Chicago – The Chicago White Sox, with the highest odds at 27.73%, won the No. 1 overall pick in next summer’s draft during Tuesday’s lottery at the Winter Meetings in Orlando. Chicago, in a perpetual rebuild since they caught lightning in a bottle in 2005, are looking forward to the opportunity to draft a game changer they can eventually trade for 4-5 prospects in 4-5 years. Chicago has an eye for tradeable talent, sending franchise stars such as Chris Sale and Dylan Cease for formerly high rated prospects, who ended up being consistently hurt and super disappointing. General Manager Chris Getz went on the record at the winter meetings and said “I would like to draft that kid from UCLA, he can probably net us a few more major league ready players down the road that will whelm the fanbase at best”. Getz, in his second year in the role after ascending to the position in what can only be called a “move born out of cheapness, desperation, arrogance, and unseriousness that only a franchise who isn’t committed to competing and loathes their own fan base” , specifically by this author, will undoubtedly make a terrible move with the pick leaving Sox fans scratching their heads for years to come. It is rumored that Jerry chose Getz saying “you can do it, I don’t give a shit” while busy on eBay bidding on used clothing.
Even Getz doesn’t understand how he managed to slither into this position
Other members of the White Sox front office have expressed concerns after hearing Reinsdorf wandering the halls mumbling things like “I thought we were rebuilding here, not building a financial nightmare,” and “when I told Selig to rig the lottery, I thought he understood I meant to give us a later, cheaper pick”.(It should be noted that Bud Selig hasn’t been the commissioner since 2015). Getz has also been asking members of the smallest analytics team in major league baseball (sigh, seriously) to work on maximizing the pick by combining high expectations and inevitable disappointment, the White Sox way (I am looking at you Eloy and Moncada).
Authors note: If you remove the title run of 2005 from the history of the White Sox, they HAVE NOT WON A PLAYOFF SERIES SINCE 1917.
