49 minutes ago, SoxAce said:

Basically Boston Smith for Castillo. The other two do not matter. I liked Boston Smith but unless Castillo's stuff has severely declined, I don't mind this.

This is pretty much where I’ve landed so far.

9 minutes ago, Chicago White Sox said:

Choose your fighter!

• Player A: 33 yrs old | 7.77 K/9 | 2.89 BB/9 | 1.44 HR/9 | 5.06 ERA | 4.82 xERA

• Player B: 33 yrs old | 6.51 K/9 | 3.17 BB/9 | 1.76 HR/9 | 4.13 ERA | 4.61 xERA

Castillo is basically Fedde that throws harder away from Seattle.

The overreactions both on here and Twitter are insane and I am the king of overreactions here.

The Sox gave up nothing in this trade besides Smith. The vast majority of this fanbase wanted Dominguez gone for awhile now. Castillo isn’t what he once was, but he clearly fills a need here and sending Dominguez’s contact the other way evens out the money a bit.

They still need another starter. But I think the people saying the Sox got fleeced are crazy.

6. The White Sox

They are trying to become the first team ever to make the postseason after three straight 100-loss seasons. Chicago has a dynamic offensive team, but by now it’s obvious the Sox need pitching and experience. I would target a veteran catcher, even after they are taking a flier on Eric Haase. The White Sox’ offense and ABS decision making from behind the plate have been awful.

2 minutes ago, tray said:

Ishbia ...fvk that guy. Sick of hearing his name.

Yeah, much better to hear JR for the last 45+ years, minus an aberration. Am I right?

21 minutes ago, wegner said:

Hasn't Schweitzer been good lately...replacing him with Smith seems odd to me.

Schweitzer is striking out less than 4.5 batters per nine. The results have been good, but they aren’t going to last without a material increase in his K rate.

3 minutes ago, Lip Man 1 said:

Seriously doubt this.

My concern is Castillo is 33 and the Sox are now on the hook for additional years. Maybe it won't matter if Ishbia takes over sooner rather than later.

It's my understanding that when there's a new agreement, the White Sox will be significantly under the salary cap floor. Along with many current players getting raises, Castillo $ might be needed as well at least in the short term. Just sayin...

Just now, Capn12 said:

Yeah, much better to hear JR for the last 45+ years, minus an aberration. Am I right?

no.

9 minutes ago, hi8is said:

I wonder if this sets us up to include Shultz in a trade for a big fish of the Logan Webb, Mason Miller, or Hunter Goodman mold.

Moving Schultz would be insanely bad.

46 minutes ago, wegner said:

I'm going to be honest here and say I have no clue who Nolan Jones is.

Because he was drafted by the Braves ( I think ) a few years ago… if I recall correctly.

I do know there was chatter about Castillo being increasingly uncomfortable with his changing role/routine in Seattle as they played around with a 6 man rotation and throwing him out of the pen, so maybe there's a change of scenery benefit from that perspective at least.

1 minute ago, Chicago White Sox said:

Schweitzer is striking out less than 4.5 batters per nine. The results have been good, but they aren’t going to last without a material increase in his K rate.

And yet he's made it work all season.

10 minutes ago, Look at Ray Ray Run said:

It's honestly crazy that 5 of the past 7 years Fedde has had a FIP over 5.15 and he's still around. The pitching leprechaun has blessed him and it's been beautiful to watch.

I wish we could trade for the pitching leprechaun....that sounds like fun.

1 minute ago, fathom said:

If he was a rental, it would be low risk.

But again, the "risk" is that Jerry or the org as a whole has to pay him next year too. That's it. We aren't giving up top projected talent.

And he's had a consistent career of being aces with this year being a decided down year. There are countless players that have down year in the middle of a strong career. Hell, we tried to run Konerko out of town at one point.

I would rather take on the risk of this year and next year's contract if it only means money. Yes, I'm assuming Ishbia is making more financial decisions here and it isn't all how Jerry has always worked, but one of these moves has to signal the transition to taking a risk on contracts rather than selling all of our prospects.

5 minutes ago, tray said:

Ishbia ...fvk that guy. Sick of hearing his name.

He will be the next owner. Yeah fu-k the guy you probably don’t even know.

38 minutes ago, FLsoxfan said:

I think this ends up more like the Freddy Garcia trade than the James Shields.

Sure fucking hope so

22 minutes ago, Look at Ray Ray Run said:

Seattle had to be ecstatic as they needed to clear room as they have two elite arms knocking and they figured he'd be the hardest one to move.

100% agree. How the f*** did Seattle have the leverage to demand a prospect in this deal? Like I said earlier, I could see Castillo for Dominguez straight up maybe, but adding any prospect of value is non sensical from any objective valuation standpoint. The Mariners were literally leaking out Hancock & Kirby as being available to help improve their team and then found a sucker for Castillo and got an actual return no less.

5 minutes ago, Chicago White Sox said:

Great we had money spend…just mind boggling this is what we decided to blow our load on.

If they are worried about the extra 12.5 million to next year’s extremely low payroll they are screwed anyways if they add a salary floor with their extremely low payroll as it already sits

58 minutes ago, BigHurt3515 said:

He has been so consistent his whole career until this year. I wonder why that is

It’s always a woman

4 minutes ago, Chicago White Sox said:

Schweitzer is striking out less than 4.5 batters per nine. The results have been good, but they aren’t going to last without a material increase in his K rate.

But how many guys would Smith walk per 9 innings in MLB right now?

Just now, white sox 80 said:

He will be the next owner. Yeah fu-k the guy you probably don’t even know.

Probably was the key word there...

1 minute ago, hi8is said:

Because he was drafted by the Braves ( I think ) a few years ago… if I recall correctly.

Jones was drafted by Cleveland then traded to Colorado where he had a pretty good breakout but then regressed and was traded back to Cleveland where he was not great. He’s roster filler

3 minutes ago, tray said:

no.

Look what private equity/Jared Kushner almost did to the World Cup ... not to mention the B10 media rights package!!!

https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2026/08/01/chicago-white-sox-mariners-luis-castillo-seranthony-dominguez-prospects-nolan-jones-boston-smith-chris-getz