Chicago White Sox's Offseason FA Signings Trades Megathread

[Bob Sacamano]

2 minutes ago, Y2Jimmy0 said:

Where is it insinuated that Cubs are out? I think they're the favorites. 

Have you heard anything from your sources about Robert? Besides the stuff that’s been reported on the last couple of days.

[Y2Jimmy0]

2 minutes ago, Bob Sacamano said:

Have you heard anything from your sources about Robert? Besides the stuff that’s been reported on the last couple of days.

It seems like he actually moves this time. Not sure how quickly. 

[Bob Sacamano]

3 minutes ago, Y2Jimmy0 said:

It seems like he actually moves this time. Not sure how quickly. 

I agree with moving him now instead of waiting so that’s good to hear.

[DFAthewave69420]

On 12/20/2025 at 7:36 AM, Bob Sacamano said:

If you do that, you would have to change like half the threads to that title and then it would get really confusing.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Worth mentioning that the 2 TJ surgery guys from the Reds (not saying I want them necessarily but since they’ve been talked about) had their surgeries in September and October 2024 so they should be good to go in Spring Training even assuming 14-month recovery.

As for White Sox TJ surgeries, Bush and Thorpe had theirs Feb and March 25 so they may be 60-day IL guys to open the year (open 40-man spots), depending on their progress. I haven’t seen any updates on either in a while but just tossing that out there.

Edited December 24, 2025 by Bob Sacamano

[caulfield12]

19 minutes ago, DFAthewave69420 said:

 

There's no need to have someone creating content if you go back to 2000-2012.

Winning and success will make for a much more divergent and lively message board.

Heck, lots of Japanese fans might want to interact with the White Sox somehow now.

This board could even make money and draw Japanese advertising and  marketing.

Just contact Japanese White Sox scout Satoshi Takahasi.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Satoshi_Takahashi_(03)

Interview him, interview Tadahito and ask how SoxTalk can reach out to young fans across Japan and through TikTok.

Engagement should flow in all directions from the Murakami signing.

Edited December 24, 2025 by caulfield12

[southsider2k5]

12 minutes ago, Bob Sacamano said:

Worth mentioning that the 2 TJ surgery guys from the Reds (not saying I want them but since they’ve been talked about) had their surgeries in September and October 2024 so they should be good to go in Spring Training even assuming 14-month recovery.

As for White Sox TJ surgeries, Bush and Thorpe had theirs Feb and March 25 so they may be 60-day IL guys to open the year, depending on their progress. I haven’t seen any updates on either in a while but just tossing that out there.

Yep, and if you push out towards a not abnormal 18 months, this year is completely lost.  No idea where they are, because no one has said.

[Snopek]

1 hour ago, DFAthewave69420 said:

 

What’s your obsession with a poster making posts?

[caulfield12]

46 minutes ago, Snopek said:

What’s your obsession with a poster making posts?

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/articles/5-contenders-already-cemented-bad-003505696.html

At least I have an excuse.

Recently retired at 56, but wife is working tomorrow and son has a normal school day in China...actually a ton of homework to get through, including memorizing Chinese and English passages and doing algebra, geometry and trig in Grade 5.

And I just blew #1 seed in fantasy football playoffs due to Mahomes Kelce Judkins...so don't really care much about #3/4 finish. 

 

Avatar 3  2.5

Wake Up Dead Man 3.5

Sisu 1  3.25

Sisu 2 Road to Revenge  3.75

Bugonia 3.5

Influencer 3.5

Influencers 2.75

The Housemaid  3.5

Zootopia  3.25

Nuremberg  3.5

Sentimental Value  3.5

Edited December 24, 2025 by caulfield12

[Chicago White Sox]

41 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/articles/5-contenders-already-cemented-bad-003505696.html

At least I have an excuse.

Recently retired at 56, but wife is working tomorrow and son has a normal school day in China...actually a ton of homework to get through, including memorizing Chinese and English passages and doing algebra, geometry and trig in Grade 5.

And I just blew #1 seed in fantasy football playoffs due to Mahomes Kelce Judkins...so don't really care much about #3/4 finish. 

 

Avatar 3  2.5

Wake Up Dead Man 3.5

Sisu 1  3.25

Sisu 2 Road to Revenge  3.75

Bugonia 3.5

Influencer 3.5

Influencers 2.75

The Housemaid  3.5

Zootopia  3.25

Nuremberg  3.5

Sentimental Value  3.5

What in the f*** is happening in this post.  You’re a good dude caulfield, but you also bring on a lot of negative energy towards yourself by posting mindless slop like the above.

[caulfield12]

3 hours ago, Chicago White Sox said:

What in the f*** is happening in this post.  You’re a good dude caulfield, but you also bring on a lot of negative energy towards yourself by posting mindless slop like the above.

The movies section has died and people are always looking for things to watch during the holidays.

[WestEddy]

11 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

The movies section has died and people are always looking for things to watch during the holidays.

Is that a 4 or 5 star system? I thought I wasn't going to like Death by Lightening (and I wouldn't recommend to non-history buffs), but Matthew MacFayden as Guiteau grew on me. 

[Quin]

13 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

The movies section has died and people are always looking for things to watch during the holidays.

 

[caulfield12]

17 minutes ago, WestEddy said:

Is that a 4 or 5 star system? I thought I wasn't going to like Death by Lightening (and I wouldn't recommend to non-history buffs), but Matthew MacFayden as Guiteau grew on me. 

4

When given a 5 point scale, it's very easy to give 3.5/5.

Which counts as a positive at rottentomatoes, but not exactly a wholehearted endorsement.

Kpop Demon Hunters is the best movie of the year.  My students  kept on pushing me to watch it and talking about it so much that I finally gave in and acquiesced.

 

Train Dreams is pretty darned close to #1, and that has a lot of historicity to it, as well as the two fun Sisu movies.

There's also the Chinese film Dead to Rights, about the Nanjing 1937 massacre, and Last Samurai Standing, which I think is the best 8 episode action show of the year.

Finally, there's The Diplomat, which was recommended in the TV section, blew through three seasons in just two days.

Edited December 24, 2025 by caulfield12

[southsider2k5]

13 minutes ago, Quin said:

 

Forget it, he's rolling 

[caulfield12]

The Fairbanks deal might very easily be worth $13.5 million.

"Per Mark Feinsand of MLB.com, the deal includes a $1MM signing bonus and another $1MM in incentives based on appearances. Fairbanks will also receive a bonus of $500,000 if he is traded. The deal is pending a physical."

 

Who was the reporter that had the Marlins offering in the mid teens first?

And which reporter kept insisting it wouldn't be more than single digits?

That turned out to be wholly inaccurate.

 

Also:

Tatsuya Imai is now at ten days and counting (next Friday) and right now nobody has a clue where either he or Okamoto are going.

If he were to come down below $100 million....nah, JR hates pitching contracts over three years in length.

Okamoto might be coming under 3/$50 million now as well. 

$40-45 million for 3 years sounds about right?

Edited December 24, 2025 by caulfield12

[caulfield12]

 

Mets sign Mike Baumann to split contract/terms undisclosed pending physical?

"It would be quite a shock if Baumann landed a major league deal. The 30-year-old spent the 2025 season with the Tokyo Yakult Swallows of Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball. He wasn’t exactly dominant over there. He tossed 15 innings at the top NPB level with a 4.20 earned run average and 11 innings in the minors with a 4.09 ERA.”

 

Chris Getz will be all over him if he's later released AND AND AND Murakami really enjoyed him as a teammate.  Would likely go to Charlotte as a depth piece/roster insurance.

Edited December 24, 2025 by caulfield12

[caulfield12]

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/articles/nationals-agree-contract-ex-cubs-183629949.html

Matt Mervis to Nats (hometown team)

 

https://www.newsweek.com/sports/mlb/all-star-slugger-urged-to-ditch-braves-for-guardians-after-6-seasons-in-atlanta-11268681

 

 

https://www.foxsports.com/stories/mlb/3-mlb-free-agents-new-york-yankees-should-target-amid-slow-offseason

Yankees targets lol? Murakami Bellinger Kopech

The only reporting on Kopech recently is a SFG interest...have already dealt with a similar pitcher in Hicks over there.

Edited December 24, 2025 by caulfield12

[caulfield12]

• Michael Baumann evaluates what kind of player McNeil still is and how he fits in the Athletics lineup as McNeil as the “Metsodous” continues. (Damn. I wish I’d thought of that word first.)

• Ken Rosenthal looks at where the Mets go next and how a toxic clubhouse seems to be driving these moves. (The Athletic sub. req.) Plus other MLB notes.

  “What they’ve done tells you how big a s— show their clubhouse was,” said one rival executive who was granted anonymity for his candor. “The guessing is over. It was a disaster.”

• Anthony DiComo writes about where the Mets might go from here.

• Lex Pryor writes that the Mets are seemingly adrift without a plan at the moment.

  Mets currently searching for someone better than Mark Vientos...Bregman or Okamoto fit here, maybe Willi Castro or Luis Rengifo?  Moncada nah.

  Also, Stearns is going to have to assess the impacts positively and negatively of adding Robert Jr., into that mix with both Soto and Lindor at odds.

Edited December 24, 2025 by caulfield12

[WestEddy]

On 12/24/2025 at 3:41 PM, caulfield12 said:

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/articles/nationals-agree-contract-ex-cubs-183629949.html

Matt Mervis to Nats (hometown team)

 

https://www.newsweek.com/sports/mlb/all-star-slugger-urged-to-ditch-braves-for-guardians-after-6-seasons-in-atlanta-11268681

 

 

https://www.foxsports.com/stories/mlb/3-mlb-free-agents-new-york-yankees-should-target-amid-slow-offseason

Yankees targets lol? Murakami Bellinger Kopech

The only reporting on Kopech recently is a SFG interest...have already dealt with a similar pitcher in Hicks over there.

The Giants just signed Gregory Santos. Maybe he's their reclamation project. 

Edited December 27, 2025 by WestEddy
Gregory, not Sergio

[WestEddy]

52 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

Ken Rosenthal looks at where the Mets go next and how a toxic clubhouse seems to be driving these moves. (The Athletic sub. req.) Plus other MLB notes.

“What they’ve done tells you how big a s— show their clubhouse was,” said one rival executive who was granted anonymity for his candor. “The guessing is over. It was a disaster.”

People mock the notion of Getz focusing on an orderly clubhouse like it's a waste of brain cells, or not needed because that one team who won, none of the players liked each other. 

[caulfield12]

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/12/owen-white-signs-with-kbos-hanwha-eagles.html

Former Sox Owen White in high demand.

[caulfield12]

48 minutes ago, WestEddy said:

People mock the notion of Getz focusing on an orderly clubhouse like it's a waste of brain cells, or not needed because that one team who won, none of the players liked each other. 

Hahn/Haber/Hostetler did it. HHH.

Or LaRussa?

[WestEddy]

3 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

Hahn/Haber/Hostetler did it. HHH.

Or LaRussa?

KW/Hahn actively agitated their clubhouses. Spies, and all. 

[southsider2k5]

25 minutes ago, WestEddy said:

KW/Hahn actively agitated their clubhouses. Spies, and all. 

Starring Chris Getz as Jerry's snitch, ironically enough.