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I'd say it has more to do with the holidays than anything being close.

Curious what makes you think that. I'd be surprised if they were close on a Cease trade with Snell and Montgomery still on the market. What other move(s) would necessitate holding off announcing Maldonado or clearing 40 man space?

What in baseball is guaranteed? Or in fandom for that matter. We've had enough of JR. New may not be everything we want, but there's a much greater chance than the zero chance we have now.

Stop burning money on the fringes instead of adding impact FA in their prime.

This part. Can't emphasize the bolded enough.

Your point is valid, but at this point it's hard to be worse than JR. Not impossible, but I'd take marginally better over more of the same.

Ray is obviously a question mark coming back. How effective will he be this season? Gilbert and Kirby have under 3 and 2 full seasons in the bigs respectively and neither have established themselves to be top of the rotation starters yet. Miller and Woo both made their debuts in 2023. I wouldn't say they are in position to salary dump their ace entering 2024.

Oh that’s 100% the real reason. They can’t say that out loud though.

They still need an anchor for their young staff. Robbie Ray won’t be back until summer at the earliest.

They’ve dumped a lot of quality just to cut payroll. It’s a damn shame for a team fighting for the division into the last weekend of the season. Fans showed up all season for them too.

Cheap owner who doesn’t want to give away cost controlled pitching?

It would be nice if someone else were saying it too.

When an admin brow-beats everyone who disagrees with their posting, it is.

For what they are paying him, they probably could have found a better defense only catcher. Their purported rationale falls apart pretty quickly once you take a closer look.

I avoid engaging you when you're on one of your typical crusades to prove yourself right, but this is bullshit. Getz holding out for X does not mean Y wasn't offered. For all we know Baltimore is offering 2 top 100 positional prospects, and JR's mandate is to get pitching in return. You do not know what is actually being offered. If Cease isn't traded by Feb 13, it could be for MULTIPLE reasons, only one of which would prove you correct. You don't get to claim you were proven right when we will likely never know what was or wasn't offered if a trade doesn't happen. But of course, everyone else is moving the goalposts. JFC dude, do better. This of course will be construed as getting personal, so feel free not to respond. I certainly won't engage with your inevitable response.

White Sox might be pushing for worse record in baseball, let alone the AL Central.

Minny or Cleve wins it, but which one? They both kind of take turns winning it by default.

If Cease only has offers of $45M in two years, something went terribly wrong, and it has nothing to do with his down 2023.

I think "what are you doing Wegner?!" whenever I see the Hawk emoji.

ABSoE (Anyone But Sheets or Eloy)

Rentals are expiring deadline acquisitions, not 2 years of cost control with qualifying offer compensation if acquired this season.

The only positive about the 2023 White Sox is that the season is over.

Whitewashing abusive behaviour to retain access. Gotta love that journalistic integrity…

There’s this thing called park factor that plays heavily into the RH/LH conversation. Funny how GMs care.