Chicago White Sox

What’s your issue with a Lynn extension? Dude has been excellent the last two years and is looking at one last payday. Your best chance to get him at an affordable rate is right now. I’d definitely love something like 2/$40M that locks him up through the 2023 season.

Adding Dalton and then trading for Wilson would be a terrible use of limited financial resources, so if Dalton does end up being our veteran addition I’m very confident they’ll be trading up to land a QB in the draft and probably Mac Jones.

Please god no

I am probably the biggest Collins Truther on the board, but it really seems like Vaughn is destined for the opening day DH role, especially if Harold’s eyeballs is implying him agreeing to an extension (which is just me speculating). I still wish they’d give Zack a shot as the primary backup catcher / part-time backup 1B/DH and exclusively use him against RHP, as I think it’s a role he’d be highly if given the opportunity.

I stand corrected! Still don’t think they bring nine relievers, but it’s a possibility if they want to protect Ruiz or really plan to limit starts in the first month.

I don’t know how it would work financially, but Wilson + Williams would be insanity in a good way.

Oh fuck yes

There was definitely a salary dumping component to the trade that reduced the return. What’s truly sad is we almost ended up Luzardo+ for just Robertson and certainly could have gotten something nice if we dealt Kahnle alone.

To be fair, Rutherford was already trending in the wrong direction at the time as publications are always behind what actual scouts think. That beijf said, he had recently been highly regarded and he was a good gamble to roll the dice on. Unfortunately it just didn’t work for us.

Isn’t there a roster limit of 13 pitchers?

I’m pretty confident the Sox go with 13 pitchers, so adding Collins requires a position player to go and most informed sources are suggesting Lucroy is a lock which only leaves Mendick as the odd man out. Of course that‘s assuming Vaughn is the opening day DH and obviously service time manipulation is still possibility there.

No Mendick

Fully agree. To be honest, I’m still more upset about the secondary pieces being so lackluster at the time of the trade than what’s transpired with Rutherford because he was simply a gamble that didn’t work out. I never had much faith in Clarkin or Tito whatever the fuck his name was.

Rutherford will likely start this year in AAA ?‍♂️

Not really, but nothing happening today really changes that opinion. He’s simply too much of a tweener with an over-rated hit tool IMO.

Man I need some real action and not anymore hot takes based on meaningless spring training results.

I would love this outcome for us. Taking a prep positional player is definitely what we should do, all else being equal.

Biggs is suggesting one possibility would be Wilson to Bears for a boatload of assets and then the Seahawks trading something like an early 2nd for Darnold. Definitely makes some sense if the relationship with Wilson is truly repair, especially given the lack of draft capital the Seahawks have right now.

And the Seahawks wouldn’t just be giving him away. Pace will have to offer a ton to convince Schneider to offload Wilson, but the reality is Pace is incredibly desperate and will probably do just that. And if the Seahawks like someone like Mac Jones, the 20th pick is a decent enough asset to give you the flexibility to go get him. Yes, the Seahawks would be rebuilding to an extent, but Jones could be ready pretty fast and they’d have additional assets on top of him to build around.

I think Cordero has an option left.

Question for the board, but how much is too much for Wilson? I’d do three firsts in a heartbeat, but including someone like Roquan on top of that seems like it would be real painful. Not saying I would or wouldn’t do such a trade, just seems like removing a pivotal defensive player on top of all that draft capital would make building a championship caliber roster a challenge.

I’m pretty sure Michael Reinsdorf was friends with Gar and not Jerry.

Thanks!