Best of the White Sox: Disappointing Luis Robert Jr. era ends with a trade

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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🗓️ 24 January 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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In the Best of the White Sox this week, Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes reacted to the White Sox trading center fielder Luis Robert Jr. to the Mets for a pair of young players in infielder/outfielder Luisangel Acuna and right-hander Truman Pauley; Joe DeMayo of SNY joined the Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show to share insight and scouting reports on Acuna and Pauley; and David Haugh and Gabe Ramirez discussed what's next for the White Sox after they offloaded $20 million in trading Robert to the Mets.

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0:00.0	Today is an important day for the organization, one that marks another step forward in this process that we began a little bit over a year ago.
0:08.0	And in adding Luis to our organization, we feel we've added another dynamic potential impact talent to our organization.
0:16.0	We've heard so much about you, but I feel like we haven't officially met you because we don't know exactly how you say your name.
0:23.6	Will you say your name for us so we can officially meet you?
0:27.6	Well, in Cuba, always the pronunciation Louis Robert.
0:32.6	What do we call him?
0:34.6	Well, Robert.
0:36.6	This ball is sliced to right center.
0:39.3	Robert lays out.
0:40.3	Oh, no, he didn't.
0:42.3	Outrageous 88!
0:45.3	This is slicing away from him into right center field.
0:48.3	And even around the clubhouse, he never walks around like he called the Dig Me kind of player.
0:53.3	Louise Robert to center field, way back there, it carries the Dig Me kind of player. Luis Robert to center field.
0:55.5	Way back there.
0:56.2	It carries and gets out of here.
0:59.0	Find that baseball and hand it to number 88.
1:02.6	Bring him home for the first time as a White Sox player.
1:07.1	Luis Robert, he is not a finished product.
1:09.2	He drills one to left field and tosses the bat aside.
1:12.9	My goodness, where will it land way up and out of year? 487 feet. And for the first time since 2008,
1:23.9	Sox fans will see home playoff baseball.
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