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This doesn’t make any sense. One reason why St. Louis is where they are is their lack of pitching development. Brian Bannister fixed Fedde the first time. He’s probably the guy most likely to do it again.

If it were me, I’d walk down to Acuna and demand he bat switch hitter all season.

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I’m sorry, there’s no way he shouldn’t know how he bats. This is a guy with a decent amount of MLB At bats. I’m sure he saw his Venezuela League homers…..where has batting righty against righties. It would be great to give this organization the benefit of the doubt, but these weekly blunders makes it impossible.

61 homers. Need to keep our expectations tempered - not gonna eclipse Judge's AL HR record in his first full year. That would be silly.

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Yep. This pretty much sums up how I feel. Did he misspeak? No chance Is it embarrassing? Yes Should a GM know this detail? Absolutely Does it really matter? No Would the trade have been made even if he knew he wasn’t a switch hitter? 100%

When you have your own network, every spring training game should be broadcast.

Murakami is "electric" and his English is apparently better than expected. He's committed to improving on defense. Will says the early BP sessions have just been tuning his mechanics rather than actually swinging full out (8 HR is certainly not bad for "taking it easy"). When asked about the strikeout concerns, he says they have more tools for training and practice than in NPB (like the pitch sim machines) that the staff can use to help. Says Mune's got a good work ethic and personality. Thinks they'll be able to get ABs for both Teel and Quero. No OD starter yet, but Dominguez is the closer (with the door open for "Judge in the 8th of a one run game" type of non-closing leverage). Emphasized being honest and transparent about roles and expectations for players, including talking to Smith and Schultz about not breaking camp next month. When asked to highlight one offseason add he's excited about, he went with Kelenic which is interesting. Says they think they can tap into his upside.

Just tell Getz he is a switch hitter, and he is ours.

I never cared for Castellanos as a player. He is legit dangerous on fastballs down in the zone, but there are holes up and he is one of the worst outfielders I have ever seen. Sox do not need a short side platoon DH with character questions on their young team, imho.

We do have a hole to fill without Clevinger in camp.

Lol at that headline. Did they also throw all his clothes down onto the street from the bedroom window?

For $1.5 million, there should be no more complaining on this board about the signing of Fedde. If he pitches well enough to eat innings and give the young guys time to get up with the club, it's a good signing. Anything more than that is a win. At worst, he sucks and doesn't make it to opening day. The most likely outcome is he's mediocre but gives the Sox 5 innings or so most starts, which is fine.

I've stuck up for you numerous times because of needless bullying because your posting style is unique . And you are polite. I like level headedness. Im not particularly fond of people acting like a pack of wolves or HS jocks picking on the nerds. I also attended a seminary HS . I haven't changed except over the years I grew tired of bullying posting styles. All the guys with hive mindedness, wolfpack or Lord of the Flies type behavior that shows up when the Sox are bad but not the 1st rebuild oddly and Jerry left Hahan and KW in charge after they just traded away some of their best young talent. JR wasn't as hated then as he is now and Getz is viewed as either a JR suckup , a part of the previous madness an inexperienced buffoon. I view him as a JR pawn in a no win job that he was smart enough to know he wasnt the brightest bulb in the room nor were the Sox the brightest most modern team. And he hired people with good reputations to help him and has tried to modernize after years of neglect in many areas. What he doing is building a foundation which future GMs can build upon for the betterment of the team once he is gone. I have no idea how long it'll take to have a 15-16 yr old international signee from the DR become a decent MLB player but I do know that it could happen in the next 10 years more than it ever happened in JR's entire 40+ years tenure since it hasnt happened once while DR players were proliferating in MLB. That's what's a travesty, not Getz mixing up a players handedness in his head.That's what's a very bad look for over 40 years of wandering in that desert. We are all just small fish in this small pond of Soxtalk. What we say or how much our opinions may vary ultimately means nothing .But it is how we treat each other that ultimately means something.

If by move, you mean out of Chicago, it isn't happening. I don't know why people think it's going to happen. It's not.

There is no better board friend than Cali. That's some next level spin on the concept of trolling. I've not had your experience with the subject.

My favorite White Sox player of all time.

Well damn, I thought this was about the poster.

Are we sure Getz was talking baseball?

The sun will rise over the ruins, like a reassuring gesture. There will be no witnesses. And the solar system will be better.

Ive gone from hating his hire, to being okay with it, back to questioning it. I pay more attention to meaningless emails I send than the White Sox general manager pays to major acquisitions and that is a large problem.

Guy, he clearly didnt misspeak. He believed it, thats why he said it so effortlessly repeatedly. Being a switch hitter is a unique quality. Its not like he called a righty a lefty or something. Switch hitting is a unique attribute. Jeeze, it's not a huge deal imo but the people trying to claim he knew the truth in spite of reality are just odd.

I guess it's fun(?) to imagine Getz being shocked to find out Acuna is right handed, but I'm pretty sure he just misspoke. Four times is embarrassing, but also not that many in the context of how much he's talked to the media. Only so many ways staff and coaches can phrase the same "excited to see what he does" spiel to a bunch of different outlets, so if a mistake slips in once then I can see it being replicated on autopilot. But if someone had stopped him after one of the occurrences and said "Acuna is a switch hitter?", I think his response would have been more "wait did I say that?" and less "yes, absolutely!" His interviews include several instances of providing detail on Acuna's work in VWL and their plans for him that make it very obvious he didn't just find out who they acquired. The amount of energy being spent on this is a bit silly to me.

I am an eternal optimist in Spring, but every team is going to game plan so Colson doesn’t beat them. A lot will depend on the rest of the Sox lineup. So if Vargas, Mune, Teel, and Baldwin all take a step forward, it would really help. I say 35, but literally anything could happen. Wide variance of outcomes for Colson. Btw, spellcheck keeps trying to change his name to “Colton.” We need to get a Colston Loveland, Colton Dach, Colson Montgomery pic this summer at the Rate.

I like him even more now. Let’s sign him for the veteran minimum difference.

The guy signing off on trades repeating the same thing 4 times, no one correcting him, and then laughing about it doesn't give me a lot of hope for all of this "change" that we keep hearing about. It means over the course of time, either no one approached Chris to correct him, Chris is so isolated that no one could tell him, or that the entire group thought the same thing so no one would have corrected him. I am not sure why the first option would happen, especially since we know the Sox monitor their press for perceived reactions, so if was an honest mistake, you would think someone would approach him for when he said it at least the 2nd time, even if for some reason they blew off the first one. The 2nd and 3rd mean that despite moving chairs around on the Titanic, it's the same mom and pop amatuer hour that it always has been. I don't think we can make the assumption that this trade wasn't affected if the guy up top didn't realize exactly what he was getting, Did the fact Getz thought Acuna was a switch hitter up his value in the Sox eyes? Did they settle for a lesser 2nd piece, or not a 3rd piece because of this? It's not a leap of faith at all to think the perceived value of Acuna was enhanced because we thought he was a switch hitter. I know in letting this be a "joke", instead of having a media that asks some decent follow up questions to this, we will never get any next level answers, but thus is Soxfandom.

Another endorsement for Mune's responsiveness to coaching and hunger to improve Fuller. He says more velo, fewer splitters, and more pitch variety will be the biggest adjustments from NPB pitching, but they are able to give him "exposure therapy" with the Trajekt. Fuller credits the second half offensive success to more (and more targeted) game speed reps like that.

That's the key to all of this. If they won 95 games last year, no one cares. If Getz had any kind of track record of success, no one cares. But they've been the worst organization in baseball since he took over. Yes, I know that was part of the plan, but the organization's "reputation" 100% plays a role in this story.

If he's healthy and plays 130+ games there is no way with today's ball and his swing he hits under 25. The key will be if he's 210/280/400 or closer to 250/330/480. The former is basically 1 WAR SS assuming average defense, the latter is 3+ WAR.

Feels like it’s always something with him. That trade was so bad, maybe Gets thought he was a lefty pitcher.

That was my thought as well. p.s. for hot dog lovers.. I found V sport peppers at Walmart. Milano HD buns at Jewel.

I dont think it's the biggest of deals but does say a lot about our media that it takes Soxtalk and Reddit to call it out.

People under age 45 might not really appreciate how Wrigley wasn't always so widely adored and worshipped. That changed in the 1980s with every Cubs game being broadcast nationwide to just about anyone who had cable TV and with Harry Caray as their drunken cheerleader. At least for many years after that, people could say Wrigley was an overrated dump and the Cubs were perpetual losers. That changed when the Ricketts bought the team and poured hundreds of millions into renovating Wrigley and creating Gallagher Way to go with the night life that already existed in that neighborhood. This has made the difference between Wrigley and the "there's nothing wrong with it" Sox Park surrounded by acres of parking lots even more glaring. Plus, the Cubs are no longer perpetual losers who were a laughingstock on the field. This all happened as JR took the Sox franchise into a downward spiral over the last 15 years. It is what it is. Like you said, Wrigley's reputation isn't going anywhere. The Cubs might have their ups and down on the field in the coming years, but I don't see them being perpetual basement dwellers anytime in the foreseeable future. If the Sox want to start drawing more than just legacy fans while going up against the competition from the North Side Bad Guys, they'll really need to make some major changes on and off the field.

Probably the best way to handle it with some humor. Theres not much else he can say to how can you not know he wasnt a switch hitter that many times ? You're the one who traded for him. Any excuse will sound lame. Maybe his original ask was Carson Benge who is LH but that was quickly snuffed out . Then for a long time it was Jett Williams ,who is a switch hitter and the Sox were willing to pay down some of the Robert contract to get him. However Williams was traded in the Freddy Peralta trade . Jan. 21. So Acuna was probably his 3rd choice Maybe Williams as a SH got stuck in his head because Williams was who he wanted for the longest period of time but they settled on Acuna+ and no salary payout. He can't really say Acuna was his 3rd choice. You just take the $20M and reinvest it quickly in other players. He's juggling a lot of possible trade candidates in his head at all times.

Yeah this is pathetic. Organization continues to be a joke. This will be the first thing people mention when he gets fired.

It’s hilarious to hear in one sentence “we have strongly analyzed him” and in the next: “he’s a switch hitter.”

Getting shredded as he should be. I think he should just admit he misspoke and of course he knows Acuna is a right handed hitter.

I agree, I think there will be a good number of piggyback starts of two guys combining for 6-7IP. You fulfill the "chance to start" offered to a couple guys, manage workload for the guys who need it, build up innings/confidence for the guys who need that instead, etc. Shoring up the pen gets them a good amount of flexibility to let Vasil/Taylor pitch 3-4 innings early instead of 1-2 innings late. Should also make it easy to incorporate the next wave of call ups, many of whom will have experience piggybacking in the minors.

The most likely outcome is not that he's mediocre.

Liam Hendriks to Twins. i hope he gets his career back on track and that we can go against him in meaningful games one day

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Maybe he’s from the Mirror Universe where Acuna switch hits. Can anyone check to find out if he recently shaved off a goatee?

Yeah and it can only be traded once

Exploding like a virgin on prom night.

The problem isn’t the stadium, it’s the location. They can rebuild old Comiskey across the street in its original footprint and the attendance woes would remain, just as they did in the late 80s when Wrigley, Fenway and Tiger Stadium were being worshipped by the nostalgia crowd while Comiskey was consistently ignored. They need a location other than 35th and Shields, though I don’t know where that is, honestly. The team has been unable to grow the fan base, so I don’t think any place would automatically solve the attendance issue.

It's done. Forget about it. He's a reliever, it's over.

Keith Law just had a pretty glowing write-up on Hagen Smith. Towards the end of the season, he looked like the guy from Arkansas. Noah Schultz was pitching injured all year. Both still have top of the rotation upside and should be in the majors by Juneish. Tanner McDougal has ridiculous stuff and he's basically big league ready as well. Christian Oppor isn't far behind. The Sox also have back end options throughout the system and Ky Bush, Mason Adams, Drew Thorpe should all be options by midseason. They'll likely need to spend on pitching at some point but they have some pretty high upside dudes. It's a big year for them.