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I believe there will be an opportunity to gain on Cleveland in the Central with a few personnel moves, possibly competing for POs in 2019. Of course everything will need to converge perfectly. That said, unless we have a viable alternative, I'd keep Avi and roll the dice on his returning to 2017 form. He showed flashes between injuries last year. Abreu is another story but I doubt there is a market. Hahn might try to extend him (2yrs at $30M?). At this point, he appears best suited as a DH and platoon 1B along with his clubhouse influence. One player I would be interested in is Greg Bird on Yankees. He is 26 yrs. old and a big defensive upgrade. He struggled last year and was replaced by Voit but he has a big LH bat and might be a change of scenery candidate the Yankees would part with (Yankees can use a back up catcher). I would also move on Donaldson and any/all starting pitchers with potential.

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-dodgers-might-be-in-actual-legal-trouble/ When I saw there was an FBI investigation in MLB's latam operations, I'll admit I didn't think much of it. I thought some fines would come through and some reforms by MLB. It seems based off of this that some significant punishments may come down, especially on dodgers front office, who actually kept a spreadsheet on how criminal some of their contractors/employees were. Great work by SI here: https://www.si.com/mlb/2018/10/02/fbi-investigation-mlb-atlanta-braves-los-angeles-dodgers Thankfully, the sox previous criminal executive means sox are very likely not a part of this, but I have a hard time believing MLB won't respond to this with a draft which means union will need to figure out what exactly they want to receive in return.

I agree. That's why I would non-tender him but then try to sign him to an incentive-laden contract. If he produces close to his 2017 numbers, it would be worth it, even if it ends up being around the $8 million he would have gotten in arbitration. Also, why all the love some have shown for Delmonico. He'll be 27 next season, hit .215 this year, and is a butcher in the field.

I'm confused how "trade me now, I don't want to be here" fits with him declaring "you fucking need me" to the GM/coach.

Wouldn't this mean a little more if Giolito actually had an ERA below 6.00? What's next, Adam Engel speaking about the impact Todd Steverson has had on his offensive game?

No way, mission accomplished.

There were pretty pro both of those things.

Both sides are guilty of that depending on who is in power. Ask Madigan.

The right business decision is to let Garcia walk, and probably to let Abreu walk for that money and the need of roster spots also, but the White Sox have a habit of making decisions that aren't just business ones. That's how you wind up with Robin Ventura and how you wind up with the org not being willing to fire him after 2016 - they prioritized the "family" side of things. That's how you wind up with Getz and Rowand as key guys in your minor leagues, because they started in your system. You can easily come up with other examples of them holding onto guys that they like, sometimes they'll justify it by saying that the guy is good in the clubhouse or is good around the young players or something like that. Even though they could use the roster spot and the money could be better spent elsewhere, the White Sox have enough of a history of saying "Yeah but these are good clubhouse guys and they're guys who have been with us for a long time" that I'll be skeptical that they will make that move until they actually do so, because they have a habit of doing otherwise at least some of the time.

I can think of no one who would convince the African American population to turn out more than the guy who ran stop & frisk. It's totally their kinda thing.

Man I wished we traded Avi last offseason.

Non tendering him doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense to me.

Neither Abreu nor Avi are blocking anyone, so there really isn't a reason to non-tender either unless JR just wants to be a penny pincher, or there is a real chance of landing either Harper or Machado.

I see the Padres fired their hitting coach. Yesterday the Marlins fired 4 coaches. Earlier, Baltimore and the Angels parted with their managers. The White Sox, however, are holding strong with all of their staff. Must be government positions.

I will mark progress on my kitchen bb when Adam Engel is no longer our everyday CF. Those other schlubs can play at Charlotte until they get squeezed out. Maybe Lamarre is worth another look.

The trolling comes in the form of the ridiculous and irrelevant responses you routinely come up with to deflect any criticism of Sox ownership and management. Just because you are the board administrator doesn’t mean you aren’t capable of your own brand of trolling.

Respectfully, Yolmer Sanchez, Adam Engel and Kevan Smith are average to below average players. If those are the players were touting as draft success, it's not very good. TA has been a nice player and a good pick but the FO should get it right more often than not if we want the type of success we're hoping for. So not all bad, but my point is there needs to be much more improvement.

I don't think there is any way to evaluate the Sox drafting and development and call it a success.