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Regular season wins and home field advantage aren’t meaningless. And even if he misses time, that’s not to say that he will miss the playoffs altogether.

If he pitches more than 100 innings, that’s worth the $18M.

So many posters here are going to eat crow about Rodon.

Anyone has updates on Vera? Turning 22 in a month, I’m surprised he’s not starting out at Kanny.

Yea and it still doesn’t make what you said anymore agreeable.

Let’s not get carried away here. We should have aimed higher than Cueto.

He could eat some innings and perhaps could surpass Keuchel when Lynn returns, but don’t expect much more from him, he’s basically the same pitcher the past 3 years, with and xERA of just under 5.00

From what I read he keeps the balls in front of him and is a great framer.

You also gotta offer their GM a shit ton of crack to smoke.

Signing injured players is up this team’s alley.

Both Kendrys Morales and Stephen Drew fared terribly after signing during the season. I don’t think it’s ideal for anyone, hitters or pitchers, to sign after season starts.

I am referring to the $75M they supposedly offered him earlier. So what’s your point?

I am trying to convince myself which is the more acceptable excuse, that they have the money to Kelly/Harrison/VV instead, they thought they could trade Kimbrel but turns out they couldn’t, or that they were never seriously pursuing a guy who now could be had for a very reasonable contract and addresses a major need for them.

So if rumors that Sox made an offer around 4/$76M were true, I am curious why the he doesn’t circle back with Sox and take that offer at this point. I don’t think he will get anything close to a 5/$100M deal anymore. Also there is no upside for him to sit till after the draft to take a 1 year deal and try again next season, as players who has taken this approach in the past usually struggle to get it going. The Sox offer seems to be the best one available. It’s also certainly plausible the Sox offer is no longer on the table, or that they never had serious intent of signing him. We can point to the signings Hahn has already made, but assuming Giolito settles for $7.5M arb, I think they could still give Conforto the rumored offer without moving Kimbrel and going over CBT.

Tim Anderson wins another batting title. Gavin Sheets plays at least 100 games for the Sox and hits over 20 HRs. Jake Burger starts more than 50 games, at 2B. Sox wins the Central by less than 4 games. Sox acquires more RPs at TDL.

We got swept in a 4 game series in Houston then won the homes series 2-1. Including the playoffs we were 3-8 against them and we’re outscored 66-43. A fluke is when they won a bunch of games by 1 or 2 runs, but that wasn’t the case here. But yes, thinking the playoffs was a fluke is an incredibly lazy take and could help some feel better about a complacent offseason.

What was fluky about it? I guess the two regular season series were fluke as well?

Imagine sitting there after getting our ass kicked by the Astros and be like yea we’re just a couple of utility players and RPs away from competing. And by the way we’re going to let our second best pitcher go.

So almost everyone improved in the AL except for the White Sox, who somehow spent money and have gotten worse. Love how the off-season has played out.

I mean I agree absolutely. Just not a defensive upgrade as the tweet suggested.

Going from Simmons to Correa is not a defensive upgrade. But they’re still a strong unit defensively overall.

Completely different scenarios. Correa didn’t commit to a long term deal because his old agency, not Boras, would get majority of the commission from that deal. The deal is likely done so if Correa has a similar season as he did 2021 he will opt out and have Boras negotiation a long term deal for him. Castellanos’s 5/$100M deal is a much better comp.

Little did we know that Conforto is actually texting Liam Hendriks asking how many pages we have on his thread, came away disappointed that he doesn’t have his own thread. That’s probably the main reason he hasn’t signed.

Is he not an upgrade over Leury/Engel?

I wanted nothing to do with Joc, but at $6M, I would much rather have him than Leury or Harrison. Smart organizations are making savvy moves. Then you have the White Sox.