Opening day rotation of:

Burke, Martin, Castillo, Kay, Schultz

On 10/6/2026 at 8:58 AM, TheFutureIsNear said:

Call me crazy, but I love the idea of having both Taylor and Hagen as multi inning weapons out of the pen. Obviously easier said than done with the value/scarcity of SP’s, but sure would be nice to acquire/spend $ on proven SP’s AND have a dominant pen.

That 4 inning save was stellar....it also might have gassed him. Taylor gave up some long outs in game 2 and well he looked awful today.

3 minutes ago, fathom said:

Opening day rotation of:

Burke, Martin, Castillo, Kay, Schultz

You're not funny

1 minute ago, toasty said:

You're not funny

Tell me where it’s wrong. Castillo will get every chance to start.

They'd better package him for a bag of baseballs and sushi pops. There needs to be upgrades

1 minute ago, toasty said:

They'd better package him for a bag of baseballs and sushi pops. There needs to be upgrades

No one is taking on Castillo’s deal

9 minutes ago, fathom said:

Opening day rotation of:

Burke, Martin, Castillo, Kay, Schultz

The only way that rotation survives is if the lockout lasts until June or July and they only play 100 games.

Not disagreeing with your point but if this is what the Sox trot out there whenever they do play that is a recipe for disaster.

2 minutes ago, fathom said:

No one is taking on Castillo’s deal

One can hope that someone is dumb enough to take it.

Another issue they will have to navigate is none of the young guys built up their innings total. Gonna be a lot of restrictions once again next year.

1 minute ago, toasty said:

One can hope that someone is dumb enough to take it.

How much would he even get on the open market? 6-7 million?

They're gonna have to look at addition by subtraction. Might need to sacrifice some of the young ones for upgrade of they have to trade but it's unfortunately not likely

9 minutes ago, fathom said:

How much would he even get on the open market? 6-7 million?

Alcohol at winter meetings is a powerful tool. 😂... Tho there might not be any winter meetings

4 minutes ago, toasty said:

Alcohol at winter meetings is a powerful tool. 😂... Tho there might not be any winter meetings

Won’t be

On 10/3/2026 at 8:32 PM, caulfield12 said:

Getz will still be hyping Castillo as being in the best shape of his lifetime coming into ST.

Castillo is going to get booed out of the damn stadium unless he gets hot quick.

29 minutes ago, fathom said:

Tell me where it’s wrong. Castillo will get every chance to start.

Isn't Kay a free agent after this year? I doubt they bring him back.

14 minutes ago, reiks12 said:

Castillo is going to get booed out of the damn stadium unless he gets hot quick.

And then Thorpe will replace him

1 hour ago, wegner said:

That 4 inning save was stellar....it also might have gassed him. Taylor gave up some long outs in game 2 and well he looked awful today.

That's something that I can't figure out. This has happened a few times this year.

The guy has electric stuff, he can look unhittable one game, then a few nights later look like he belongs in single A trying to figure out what the hell to do.

1 hour ago, reiks12 said:

Isn't Kay a free agent after this year? I doubt they bring him back.

Kay has another season I think.

48 minutes ago, fathom said:

And then Thorpe will replace him

We'll see if an injury prone guy who throws in the low 90's can succeed for any length of time.

1 hour ago, fathom said:

Opening day rotation of:

Burke, Martin, Castillo, Kay, Schultz

Zero chance of this happening unless you think they are rocking a $85M payroll next year.

59 minutes ago, Chicago White Sox said:

Zero chance of this happening unless you think they are rocking a $85M payroll next year.

It’s already around $100 million without new deals for Fedde or Newcomb…