Chicago White Sox

Bowden’s latest article in the Athletic is a bunch of Q&A, but with several questions on Cease. Says to no surprise that the Orioles & Yankees are leading the pursuit and that Getz is asking for too much right now. He then addressed a specific question on a hypothetical from BAL of Westburg + Kjerstad/Cowser + Povich + Urias + a lower level prospect or two and said that “should be pretty close to what a final trade would look like”. I’d be pretty ecstatic if we could get Westburg + Kjerstad + Povich.

Stroman is a really solid pitcher, but the Yankees lack a #2 behind Cole and that really isn’t Marcus. Plus it seems like half the world hates Stroman so my guess is he is not a great clubhouse guy.

Lots of conflicting info out there depending who is leaking what.

Brain can’t even comprehend what this Stroman tweet from Morosi could mean. If real, does it take them out of the TOR starter market? If a purposeful leak, are they trying to create leverage with us or Snell? It’s going to be a very interesting couple of days!

Stearns is taking a year to slow things down and let the farm build up so they work towards becoming the New York Dodgers.

Sounds like teams are scared off both by his shoulder and his flyball tendencies.

Wasn’t his source Ted Phillips? I saw his tweets earlier and was curious where he gets his intel from now. Either way, I never have seen anyone carry so much for an organization in my life.

Sure, if you’re Jack Parkman this could make some sense

Not sure it’s going to matter too much when he’s got Judge & Soto hitting bombs behind him

My son just pulled a Spencer Jones card in a Mega Box…definitely have a feeling Cease goes to the Yankees now!

It’s very clear that Getz wants his prospects to earn to their playing time and not be handed jobs because no other option exists. I would wager big money this one of many things that Getz criticized the previous regime for when he put his sales pitch into Jerry. And honestly, I think it makes sense assuming you are willing to cut bait quickly on placeholders once those prospects are called up. This “I won’t sacrifice a single for development” bullshit won’t fly.

Man I don’t know how you see a 99% outcome being a top 10 offense with this crew. Right now, you are starting DeJong at SS, Lopez at 2B, Phillips in RF, and Maldonado / Stassi at CA. That’s four spots with zero offensive output even if Robert, Moncada, Eloy, Vaughn, & Benintendi are healthy & productive (which in multiple cases are big ifs). That could change some depending on what they get back for Cease, how Montgomery does if/when he’s called up, and if they add semi-component veteran RF, but right now I’d say the ceiling of this offense is probably closer to league average.

Did Getz say that? That would be fucking incredible if so.

If you’re going to try this (which I’m ok with), you should be doing it in Charlotte and clawing back some team control for when it actually matters.

I was told Joey Ortiz would be immediately be a top three defensive SS in the majors by someone over at the Hangout and he didn’t even crack the best defense prospect list (including honorable mentions)…?

On what?

I mean, typically you apologize because you feel bad about something you did, not to simply avoid punishment.

Whoops…you are correct on no commitment in 2026, but 2025 is a player option per Spotrac and right now looks like it would be exercised.

You have to take Haniger’s salary for ‘25 & ‘26 into consideration here, which is fairly significant and a big part of the trade for SF.

s%*#, is Thom homeless now because the White Sox would prefer to hire a different PBP guy without all the baggage? No one is saying he should go to jail or be condemned to hell, but unfortunately when you’re a public figure who says something stupid & hate-filled for the the world to see, the repercussions are going to a bit higher and you may no longer be entitled to multi-million dollar paying broadcast roles. This isn’t cancel culture, it’s common sense.

I’m sorry…but hate isn’t an “opposing view”. You can argue for why we should forgive and/or not cancel him (if there is any reason there), but don’t try to act like this is some misunderstanding of differing opinions.

I couldn’t disagree more here. I love me some Beavers, but his ceiling isn’t even remotely close to Jones’. Norby is an all bat, no glove RH hitting prospect that doesn’t move the needle for us at all. Povich hasn’t performed very well in the upper minors and doesn’t have elite stuff. That’s a horrible package and one the Yankees could blow out of the water. If Getz were to accept that package from the Orioles I’d want him fired on the spot.

They are nothing alike. Rutherford was a high hit tool with average or below tools everywhere else. Jones is poor hit tool, double plus power, and average or better everywhere else.

These two have nothing in common at all other than being Yankees OF prospects