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Garcia and Madrigal would be my table setters at #1 and #2. Followed by Moncada Abreu Eloy Robert If Robert is going to be that good, Eloy would have a monster year batting ahead of him. I like the idea of JD Martinez as DH if he decides to opt out. Man, what a line-up that would be. And I"m keeping McCann. I don't think Vaughn is that far behind either. It could be a fun 2020 offensively.

I'd love to see that

So you say that to say what - given what we have now ? Kenny-Hahn have been at it for years? Would you hire either of them to run your organization ? I sure wouldn't

Hahn is not suited for sports. He would make a fine senior executive in a Fortune 100 company. All that education is going to waste.

The Astros, not the Cubs are who I like to see the Sox pattern their organization after. Sad that a charter member of MLB has to take a back seat to anyone. Teams should be aspiring to emulate us. Gotta have the right ownership with the vision and financial where-with-all to get it done. Astros would be the first place I would look for a president of baseball operations.

You make your own odds. You make your breaks. If ownership wants to be competitive it's up to them. You are missing the point. It's not about one game. It's about a so-called major market team that has been out the public eye for well over a decade.

You can rest assured Reinsdorf would have whined and moaned his way out of this if he was taking a big financial hit. I'm sure MLB made it worth his while. This game will be hyped to high heaven. FOX should do well ratings wise. This will be great exposure for the Sox.

Imagine that game having playoff implications for BOTH teams .... If the current Sox ownership gets off its collective ass and decides to finally treat this team as the major market powerhouse it was historically intended and expected to be, this could more than just dreams.

Big Daddy was getting closer and closer all game. Bat him ahead of Luis Robert and you got two young superstar offensive players.

The Leury-Madrigal table-setter show will be fun to watch in 2020.

Because Hahn's no better.

I refuse to put myself through that Hahn-spin cycle again. I expect nothing because it's Reinsdorf's MO. Given his ridiculously low payroll commitments, I actually allowed myself to believe he was going to sign both Harper and Machado plus a couple of starters. He could have done all of that and still been well under 200 million. If the fans didn't respond, he would have certainly been justified to pull the plug. He never gave us the chance. That would have a been a pivotal moment in his regime and he let slip away. He had a clear path to two future hall of famers in their prime. Just like he was able to buy two major market sports teams for pennies on the dollar (the only reason he owns them), the opportunity to sign two free agents of that caliber with no other big market competitors will never come again. It's his responsibility to put a competitive product on the field. I owe Reinsdorf nothing in advance. If he's not affluent enough to compete, then sell the Sox to someone who can. Evidently that transaction should have been consummated decades ago.

For an ownership who doesn't give a damn about being a major market force, nothing they do surprises me. Just like 2005, their next championship if it comes during this regime will be coincidental to their financial bottom line. So it will the Whiz Kids 2.0. Hungry, talented and price-controlled.

How on earth can anyone be optimistic there will be difference maker signings ? No one of that caliber wants to be bothered with Reinsdorf - Sox or Bulls. They'll do what they always do - play Reinsdorf to leverage better deals elsewhere.

Yikes. That is truly depressing Reinsdorf sport organizations make great case study fodder in graduate schools of management. Exactly, the kind of model to avoid at all cost.

27 is young enough to me

I see why Hahn likes Getz. LOL

I like Cordero's arm. Too bad we don't have a pitching coach at the MLB level to nurture it. Lopez and Cease both need a change of perspective. These young guys just don't respond to archaic Cooper.

The guy is 6-27. It's more an indictment of management than it is him.

He does come up big in games you least expect.

Big Daddy's back and at DH. And if Kenny-Hahn were smart, they'd keep him there. St. Theo knew what he was giving up. If Eloy played defense better he'd be in the Cubs lineup. We certainly wouldn't have gotten him and Cease for Q. Let's be sensible here.

Absolutely. Why do these guys look so good until they get brought up?

The thought someone in that cabal would assume the ownership reigns is absolutely frightening. It would be more of the same. If Reinsdorf cares about his financial legacy they need to put the team out there when he passes and sell to the highest bidder. That practically guarantees anyone from this present group will get out-bidded. I doubt anyone from the group was for upping the payroll to 200 mil and signing Harper, Machado and a couple of aces. But even if they didn't win this year, the future would be very bright. The Sox would have drawn 2.5 to 3 mil. Where I come from you gotta spend it to make it.

And I have no problem with that if they had better on-field management and coaching. Maybe its the "contagion" of a pervasive losing culture at the MLB level.