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I wouldn't be surprised or shocked. I just think it's a short sighted and stupid decision and he hasn't remotely earned it.

Not to mention, Colson was ass in AAA last year. He hasn't earned it. I doubt he's on the Opening Day roster. White Sox will White Sox, but I don't see it with this one.

Not exactly an exciting list, but you probably just listed like 40% of opening day bullpen. Berroa was a big part of the Santos return, and is actually pretty interesting. Marinaccio was recently claimed and has a 3.22 big league ERA in over 120 innings; he might be the closer. Varland was recently claimed too, and was actually pretty good out of the pen end of last season. I don't care much for Ellard, and he's probably who they cut for Perez, but the org liked him enough to give him 25 big league appearances last season, and was serviceable. The point isn't really that these guys are not cuttable, but 3/4 guys you listed are literally guys this regime brought in very recently.

I also just don't like filling the roster with mid-30s fluff that isn't going to return much, not because they couldn't be useful, but because they take super valuable 40 man spots. If there is one advantage the Sox have over the league is their spot on the waiver order. Tough to take advantage of that if your 40 man is full of dudes you've recently acquired and prospects.

Montgomery shouldn't sniff the big league roster on Opening Day. To start, I think the infield will be Rojas 3B, Sosa SS, Meidroth 2B, AV 1B, Vargas DH (with some 3B and 1B starts), and Baldwin mixing in at SS, 2B a few times a week, maybe a little 3B too.

Good, I wanted nothing to do with Jacob Amaya getting playing time.

I guess I'd rather just roll with the young guys, or sign someone better that might actually have trade value. Just another guy that best case scenario we're getting someone else's junk. But at $3.5M + $1.5M buyout, its whatever.

Have the Twins spent any money this offseason?

Why?

All the MILB deals, please. Sox are certainly due for a late bloomer to click.

Not "needing" a very good player has never really stopped LAD before. I wouldn't rule them out, though I'd still hold Robert for now if I were Getz.

Kinda shocked he couldn't do better.

Thank god. The end of that terrible rumor.

Was Booser ever actually DFA? I don't think he was, although I may have missed it.

If Yoan can ever stay healthy (which is a ginormous IF), I think he's still got plenty in the tank to be a 2-3 WAR contributor, with upside for more. But obviously his time with the Sox has more than run its course. From all the core (non-Robert guys) from the last rebuild, he is the one that I feel can still can put together some good seasons.

I agree that signing middling vets to push out mildly interesting prospects and young controllable players is stupid for a team in the Sox situation. But Josh (not Luis) Rojas is an actual major leaguer. Romy is very likely not.

I think it's a terrible idea.

But where's he gonna play? It makes no sense even if the INF wasn't already super crowded. Makes even less sense now.

Thanks for clarifying, didn't realize that. In that case, @WestEddy was spot on, my apologies.

I think it'd be a lot more than that. 172 days on active roster is a full year of service. He only has 12.6% of the 5th year. It's more like 120 games into the season he'll reach the 5 year mark. Not that it really matters, he's not getting optioned.

Absolutely. He doesn't have the requisite service time to not be optionable. He also has just 4.1 years of service time, so he's controllable for 2026 as well even though it was just a 1 year deal.

Sox just decided to not non-tender Justin Anderson. And he's probably current leader in the clubhouse for the closer role. I doubt he's on the chopping block.

Sox currently holding 24 pitchers and 16 position players on the 40 man. It almost certainly has to be a pitcher. Murfee or Scholtens make the most sense, but obviously Murfee was just claimed, and Sox liked Scholtens enough to hold him on the roster all last year. Obviously this isn't a good roster, but you're getting to the point where you're going to have to cut interesting young guys you recently brought in if you continue to acquire middling veteran talent. This also hamstrings the Sox availability to be aggressive on the waiver wire, which frankly is one of their competitive advantages from being so awful.

Bannister obviously likes Gilbert. I don't think Combs is worth much hand wringing but it's a bizarre strategy they're employing giving up young players for 30+ year old relievers.

I think that is dumb. Guy threw 88 innings last year, and 115 in his pro career. He's not ready for an every 5th day spot on a major league rotation. Get him up to 120-130 this year in the minors, then call him up in May 2026. But yah, you're probably right - if this regime is anything like the previous, we'll see him before he's ready.