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Turning years of drafts into nothing of substance at the big league level isn't bad luck. It's a combination of putrid scouting and player development.

Long time reader, first time poster. We've been through some frustrating seasons, but for me this one takes the cake as far as the first quarter of the season goes. So many things to complain about. I have been to a handful of games so far and am truly dumbfounded how many mental mistakes our guys are making. Simple fundamentals of the game got us looking like a high school team. Defense sucks w/ numerous missed assignments and errors on routine plays. There are no words to describe our bullpen other than absolutely pathetic. On the offensive side of the ball, when the hell is the hitting coach going to teach them to shorten the strike zone and force pitchers to, ya know, pitch? It's an area you fail more times than not, but good lord we take massive cuts on ugly pitches. While this post surely doesn't seem like it, I generally look towards the positive, but there just isn't much to be happy about. Swore I'd never post, but this club has me reeling...

A 4 year rebuild resulted in just a 2 year window of actual contention. This core needs a serious retool and without a whole lot coming up from the farm system, I don't see how that's gonna happen. Lucas is gone this off-season. Lynn looks like he's washed and if he continues pitching poorly there's no way his club option gets picked up. If this team is really headed for 90 losses, there's no reason to keep Anderson. This team feels like it's stuck.

And you want to be my General Manager..

People still get angry over the Cubs? I thought you grow out of that upon adulthood.

Pedro’s boys don’t… win series.

What is all the complaining about? Pedro's club has not been swept in any series so far this season...

Lol Moncada, while having an achy back and hurt now, still having one of his most promising offensive starts in a few years and “can’t hit”

Seems to me like the logjam is with Burger, Vaughn and Eloy and Moncada is irrelevant to the question. Burger doesn’t play a major league caliber third base

I still remember all of the arguments I got into with many of you about this s%*# sandwich of a team. My favorite was how many folks thought the Cubs rebuild was failure because of how it ended. We never came close to any of the Cubs' success AND they rebuilt and passed us by within 2 years. This organization is a joke.

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Cubs have a much better team now than the Sox. Besides Madrigal, they added Swanson, Bellinger, Mancini, Hosmer, and Susuki from Japan. Hoerner, Happ and Wisdom doing great. Rick Hahn not doing great with our additions. Adding insult to injury.

This year is going to be downright bad, but next year is going to be absolutely dreadful. We only have Kopech and Cease returning. When Kopech goes down to a hamstring injury (white sox tradition), our #2 starter is going to be a callup from the worst farm system in the game. Stop giving your money to Reinsdorf

This is just a bad baseball team.

A win today and going 8-5 vs the Rays, Jays, and Twins would do a lot for our fandom. Let’s do that.

The Kenny era and Hahn era were nothing alike.

In reality, fans have no real power. The Sox have seen dropping attendance, and that hasn't changed anything. Losing hasn't changed anything. There is a billboard calling for the sale of team. Fan brought in banners saying the same thing. The FO knows how pissed some fans are. They've seen the team underperforming. And yet almost nothing changes. Instead, we will get another round of fan scapegoating from the FO and the media. It is frustrating. We Just don't have any leverage.

Chappy is back. Rejoice!

Instead of defending the bullpen, maybe it’s time to defund it.

That's something this jabroni would say... 29 other orgs would have fired this clown a long time ago

There’s just no other organization that would have stuck with a GM with these results this long. I bought into the rebuild. I felt bad for him about the La Russa hiring. But there’s just no more denying what should happen now. Hahn has to go.

I’m still wondering if Benintendi hits more homers at GRF than Conforto this year

I was way light on the 5 games under on May 1. These guys blow.

It's because the bullpen is terrible. The pitching kept them in games last year even though the offense was s%*#. Without Liam and Cueto coming out of nowhere to give them a 4 WAR season, this pitching staff is toast.

I gotta say, Beni is just not fun to watch, at all. Fits right in, with this organization.

The owner, the manager, the coaching staff, the farm system.

Everything about this team is bad. The offense, the pitching, the depth, etc. Too many issues.

Let’s be real… he’s injured still… he’s always injured. He “rushed” back, but then again you probably can’t rush back from an injury when your body is as brittle as a 90 year old.

Jesus...Its April 19th.

Sure, but Eloy has zero-hitability splits right now.

Sox getting blown out and Jason blowing smoke up our ass. What a fan experience.

All these calls from Sox fans to DFA or trade Eloy are so funny to me. Yes, he gets hurt alot. But that's the same reason he has minimal trade value. You could maybeeeeee get a back-end top 100 prospect type for him in July if he hasn't missed a bunch more time and is within spitting distance of his career line of .273/.325/.496. I do think his contract still has value ($27M guaranteed in 23, 24 and 25 buyout), and those 25 and 26 options are pretty fair at $16.5M and $18.5M, but the same reason some cohort of Sox fans want to dump Eloy is the same reason he won't bring you a big return. He's the one guy on this team that can realistically hit .300 and pop 40+ homers. There is no good reason to trade him, especially when you have decent in-house DH options in Burger and Sheets to fill in when he does get hurt. Now if Eloy stays healthy and rakes the next 2.5 months and the Sox still find themselves 10 GB, sure, by all means field offers and try to sell high. But selling low certainly isn't the answer to what ails the Sox.

There’s this spot in the batting order called the DH where the player doesn’t have to play the field. Perfect position for Burger. Trade Eloy since he spends most of his time on the disabled list anyway.

I prefer Jake "Big Kahuna" Burger Because 1) That's the burger in that scene 2) It's just a badass nickname

At least we have our team ace and leader on the mound.

I'm impressed that Skoug has made it to AAA and perservered thru a horrible start in pro ball. He has actually decreased his K% as he has moved up, which had to because he was at like 40% in A ball with nothing else. He hasn't hit much in triple A so far, but homered today. He still walks a lot. I'm sure he's a garbage defender. But impressive nonetheless how far he has come. For his sake, would love if he saw some games in the big leagues to cap off that journey.

One thing I've said before is it is curious that on a team so starved for power and so bad at defense already, that they couldn't find room for Burger last year.

Moncada hater szn knows no calendar.

Bro it’s April 19th

Ah yes, another Moncada hate boner thread. Especially because he came out blazing and is one of your few lefty (well, switch hitter) bats. Eloy and Sheets are the ones who would be looking over the shoulder if Burger keeps mashing, not Moncada. You get rid of another iron glove, not one of your best defenders. But also, with this team's record of staying healthy, pulling a trigger right now would be fool hardy at best.

If we can find takers, I'd dump Diekman in a heartbeat. "Hey - looking for a bullpen arm who can make any game an 8-inning game? Yeah - bring this guy, and BOOM. Game over"

Jake will gladly hit a HomeRun on a Tuesday

yesterday's HR was the hardest hit ball by a White Sox player in statcast history (118+ mph EV)

Jake "the Royal with cheese" Burger. Too bad Chris Berman is old now.

Let’s win a series.

Call me crazy but I’m sitting Eloy for a few games while Burger is hot. Light a fire under his ass or something.