We're going to look back at this and laugh. Laugh at how confusing this moment of the White Sox offseason was, when both primary and secondary options were being plinked off the board at an equally disconcerting pace, and the only reports of their activity is a sort of maddening and incoherent posturing.
Read MoreA starting rotation of Sale-Samardzija-Quintana-Danks-Noesi is rather hilarious in its division between strengths and weaknesses. Pros: Sale, Samardzija, Quintana. Cons: Danks, Noesi. Given that the team didn't give up too many future resources this offseason - a second and third round pick for Melky and David Robertson, and the useful, cost-controlled fringe starters / bench players surrendered in exchange for Samardzija - normally I would say they can just keep riding out the upswing and roll with what they have. But, their main acquisition this offseason - Shark - will only be here for 2015, and it doesn't make sense to add him and other guys like Melky, Robertson, LaRoche, Duke, etc. etc. only to hamstring your chances at competing by leaning heavily on Danks and Noesi.
Read MoreIn the offseason after the 2013 season, we saw two Scott Boras clients - Stephen Drew and Kendrys Morales - turn down qualifying offers and play hardball for a long term contract for big dollars, only to have it blow up in their face. Each wound up taking a 1-year deal worth less than the QO after the season started, and then posted abysmal numbers. Boras made himself the biggest agent in sports in part because he knew that if he stuck by his demands for his players, one team would blink and come up with the money. But with these two players, the strategy didn't work out at all. Jon Lester has signed with the Cubs for 6-years, $155 million, while the number being floated as Scherzer's demand was $200 million. Is anybody actually going to come close to that number?
Read MoreHere's a list of players who have received QO's thus far. Are they ruined in our eyes? Can we ever yearn for them in the way we once did, oh, six or seven days ago? Do we even care? Did we ever?
Read MoreIt's the best time possible for tossing out roster ideas and seeing if they make sense, and that's what Nick Schaefer, Collin Whitchurch and James Fegan gathered to do, but James mostly crushes everyone's ideas with anxiety.
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