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I think there were some wins too though. Noah Schultz has elevated significantly to what he’s become. Peyton Pallette, Jonathan Cannon, Davis Martin and Aldrin Batista are big positives. They need to see some gains on position player side but Ryan Fuller was hired for a reason.

I’m not a fan of Justin Crawford I’m not opposed to the White Sox eating $$ but they need a much better headliner than Edwin Arroyo to do so.

This isn’t necessary. Sincerely, f*** off. I understand wanting more than Luke Keashall if eating $$ was necessary. They still ultimately made a very underwhelming trade though.

The Twins wanted the White Sox to eat $$ on Fedde. They were never a real option imo.

I don’t think Keaschall was ever a realistic option personally.

Which Merkin article?

I do think the Sox would prefer to trade Robert prior to opening day. Jim Bowden said today that Phillies were also involved and Sox have been asking for two top 5 system prospects minimum in return.

Well, once they trade Luis Robert and Andrew Benintendi, they have only pre-arb and arb salaries for 2026.

Yeah I get it. I'd wait. Maybe someone gets hurt in spring training.

This would prompt me to wait and trade him at the deadline.

Kiley has: 139: Jacob Gonzalez 171: Bryan Ramos 192: Jairo Iriarte 198: Grant Taylor 199: Chase Meidroth

White Sox system will be top 5 everywhere else.

I don't think the White Sox should be eating any $$. He makes $15 million this year. It's perfectly reasonable.

Roki Sasaki is an international amateur so he counts. It wasn't this way last year for Yamamoto for example.

Baseball America and MLB Pipeline use different standards. I don't agree with BA's process. It makes no sense.

Rookie status eligibility is 130 at bats, 50 IP or 45 days on active roster. Those are the parameters that we use for prospect eligibility at FutureSox and it's basically what everyone uses other than BA. For example, Drew Thorpe and Brooks Baldwin aren't eligible to win rookie of the year because they aren't rookies. Therefore, they shouldn't be on prospect lists.

Baseball America is the only publication who ignores 45 days of service. It makes no sense. They go with 130 at-bats or 50 ip. It's weird.

It was always a 100 loss team. When Cease was traded, we said on the FutureSox podcast that it might be a 50 win team. Nobody thought they'd go 41-101 but I mean, 50-112 isn't much different.

Sure but I never had any delusions about this team winning anything last year and nobody paying attention should've either. This plan has seemed pretty clear. It's unfortunate that it's necessary but there's only one way out of this mess.

Did they? I don't remember Chris Getz ever saying they were competing last year. They were always going to be awful and they got nothing from Luis Robert, Yoan Moncada or Eloy Jimenez.

Very few from last years international class are coming stateside. Jurdrick Profar is and Yhoiker Fajardo was going to prior to being traded.

He was their hitting coach last year and they won the Southern League title

If the Blue Jays are trading for space without having a commitment from him, I think that's nuts. There's nobody to spend $2 million on if he chooses the Dodgers.

https://www.futuresox.net/2025/01/17/white-sox-international-class-comes-i/

I think they’re much more likely to spend more money on prospects than trade it at this point.