12 minutes ago, Quin said:

I have no idea why this team refuses to send Benintendi packing.

Are you sure? He hit 20 home runs last year, Soxtalk says this criteria makes you our best offensive weapon.

29 minutes ago, Quin said:

I have no idea why this team refuses to send Benintendi packing.

if they are serious about trying to build a winning team next year (lol), you can't have Benintendi on this team, same with at least 30% of the people on the 26 man right now

I’ll give Sosa this. He was good at going back on a pop up that we’ve seen baffle some 2Bs. And he could hit a little. Fielding in general? Not as bad as you guys are making it sound.

3 minutes ago, Stinky Stanky said:

I’ll give Sosa this. He was good at going back on a pop up that we’ve seen baffle some 2Bs. And he could hit a little. Fielding in general? Not as bad as you guys are making it sound.

if someone asked me, would you rather have

benintendi + low floor/low ceiling HS OF plus PTBNL

OR

Sosa, DFA benintendi, replace him with random AAAA dregs

I would pick the 2nd option

5 minutes ago, joejoesox said:

if they are serious about trying to build a winning team next year (lol), you can't have Benintendi on this team, same with at least 30% of the people on the 26 man right now

Its either they refuse to eat the contract or they think he's some kind of glue guy veteran they need to keep around.

1 minute ago, T R U said:

Its either they refuse to eat the contract or they think he's some kind of glue guy veteran they need to keep around.

It's refusing to eat the contract.

Dumbest s%*# possible. Benentendi still here. Sosa should have been the full time DH. He will mash in that lineup. Getz proving to be worse than Hahn and that's saying a lot

3 minutes ago, JoshPR said:

Dumbest s%*# possible. Benentendi still here. Sosa should have been the full time DH. He will mash in that lineup. Getz proving to be worse than Hahn and that's saying a lot

Yep, I’m losing faith in Getz day by day but what do you expect from a JR cheap hire.

Edited 6 hours ago6 hr by The Mighty Mite

7 minutes ago, Dick Allen said:

It's refusing to eat the contract.

They are eating the contract, in the same amount, and in the same increments, whether he is here or not. They are holding on to him in some fantasy world that someone eventually picks up some of his contract to save them a few bucks. You just saw his equivalent in Sosa (average hitter with no defensive position) with a minimum wage type salary get sold for absolutely nothing.

It's a fantasy that will never happen. I would love to pull a winning powerball ticket, but I know the odds are 300m:1. Jerry needs to realize that the same thing is happening with Benny. He's the Springfield Tire Fire.

5 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:

They are eating the contract, in the same amount, and in the same increments, whether he is here or not. They are holding on to him in some fantasy world that someone eventually picks up some of his contract to save them a few bucks. You just saw his equivalent in Sosa (average hitter with no defensive position) with a minimum wage type salary get sold for absolutely nothing.

It's a fantasy that will never happen. I would love to pull a winning powerball ticket, but I know the odds are 300m:1. Jerry needs to realize that the same thing is happening with Benny. He's the Springfield Tire Fire.

He doesn't want the headlines of Sox cut their largest contract ever. He's a coward among other things.

2 minutes ago, chitownsportsfan said:

He doesn't want the headlines of Sox cut their largest contract ever. He's a coward among other things.

Instead he gets years of the fans talking about it, instead of just tearing the bandaid off and being done with it. It's a sunk cost. Deal with it.

22 minutes ago, T R U said:

Its either they refuse to eat the contract or they think he's some kind of glue guy veteran they need to keep around.

He rallied the 2024 team against the fans cheering for record-setting losses late that season…

30 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:

They are eating the contract, in the same amount, and in the same increments, whether he is here or not. They are holding on to him in some fantasy world that someone eventually picks up some of his contract to save them a few bucks. You just saw his equivalent in Sosa (average hitter with no defensive position) with a minimum wage type salary get sold for absolutely nothing.

It's a fantasy that will never happen. I would love to pull a winning powerball ticket, but I know the odds are 300m:1. Jerry needs to realize that the same thing is happening with Benny. He's the Springfield Tire Fire.

Yep. Unless there are provisions in the contract that state otherwise, Benintendi’s contract would be paid out on the same timeline throughout the end of next season if he was DFA’ed. It’s not like the entirety of the remaining money on his deal would have to be paid to him immediately once he made it through waivers and was released.

Jerry just doesn’t want to admit the mistake that he let Hahn/Kenny make, and that he signed off on.

Edited 19 hours ago19 hr by WhiteSox2023

Wish him good luck, but won’t miss him 1%

We just gave him away? 18 years old, as of now has never played professional baseball? Sosa had over 70 rbi and 20 homers. We just gave him away? What the f***??

There's lottery tickets like Sandlin/Mead/Acuna/Vargas/Korey Lee.

And then there's this crap...

It's like they're running a race to outdo Minnesota for most embarrassing AL franchise.

Another Getz development win for the ages.

Even the Rockies seem fairly stable for now...already matching April 2025 team victories and surpassing it before the middle of the month.

Edited 18 hours ago18 hr by caulfield12

22 minutes ago, soxrwhite said:

We just gave him away? 18 years old, as of now has never played professional baseball? Sosa had over 70 rbi and 20 homers. We just gave him away? What the f***??

Never really seemed like this front office was a big fan of Sosa. Not really sure exactly how much they were gonna get for him but they didn’t really give him a chance to boost his value this season at all

22 minutes ago, Kyyle23 said:

Never really seemed like this front office was a big fan of Sosa. Not really sure exactly how much they were gonna get for him but they didn’t really give him a chance to boost his value this season at all

Agree, but from Lenyn's perspective he is going to a great team that has a chance to repeat as AL Champs. I think the BJays must have valued another RH bat with power while Getz was too timid to keep Sosa as our DH and DFA Benintendi or Acuna to open up a roster spott. Power/home run hitters are difficult to obtain so giving Sosa away made no sense to me. Who is our DH now against LH pitchers?

I have no stats to back this to and they may not even have the same player profile, but I've always thought Sosa was destined to be the latest Eduardo Escobar. A player the Sox don't know that to do with, move on from too early, and then goes on to have a productive career for a few other teams.

I guess now we get to see what happens.

Sox Machine with the trade breakdown:

White Sox trade Lenyn Sosa to Blue Jays - Sox Machine

Lenyn Sosa is going to wind up falling a few months short of a decade in the organization. Today, the White Sox traded their longest-tenured position player to the Blue Jays for minor league outfielde

16 minutes ago, tray said:

Agree, but from Lenyn's perspective he is going to a great team that has a chance to repeat as AL Champs. I think the BJays must have valued another RH bat with power while Getz was too timid to keep Sosa as our DH and DFA Benintendi or Acuna to open up a roster spott. Power/home run hitters are difficult to obtain so giving Sosa away made no sense to me. Who is our DH now against LH pitchers?

I think that DH against LHP will be “cast of characters” until further notice, unfortunately

29 minutes ago, Lip Man 1 said:

Sox Machine with the trade breakdown:

White Sox trade Lenyn Sosa to Blue Jays - Sox Machine

Lenyn Sosa is going to wind up falling a few months short of a decade in the organization. Today, the White Sox traded their longest-tenured position player to the Blue Jays for minor league outfielde

The Sosa and Getz tenures with the Sox track almost exactly...feels appropriate, somehow.

It would be nice to obtain players who can produce now and not probably never. Sosa was on the + side of this weak roster, and we've lost him for essentially nothing.

Edited 17 hours ago17 hr by SouthChicagoBorn
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Sosa isn't very good, or even average. But his ABs will be replaced by someone less average, probably bad, really bad. Can we at least have a goal that MLB ABs should go to people that actually have a legitimate reason to wear a MLB uniform?

Jordan Rich is projected to crack top 100 prospect lists by next year, so I wouldn’t be too upset about this trade if I were you.