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This is kind of a repeat of last offseason: acquire some guys who are lucky to be in baseball with a smidgen of a chance of getting good. We're still on the same track to 40-50 wins at this date. We'll see what happens. January is the month. February is spring training before u know it.

36th round draft pick who hit 8 homers in almost 500 at bats last season. 3B position will have no power this season. Sounds like our new Nicky. Good defense though which helps the push to 50 wins. Sox allegedly have beefed up the bullpen with a lot of bodies to choose from. Great defense to go with this staff should assure 49-51 wins despite the total lack of hitting on the team.

This is familiar. Offseason stockpiling of the latest crop of relievers. Law of averages gonna give the Sox a good bullpen for once? A good bullpen makes the over 49 bet look better. My tip: Pay attention gamblers. You mite wanna bet the house on over 49.

So Vargas got 14 hits in 135 at bats for the Sox last season. He did draw 17 walks. But his 14 for 135 has to be one of the worst 135 at bat stretches of any player in Sox history. Why would anybody think this guy is an everyday player? Then Fletcher... 46 hits in 223 at bats. Oh boy that's awful. And those two guys could be 2/9s of our order on a given day? Let's say Beni reverts back to the 2023 Beni and Robert and Vaughn hit the same as they did last year. And Fletcher and that other guy split duty in right field. I'm not trying to be an alarmist but even with some promising young arms you have to score some runs to win ballgames. I see no signs of 2025 White Sox being as good as the 2024 team. Who the hell is our shortstop? At least last. year we knew it was DeBong who was not a complete embarrasment. I see no punch in this lineup and very few HRs if Beni reverts back to 2023 and Vaughn remains Vaughn. Should be interesting to see if Sox can win a zillion 2-1 games somehow. No bats.

What a dummy. You always got the feeling Hawk/Stoney while making regular contact with players didn't try to bond with the boys in the locker room. Even though he's young, Schiff is not prime 'become one of us' material with the players. Leave 'em alone; ask 'em something while flying by once in a while. Do an interview when u are supposed to. Don't force things

All those calls are embarrassing. When you have a 42-win team, cmon, as much as you want to get excited, the team has prevented that. Any attempt at being 'overly' positive is ridiculous. You have to treat each game as its own but the big picture of team suckiness can never be ignored. South Side Stand Up is so bad. The haters and losers thing is counterproductive. And the final two are not worth commenting on they are so bad.

Holy cow. The couple of games I watched they move the ball and shoot it pretty well.

Thing is they haven't added anything (beni)ficial to the everyday lineup that would improve the final W/L total. At least one facet of the game figures to continue to cost the Sox almost every night. Starting pitching, hitting, bullpen are all conceivably worse than this past season. Defense? I truthfully have no idea how this ragtag bunch will field the ball. Mabe that's a strength if our up the middle defense is actually good. At this point do we even have anybody better than DeBong to play SS? Is Monte ready?

Yeah, say what you want about Beni and Robert, they actually are our two best hitters. They actually belong on a roster of an MLB team. It's be kind of funny/interesting to see how the Sox fare without those two. Usually a team has at least one all star candidate. That would leave the Sox with no proven MLB talent. Yikes. I could see us dumping both though since Jerry likes money.

It's funny that those of us who would say over 50 is because it's so hard to win under 50 much less two years in a row. I'd say currently the roster screams about 43 wins again. I see the lineup as historically weak and the pitching full of more no names than ever. I wouldn't count on many of them developing quickly. But I have no idea. I wanna see the final roster.

I definitely lost the love for the game but still love stadiums and being in them. The NFL is boring (to me). Too many short passes. At least the games are three hours, no longer unless OT. Once in a while it's worth watching the fourth quarter. Hockey is nonexistent to me. College sports have too many time outs. Volleyball had a chance til they went time out crazy. College football and bball have too many replays and time outs.

Here are some Soxtalk legends: Fathom: (I envision him as a nice guy in real life; knows his stuff, used to get mad when we lost to Cubs, I think he played baseball longer than most on here). Caulfield: Same as Fathom. Seems like he'd be a nice guy in real life. Used to make interesting posts about China. He and Fathom seem like kind souls. Harry Chappas: Not only has ties to Brother Rice but has reasonable posts and also never gets mad on here. Seems like a nice guy as well and a proud southsider me thinks. WhiteSox2023 also has Br. Rice ties and seems to have his head on straight. He hasn't been around as long. Milkman Delivers: On the list of most likely to punch greg in the face if we met. I just don't think he likes me much. I could be wrong. Ron883: I think he is ok with greg. He's posted a long time, seems reasonable. I think we've disagreed on some players' value in the past. Texsox: Seems like a nice guy. I think we would agree on political stuff in real life. Mabe not. Those few come to mind right now. Peace on earth to all over the holiday season.

My view is different. In fact, I'm upset the Sox didn't sign him to a minor league deal. The chances of Eloy making it are the same as say, Robert, who also has proven nothing. In another throwaway season coming up, why didn't we reacquire Eloy. He still looks good in a uniform so to speak and if he's gonna save his career with a breakout year, why not with the Sox. Risk/reward. We should have picked him up. Cmon. He'd be as good as anybody we currently have for the outfield. Beni, Robert and Eloy on paper "again" would be potentially a winning threesome. Potentially.

I always watched pitchers who go deep into games (Buehrle, Fergie Jenkins, Jim Kaat, whoever) and considered their work an art form. It wasn't just rearing back and striking guys out throwing 105 for as long as you can go, combined with some cutters. It was a beautiful work of art. Yes, starting pitchers who could throw shutouts or 9 inning masterpieces of 1, 2 runs, could hum a fastball in there when necessary. But they mixed things up, inside, out, fastball, curve, change, slider some (even though sliders stressed the arm) and they painted their masterpiece. Also if you faced a hitter a certain way one at bat you might change it up his next at bat or two. ... Baseball to me is getting boring partly because of the pitchers going with the heater and cutter (resulting in Ks after an excessive mount of boring foul balls) and of course the failure of hitters to even try to beat the shift or bunt to beat the shift and of course every hitter has to try to lift and pull it. Sure a few homers result from lift and pull, also a lot of balls hit right into the shift. Baseball is a horrible product right now but like Lip, greg can't quite divorce himself from his favorite sport as a youth. Give me Fergie/Holtzman/Gary Peters, Joe Horlen, LaMarr Hoyt, Jim Kaat, Dennis Leonard, Larry Gura, Jim Palmer, Dave McNally baby! They'll pain u some corners and a masterpiece without needing Tommy John.

Is Cam any good or will he drive us to booze?