Chicago White Sox

I don’t know, I think Minaya simply gets a spot along with Covey before either of those two guys.

It’s cool they offer that. My oldest is only five so I can survive with just one account for now, but soon enough I’ll need to snag a family plan.

Tetris 99 is fucking awesome. If Nintendo continues to offer up little surprises like that plus adds their back catalog of SNES and Nintendo 64 games the Nintendo Switch Online could actually be a steal at $20 / year.

Not in the AL Central you don’t. Once the Indians start losing their core guys (or the pitching staff simply ages) this division will be wide open. We should theoretically be in a great spot for a long, multi-year run. That remains to be seen with a Jerry led organization.

100% disagree and I think if you actually watched our games you’d be on the same page. Narvaez is absolutely horrible defensively and is a hinderance to the development of our young pitchers. Trading him was the right thing to do, especially coming off a flukey offensive season. I’m not even in love with the return, but firmly believe that come the trade deadline Colome (if used as our closer) will be the far more valuable asset.

This dude better throw hard as fuck or I’m confused as fuck to why we’re adding him.

Narvaez? Call? Who else is there? And trading Omar was the right thing to do whether you like the return we got.

I hope not for your sake ?

That 2005 core made one playoff series, not exactly a glowing example of sustained success there. The 2014 team sucked because the front office had traded away all their prospect depth, couldn’t draft or develop worth a shit, and were just starting to repair their broken pipeline to LatAm. Again, it’s infinitely easier to find average players than it is stars. If you plan on building through depth expect a lot of 2nd place finishes.

The Cubs also pretty much hit on all their top prospect more or less. That is not a realistic expectation for us.

Who did they trade away that they shouldn’t have?

Some bullpen spots are up for grabs. Banuelos is trying to win the first crack at the 5th starter’s spot. On the positional side, mostly just a bench spot or two are open with Leury, Rondon, Delmonico, & Guyer in the mix. Overall, pretty limited competition.

Disagree, the cornerstones are always the most important of a team. That doesn’t mean you can survive with a stars & scrubs roster, but it’s much easier to find the latter than the former.

No he hasn’t, but I heard some speculation we would have taken Jo Adell instead of Burger if available.

I’m not going to defend the organization because it’s embarrassing they haven’t signed someone to a 10 figure contract, but there is no artificial policy/cap in place preventing them from doing so. As much as we give them shit for the Machado offer (and rightfully so), they were prepared to pay him $31M/year for eight seasons. This idea they won’t pay someone 4/$100M or 5/$100M because they haven’t up to this point is just stupid IMO.

Now you guys are just trolling.

Stop, we just offered someone 8/$250M this offseason. This $100M threshold you keep referencing is simply BS.

But we don’t need guys to fly through the system, since we have a ton of arms in AAA. If you believe that Burdi & Hamilton can be high-leverage relievers by 2020 (which I do), then we should be in a good spot if you keep one of Jones, Colome, & Herrera. That give you three quality RH options, plus Fry and one of Frare or Bummer to serve as your core. We’d just need two of Burr, Vieira, Ruiz, Fulmer, Covey, Stephens, etc. to make it as middle relievers. And I wouldn’t rule out Johnson flying through the system next year and reaching the majors by September.

Being skeptical about Collins & Zavala is more than fair, which is why I proposed signing Grandal in this very thread. Either way, we should still have a fuckton of money to play with even if we have to add him. Seems like many posters here feel like we’re going to be rocking $90M payrolls for the foreseeable future.

Why does everyone think Goldschmidt is going to sign an extension? Everything I’ve heard is he wants to text the market after taking an under-market extension with the Diamondbacks.

What do you mean “jump up 2-3 stops in one year”? Outside of Tyler Johnson, all our talented young relievers will be in the majors or AAA to start the season.

I won’t defend Hahn’s offseason because it quite frankly it sucked a fat you know what, but we also have a ton of holes right now and not enough young guys to fill them. Even by next offseason it should much harder to waste $40M+ on low impact players. The rotation will have a ton of options, so if they add there it will be of the TOR variety or nothing at all. We have a ton of young relievers and those guys will be given opportunities. There are more question marks on the positional side of things, but even then there’s a chance 3B, SS, 3B, C, LF, & CF all have young options availbe. That leaves 1B, DH, and a corner spot. We have more than enough patroll flexibly to add a JDM or Goldschmidt and stop-gaps at the other two spots while we wait for the young OFs, Burger, Sheets, & possibly Vaughn to earn their shots. Unless things seriously go wrong this coming season, Hahn will not be able to waste all our “economic might” on a large group of 1 to 2 win players.

No, the Sox have a ton of young relievers in the system and they will eventually want to move those guys into higher leverage roles. I fully expect two of Jones, Colome, & Herrera to be moved by this year’s deadline.

He had surgery around February 20th which puts back on the map in late May. He should fully up-to-speed by mid June if I had to guess.

Abreu & Alonso aren’t under contract for next year. At least one of Colome & Herrera is likely to be traded. Sanchez & Leury can both be moved easily. You are really reaching here to create some narrative that doesn’t exist.