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Guess I’ll become a Phillies fan now so I can watch a functional org play baseball…

They never cared to to begin with going back to the 80s. It’s always been their fatal mistake.

Desperation? Incompetence? Montgomery should be safe if they are trading big leaguers, but I put nothing past Hahn at this point.

That’s what it feels like to me too. They will be trading parts off the big league roster, it’s just a matter of who.

So, what’s Hahn telegraphing through his lawyer speak?

I’ve resigned myself to a Hendriks trade happening for good or bad. It fits the MO they’ve been broadcasting since the end of the season.

Thousand of people like the taste of ass cheese. I'm ok not being one.

I’ve seen them up close and hard pass ??.

Ah, the booth whose smell resembles a lovely combo of ass and feet.

I would DFA him, but I know it's not happening. In my mind being the backup gives him the best chance to remain healthy and limits the potential for him to hurt the team while playing. I'm fine with however the split shakes out, as long as his contract doesn't automatically make him the starter on most days.

That is true. I wouldn't necessarily expect a haul, but I don't think they would be immovable. With the Sox luck though, they would probably turn into bad money quickly.

Pretending Yaz is anything but the backup C is a bad idea. But I wouldn't put it past Hahn & Co to plug him in at DH and back up 1B, push Eloy back into LF, and call it a solution.

If the Sox signed Nimmo and Rodon, and still couldn't get over the top, do you not think those two would be moveable if they wanted to tear it down? The org as is has nothing to fall back on if they wanted to rebuild and they refuse to play with the big boys in FA, so they are stuck in between. A middling approach accomplishes little in my eyes. I struggle to see how stop-gap additions amounts to anything more than punting another season in this so called window.

I fear 1B/DH. Eloy in LF, Colas in RF, Romy/Sosa 2B, problems “solved”.

I’m so over Yaz, but adding a catcher and not addressing OF feels very White Sox.

The thing to do coming off of the disaster of 2022 is spend on impact talent and actually address the issues that plagued them on the field and in the locker room. But the chairman wants to just sit on his hands and wish it all away. These goons don’t deserve another rebuild, nor should they knowing how the org operates. It’s s%*# or get off the pot time for JR and he seems to want to keep fence sitting his way to a title. There is too much talent here not to try, but an org that actually wants to do everything to win would and should know that what they do have isn’t enough. They have to add, and adding from the rubbish bin yet again just isn’t going to cut it.

Spot on.

We are in the middle of a post bare bones rebuild “contention” window where they dicked around and cut corners. I’m gonna guess the GM knows he got his one chance to rebuild and it wasn’t enough to make them legit contenders, and knows the org won’t invest in the pipeline of talent to make winning sustainable. So tearing it down makes no sense, and probably is a non-starter for an owner that wants to pretend they have a chance to win every year. Let’s be real, the minors are barren, and they refuse to spend on top talent in FA. Any rebuild is likely doomed to repeat this past failure because it would require systemic change in how they operate.

That’s what I’ve been expecting. The return is what I worry about.

I’d be more open to it if there were any pitching depth in the upper minors, or if the org weren’t deathly afraid of pay for starters on the open market.