TomPickle

I would be fully in on the off-season if these were the remaining moves Extend Lynn for 2 years at like $15 million per year Sign Joc Pederson to a 1 or 2 year deal Sign Michael Brantley to a 2 or 3 year deal Sign Colome, Hendriks, or Hand Sign a starter on the Quintana/Paxton tier for 1 year

If Cease and Kopech aren't good then it's even more important to make moves like this to win right now when you still have Giolito and Keuchel.

The White Sox have a lot of position players locked up beyond this, but the realistic window to win a World Series is through 2023 right now. If they extend Giolito beyond that or Cease/Kopech break out then I could be convinced otherwise. This significantly strengthens the rotation for one of the three years you have to be realistic contenders.

Really easy to praise the past two drafts when these young guys haven't been given an opportunity to fail yet. Not to say they will, but it's still all upside with those guys.

His contract is one year with an option so it's really not that bad, but if he performs then you can hang out to him for 4 more years at a reasonable price. He improved across the board last year and I can get if you think that's just small sample, but his batted ball data also drastically improved. Much better K/9, HR%, GB% in 2020 than 2019. The only reason his ERA was so high was because his strand rate was the third worst in baseball among pitchers with at least 40 IP and his HR rate was 10th best in baseball. Just an anomaly, really. He's a guy I think you can buy low on from a bad team that is likely trying to cut costs. I don't think the White Sox are really giving up anything of value here, but you may be right that they could offer less or maybe ask for $3 or $4 million in the deal.

White Sox get: Yusei Kikuchi Mariners get: Jonathan Stiever Zach Collins Lency Delgado

No, but since the broadcast was moving from WGN to ESPN it also wasn't assured that the job would be his either.

This rules and it rules extra hard if it's an FU to the Ricketts. I know the article goes out of its way to say this isn't some rift with Marquee, but wanting to move to radio for the sake of moving to radio seems pretty hard to believe.

Callis isn't exactly the go to guy for international prospects and he freely admits here that this wasn't some well thought out answer, but it seems like he is a safe bet to at least make the top 100 prospects.

He did play 7 games in the NPB so he at least got a cup of coffee at that level last year and performed well for whatever that's worth. Hopefully there is a minor league season this year and I would guess if there is he would start at AA or maybe A+ on the cautious side. Then let him jump levels quickly if he shows he's ready, similar to Robert in 2019.

Rosario and Pham are interesting names for sure. Too bad neither is really a fit in RF, but Rosario could DH and play a little LF and Pham could play LF and Eloy could DH more.

Hey, everyone starts somewhere

The least you can offer a player in arbitration is 80% of their previous years salary so the least the White Sox can offer is roughly $4.5 million.

Absolutely yes, I would drive all three to the airpo... Metra station.

Pretty wild Randy Arozarena's agent posts here.

Brantley has over 1100 games played in the majors and only 8 starts in RF. He is not a RF. Springer is the only RF obviously better than Pederson, but Jackie Bradley Jr is at least on the same tier, but a worse fit on this roster in my opinion.

If the Colas smoke is real then the White Sox are probably out on this kid at $1M+ right?

I didn't want to make a new thread just asking for the list so I'll bump this. Anyone have the BP 2021 White Sox list? Just the names, please don't copy+paste all the analysis.

Why the hell would the Astros trade Kyle Tucker?

Cross him off the list of targets.

The aristocrats!