WhiteSox2023

Yes, I know. I’m watching.

That was a routine play for most 1B. You are nuts.

It’s bad. Nicky Lopez sucks. You would trade him in a second for Christopher Morel. The end.

Nope, I want the prospect. It was terrible D but a pitcher still has to pitch over it.

Fedde just saved some of that trade value juice by a few feet.

Good, hopefully Fedde doesn’t crap the bed before the deadline and returns a prospect in the top 100. Getz had a great offseason. I was completely wrong. The Sox record speaks for itself.

Exactly. It’s called moment in time fluffing. You can do it with a lot of crappy players when they get two or three hits in a game that juice up their crappy numbers a bit.

This isn’t true at all. I just don’t think the Sox are getting back a haul for him due to his lack of history in doing this. He was one of Getz’s few good acquisitions. Don’t worry, I’ll be sure to give Getz a nice golf clap for it at the end of his history-making season.

He won’t keep it up. Just like Sheets, they go on short hot streaks and get their numbers up and then they get cold for even longer and their numbers drop back down again. They are simply bench players.

Nicky Lopez’s OPS is over .600!

Damn, Korey hustled his ass off there.

Hawk would be going nuts right now with his cliches.

He really is an awful fielder. The Cubs really should have shopped more for a legit 3B and just put Morel at DH. Madrigal was never going to be the answer but they didn’t want to spend resources on a 3B because of their 3B prospect Matt Shaw.

Neither of us know if the Sox did this. That news never came out, only that their offer was higher than the Phillies’. At the end of the day, get back to me when the Sox sign a Wheeler over a Keuchel or a Harper over a Benintendi. The Sox are always a day late and a dollar short. And you can’t spend a dollar if you only have 50 cents. ?

Which is why when you have confidence in your primary target, you lock it up, even if you have to offer more money. You don’t settle for your backup target. The Sox likely neither had the confidence in their decision nor wanted to offer more money. On May 22, 2022, the Sox paid their backup target $14.1 million to not pitch for them for the rest of the season.

Where did I ever say to offer Wheeler twice the going rate? I said that if the Sox truly wanted him, they should’ve sweetened their offer to change his wife’s mind about Chicago. Money talks. If the Sox were so confident in Wheeler being the best starter target, they should have gone the extra yard to sign him. Instead, they wasted millions on their second target and we all know how that ended up. Epic fail. Meanwhile, Wheeler is still an ace and on his second contract with the Phillies. I’m not giving any credit to the Sox for whiffing on Wheeler. That’s a joke. ?

Oh God, not with this BS again. Nothing counts until you actually sign the premier free agent. If the Sox truly had the top offer to Wheeler and wanted him so badly, did they offer him a bit more money to change his wife’s mind? I mean, after all, they ended up paying their alternative signing (Keuchel) not to pitch later on. This isn’t spin. The Sox either signed a guy or didn’t. This “almost” BS is just that. BS. Giving credit to the Sox for missing out on their target is laughable.

You have to back to Ozzie in 2011 to find a Sox manager that ever coached again after the Sox. And his was a short failed stint with the Marlins. Before that it was Jerry Manuel who coached the Mets after the Sox.

As they should be. At least Getz has a clue here.

Normally I wouldn’t make fun of Sosa looking like a vampire now because there are people with skin conditions that do this sort of thing. But I believe he actually admitted to bleaching his skin to make himself whiter.

Says the guy who is penciling in guys like Julks and possibly Fletcher into his starting lineup going forward…

Which is amazing considering his record these past couple years.

Yep, it’s almost as bad as calling an entire message board of posters “a bunch of know-it-alls.” ?

I think this makes sense. 2027 at the very earliest but that’s if the trade returns for all of the outgoing players are hit on. If not, push the year ahead.