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The fact that TOR got 2 MLB ready players who are recently top 5 prospects in the org for Kukuchi and Sox gotten peanuts while giving up much more shows and is getting mocked by national writers speaks to truly awful of a trade that was.

Come on man. We’re comparing Kukuchi to Fedde here. One is a rental player worth 0.2 WAR this year and the other is controlled through next year and 4.7 WAR. Fedde is much, much more valuable, not even close.

That’s one of the bright side of this. Seems they didn’t have a lot of tough negotiations and was the first to sign all their expected signings (left only $50k on the table). Hope that these guys can start seeing game action soon.

I don’t see Saucke and Antonacci being ranked above their draft positions to warrant over slot. If anything they’re ranked lower than their slot on MLB. Even if this is true, what leverage do these guys have? Do they want to go back to college and hope they can get drafted in the top 3 rounds as a senior? I have a hard time seeing that happening. IMO unless the player is ranked way above their draft position and they player has leverage of going back to college and improve their draft position in their senior year, you shouldn’t have to go over slot for 4Y college picks.

I’m not seeing NIL having much effect on college players in mid rounds thus far. Only 4 college players from rounds 3-6 went over slot and Sox has 2 of them. The Sox somehow have to overpay for college players for whatever reason, guys like Steele Walker and Gavin Sheets. A team like Reds who loaded their draft with top 100 players is able to pay their college picks at slot.

The Sox are paying Casey Saucke and Sam Antonacci just about as much as Reds are paying Mike Sirota and Peyton Stovall.

Who from day 3 that are expected to sign for overslot - Shepardson? Pierce George?

White Sox gonna be White Sox. While they landed a top 10 quality kid, the class is incredibly shallow as usual and I suspect they have money left they aren’t going to spend and trade away at some point.

Who do they got to work with besides those two? Eloy is good for 100 games a year at DH, their farm is still middle of the pack, and JR isn’t willing to open up checkbook for high end free agents. Whoever’s taking over has their work cut out for them.

Waiting for Bob to tweet that TLR will be brought in as the head of search committee to fill these roles.

Davis looks like a solid signing.

Having their reasons doesn’t make it the right move. Just like they were reasons to trade for Claypool, signing Pringle, or drafting Velus Jones. I hope we could see those reasons translate into on field results soon, I’m not sold on the Poles/Eberflus combo yet, but time will tell here.

Unless they go after one in the draft, they’d have to pay a decent amount even for the next tier tackles.

Hard to imagine Edmund fitting better than Roquan TBH. I’ve read that Eberflus wanted a playmaker and a turnover machine from this position and Edmunds is not that.

Love the Edwards signing but I would have prioritize DL/OL over Edmunds. They pretty much have to go after linemen with the first 3 picks.