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This team as currently constructed are not World Series threats. They have enough to win the Central though.

His 2022 is definitely the outlier of his career, so there's also that to consider.

It would be pretty vomit inducing if the White Sox use Liam to acquire a mid-bat defensive catcher. Are there not a handful of these guys sitting in the free agent pool currently?

I don't think that's an option at all. Again, why would the Sox entertain the idea of trading Liam if it wasn't purely to reduce payroll? There is no logical reason behind trading him and then spending his money on what, a 2nd baseman? Makes no sense. If hes traded, I think you see him go for prospects and his payroll isn't spent back into the MLB team.

I didn't say they were dumping him just to save money, I am saying they aren't going to go lateral with it and trade his salary for close to or equal parts in other MLB player salaries. Of course they would trade him for real prospects

Between Graveman, Lopez, Kelly, and Bummer we have plenty of options to close games if needed. If the Sox are really trading Liam, its to lower the payroll so I wouldn't be expecting them to take back highly paid players. There's no reason to trade him unless it was to reduce payroll.

I would be fine rolling this out for opening day assuming we don't add anything else. SS - Anderson (R) LF - Benintendi (L) CF - Robert (R) DH - Jimenez (R) 3B - Moncada (S) 1B - Vaughn (R) C - Grandal (S) RF - Colas (L) 2B - Sosa (R)

Yeah but if all of his home games were played in the pacific time zone on Tuesdays he would have hit 15 more HRS.

I’ll save my judgement for when we find out who is getting shipped out to accommodate this signing. Generally when you hear your team just signed someone to the richest contract in team history you expect better than Andrew Benintendi.

Seeing the contracts being given out, its not hard to look at the White Sox and truly now realize we will never be able to put a sustained winner on the field because we will A. Never sign a superstar free agent to the contract they would demand B. Never resign a homegrown/traded superstar to the contract they would demand C. Never spend to supplement or round out a championship caliber roster

Were people struggling with this?

$100 million contract? Are you nuts. That's too rich for the Sox blood.

They have cried poor all off-season and now they are going to drop $60-$80 million on Benintendi? Ill believe it when I see it.

I saw something else good the other day. In the last 105 years the White Sox have won 3 playoff series. They all occurred in 2005.

I agree, its ridiculous

Yep, we are all pissed off about it, but lets face it we aren't going anywhere.

That's the thing, the die hard will always be there. The die hards go b**** on a message board but they are still watching games, going to games, buying gear. No matter how much they b****, they aren't going anywhere. Its why they are a die hard. If the stadium was empty, or max capacity, I do believe it wouldn't change how this team was run from an ownership standpoint.

Attendance doesn't matter, in fact, the more of you who think you'll show them by not going to the games and spending money are only fueling ownership to not put a competitive product on the field and just stack the cash since no one is going.

Eeesh come on guy. I want to believe you have a source, but then you get fooled by Ben Dover twitter account.

I know, I don't want to trade them for a handful of 25 year olds

I think people forget that Tony had the team literally take a knee to run out the clock on the season and that negative momentum was obvious

Very obviously Elvis Andrus

Wonder if it has anything to do with him trading A.J. Brown and then getting absolutely embarrassed by Brown Sunday.

I meant in terms of star power and marketability, it wasn’t supposed to be a slight at Machado

Machado is just a good player, Harper is a guy that could be the face of baseball and really transformed this franchise