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  1. If every top prospect he acquired hit at a 100% rate they'd be winning at a 95+ win rate isn't exactly a winning sales pitch. Players get injured and prospects bust. That is why you need depth. And realistically: 1. Kopech has at no point shown himself to be a good major league starter and has had tons of injury problems. Counting on him at this point makes no sense. 2. Andrew Vaughn was a high draft pick and solid prospect but not a special one. There are lots of guys like that and they don't always turn out. 3. Moncada has had one great season 4 years ago. It's silly to think that is who he is. 4. Grandal is a 34 year old catcher. He is going to be in the decline phase of his career. 5. Giolito has been fine. 6. Eloy was a bat only prospect who had had injury issues every year for 4 years now. Good organizations build depth and versatility. Hahn has done nothing other than the super easy part of trading three premium assets for good prospect packages. Aside from those moves his talent acquisition of anyone with real big upside consisted of signing Luis Robert to a really large deal in international free agency. His drafting has been s%*#. His major league scouting s%*#. Free agent signing laughable. And he had two just absolutely disastrous trades right before the Sox decided to rebuild when he decided to acquire s%*# pitchers for a team that wasn't winning anything and gave up premium talents in Semien and Tatis (although I fully acknowledge this trash organization wouldn't have turned Semien into anything).
    5 points
  2. Schultz faced 8 hitters in a sim game and struck out all 8.
    5 points
  3. There are a few points here. 1. There is a reason a team like Boston would trade Moncada and not Devers, who the Sox reportedly wanted but the Red Sox wouldn't include him and instead went with Moncada. Smart teams know who the true keepers are, and who have more red flags. The same can be said for Kopech and Giolitio 2. People often overlook the job of a GM, and all that goes into it outside of player acquisition. Say Rick Hahn was in charge of a marketing department. He hires 2 brand new creatives, 2 hires that come from big agencies and have a good track record. When they arrive to work, they are set up with two desktop computers from 1998. Not really setting up your new investments for success, are you? The training staff and baseball analytics department is woefully behind the times, and we've seen it impact the Sox on the field over the last handful of years. The "core" of this team basically never plays together at the same time. 3. Sports is unfair. Being a GM is unfair. I don't disagree that on paper, Rick Hahn built a solid core during the rebuild. The names listed in your post, on paper, make up a solid foundation. For whatever reason, it didn't work. The biggest issue is we said from Day 1 of the rebuild, as excited as were for each name listed above, some of them weren't going to work out. They never do, for any baseball team. Prospects fail. You know it's going to happen, and you need to be prepared for it when it does happen. The next wave of talent needs to be there. That's maybe the biggest failure of the Sox. They went all in on their core, and had NOTHING to back it up. The minor league system is a barren wasteland with almost no MLB talent. That means they have to spend in FA, which 95% of the time is a fools errand.
    5 points
  4. Per Wikipedia: The "Olympic Rings" or platinum sombrero applies to a player striking out five times in a game.[4] A horn refers to a player striking out six times in a game; the term was coined by pitcher Mike Flanaganafter teammate Sam Horn of the Baltimore Oriolesaccomplished the feat in an extra-inning game in 1991.[5][6] Alternate names for this accomplishment are titanium sombrero or double platinum sombrero.[7]
    4 points
  5. What really makes me salty is everyone misses, but what in the world has Hahn ever done to make anyone think he could lead this team to championships? For every positive, their are 4 or 5 hamstringing negatives with everything he does.
    4 points
  6. "It could happen. but I'm pulling for second place as always." "Second Place Cigar. I love it when a plan comes together."
    3 points
  7. To be fair, that's accurate for us all.
    3 points
  8. Thinking of changing my screen name to Day2Day in their honor.
    3 points
  9. I like the guy on the bottom much better.
    3 points
  10. can't spell Andrew Vaughn without avg
    3 points
  11. Absolutely nothing. The whole rebuild was dead on arrival because he was the architect behind it. The guy has to go before he sets the franchise back another 15 years.
    3 points
  12. You're right about going out and recruiting away talent from other successful teams. However it has to start at the top. The main problem and only problem is Reinsdorf. He is too clueless and arrogant to understand the value of going out to the super successful baseball teams and recruiting their best people away. In all successful companies or Sports teams in America, they call this recruiting the "Best Practices" type people! The Sox will never have a great farm system until they go out and recruit a top executive from a winning organization that has shown the consistent track record of building a productive and highly ranked farm system. The Dodgers understood this concept several years ago and decided to recruit one of top GM's in baseball in Andrew Friedman to leave Tampa Bay as a GM and go to LA with a promotion of president of baseball operations and a massive raise in salary. Then in turn, Friedman was allowed to bring in his own people and hire a GM, along with all other top executive FO people needed to run a successful and winning baseball club. Until Jerry wakes up and decides to try this concept, or when the team is sold and then the new owner hopefully cleans house and does this, the White Sox will always be a dysfunctional and embarrassing baseball organization, especially developing talent in the farm system.
    3 points
  13. I've loved my Sox for over 20 years. I watched religiously for most of that time. The failure of this rebuild has made me kinda indifferent. Though it's apparent now, you could see the seeds of failure during the 2021 season.
    3 points
  14. I wouldn't mind Hicks, but this is not the organization to go to if you want to restart your career and get good instruction.
    3 points
  15. #3 nails it. Yes Hahn put together a solid core in a short period of time, but the majority of the prospects came from other orgs. That #1 ranked system was so very top heavy. And the corner cutting started almost immediately after the rebuild was officially underway. They banked everything on that one group panning out and did little to subelement, let alone build a 2nd and 3rd wave of talent behind them.
    3 points
  16. and this year their payroll is just comp balance tax of $88 million whereas in 2020 hahn had payroll up to $178 million (people forget we had a weirdly high lux tax number with the extensions) and $128mill. They have a competitive team just with their farm, margin scouting and player dev. Soon they'll get to add.
    3 points
  17. Can we make a stipulation ongoing that when someone says “I hate this player/GM/manager” that they mean they hate the job they’ve done and don’t hate them personally like you’d hate someone who stole your wife. Even if the guy does hate said sportsperson personally who cares?
    3 points
  18. At the time of the 1994 labor impasse with MLB shut down in August the Texas Rangers were in first place in the division with a record of 52-62. Given there were only 48 games remaining the odds of them getting over the .500 mark were very slim. They would have played the Sox in the first round if the season continued. Every team in the division was under .500 at the time of the stoppage.
    2 points
  19. AL comedy central....that's very funny 😄
    2 points
  20. I feel too much hype is given to a young player having a hot streak. I hope he becomes a hall of famer but I fear the league will soon remind us all of what he really is. Leave him hitting 6th or 7th where he doesn't have to have the top of the order pressure of performing like a star player. Leave him to play 3rd as a back up and Dh some of the time. Batting him second and playing second may just ruin a promising young power hitter.
    2 points
  21. 20-30 Sox are 5.5 out in the AL comedy central 30-20 Yanks are 5 out in AL East I like the Sox’ chance to win the division better… It’s clear the Sox are going to hang around this division all year one way or another…
    2 points
  22. "There's noone in scoring position."
    2 points
  23. Okay, then it's the Golden Sombrero.
    2 points
  24. Man, Middleton was a find.
    2 points
  25. I like Romy. I want him to do well. Even if he hits .250 .....he is an upgrade over anything we have
    2 points
  26. Leadoff walks in tie games are not good.
    2 points
  27. Cease used to strike guys out, funny how things change
    2 points
  28. Burger is seeking and found his own level, He got a few hits, and posters here thought he could actually hit. He is the second coming of somebody, not sure who. Cass Michaels comes to mind.
    2 points
  29. that was the 80 grade bat drop i remember
    2 points
  30. 2 points
  31. Josh Bell looks like Cleveland Brown when Family Guy does an episode from the 80s.
    2 points
  32. This guy's gonna throw a 75 pitch perfect game.
    2 points
  33. I want them to lose every game from here until September. Embrace the tank.
    2 points
  34. If Vaughn wasn’t such a high pick, people would want him sent down
    2 points
  35. 83rd/90 MLB players 26 and under for fWAR...over 100 plate appearances.
    2 points
  36. It is never Rick's fault. Blame Kenny, TLR, DK, Jerry, etc. Hahn is just now starting to get his fair shake. Dude is just simply, ass juice.
    2 points
  37. Yeah, feel like those guys should be flipped.
    2 points
  38. so we can move one of the hottest hitters up and down the lineup but our SS cannot be moved out of the leadoff spot.....
    2 points
  39. He's sucked so bad for a while. I don't see the point. He isn't going to get better.
    2 points
  40. 2014-2016: No depth to supplement small but solid core. Sign B-tier and C-tier free-agents. 2020-2023: No depth to supplement slightly larger, but can't-stay healthy core. Sign B-tier and C-tier free-agents.
    2 points
  41. With AV struggling maybe he and Sheets should be platooned at DH. That frees up Burger to play first base which he should have no trouble handling. When Eloy comes back we are going to have to live with him in right field until Colas is truly ready, when that day comes I would try to trade Eloy, he can’t be counted on because of his history of injuries though I don’t blame him at all for the appendectomy he underwent.
    2 points
  42. Nobody mentions his education more than you, good grief
    2 points
  43. The Padres played in the NLCS last season and are currently 5th in attendance averaging 38,000 a game. The Sox missed the playoffs last year and are currently 23rd in attendance averaging 18,000 a game. You're laughing at the wrong guy.
    2 points
  44. Don't you have to be actually leading a game to get a save?:)
    2 points
  45. It's going to severely punish any 1B who isn't an exceptional hitter and at least a solid defender.
    1 point
  46. Bro Vaughn has -1 career fWAR. Robert is closing in on 9. They are not on the same planet.
    1 point
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