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Like, maybe give the guys Getz himself traded for a shot, instead of burying them behind retreads that offer no value to the future of the roster. They are likely all AAAA guys anyway, but signing washed up vets instead of committing to developing the guys in house indicates that they either don't care about development or have no faith in their ability to do so. Neither points to them having a clear path or plan, or any faith in whatever they are trying to implement.

Except they are a worse team on paper than last year while operating in almost exactly the same dumb manner. 121 is difficult to replicate, but I struggle to see how any of these vets alters that trajectory.

Funny that the land east of State street, which was part of the same massive former rail yard, was developed in the late 80s. Both parcels heavily used by railroads for decades, but half of the land is supposedly non-developable? Please.

Developing the parcel at Roosevelt and Clark would be worth far more than anything that would be built at 35th & Shields as well.

In all fairness, this is probably true of most of the current 26 man roster. Hoping to squeeze the tiniest big of value out of washed up vets is such a White Sox thing, but I have no idea what it is supposed to accomplish. They are going to suck either way, why keep recycling old and bad players?

100% agree. I don't think they give Taylor a guaranteed deal unless they expected to need him on a regular basis.

Fegan's tweets feels like smokescreen to me. Getz loves his cheap washed up vets and all, but even Merkin questions whether Robert makes it through Spring Training on the roster - https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/news/white-sox-spring-training-2025-storylines

Roster churn is fine and is the least of my concerns. Getz's trades before Crochet however are the catastrophe to which I refer. Not only has he burnt his limited trade capital, none of those acquisitions look like foundational pieces.

Hoping he develops into the role is a fair take all things considered. Whether he can or will is an unknown right now. He certainly hasn't earned it, but it's JR's playground where job accountability means little so we as fans have little alternative. I also think it is fair to hope for his improvement while also not ignoring the level to which his first year on the job set the org back. And his management of the 40 man roster has in fact set the org back. JR refusing to hold him accountable doesn't mean he is above criticism, or that fans should simply ignore his catastrophic failings in year one.

Getz may have made some new hires that look good on paper. But it is too soon to know whether those hires actually can fix past organizational failings. Or if they will be allowed to. Those hires, however, do not overshadow Getz's management of the 40 man roster, which to this point borders on catastrophic. Chris Getz is the architect of the worst baseball team in the modern history of the sport, and one good trade does not make up for burning limited trade capital with very little to show for the return and burning millions of dollars in limited payroll on a 121 loss team.

Unlike the poster arguing that Getz deserves no blame.

It used to be that they wouldn’t check if the expected attendance was low. I haven’t had an upper deck ticket in ages so I wouldn’t know about now.

Diacritics matter, friends…

Master of creating weak contact my ass. Thorpe got lit up by a bad Mariners offense the second time he faced them. The same Mariners team that blew a 10 game lead in their division and missed the playoffs entirely because they couldn’t score runs.

The M's had higher hopes for his bat, but his glove at 3B kept him in the lineup every day despite the lack of production at the plate. He is likely the best defensive option the Sox have at 3B, at least to start the season.

Am I the only one that read Times of Indiana at first?

Fisher is about a Billion dollars short of someone building him a ballpark.

Those are the most entertaining! Occasionally. Sometimes...

Apropos of nothing, just found it amusing.

What is more demoralizing, starting him at Charlotte to allow him the opportunity to rebound, or handing him the Opening Day SS job unearned and he flops, ending up in Charlotte anyway?

"Colas moving to 1B could significantly improve his odds of making the OD roster." Did he magically escape from the dog house? Is this a shot across AV's bow? Curious. Colas did play more 1B than OF before he signed with the Sox, so it's not entirely a new position. He also has less than a year of total MLB service time, so he could be a cheap replacement. Just seems like an odd move after burning $6M at the position already.

My thoughts exactly.

I barely follow the NBA anymore, and even I know that stars win in that league. When was the last time a team of 9 - 10 very good players with no true superstar won it all?

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The Sox have done similar passes in the past, but not this many games plus Opening Day for only $125.