Chicago White Sox

Ortiz is not good enough to be the centerpiece for Cease.

Ok, then move on to a different team. If a sizable piece of a Cease offer from BAL is a veteran OF with two years of control, then that offer isn’t serious and you move onto another club. There is no logic whatsoever for us to take a guy like Santander as integral part of a Cease trade. Meanwhile, the Orioles can continue to win AAA championships while a portion of their prospect base ages out and begin to lose value. And this has nothing to do with Cease, but prospect hugging to this degree is absolutely wild when they have a very questionable rotation, several stars in place, solid players at most other everyday spots, and waves upon waves of positional prospects. I don’t think your read is their actual strategy and I fully expect them to add a high end starter via trade, whether that be Cease or someone like Burnes.

Updated. Surprised Nastrini is at #3 and Quero is at #5. Hopefully that means that both Nastrini and Ramos are now in the top 100 mix and not a sign that Quero regressed post trade.

It’s very weird that you no longer contribute to this site and simply troll Sox fans about the team relocating. But I guess if this gives you happiness, then keep on trucking bro.

Taking Mullins, Hayes, or Santander as part of a Cease trade is a terrible idea.

No, but I don’t think they can just assume they can coast their way to a division title either without a big SP addition. That rotation is very top heavy and they are one big injury from being in trouble. I think they’d be crazy not to push some chips in and add an impact starter. They have an insane amount of prospect depth and honestly some it is starting to age. Nothing wrong with being cautious, but prospect hugging can also be counterproductive.

Honestly, the Yankees getting Yamamoto push the Orioles to get serious in Cease talks.

This finalist stuff didn’t last long…lol

Just sign Austin Hedges who will put up that slash line but at least with elite defense. Not like Getz cares about offense all that much anyways.

What’s better for a Cease trade?

Here is my predicted top 10: Colson Montgomery, SS Noah Schultz, LHP Edgar Quero, CA Bryan Ramos, 3B Nick Nastrini, RHP Jacob Gonzalez, SS Christian Mena, RHP Jake Eder, LHP Peyton Pallette, RHP Jonathon Cannon, RHP

Baseball America releases the updated Sox top 10 tomorrow. I’ll update this post in the morning with the actual list. Official List: Montgomery, SS Noah Schultz, LHP Nick Nastrini, RHP Bryan Ramos, 3B Edgar Quero, CA Jacob Gonzalez, SS Jake Eder, LHP Christian Mena, RHP Jonathan Cannon, RHP Peyton Pallette, RHP

He’s implying that we are highly interested and/or likely to land him obviously. Not sure that’s supposed to “impress” you, but it does suggest there may more to the story here. Either way, maybe it’s the relentless pursuit of former Royals that has many of spooked.

See above

I think Eloy to the Dbacks makes a ton of sense.

What in the world are you talking about?

Cue the Balta signal!

I think it’s asking a lot of Getz and a new front office to coordinate two large scale transactions concurrently. Better to space them out a bit and buy some time for prospect pools to re-up a bit.

Getz just said that Sheets was “playable” in RF or something akin to that, so figured they’d give old man Payton a breather and let Gavin his this thing out there.

For this one particular game yes…but I also ran out of OF options for this hypothetical. Probably should have thrown Romy in there…lol.

Traded but also likely hurt yes

The Mayor has stood against private funding? Why?

I just look forward to this lineup at some point next year once Moncada goes down with an injury: Andrew Benintendi, LF* Whit Merrifield, 2B Luis Robert, CF Gavin Sheets, RF# Andrew Vaughn, 1B Paul DeJong, 3B Mark Payton, DH* Nicky Lopez, SS* Korey Lee, CA

I actually don’t want anything to do with Whit, but he makes even less sense with the additions of DeJong & Lopez. We definitely need to add an outfielder one way or the other, but Whit shouldn’t be that dude.