Sleepy Harold

I'm not exactly pounding on the door to get Shewmake's 2023 .705 AAA OPS and .716 (minors) lifetime OPS into the everyday MLB lineup because he just got here, but I get where you're coming from. The placeholders they got are easy to punt if/when they predictably stink, so I don't mind the strategy of having a few of these guys to play with and not immediately throwing a younger dude to the fire because you just traded for him. I don't think anyone actually believes that they think they're going to "contend" for anything outside of a potential bottom five record in 2024. TBH I'm going to be quite surprised if DeJong is still on the roster in June given his recent track record.

TL:DR, yes

Although the placeholders will most certainly stink, making the prospects earn the job over just handing it to them out of negligence/necessity is a refreshing change of pace.

Likewise, put me firmly in the camp of rooting for the 7th (or later) pick for round 1

I want the Gio/Lopez combo to continue, so ATL please sign Gio to keep the dream alive.

Who was advocating for those four to be non-tendered? My gripe was in regards to more than a handful of pre-arb guys, which yeah they didn't need to do now, but my counterpoint is that they stink so why keep them?

I'd argue there's reason to non-tender them if they're bad. They don't need to have the roster spot. I get why they didn't because they didn't technically have to do it now, it just annoyed me more that it probably should've.

So your team lost 101 games last season, not by design, and you tender every unsigned player on the 40-man a contract? I don't get that at all. I know people can be DFA'd and traded later, but I'm just confused as to why they ALL got tendered.

Riley Gowens is also from Libertyville and went to U of I

I'm with you, I took it as Brooks being a dick instead of malicious.

When I first read it I just took it as BB being a dick, not the disability angle.

I'm hoping after this miserable season that the baseball gods will show mercy on us and have the lottery balls land the Sox outside of the top 6. However, I know that won't happen and they'll slide down to sixth, finish with the third worst record next season or some s%*# like that and mathematically "win" the 2025 lottery but don't because they can't pick higher than 10th.

Seems like a part of it (how much I don't actually know) is $ motivated.

They've spent more on worse before, I'd be down for the cheap gamble there

They can always cut bait on the fat of the 40-man when needed. It doesn’t seem very likely that anyone else is at risk of being selected and kept on a major league roster all year long, at least that's how they're viewing it, and I'd have to tend to agree with that assessment. They aren't burning option years unnecessarily either, which isn't nothing.

I'd bet the Sox are hosting their Winter Fest on the 9th green at 9 to really stick it to the last handfuls of fans.

I believe spa day is short for spaghetti day, I see no issue here.

It's all in the first post here.

Sure that would obviously be a bad outcome in what would further the darkest timeline of White Sox fandom. I just don't believe a team would select and keep a fringey LF/DH on a ML roster all year long. If they add him to the 40 that's great, I like Veras and given the circumstances of the roster there should be enough space, I just don't think he'd be selected.

I'd add Eder and Mena and call it a day. I like Veras but don't think another team would select him in the ML portion. There's enough fat on the 40-man that adding him is fine, I just think the likelihood of a selection is low.