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Since we're on Soxtalk, I'm going to figure out a reason to be angry at this move. brb.

But he was starting to hit!

How are they going to spin this in the broadcast booth? They always told us how valuable he is, now they will pay him to sit on his couch and eat sausages .

Don't understand optioning Sosa at all. .277 / .306 / .710 in July and was even passable in June as well.

Man, I feel like you read one sentence of a post and make up the rest. Nobody on this site wants to hold down any player if they are able to play at the major league level. Nobody. What we want, please write this down, is players who are promoted when they are ready and have been coached up to their abilities by the minor league coaches. Nobody WANTS tanking. What everybody wants is a good team. What everybody, but you and a select others, understands on this site is that this tanking is necessary because the owner will never do the right thing at the right time. But you can go ahead and keep blaming this site for acknowledging that they fucked up the first rebuild because Jerry wouldn’t do the right thing. Keep on blaming soxtalk, Greg. It’s all us

It is, but haven't they tortured Sox fans enough? Now we get to watch this dope? No hit, no field, never healthy,owed minimum, that's a 4 tool player under the White Sox model.

His time in the majors definitely supports this

Nick, after signing with the White Sox, has to be asking himself where his life went wrong.

Yankee prospect hype is the absolute worst. Spencer Jones isn't a worthy headliner for either player.

Sosa will be back in 2-3 weeks, when Moncada hits the IL again. Not too worried about it.

The dude does not abide

I do agree we need to move (ahem) Beyond Burger.

Makes no Senzel to sign Senzel. I mean makes no sense to sign Senzel.

We will put all of the Sox signings in this thread to keep track... BOLDED = SIGNED Italics = Not expected to sign 1. Hagen Smith LHP 2. Caleb Bonemer SS 2CB. Blake Larson LHP 3. Nick McLain OF 4. Casey Saucke OF 5. Sam Antonacci IF - $575K 6. Jackson Appel C 7. Phil Fox RHP 8. Aaron Combs RHP - $250K 9. Jack Young RHP 10. Cole McConnell OF 11. Blake Shepardson RHP - $150k 12. Nathan Archer OF 13. Pierce George RHP 14. Justin Sinibaldi LHP 15. Mason Moore RHP 16. T.J. McCants OF 17. Lyle Miller-Green TWP 18. Liam Paddack LHP 19. Nick Pinto LHP 20. Myles Bailey 1B Bryce Elbin IF UDFA Grant Smith SS UDFA Colton McIntosh, RHP UDFA Grant Magill C UDFA Alec Makarewicz, 3B UDFA Jose Corona C UDFA Miguel Santos IF UDFA Gray Thomas P UDFA Clete Hartzog P UDFA

Why the f*** would you option Sosa to AAA, dude has one of the highest BA on the team I don't care how bad his defense is.

Harold was the first person I thought of right away when this happened.

Yeah, Harold said he was heating up.

The timing of this is pretty comical.

I meant play Sosa at 2nd. I don't give a s%*# what they do with Moncada. Let him shoot a music video during the 4th inning for all I care.

This is a gas station subway where the attendant is making you wait for your sub while he gets the gas customers

Most boring couple of days in the sports world. Let's make a trade or two.

We're pretty much dead last in every category aren't we?

I like the draft pick more to add money to the #10 pick next year and pay insane money to a prep kid at 10 to ease the burden of sucking and not being rewarded for it this year.

Wrong outfielder Dombrowski

I'm trying to think of analogies for this roster move and thinking It's like folding a napkin to prop up a wobbly table in a dive diner at 3:00 am but you keep falling off your chair because you are drunk.

Senzel supposedly can cover 2B 3B and outfield so yea he really covers support for pretty much every move outside of pitching at the moment

And we will pick 1st in every round after the 1st round.

He can’t hit. He can’t field. He can’t stay healthy. A White Sox trifecta.

Major league average OPS is 707.There are currently 19 players with an OPS over 850 les than 1 per team. That means nearly every FO needs to be fired because they can't draft. Anytime you get an MLB player from the draft it's a win. Again, I don't disagree they need better defense. But finding good defense and the 850 OPS is nearly impossible. You have to have a blend of it all with the defense up the middle and your big hitters on the edges. If you can find both like Robert Jr you have a star.

The Sox were a 101-loss team last year but had a #6-rated broadcast booth, per this same study / metric. I think there might be more to this than just the on-field product.

Remember all the fools that celebrated Jason being gone? Idiots.

How can this possibly make sense? They're team options. The team can decline them. Someone please frame for me the argument that these could be seen as "negative value." The buyouts are $2M lol

I think we get a piece out of someone's top 10. You can't teach that arm

Just thinking in regards to Crochett and the Orioles as a potential landing spot. Kind of cool that Mike Elias is getting some really advanced scouting with Adley catching all three of Skubal, Crochett, and Mason Miller.

You apparently missed the news that they signed Nick Senzel.....and I never joke.

Getz dominating the July news cycle as expected.

This signing is perfectly fine. Warm body who was once a promising prospect for a team that is going to be moving a bunch of guys up til the deadline. Let's not pretend there are a bunch of prospects forcing the issue that should be called up instead.

I'm going to die on the hill that Senzel is going to hit. No better place for his long overdue breakout than here.

Getz: Send down Colas! Assistant: You already did that, he's at AAA. Getz: Well call him up so I can cut him again!

I prefer losers in their 30's.

Senzel also plays the outfield. Dude can’t hit a lick. Already 29 years old and bad. He has a -2.2 bWAR for his career. Another crappy player right up Getz’s alley. Just gonna waste at bats on a proven scrub.

oh for the days of Kenny drafting his son and giving him a 6 figure bonus; and then drafting Ozzie's sons in late rounds and Ozzie getting pissed about it.

Come on, he's the same guy as Benetti just without the cringey sound effects. Ill never understand the Benetti love affair, he had no clue what was going on either.

Garrett Crochet worth a haul? After one of his recent outings, a rival evaluator who saw Chicago White Sox starting pitcher Garrett Crochet texted the following: “Absolutely incredible. Someone should give them what they want. Fastball that explodes, angle, life (on his fastball) just absurd. I’d give them like five prospects for him right now.” Crochet, 25, is earning only $800,000 this season and isn’t a free agent until 2027. There are no perfect examples of previous trades that could match a potential Crochet trade, but a couple recent moves that have a similar profile include: Zack Greinke being traded to the Houston Astros for four prospects and Tyler Mahle being traded to the Minnesota Twins for three prospects.

Jason is really, really, really good at what he does. It took me hearing him with other guys and some time to really appreciate his style, but he is one of the best there is.

I thought this was viewership ratings at first. I thought that made sense. Then I realized they were rating the actual announcing, and I still thought the same thing.

I'm in you crazy son of a b****.

If I were the O’s I’d make an offer for Crochet AND Fedde. Strike while the iron is hot. They’ve got a lot of great prospects but I don’t see the pitching depth when they are otherwise in position to win some WS. Holliday, Mayo, Bradfield and Beavers for Crochet and Fedde and any bullpen arms they might find useful. That still leaves them with plenty of young talent on positional side. The relative cheapness of Crochet and Fedde would allow them to put some money into acquiring a bat via free agency if they need one. obviously that’s a lot to give up, but that’s a lot of high quality starting pitching to receive at a crucial juncture

I am also actively shopping for a winning powerball ticket.