7 hours ago, thxfrthmmrs said:

On one hand it’s good to see Sox making effort to catch up in the IFA market. On the other hand, even if these kids pan out, we won’t see any major contributions from these targets until 2035..

Sure, but you have to start somewhere.   And I would rather see this vs another over the hill utility guy or mediocre reliever. 

https://www.chosun.com/english/sports-en/2025/09/08/EN5JZN7ZBJA2JEMMIWYQXP2LLY/#:~:text=LA Dodgers eye %24300 million contract for Japanese slugger Murakami,-25-year-old&text=[OSEN%3DGil Joon-young,of Japan's professional baseball league.
Dodgers expected to bid another $300 million for 3B/1B/DH Murakami…

The White Sox will also bid 300 million.

Wait, what?  The bidding is in dollars,  not Yen?  Nevermind.

4 hours ago, southsider2k5 said:

The White Sox will also bid 300 million.

Wait, what?  The bidding is in dollars,  not Yen?  Nevermind.

Well that article was in Korean won/KRW.

A bit strange for a highly-hyped NPB player...to play the "insiders" role here early.

Edited September 30, 2025Sep 30 by caulfield12

11 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

Well that article was in Korean won/KRW.

A bit strange for a highly-hyped NPB player...to play the "insiders" role here early.

Well that was a joke you apparently missed.  Stand down.

4 hours ago, southsider2k5 said:

Well that was a joke you apparently missed.  Stand down.

The White Sox still might not spend even if KRW was equal to USD...

 

From spending two weeks in Osaka and Kyoto this summer... it reinforced how expensive everything in Japan is.

Tokyo even felt more affordable two years ago.

Edited September 30, 2025Sep 30 by caulfield12

On 9/13/2025 at 5:30 AM, BamaDoc said:

Playing at the top of the market is interesting.  Can't imagine some under the table money prior to signing doesn't exist.  I also notice that if it is paid in 2030, and there have been a lot of ifs already, it would be after Ishbia is in control.  Could this be a signal that under him things will be different or am I over reading things?

I dont think you're misreading things at all. There's  no JR money involved in this and no JR jurisdiction.

On 9/18/2025 at 6:40 PM, caulfield12 said:

wild they're spending more on international guys years out than the 2026-27 actual MLB roster...

 Do you have figures to back up your wild claim? Kind of hard to spend on the 2026 and 2027 rosters right now without having players with multi year contracts but rest assured they will have 26 players in each year making at the very least the MLB minimum of $760K x 26 =$19,760,000 in 2026 so x 2 for 2027 would be another roughly $20M . So were looking at a minimum of close to $40M  that will be spent in 2026 and 2027 ( a strike may change the figures) on the MLB rosters and likely much more since all 26 players will not be making minimum wages. What's your figures for international spending so far on guys years away. Give me players names that have already received money from the Sox for the 2026 through 2030 international classes along with the amounts they have received. .Officially the Sox can't even say they've reached agreements let alone provide monetary amounts yet you can ?

Edited November 21, 2025Nov 21 by CaliSoxFanViaSWside

On 11/21/2025 at 2:31 AM, CaliSoxFanViaSWside said:

 Do you have figures to back up your wild claim? Kind of hard to spend on the 2026 and 2027 rosters right now without having players with multi year contracts but rest assured they will have 26 players in each year making at the very least the MLB minimum of $760K x 26 =$19,760,000 in 2026 so x 2 for 2027 would be another roughly $20M . So were looking at a minimum of close to $40M  that will be spent in 2026 and 2027 ( a strike may change the figures) on the MLB rosters and likely much more since all 26 players will not be making minimum wages. What's your figures for international spending so far on guys years away. Give me players names that have already received money from the Sox for the 2026 through 2030 international classes along with the amounts they have received. .Officially the Sox can't even say they've reached agreements let alone provide monetary amounts yet you can ?

Every team in MLB has agreements with kids as young as 12/13 in Latin America, the Dominican Republic especially. The Sox and this new regime are now playing at the top of the market. James Fegan, Hector Gomez, and Frances Romero have all linked the Sox to guys in future classes.

And buying prospects has nothing to do with the ML roster. What are you talking about?

23 hours ago, Boopa1219 said:

Every team in MLB has agreements with kids as young as 12/13 in Latin America, the Dominican Republic especially. The Sox and this new regime are now playing at the top of the market. James Fegan, Hector Gomez, and Frances Romero have all linked the Sox to guys in future classes.

And buying prospects has nothing to do with the ML roster. What are you talking about?

Ofc it does.

JR has always consistently prioritized spending on the MLB roster over amateur/intl. talent and the minor leagues.

At least from 1981-2016/17.

it's also part of the reason the Dominican and Pacific Rim have been such a wasteland for the better part of twenty years. 

Also, whether Keller can actually get signed commitment checks from Ishbia or JR these next 2-3 seasons is a question nobody has the answer to as of yet. 

 

Edited November 24, 2025Nov 24 by caulfield12

On 11/24/2025 at 12:53 AM, caulfield12 said:

Ofc it does.

JR has always consistently prioritized spending on the MLB roster over amateur/intl. talent and the minor leagues.

At least from 1981-2016/17.

it's also part of the reason the Dominican and Pacific Rim have been such a wasteland for the better part of twenty years. 

Also, whether Keller can actually get signed commitment checks from Ishbia or JR these next 2-3 seasons is a question nobody has the answer to as of yet. 

 

I don't think that's true. 

Ever since the 2012 CBA came into effect, the Sox have spent all the money allotted to them to sign amateur talent in both the draft and free agency. Every year under Mike Shirley, they've exceeded their bonus pools to sign their guys. 

I think the reports of them signed guys in classes of 2-3 years down the line, Is enough of an answer to that question.

On 11/22/2025 at 11:54 PM, Boopa1219 said:

Every team in MLB has agreements with kids as young as 12/13 in Latin America, the Dominican Republic especially. The Sox and this new regime are now playing at the top of the market. James Fegan, Hector Gomez, and Frances Romero have all linked the Sox to guys in future classes.

And buying prospects has nothing to do with the ML roster. What are you talking about?

I was responding to a Caulfield post which I quoted so you should know what Im talking about. Maybe try reading what he said to elicit my response. 

These are handshake agreements. There is no money exchanged officially and anything else is a direct violation of MLB rules until there is a signature on a contract at the age they can sign which I believe is 16.

17 hours ago, Boopa1219 said:

I don't think that's true. 

Ever since the 2012 CBA came into effect, the Sox have spent all the money allotted to them to sign amateur talent in both the draft and free agency. Every year under Mike Shirley, they've exceeded their bonus pools to sign their guys. 

I think the reports of them signed guys in classes of 2-3 years down the line, Is enough of an answer to that question.

Sure, but that doesn't mean they're going to suddenly open the spigots again on the older players like Robert Abreu Alexei Ramirez that weren't subject to the intl signing pool limits due to age.

Okamoto Murakami Imai etc.

Getting your top signing (ranked #2 in the class by MLB) sniped a month before the period opens, yikes

16 minutes ago, Autumn Dreamin said:

Getting your top signing (ranked #2 in the class by MLB) sniped a month before the period opens, yikes

Yanks don’t have a director right now. 

1 hour ago, Autumn Dreamin said:

Getting your top signing (ranked #2 in the class by MLB) sniped a month before the period opens, yikes

Pipeline has him as a 65FV, which seems kind of absurd. There’s only 2 guys in their top 100 with a 65FV (and nobody higher).

14 hours ago, Autumn Dreamin said:

Getting your top signing (ranked #2 in the class by MLB) sniped a month before the period opens, yikes

How did the Mets have this much space available?

1 hour ago, Chicago White Sox said:

How did the Mets have this much space available?

I wonder if there will be a trickle-down where they bail on other agreements? Because you’re right…hard to believe they’d just have nearly $4M just laying around. 

2 hours ago, Lukakke Appling said:

I wonder if there will be a trickle-down where they bail on other agreements? Because you’re right…hard to believe they’d just have nearly $4M just laying around. 

Let’s hope so because if any club would have meaningful dollars laying around, it’s probably the White Sox.

41 minutes ago, Chicago White Sox said:

Let’s hope so because if any club would have meaningful dollars laying around, it’s probably the White Sox.

It feels like it is happening more often, and the Sox did benefit from it in the past.

5 hours ago, Chicago White Sox said:

How did the Mets have this much space available?

They had an agreement fall through apparently. 

29 minutes ago, Y2Jimmy0 said:

They had an agreement fall through apparently. 

Must have been a substantial deal. I wonder who/why?