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TA, Gio, and Lynn are as good as gone. Maybe is someone wants to take the rest of Yaz’s money he might go, but that seems like a stretch to me.

Elon IS a dope.

With what Elon has done to Twitter, not sure I want him anywhere near this team ?.

I tried it too and somehow ended up here. I followed Rich Hahn’s rebuild instructions to the letter. I don’t know what went wrong. I, like Rick, don’t have any answers either.

Elon Musk pitched JR on a magical way to physically lift and rotate the stadium so the OF faces downtown?

They would most certainly have a long parade of washed up vets playing 1B. And would still put Sheets in RF. Because, White Sox.

Sure, she wasn’t wrong about the org, but this isn’t some groundbreaking insight. It’s nothing any of us hasn’t said ad infinitum to this point. It was also obvious that Keuchel was completely done when he was released last season, and him washing out elsewhere was simply more evidence. Her staring the obvious in defense of her washed up kid doesn’t exactly earn her any credibility.

Short answer, no, probably not. He would need to drastically improve his defense at 1B to cover for his subpar power bat for me to think he’s a rebuild cornerstone. So far there really isn’t one single thing that is special about his game to my eyes. He probably doesn’t bring back much in trade, but to this point he is very replaceable.

Yeah, that tracks. I had them at closer to 90 losses than 90 wins, but holy s%*# this has 100+ losses written all over it.

I was gonna ask if this thread was a joke until I saw the date. Yeah no, you can never have too much starting pitching. As evidenced now, when they basically have one good starter and quite literally nothing in the upper minors ready to help.

I was completely checked out on the White Sox in the late 90s after the White Flag trade and the 2000 team brought me back. Sure they flopped in the post season but they hardly deserve to be even top 10 least likeable teams. My memories fade, but 2001, 2007, 2009, 2016, all rank much worse on a likeablilty scale. 2022 and 2023 are right up there with those teams.

Watch it be Hanser??

Sox are the worse team, despite records.

Still not an outfielder, but boy do they keep trying…

Because of course

Witt is a burner. I don’t think Sheets played it poorly, but I don’t think a legit RF holds him to 2 bases either.

No one is deserving. Liam or Robert maybe.

There are all of like 3 Major League hitters in that lineup.

I’m a firm believer that on field results don’t matter to JR any more, so I’m rooting for maximum chaos, embarrassment, and or humiliation. Public shaming probably doesn’t even matter but it’s worth a try.

Sadly, this is true.

100%

They really need a Blackhawks makeover from ownership on down, without the abhorrent s%*# that went on behind the scenes.

The baseball landscape is much different now than it was in 2016. In a hypothetical sell off, Hahn has way less leverage. The parts that he could sell now simply aren’t worth the “hauls” he got for Sale, Q, and Eaton, Hahn’s lack of talent evaluation aside. The core of this team was a flash in the pan 2020-2021, and since has crashed & burned. Maybe you get real value from Cease and Robert, but then what? The prospects whither on the vine in the minors? Moncada is unmovable w/o eating significant money, so no return there. Eloy is in a similar boat. You’re stuck with Benintendi. Vaughn isn’t bringing back a haul, and neither is Kopech. Hendriks too for that matter. Grandal, Lynn, Graveman, & Bummer get you lottery tickets at best. There is no real path to jump-starting a 2016 style rebuild again. This is a colossal mess. Maxed out, grossly overpaid for their production, and with little to no trade value. It’s all moot for that matter too as I do not believe JR would authorise another bare bones tear down. Prepare yourselves for cost cutting and pretending that they are still competing. The results on the field simply don’t matter to JR anymore, so long as the profit rolls in, and his sycophantic front office does that job well enough while pretending to care about winning, so don’t expect any significant changes there either. We are all hostages of this ownership group until they draw their last breath.