Sleepy Harold

So you're saying the coveted payroll championship is within reach?

A new academy should also help matters down there. Hopefully they'll begin to deploy two DSL teams so they can bring in & play more talent regularly.

His writeup from Pipeline https://www.mlb.com/milb/prospects/2025/international/alejandro-cruz-829078

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gilbety01.shtml Cornering the market on 30+ lefty relievers I see.

The White Sox ReKAP podcast

By bonus amount he fell in the top 20 from BA. Was number 33 on Pipeline's list.

In that piece the Sox nor Related commented, but housing both teams on the site was still mentioned in the piece. The Fire apparently are looking at 7-10 acres there for their stadium.

It appears that the Fire are now focusing on the 78 site for their new stadium.

FIFY

The public flaming and ridicule they've been receiving is well earned and deserved (which I said). That doesn't mean they still shouldn't try to sign him, regardless of how unlikely it is. My point was they're going to be dragged either way, for which they only have themselves to blame.

I don't disagree with either of you, the mocking is well earned/deserved. Just pointing out we'd also torch them for not trying too.

They're damned if they do and damned if they don't with Roki. They'd get flamed for not even bothering to try and sign him, but no one really expects him to choose the Sox anyways so they're (understandably) the butt of jokes because they're making a pitch.

#InBannisterWeTrust

TIFWIW