2 minutes ago, Sleepy Harold said:

 

Wow! Sandlin was who I was told failed the medicals

I have never heard of the guy that the Sox gave up and I'd like to think I pay some attention to the minors.

 

 

1 minute ago, PaleAleSox said:

I have never heard of the guy that the Sox gave up and I'd like to think I pay some attention to the minors.

He was the Austin Slater trade return

9 minutes ago, PaleAleSox said:

I have never heard of the guy that the Sox gave up and I'd like to think I pay some attention to the minors.

He’s the pitching prospect the Sox got from the Yankees in the Austin Slater trade last year.

Edited February 1Feb 1 by WhiteSox2023

7 minutes ago, Sleepy Harold said:

 

 

Yeah, so I was right.  Boston sending cash.  I was told that the White Sox wouldn’t be getting cash back in the deal because they were also getting the better prospect back.  But Hicks’ contract (2/$24, plus incentives based on IP) is bad for his performance.  No way were the Sox taking on Hicks without getting some of his contract paid.

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Y2Jimmy0 had this dialed in by the way if anybody on here doubts him. 100% credit to him he had all the players. 

 

I think at one point they tried a seperate Leasure trade but didn't go through. White Sox want to keep him. 

Sandlin looks like a reliever to me.  

6 minutes ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

Yeah, so I was right.  Boston sending cash.  I was told that the White Sox wouldn’t be getting cash because they were also getting the better prospect back.  But Hicks’ contract (2/$24, plus incentives based on IP) is bad for his performance.

I believe you said “good chunk of cash” implying to some that it was most of the remaining.

edit: $8M is a solid chunk though I guess just seeing that now 

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6 minutes ago, Baron said:

Y2Jimmy0 had this dialed in by the way if anybody on here doubts him. 100% credit to him he had all the players. 

Credit to both of you

Ok guesses has to how much Boston ate of the $25M ? Half sounds about right  Maybe $10-12.5M.

 

1 minute ago, CaliSoxFanViaSWside said:

Ok guesses has to how much Boston ate of the $25M ? Half sounds about right  Maybe $10-12.5M.

4 minutes ago, Bob Sacamano said:

I believe you said “good chunk of cash” implying to some that it was most of the remaining.

I never said it would be most of what is remaining.  I did think that there’s no way the White Sox make the trade without getting money back.  Everyone else said they wouldn’t get any cash in the deal because they were getting the better prospect back.

Edit:  Apparently it’s $8 million, $4 million a year.

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2 minutes ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

I never said it would be most of what is remaining.  I did think that there’s no way the White Sox make the trade without getting money back.  Everyone else said they wouldn’t get any cash in the deal because they were getting the better prospect back.

At quick view this Sandlin doesn’t seem too special so it makes sense. I think people (myself included) thought it would be a better piece). Again I know nothing about Sandlin so anyone feel free to make sense of why it makes sense that we need to pay Hicks $8M a year for 2 years to get him. Almost would have made sense to just sign a reliever.

Unless they think they can fix Hicks and also flip him later but still, feel like you can do that in free agency.

I’m so embarrassed I don’t have a take here. 

I used to be a big fan of “pitchers randomly change so it is good to go for them at bottom” but no idea.

This was in the MLB prospect write up and kinda scares me. "but also missed time with oblique and forearm strains.

 

5 minutes ago, Bob Sacamano said:

At quick view this Sandlin doesn’t seem too special so it makes sense. I think people (myself included) thought it would be a better piece). Again I know nothing about Sandlin so anyone feel free to make sense of why it makes sense that we need to pay Hicks $8M a year for 2 years to get him. Almost would have made sense to just sign a reliever.

Unless they think they can fix Hicks and also flip him later but still, feel like you can do that in free agency.

The original rumor was that the Boston pitching prospect coming back would be 10-15 and the White Sox prospect was around the back-end of their top 30.  Sandlin is at 8 and Ziehl is at 14 on MLB Pipeline for 2025.

2 minutes ago, Autumn Dreamin said:

Getz MASTER CLASS

Worth noting we added two 40-man guys so including Hays, we need to clear 3 spots.