This seems monumentally stupid. The White Sox are so fucked as long as Kenny and Hahn are there.

IMO it depends on what their plan is with the Sale trade.

If they are going to get back guys that will make an impact in the big leagues this season then you should keep Eaton. If they are going to get back prospects that will not have an immediate impact then trading Eaton makes more sense.

Eaton is 27 years old, not 32. He's coming off a 6.2 WAR season. He's probably getting better still and he has a great contract. In any situation it's stupid to move him.

I am not disagreeing with you. But the same thing could be said for Sale, and they seem pretty set on trading him.

It seems as if the Sox are giving in to pressure to do it "The Cubs Way". This team with this core is close to being very good. It sure ain't gonna get better by moving Sale and/or Eaton. But they need to spend money to fill their holes, not try to get lucky.

Who would you spend money on this offseason to try and fill those holes and be very good?

Fowler maybe in center, but I aint seeing much else that could push them to very good.

I think if you signed Fowler four four years and Beltran for one you'd take a good crack at the division.

What about the 3, 4 and 5 spots in the rotation? What about the bullpen? You hope Rodon figures it out next season, but who knows with him anymore. Migo may repeat what he did last year, he may not. Shields is awful and has almost no hope of getting better. Absolutely nobody in AAA or AA worth a damn is near the majors (except Burdi if they leave him as a reliever), so internal reinforcements aren't coming to save the day.

Add that to the holes at C, CF, DH and 2B that have been plaguing this team for the last 5 years and its too much to make up in one offseason. The Sox are outstanding at a few places, good at a few more, then painfully horrible everywhere else. The wealth must be spread across the diamond and I'm not waiting 5 years to see if Hostetler can draft well enough to do it naturally. They dont have to trade all of Sale, Quintana, Eaton, Frazier, Abreu, Melky, Robertson, Jones etc. over the next 8 months, but they must trade some of them. No amount of money spent in free agency this year or next year will be able to plug all their holes, and it'll be a while before the prospects we have now are ready to see MLB action.

What about catcher and 2nd base?

What about the 3, 4 and 5 spots in the rotation? What about the bullpen? You hope Rodon figures it out next season, but who knows with him anymore. Migo may repeat what he did last year, he may not. Shields is awful and has almost no hope of getting better. Absolutely nobody in AAA or AA worth a damn is near the majors (except Burdi if they leave him as a reliever), so internal reinforcements aren't coming to save the day.

Add that to the holes at C, CF, DH and 2B that have been plaguing this team for the last 5 years and its too much to make up in one offseason. The Sox are outstanding at a few places, good at a few more, then painfully horrible everywhere else. The wealth must be spread across the diamond and I'm not waiting 5 years to see if Hostetler can draft well enough to do it naturally. They dont have to trade all of Sale, Quintana, Eaton, Frazier, Abreu, Melky, Robertson, Jones etc. over the next 8 months, but they must trade some of them. No amount of money spent in free agency this year or next year will be able to plug all their holes, and it'll be a while before the prospects we have now are ready to see MLB action.

there was a halfway decent catcher out there but he signed with the twins. sox are fuxed.

I would have liked them to get Castro but truth be told he probably got much more than he is worth.

dude, what are you, JR's accountant? when you don't have a fucking catcher you have to pony up.

This is just a typical negative Sox fan view. Sale-Rodon-Gonzalez-Quintana-Shields is one of the better rotations out there. In the Central only Cleveland even has a chance to be better. Shields will almost certainly be better than he was last season.

Personally, I'd try to go for it while trading Quintana for a bunch of young guys. I'm certain who Quintana is and that his W/L record defines him better than any of his other numbers. I'd bet a lot that when his career is over people will be forced to admit he was the guy I thought he was rather than what they insisted he was.

Fine, I'll give them a break on the rotation even I dont necessarily believe in it.

But the bullpen is atrocious and the lineup holes are worse. Even if Saladino plugs in at 2nd and a CF can be found that still leaves Avisail fucking Garcia and Alex Avila at DH and C. And who knows that the wrong side of 30 CF they acquire will do as so many wrong side of 30 players do for the Sox: fall off the fucking cliff. God help the Sox if anyone winds up on the DL or plays so poorly you cant keep running them out there because there is absolutely no depth anywhere.

The bullpen I dont know where to start. The closer chokes, the middle relief cant get anyone out, the loogy makes me wonder if Scott Downs ever left town and Nate Jones is held together by duct tape.

Its not a winning recipe.

I'm not just being negative for the sake of it either. Half the White Sox roster is objectively horrible and has been for a long time.

I'm not just being negative for the sake of it either. Half the White Sox roster is objectively horrible and has been for a long time.