Chicago White Sox

These are arguments have been made time & time again. The parity of the MLB fucking sucks and is not remotely comparable to the NFL or even NBA from a market size perspective. People are so bitter about Jerry being cheap that they refuse to accept that the sport is rigged to benefit large market teams. Yeah, the sport deserves better owners than Bob Nutting, but that doesn’t change the fact that the Dodgers have a regional TV that allows them to spend endlessly more than half the league and it shows in their sustained success. You trying to use the Dodgers winning the World Series last year against another major market team (#5 in payroll) as proof parity exists because it went to game 7 is candidly absurd.

Caulfield - I have always been a supporter of you, but like what in the f*** man. Now you are throwing out made up deal terms from Jim fucking Bowden as if they are the real thing unless you read the linked article. You aren’t going to make it in the future world of endless AI slop articles because you have no filter and never edit your posts to clearly articulate what is fact, what is the opinion of the author, and what are your own thoughts.

JFC…as has been said multiple times, the Rays declined a 1/$11M option and could find no one to take on that salary. But yup, he’s now going to get 3/$43M because fucking Spotrac says so.

I fucking hate the Dodgers if this real. Put a god damn cap in place and add some god damn parity to the league.

The Sox want a legit closer and Fairbanks can easily fit into their budget. Again, the Rays couldn’t find a buyer for him at 1/$11M. Proven closer with enough warts to help keep his price down makes a ton of sense for us IMO.

Why?

I just mean everywhere across the infield. Lots of high upside dudes for a handful of spots.

2B for sure too

Roch, Colson, Carlson, & Bonemer is going to be a fun problem to have.

Let’s fucking go!!!

Buster Posey may be a more boring interview than Harold Baines

Lots of former White Sox in the building

Anyone else just hate hearing Rick Hahn talk?

Ugh Rick Hahn

https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-draft-lottery-results-2026

Is there a way to watch this for YouTube TV users?

Can he be coached up? On the offensive side, he has decent raw power and hits the ball hard. Are there adjustments that can be made to get more loft? As for his defense, the speed is double plus and even some basic improvements to his reads / route running could result in an average CF. Personally, I’d rather roll the dice on the major league ready 21 year old with multiple plus tools and strong bloodlines who potentially addresses a major position of need than have Quero as a backup catcher and part time 1B/DH. I greatly respect your opinion on prospects through, so I should probably bring down my optimism on Crawford some.

Not to that degree…no way.

That’s possible. The Phillies could use both right now. Not sure how much the Schwarber deal impacts their financial situation but a cheap Quero and a discounted Robert (if we include cash) could help.

They wouldn’t have picked up Robert’s option if they’d have to turn around and need to use a young player to dump it.

Who are all the veteran free agents who can just be acquired for money?

I still can’t believe we took tweener McLain over Sirota…FML

TB couldn’t traded him at a 1/$11M price tag…how much do you think he’s going to get?

I know Justin Crawford is a divisive prospect, but wonder if he could be bad for Quero. Phillies will need a catcher if they can’t / don’t bring back Realmuto.

They also have a tight budget and every penny matters.