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But do you like my plan if the owner was willing to dish out a few bucks?

I posted one somewhere. We have a great manager so give him 2 veteran free agent starters at 15 mill a year; one good reliever to add to our young group of pen candidates for 10 mill a year; add one power hitting outfielder at 15-20 mill a year and add a second baseman with a clue for say, 8 mill a year. Bring up Monte and Echo and u give the manager a chance to pull a Quatraro. Go with Sosa at third I guess unless u wanna spend even more and find a good 3B. All my plan takes is good evaluation of the free agent market and Jerry not wanting to lose 100 again.

Good question. We got a stellar manager so why not pull a Royals and acquire 2 GOOD starters, one good reliever (we have a lot of other guys to try around a good reliever), and also a power hitting outfielder and a GOOD hitting second baseman for starters? It might cost Jerry a little money but for gosh sakes spend enough to finish 20 under .500 not 40 under!! Or else get out of the business and sell the club please. So my plan would be 30 mill a year combined for the two starters, 15 mill for the good reliever and 10 mill for the good second baseman. Try to bring up Monte in May to play SS. And bring up Elko for some pop when he's ready. THank u. the new manager and his pitching coach can work with the plethora of young pitching talent to go with the two new veteran starters!

Vaughn might be able to get up to 30 if he keeps trying to lift and pull rather than find a gap now and then for a 2B.

Sale shoulda been our modern day Buehrle. Pitch for the Sox many moons.

Surprised it's not Beni. He's been very very bad though he did blast 20 homers I think. I won't call him "trash," a word that's been on all the news cycles. It's kind of dehumanizing word.

That's a fact. The Royals were struggling almost every time they played the Sox, boatraced the Sox to get back on track and regain confidence. By the time the playoffs started they actually had a good set of pitchers, not quite enuf hitters to go with Salvy and Witt. In fact the Royals lineup was not much better than the Sox lineup. It was lousy.

somehow tanking became popular especially with fans who love the unknown prospects. Then those unknowns grow up (Moncadas, Eloys, lol) and join the big league club and stink. Wait til next year is one of the best sayings in sports history. Cause tank teams entice their own fans by the promise of a great future with guys 2-3 years from making the big league roster. It's a good excuse for the team being as bad as the White Sox.

Good plan to make the Sox irrelevant forever. Three 100 loss seasons in a row and counting. Wowsie.

Dodgers have a gem in Kopech. They should keep him. In Chicago he was a home run machine but with a good organization he proved his value. Start him as a setup guy, close him once in a while. Or make him a starter. He should thrive in LA again next year IMO. Bullpens are so fragile. The Yankees' last two pitchers tonight, though overworked in the postseason, ran out of gas and both stunk. I guess Luke wasn't that bad considering he inherited bases loaded no outs in the eighth. But he had nothing left in the ninth.

Now that is an excellent post. That's worthy of mention during the broadcast but I doubt the announcers went there. In fact I know they didn't as I watched it.

And that is why you don't fire Dave Roberts after the disappointments. It's why you don't listen to the noise if you are a good GM/owner. Boone probably will get fired even though that roster was by no means dynastic.

Ray Ray with a top 10 post for the calendar year 2024. Nice post. This post is everything greg's been saying forever. Greg detests rebuilds or so called rebuilds! Hopefully our new manager will try to win some games with the hideous roster he 'likely' will have unless the Sox wake up and play some guys not named Sosa, Lopez, Beni, DeLoach, Fletcher, Julks, Ramos, Moncada, Robinson and get rid of Justin Anderson, Nastrini and other ineffective individuals on the mound.

Day two take: He's our best manager since Ozzie (duck) and he's a great choice. The fact a sensational candidate would take this job with a capable GM but horrible owner means he "probably" believes in our top prospects including several "allegedly excellent" moundsmen plus Monte and Elko and some others. He probably thinks Robert and Monte are stars in the making. And he probably has a feeling the Sox in this day and age can somehow rustle together a serviceable bullpen. In short, our new skipper thinks we can sniff .500 this year then go for it all the year after. We shall see but this means a capable baseball mind senses a plan. Otherwise he'd wait for a better team to offer him. GO SOX! GO BR!

We have a great manager now we have to hope he is one tough SOB. Tough to stand up to Getz and Jerry and any idiot in the front office that implies he's doing a lousy job when we are 10-35 next year. This team has no talent on its current roster except perhaps a couple league average guys, a few outstanding prospects like Monte and Elko, etc. But basically we are the laughingstock of baseball and our new manager has to have the guts to laugh in the face of his superiors if they refuse to improve the roster. Again, winning 55 games should get him manager of the year that'd be a 14-game improvement with a wretched team.

When I think of baseball I think of Pete Rose and Reggie Jackson. When they played, baseball was fun and exciting both. Then came analytics. Rest in peace to Pete Rose. The fact he's not in the Hall of Fame is par for the course in baseball.

Two guys: Witt and Salvy. Salvy had a great season, bad postseason. Our fans would have never wanted Salvy, too old like Abreu. Also Royals signed two "starting pitchers" who had great seasons and their bullpen guys were above average unlike the Sox wretched starters and bullpen. ... Also don't forget they owned the White Sox and the White Sox series came at perfect times for the Royals. They were starting to slip in each of them but sweeps of the Sox got them going again.

Any chance at victory? Fenwick seems elite. Why are we in 7A when Benet is in 4A or 5A and they have more students? Weird.

He's a decent reliever but basically just another guy in terms of a bullpen piece. Good at times. A HR machine other times. Probably worth about 10 mill a year.

Yep. That was it after the shocking walk off. Freeman MVP. As I pointed out in the KC series, Yankees can't hit. They can work the count and strike out, though.

Oh geez. Fenwick is good.

The Sox are the bottom of baseball but the Cubs probably are just as annoying to their fans. They are mediocre at best.

No. He sells no tickets. he's just another guy. But I've been told on this site a lot ticket sales mean nothing. It's all about revenue sharing and TV money. Although you'd think parking would be significant revenue accumulator.

Vaughn is an interesting study. Once in a while he gets hot and rakes. He's had over 500 at bats three years in a row now with RBI totals of 70, 80 and 76. Strike out totals are ridiculous at 132, 129 and 96. Batting averages of .246 last year, .258 and .271. Obviously he's one of those guys trying to hit a homer every at bat thus he's an abject failure in that regard with just 19 HRs last season and career high of 21 homers. His production may be blah but the Sox will have to replace some of his production next season as he's probably the best hitter in the Sox horrible lineup as it stands.

Nice. Any playoff info?