Bananarchy

It goes from being a "leap of faith" when you first start losing to "wait, now we're grabbing some really good prospects and the minors look full of prospects". I'm pretty excited about Madrigal for one.

Right. At least the big league club has been bad enough Rick can justify not extending him, though.

Girardi is a smart man. If our farm keeps being as insane as it is and produces MLB talent, he would be crazy not to take a flier.

Smart observation. Good news is, batting average is only one piece of player value.

The funny part is it took 88 years for the team to win a World Series and this organization did it.

That might be a bit premature.

Robot balls and strikes can't come soon enough.

I'm happy to lose in the interest of a rebuild. You're the one suggesting that the Sale trade is worth more than it is. Maybe you can come back in 2020 when the team is ready to compete? I promise not to say I told you so then.

Uh... We already blew it up, FOF. Your beloved Chris Sale, who apparently is worth an entire rebuild, is gone and so is Quintana. And Eaton. And on and on. FOF, what's going on, dude? Are you sure you follow the White Sox?

It screams fishing for reasons to complain.

The poster implied we should be looking for FAs and no FA would sign here. That's not where we are. Keep up, FOF

So you're basically just having an unnecessary, narrow conversation that does not matter. You're living in the past, FOF

Well, the formula isn't "blow it all up, sign free agents, win". There are a few more steps than that. I suggest you go swap your pinstripes for Yankee pinstripes if rebuilding correctly upsets you.

Eloy's batting like .330 in the minors. And yeah, win and the fans come back. It's a tried and true strategy for larger market teams.

In fairness, that was a one time thing. He didn't have some rampant history of vandalism against the White Sox that suddenly got "fixed" by going to Boston. And yeah, Adam was a big part of the problem and I'm still glad he's gone.

That's fine. I like Abreu a lot, but he's not the future.

Learn what a rebuild is. They can take years. They are literally about living in the future. Remember when Starlin Castro was the future on the north side? Where was he when the Cubs won the World Series? Oh, right. He wasn't there. Stop living in the past, FOF.

Every poster deserves better than this trash post. 2012 Astros - 55-107 2017 Astros 2012 Cubs - 61-101 2016 Cubs

Look man, I'm not going to convince you of the obvious. It's clearly beyond your understanding. What matters is the White Sox are in pure talent collection mode and the org had no use for an Ace starting pitcher. Moncada will be fine and it will be a nice trade but don't make the mistake of thinking his success or lack thereof is somehow indicative of the success or failure of the rebuild. The rebuild matters infinitely more than whatever you get back for Sale and to cry about the return is to completely miss the picture.

Big picture, it's not a big deal. Now, if like six or seven guys fail to turnout, that's a big deal, but Fan O'Skyisfalling is being unreasonable.

It's nice, but it's by no means necessary. The best players on the Cubs and Astros were all drafted by their teams. Big picture, it's about sustained amassing of talent. The success or failure of this rebuild is not tied to Moncada's performance any more than the Cub rebuild was tied to Baez in 2014 or 2015.

Hahn came back knowing he got a top 5 prospect in baseball. If he doesn't turn out, that sucks. Doesn't mean anything with regard to the rebuild. Nice try, though.

There's a better "s" word than serious. The same "s" word for fans who are worried about Moncada now I'll leave it at that. It's a rebuild. Moncada the all star would be great, but it is by no means a big deal if he's not. No one player makes or breaks a rebuild.

Maybe, but this is a domestic violence issue and Meyer's wife is a state employee so there are potentially Title IX ramifications as well.

He's screwed. they probably will have to if too much more comes out about this.