South Side Fireworks Man

Who needs Rendon? We got Mazara, baby!

I agree with this.

Fields like a dream or a nightmare?

Scott Boras. EDIT: Ooops, my bad. I thought I read last night that he was a client of Boras. Apparently I was misinformed.

White Sox do not value defense much. It's hard to imagine them ever winning a World Series with a defense of Anderson at SS, Abreu at 1B Eloy in LF and Mazara in RF.

They never do.

We suffered through this rebuild to build a young core which we thought would be supplemented with some bona fide proven quality players when we were ready to compete. Instead, we supplement the core by filling our biggest positional hole with a 1 WAR player? Looks like we're right back where we started.

It's expected that a third Catcher, Zach Collins will be the extra man.

If the Sox were to acquire Benintendi, would he play RF? I don't know if he's even played RF much, if at all. Or does he play CF with Robert in RF?

I was kind of hoping somehow the Sox would sign him to improve the defense at SS and either move Timmy to RF or trade him for a TOR pitcher. Oh well.

I'd rather have Didi at SS and try Anderson in RF.

Can the Sox trade Vaughn yet? I always thought a team had to wait one year after drafting a prospect before they can trade him.

Could go either way, but I take it as the Sox coveting a starting pitcher are looking to trade for one. Like his other tweet, "Not able to speak to any specific targets but the quality of players the Sox have on the table speaks to the potential return," I don't take it to necessarily mean that the Sox have one of their top prospects on the table. All he says is that the potential return is proportional to the quality of the players you give in exchange. Nothing earth shattering about that! He doesn't speak to the quality of players the Sox are offering one way or the other.

He probably just means the Sox covet a starting pitcher. The position of SP is what he's describing as being coveted, not necessarily a player who is coveted by the league in general.

Maybe their interest in Ozuna is as a replacement for Eloy if they trade him for a young stud pitcher.

How did that work out for the '77 South Side Hit Men? Lots of fun, but in the end no cigar.

Yeppers.

If the Sox signed Rendon and then somehow traded Moncada for both a great RF and great SP, I would definitely go nuts - in a good way.

God bless Bobby Jenks. I wish him nothing but the best.

Return of The South Side Hit Men!

You do realize his agent is Scott Boras, right?

Supposedly Wheeler is willing to sign a contract soon, maybe even within a week. If you pass on Wheeler now and someone else signs him, the price of Ryu just went up. And with Boras as his agent, you may be negotiating until March with no guarantee you land him. In the meantime, you are putting other potential deals on hold. Strike while you can.

Money. I don't think it's wise for the Sox to miss out on deals they want to make to wait for Boras.

Get Joc first. If it turns out they can make a deal with Boras for Castellanos later, they can always DH him and use him in RF against LHP.

So the Sox and Hamels already agreed to terms.