connections to Kevin so obvious. Or we're more concerned with finding well-paying jobs on our coaching staff than logic ally fitting them all together. How many scouts do we have left standing after the bloodletting this past 18 months? And what exactly does Hostetler do now/still?

Just look at how that stadium in Birmingham has historically suppressed numbers while Charlotte has provided the almost opposite in flat ing counter point...

Braden Montgomery is going to take 2 1/2 years to get to the majors in all likelihood....especially since he missed his first short season assignment due to injury. Starts 2025 in High A if he's fully recovered...then AA/AAA in 2026 and hopefully starting RF in Chicago, somewhere in Year 3.

https://www.mlb.com/news/nathaniel-lowe-trade-nationals-rangers Lowe to Nate for young LHP...frees up more room for Burger and lowers payroll Sean Manaea signs for $75 million/3 years...will the board shift to developing and trading pitching as the White Sox best long term survival strategy???

delete annoying British coworker/NFL fantasy football expert wrote a pro Dodgers message on my computer lol

Just being "more than a casual fan of the White Sox" drove the majority of us to booze/drugs as a coping mechanism, with or without the presence of a Booser in the bullpen. Well, there was Boof Bonser and Carlos Boozer and Cameron/Cayden Boozer, so why not this guy with the cool-sounding name and pretty incredible backstory???

95 83 81 86 83 99 90 72 (2007) 89 79 88 79 85 Not counting the 1950's and 60's, 2000-2012 is going to go down as the longest record of sustained/sustainable success in White Sox history (under KW). Seven "really competitive" (85 wins and above) seasons out of 13, or roughly 1/2th the time. Only one really poor year (2007), unfortunately it followed the biggest year in history for franchise attendance and pretty much destroyed any momentum and 2005/06 teams had generated. Even then, 2010 and 2012 were "fun/competitive" years. Now it seems like a miracle just to get back to 60 wins, let alone .500ish.

Mariners LAD Padres and maybe SF the most logical based on the criteria provided so far by Wolfe.

Charlotte for half your home games...850-925 should be the equivalent of roughly 750-800 at Birmingham.