Quin

I found a summary of the meeting

To add to the new thread: MiLB.tv is awesome and I encourage those looking for more exciting-but-still-White-Sox-related baseball to watch the occasional Barons game.

God damn

We've been told that Chris Getz is revamping the org top-to-bottom, so I decided to check it out. Remember, Jerry said that only Chris could do this without taking a year, hence his hiring. Current staff directory 2023 staff directory Current MLB coaching staff 2023 coaching staff Current MiLB coaching staff 2023 MiLB coaching staff My takeaway: Most of the baseball operations staff remains — besides obvious names like KW Jr. and Haber. Big names brought in were Barfield, Wong, Bannister, Watson, and I guess Sizemore. Outside of Nicky Delmonico, the Barons staff has had the most turnover.

Here's the thing: Gio was the former top pitching prospect, Cease was a top pitching, and Robert was a $25M international signing. They all have extreme talent that would have been an indictment if he failed to develop it. But for some reason you give Getz credit for them, but exonerate him from Clarkin, Rutherford, Moncada, Eloy, Madrigal, etc. If he gets those gold stars on his resume, he gets the blights.

Chris Getz doesn't understand you can't have multiple sub-.200 hitters in the lineup.

Dropping the ball on a core of Gio-Cease-Rodon-Lopez-Kopech-Dunning-Hendriks and TA-Abreu-Moncada-Eloy-Robert-Vaughn-Madrigal-Burger-Grandal is hilarious In one way or another, every one of those players has seen success — caveating that for Vaughn and Madrigal you have to count decent rookie debuts, Kopech with flashes — but because the team is allergic to developing players and singing free agents, a core that other orgs would have won with just withered

Cause many of us remember when the team was ranked first — built off of external trades and a few high draft picks — but they couldn't develop any supplemental pieces to support that talent and that talent never really put it all together, with players unable to stay healthy or keeping their same strengths and weaknesses that they had in the minor leagues. And now the guy in charge of developing the minor league system back then is in charge of the whole operation.

But who could have expected both?

I've stopped listening to him, but does Chuck only really blame players that would be, let's say "JR/Getz approved" for bashing?

Looking back a whopping two days, this somehow aged poorly. For what it's worth, I would have agreed with you re: Keller and Clevinger getting first cracks.

Dear diary, Today, Greg, Green Line, Caulfield, SS2k5, chitown, fathom and I agreed on the outlook of the White Sox. Shits fucked, - Quin

We've got our own Tungsten Arm O'Doyle stat!

Well now I feel sad

I'm not unconvinced that MLB: The Show could be a better GM and manager

Grandal at least put up a good 2020 and good (albeit injured) 2021. Let me show you the video that sums up Maldonado's seasons before signing with the Sox:

Deserves every penny of that $4M. After all, we've been told ad nauseum that it was Grandal holding the team back and that once he was gone, any catcher would be an upgrade.

Changeup on that strikeout was nasty

Well, Jerry is the obvious answer

But what about the campfire milkshake?!

I love that the league tons of anti-tanking rules and Getz is operating as if none of them were put in place.

Bro it's not even May

I should probably add that the no-rush rotation lasted until April and they don't even have injuries to blame. Just pure suck.

I love that us Getz detractors were told ad nauseum that pitchers like Flexen, Clevinger, Soroka and Fedde were brought on board specifically to avoid rushing guys like Nastrini and Cannon. And here we are.

Maldonado Gang rise up!