MLBTR Offseason Outlook on White Sox

[ChiSoxFanMike]

12 hours ago, Chicago White Sox said:

Candidly, I’d try to trade Quero for a major league ready OF prospect of similar value and get Benintendi out of the OF (make him a platoon DH until Jerry is willing to release him).  I’m very much open to adding a decent veteran OF to the mix, but not sure Garcia is the guy I’d target.

Fair. I’d like Benintendi off the team entirely but I’m not expecting that to happen until 2027 if at all. I’d just like more power and for all of Garcia’s flaws, at least he hits homers.

[Bob Sacamano]

28 minutes ago, ChiSoxFanMike said:

Fair. I’d like Benintendi off the team entirely but I’m not expecting that to happen until 2027 if at all. I’d just like more power and for all of Garcia’s flaws, at least he hits homers.

I think if they sign O’Hearn (rather just play the guys we have here honestly) they might as well add Garcia. But none of it really matters if they don’t add a couple legit starters.

[Chicago White Sox]

28 minutes ago, Bob Sacamano said:

I think if they sign O’Hearn (rather just play the guys we have here honestly) they might as well add Garcia. But none of it really matters if they don’t add a couple legit starters.

I just don’t think any of our guys are 1B materiel.  To me, Vargas is 3B or bust at this point even if he improves on his post April wRC+ of 108 and gets to say 115.  Sosa at 2B with a 110 wRC+ is a useful player, but would be a fairly mediocre 1B IMO.  To me, there is no obvious long-term solution in the org and I like the idea of a veteran bat who can help anchor the middle of the lineup and take some pressure off the kids.  Obviously this is all conditional on being able to get O’Hearn on a two year deal at reasonable dollars.

[CaliSoxFanViaSWside]

17 hours ago, ChiSoxFanMike said:

At that point you might as well sign Adolis Garcia to play RF and move Baldwin to a super utility role.

Frankly Id rather give Baldwin a chance to show improvement as an OF and see how many HRs he can hit. Hes got enough speed to be a decent OF .  He just needs to learn you can't be casual out there .Needs to think ahead and focus concentration. Baldwin LF Braden Montgomery RF asap. 

[WestEddy]

Garfien/Merkin podcast. Not a lot of info, 10 questions that they don't really give any concrete answers to. 

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[caulfield12]

https://www.instagram.com/p/DRkf9t4EUV4/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=19f6b879-c16b-4e18-b55f-296954625ed2&ig_mid=B6005C57-8884-4ACD-83B8-2EC1D5EAF1C5

Yermin Mercedes living his best off season life possible.

Margalus labelled it something like a "pre/early mid life" crisis.

[caulfield12]

https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/the-value-of-risk-in-mlb-why-front-offices-have-become-more-risk-averse-and-what-it-means-for-the-trade-market-213559935.html

The value of risk (mitigation) in prospect trades and why it might be shifting back again

Sale for Moncada trade cited, everything but Orioles' recent "prospect hugging" level of status quo inactivity

[caulfield12]

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/#post-876580

Reds resigned closer Emilio Pagan 2/$20 million   high leverage but non closer for most of his career prior to 2025

[Bob Sacamano]

37 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/#post-876580

Reds resigned closer Emilio Pagan 2/$20 million   high leverage but non closer for most of his career prior to 2025

We know. Since yesterday 

[DirtySox]

And what does it have to do with the White Sox Offseason Outlook?

[WhiteSox2023]

Getz needs to go hard after Matt Shaw if the Cubs are seriously looking to sign Bregman again and move Shaw to a utility role.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6862841/2025/12/04/cubs-alex-bregman-free-agent-interest/?source=emp_shared_article

[caulfield12]

28 minutes ago, DirtySox said:

And what does it have to do with the White Sox Offseason Outlook?

Where is the offseason signing thread?????

Everything gets announced all over the place in SoxTalk because almost no one looks at Diamond Club anymore.

So shouldn't there be one thread where ALL the FA signing would be updated?

90-95% of them are ending up so read across all these various threads.

A couple of people in recent days were speculating about possibly SIGNING Pagan, yet it wasn't significant enough to warrant its own thread because the odds are the White Sox won't sign a "significant" free agent...meaning over $5 million per season for them.

[caulfield12]

34 minutes ago, Bob Sacamano said:

We know. Since yesterday 

Excuse me for sleeping in China when the signing happened.....maybe we should just pin the MLBTradeRumors site at the top of the page and not have any free agent discussions since none will actually involve the White Sox.

So all should technically be in Diamond Club...which is a veritable hub of activity these days.

[Bob Sacamano]

5 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

Excuse me for sleeping in China when the signing happened.....maybe we should just pin the MLBTradeRumors site at the top of the page and not have any free agent discussions since none will actually involve the White Sox.

So all should technically be in Diamond Club...which is a veritable hub of activity these days.

You’ve been posting on Soxtalk in the past day. What does being in china have do with news like 25 hours ago.

[caulfield12]

8 minutes ago, Bob Sacamano said:

You’ve been posting on Soxtalk in the past day. What does being in china have do with news like 25 hours ago.

Because there is a 14 hour difference.

So basically I'm supposed to check SoxTalk every hour and then check MLB Trade Rumors and then double check all the time stamps when it was the third item from the top of the board when I looked at it here this morning on mlbtr????????????????????

Tell me why none of the free agent signings by other teams are not being posted in Diamond Club.

 

Reds ink closer Emilio Pagán, have more work to do on 2026 roster

Story by Pat Brennan, Cincinnati Enquirer

 • 1h

Edited 10 hours ago by caulfield12

[WhiteSox2023]

3 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

Because there is a 14 hour difference.

So basically I'm supposed to check SoxTalk every hour and then check MLB Trade Rumors and then double check all the time stamps when it was the third item from the top of the board when I looked at it here this morning????????????????????

Tell me why none of the free agent signings by other teams are not being posted in Diamond Club.

Yes, yes you are.  Cuz the White Sox are in Amurica, not China.

[caulfield12]

7 minutes ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

Yes, yes you are.  Cuz the White Sox are in Amurica, not China.

Some people just want to find things to complain about.

Obviously we all are paid so well for our various posts online lol...

 

 

Edited 10 hours ago by caulfield12

[Bob Sacamano]

54 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

Because there is a 14 hour difference.

So basically I'm supposed to check SoxTalk every hour and then check MLB Trade Rumors and then double check all the time stamps when it was the third item from the top of the board when I looked at it here this morning on mlbtr????????????????????

Tell me why none of the free agent signings by other teams are not being posted in Diamond Club.

 

Reds ink closer Emilio Pagán, have more work to do on 2026 roster

Story by Pat Brennan, Cincinnati Enquirer

 • 1h

You already don’t? Lol like I said, you’ve been posting here for the past day lol

Edited 9 hours ago by Bob Sacamano

[WestEddy]

59 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

Excuse me for sleeping in China when the signing happened.....maybe we should just pin the MLBTradeRumors site at the top of the page and not have any free agent discussions since none will actually involve the White Sox.

So all should technically be in Diamond Club...which is a veritable hub of activity these days.

I posted it in the thread titled something like "SoxMachine podcast on Free Agent Pitchers". You even responded to my post. 

I don't really care, I'm just trying to foster any off-season Sox talk. I would suggest that if you want a catch-all Free Agent signing thread, start one and tend to it. I certainly don't run anything here. I just created a couple of strings where I can post any PodCasts or blog articles on the Sox off-season plans. 

[caulfield12]

32 minutes ago, WestEddy said:

I posted it in the thread titled something like "SoxMachine podcast on Free Agent Pitchers". You even responded to my post. 

I don't really care, I'm just trying to foster any off-season Sox talk. I would suggest that if you want a catch-all Free Agent signing thread, start one and tend to it. I certainly don't run anything here. I just created a couple of strings where I can post any PodCasts or blog articles on the Sox off-season plans. 

If the VPN is turned off, the Chinese firewall blocks everything on Twitter.

If the VPN is turned on, the site turns into a slow crawl and constantly double posts.

I'm guessing at that time I couldn't even see the embedded post, so that's why I was responding as if he hadn't signed yet.

 

WestEddy

Posted yesterday at 08:04 AM

"This guy's name was bandied about as an option for the White Sox, in places."

 

That is all  the information that I had to respond to because the VPN was turned off. Unless I am supposed to interpret your post that he a had ALREADY signed because of your use of WAS there.

Edited 8 hours ago by caulfield12