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I think Soroka is probably done. I mean, no one the Sox got is what you call good, but maybe the garbage they just added is better than the garbage that was already in the 40 man? Clearly, a team this bad doesn’t need Aaron Bummer, and he will benefit from getting away from their putrid defense. I wonder if Fraser Ellard has an outside shot of being an okay pen piece.

Ha ha. I guess we're keeping Cease. I despise the concept of Jonathan India (45 hit/50 power/35 field/70 flow) as even part of a trade. Verdugo would replace Clevinger/D-Bo as the embarrassing guy to root for. (Google it.) Donovan probably is a 4th of/platoon bat. I mean, he's not horrible, but c'mon. I do love his similarity through age 26 to Hoot Evans.

I'd non-tender a ton of guys off this horrible roster. These are 31 guys I'd protect: Banks, lhp Bummer, lhp Juan Carela, rhp Cease, rhp Crochet, lhp Jake Eder, LHP Deivi Garcia, rhp Kopech, rhp Lambert, rhp Davis Martin, rhp Christian Mena, rhp Lane Ramsey, rhp Sammy Peralta, lhp Gregory Santos, rhp Jesse Scholtens, rhp Matt Thompson, rhp Touki Toussaint, rhp Korey Lee, c Carlos Perez, c Romy Gonzalez, 2b/ss/of #Moncada, 3b Bryan Ramos, 3b Popeye Rodriguez, 2b/ss *Sheets, 1b/of Sosa, 2b/ss *Colas, of Jimenez, of Robert, of Vaughn, 1b *Benintendi, of Wilfred Veras, of

Small world. I was at that game too.

From what I have seen of Montgomery, the danger of signing DeJong is Colson beats him out in the spring. Because of his plate discipline, Montgomery's floor's pretty high. Not hard to see him hitting .220 and still being way better than DeJong. As far as Popeye and Sosa are concerned, their complete inability to control the strike zone may be a no no to the new regime. The last thing the Sox need is more guys who won't take a walk.

The amount of 1b profile at the top of this draft is terrifying. When you add two other top picks with 2b profiles, this is not the draft you want to be picking super high in. Especially with that f-ed up new top 6 rule.

$8 mil was the number Counsell was going for. Good for him to get it. Stays in the Midwest, too. I'm sure he's thrilled. Ross probably cost the Cubs 10 games in the standings this year based on run differential, so it's a good hire. Doesn't affect the Sox in any way, though. They weren't going to hire a new manager anyway. They have Pedro to build culture by losing 110 games.

Maybe it's possible? The Brewers and the Diamondbacks didn't hit a ton of HR and they still made the playoffs, but of the top 10 in HR 7 made the playoffs including 7 of the top 8. Only the Angels missed. RH was not wrong, ball go far, team go far.

Rosario is a BAD defender. He is the last thing this team needs. That said, I have no idea how they're going to fill out the roster. They may hold tryouts at the park district.

It's not just the pitching staff. I think the Sox have got like 10 legit big leaguers on their entire roster, and not all of them are good. (Bummer, Cease, Kopech?, Crochet?, Santos?, TA, Moncada, Vaughn, Benintendi, Eloy.) The other 26 guys are a mix of prospects and roster fillers. Mostly the latter.

Dodgers did not pick up Lance Lynn's $1 million option cuz homers. Nastrini pretty good pick up for half season of that.

It's amazing how many managers are going to be available/fired, and yet Pedro Grifol has the job security of a Supreme Court Justice. Btw, isn't Counsell gonna end up on the Mets?

Are you talking about the 2024 first round pick aka Travis Bazzana? Or do you mean this year's pick? Cuz Jacob Gonzalez is a long way from a sure thing.

I really wish they had given up prospects at the deadline for him. His leadership could have been vital in their drive to lose over 100 games.

Will be interesting to see if Sox pitching lab fixes Eder, though he did not seem broken until he got to Birmingham. Bannister may be the most important offseason acquisition the Sox could make unless they were willing to step up to the plate and sign Bellinger.

Maybe Bob told him he was getting canned and this was his prevenge.

So more Royals stuff, Brian Bannister played most of his career with the Royals and was teammates with Getz there in 2010. He is the son of Sox great Floyd Bannister. He went to the same high school as Paul Konerko. He is also a super accomplished photographer, having been a Fine Arts major at USC.

Barfield is replacing Getz. Bannister replaces Tedford. I don’t know who the Sox director of pro scouting is, but whoever that is sucks, so it is at worst a lateral move.

Easier said then done with Bazzana and Weatherford in a super-thin class. I think Bazzana is probably not limited to 2b. He's gonna play ss this year at OSU and he's athletic enough to play OF, but yeah, not a good history.

Most interesting part for me is when a member in the front office who never played the game belittled Gordon's actual MLB career, which he rightly said should always be a no no. He wouldn't name names. I guessed Hahn or Haber, but he spoke with passion about respecting effort.

Colas has been a disaster in all phases, so I don't have a problem with them sending him out, but if not him, who is going to play right for them next year? But at this point, I despise Grifol. He's not good with the veterans he inherited and he is not good with the young guys. Exactly who is he good at leading?

Al's.

Jose Urena’s stats are amazingly bad. But at least he’s 31. At this point, I think the White Sox have gone avant-garde “The Athletics of Cruelty.”

Or, scary thought, Grifol wants a GM he can control.

Crochet at 95-96, command still iffy. K's 2 in a 1, 2, 3 inning.