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I hope he did sign here with the hopes of being traded to a contender, that's his purpose here. For where the White Sox are now, this is what they should be doing. If they rebuild this thing and are contending for playoffs every year, then yeah, I would be pretty disappointed if they were signing flip candidates. For todays roster, its what is for the best for the future.

Were you expecting a 100 loss team to sign a 31 year old reliever to a 2 year deal to be a fixture for future competitive teams?

For point #2, this team is not close to being a contending team. Not close at all. Signing a flip candidate like this, and having it actually get executed, is a major win. It will expedite the second half of your point there.

I most excited that its pretty much a team full of young players with something to prove and I don't have to watch a bunch of worthless veterans taking a lot of at bats.

I like the Murakami signing and am hopefully Seranthony Dominguez can do well enough to be flipped at the deadline but this tweet feels like the same crowd who was taking victory laps over how much better the team is when they lose 100 games instead of 120. Its still a bad baseball team... I also question how its the right direction when you consider if Murakami blows up, he's gone in 2 years and if Dominguez is really good, he's gone this year. Guys like Newcomb and Kay are the same veteran arms they have been signing the last few years anyways, not expecting a whole lot there and Luisangel Acuna is probably closer to being DFA than he is being a meaningful contributor to this team. Maybe it is in the right direction, but there is an extremely long way to go in that direction still.

I guess I should have explained it better, what I was trying to say is if they don't flip this guy I would have rather just kept Robert because our current roster of OFers is a complete disaster, and even though Roberts shipped sailed 2 years ago he is still far and away the best OFer we had on the roster. He will almost certainly be flipped though, so its not really worth debating.

If he isn't flipped, I would rather just kept Robert so there was at least something promising in our OF for this season. I would imagine he will be traded though.

I agree, but if he gets the closer role and has a really strong first half you're looking at a pretty nice asset to move who will have an additional year of control at only $10 million

2 years $20 millions, Robert was 1 year $22 million. Like I said, practically the same.

Hopefully he does well enough to get flipped at the deadline for something nice, otherwise, I would have rather just kept Robert for practically the same price.

Well Getz alluded to the money being redeployed so we may all remain safe for now.

I’m interested to hear from all the people who said they had money to work with and they wouldn’t carry such a low payroll. You have to imagine if that were true they don’t make this trade.

This is JR we’re talking about here, you think he’s just going to give away $2 million when they can dump all of it for nothing?

Hopefully in a few years JR is gone, Getz is fired, and this organization is finally run like a real baseball team.

The return is awful, yet, it’s still better than nothing.

Should have traded him after 2023 when the plug got pulled. What a colossal blunder. Never in a million years would I have thought he would end up in an awful salary dump trade one day.

No one should be shocked here, Robert hasn’t been good in years and makes $20 million a year.

Man, I went and looked at the 40 man roster this morning in preparation for a post and saw that guy on there and also said "who the f*** is Ben Cowles?" Same for Tanner Murray, no idea who that guy is or where he came from. Must have missed that add.

They are going to need someone from the OF to be good or I don't see how this is possible. I think the IF has a chance to be a really strong unit, especially if all the young guys take another step forward. We probably have the worst OF in baseball though as it currently stands.

To clarify, Robert had a great 15 game stretch in July and then from August until the end of his season went right back to being .256 / .287 / .690 At this point, if he becomes valuable again it would be a pleasant surprise but I have pretty much lost all hope with this guy which is incredibly sad.

I mean we've literally been trying to do this for 2 straight seasons now, you know what they say about the definition of insanity....

Benetti is god awful at baseball, but I have heard him call some football games and it was pretty enjoyable.

Yeah, like I said it was weird

That clip is a little out of context, even though it was still a weird thing to say. He was basically saying that his kid passed away and it really affected his play. Again, weird thing to bring up but he wasn't like "Jean Segura, his kid died" end of statement.

I guess? None of those options are inspiring in the least so saying far better seems like a bit of a stretch.