Timmy U

He cleared waivers so... forgotten, not gone.

Straight up swap for Candelario. I actually think he has a chance to be good for the Nats Cincy jerked him around his entire career. Leave him in one spot defensively and give him some AB’s he might surprise.

Didn’t Senzel get released?

Pedro believes Chemistry is real and so do I. That’s why I’m going to spend most of this baseball season making meth.

Change title. Soto was acquired with Grisham, not for Grisham.

Morosi isn’t saying he heard something. He’s saying it makes sense. I would argue that a retooling team trying to cut payroll should not try to get the last productive year out of Whit Merrifield for like $10 mil, but this is so White Sox.

So… a salary dump of the salary dump.

Better the Yanks than us.

Mike Sirota would go great with Mike Soroka, and Mike Sirotka

Wow. That is a big gurantee for a guy who has never been successful in mlb. But probably worth the risk.

2 biggest winners of this stupid lottery -- Twins and Cleveland. Biggest losers: A's, Nats, Sox.

This rule sucks so hard for the Sox.

Didn't Cleveland move into the top 6 as well?

This is some bad TV. MLB just doesn't seem all that professional compared to ESPN. Also, it's sort of like watching a televised Bingo league.

This is not happening. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/12/white-sox-trade-rumors-luis-robert.html

I actually don't have a bottom 10. There are guys I was glad exited the team (Keppinger, Leury) but I agree with Gordon Beckham -- you gotta give props to anyone who had a dream and reached the majors. It's really hard to get there. I met a guy once who played at Wrigley Field with the Expos working at a resort in AZ. Years later, he felt it validated all the effort he put in. Also, I didn't want the entire bottom 10 to be on this year's team and they would've been.

I think Morosi is hunting controversy/clicks. Robert’s surplus value is currently more than some teams’ entire farm systems.

I don’t know. Quite a few people on this board expected it to be pretty bad. If it excludes Scholtens, it will actually be better than expected.

Perfect cuz the Sox could compete in the KBO.

You can if you try hard enough.

The difference this time is the Sox actually got bona fide players in return for the bonus $. Aldrin Batista looked good at Kanny and the reports on Maximo Martinez look pretty decent. Obviously, the Sox cash allowed LAD to sign a much more well-regarded prospect, but the Sox weren't going to get him anyway.

I can see preferring Norby to Ortiz. Ortiz is aging out of true prospect status. He’s a plus glove at short, but I would not bet the bat plays anywhere else. If you’re committed to Montgomery at ss, Norby might make more sense. I bet Baltimore doesn’t pull the trigger on any of it, though. The cheapskates may be a landing spot for Gio.

I love seein names in trade rumors like Waldron and Bradford that the Sox passed up in the draft so they could grab Jacob Gonzalez.. D’oh!

Popeye is a plus defender at 2b and he's an exciting player, but if you want to improve the bb/K ratio of this team, he's not your guy. He makes TA look like Adley Rutschman. Ramos has missed a ton of time. I think if he hits this year, he's in line to replace Moncada.

Not sure Gilbert is on the market and neither Bieber nor Glasnow has Cease's value. They are both in their last year of control. And anyone who points to Cease's loss of velo ought to look at Bieber. He's lost 3+ mph over the last few years. That's without considering his arm injury at the end of the year. He's buyer beware as far as I'm concerned.