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I was sitting here wondering if we had the right decision making baseball people in our system we could have had a great starting rotation.

Cease, Sale, Rodon and Crochet.

Nothing but fools run our organization.

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3 minutes ago, Tomas said:

I was sitting here wondering if we had the right decision making baseball people in our system we could have had a great starting rotation.

Cease, Sale, Rodon and Crochet.

Nothing but fools run our organization.

I see no realistic scenario where all four are in the organization at once.  For example, if we don't trade Sale, why do we trade Quintana to wait a few years for Cease to get here and break out, with Sale and Rodon on a big contract?

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21 minutes ago, Tomas said:

I was sitting here wondering if we had the right decision making baseball people in our system we could have had a great starting rotation.

Cease, Sale, Rodon and Crochet.

Nothing but fools run our organization.

Pretty unrealistic thing to think would happen. The butterfly effect from just keeping Sale would have changed all of this.

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40 minutes ago, Tomas said:

I was sitting here wondering if we had the right decision making baseball people in our system we could have had a great starting rotation.

Cease, Sale, Rodon and Crochet.

Nothing but fools run our organization.

With the biggest fool being a cheapskate who still thinks it 1970.

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39 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:

I see no realistic scenario where all four are in the organization at once.  For example, if we don't trade Sale, why do we trade Quintana to wait a few years for Cease to get here and break out, with Sale and Rodon on a big contract?

Agree...it would be different if Cease was drafted by the White Sox...and even then it would be hard to imagine Sale lasting this long (even though he has missed a bit of time in his career).  

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7 minutes ago, BrittBurnsFan said:

Agree...it would be different if Cease was drafted by the White Sox...and even then it would be hard to imagine Sale lasting this long (even though he has missed a bit of time in his career).  

Not to mention we would have had to extend Sale at market rate AND we would have suffered through a lot of pretty big injury years, and during the meantime we would have had to give a market rate extension to Carlos Rodon, while still trading Jose Quintana at his peak value and performance (while on his cheap extension) and still managed to be in the position to draft Garrett Crochet.  It might be a fun thought exercise, but too many wild variables for it to be a realistic one.

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9 minutes ago, BrittBurnsFan said:

All organizations have these situations...I still would have loved to have watched the White Sox figure out how to use Tatis, Jr, Semien and TA all at the same time when they were young...

That at least is a bit more realistic, but I get it.

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4 minutes ago, 46DidIt said:

Cease, Lopez, Rodon, Fedde and Crochet could have reasonably happened though, which would have been the best rotation in baseball based on ‘24 performances 

Is it reasonable to think the Sox outbid the Yankees for Carlos Rodon at peak value?

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4 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:

Is it reasonable to think the Sox outbid the Yankees for Carlos Rodon at peak value?

Or that they would have heavily invested in Lopez when they didn’t know how to effectively utilize him with the Sox over many years?

 

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