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Spending their Cash Considerations on Ass Considerations

The White Sox offseason grade and Getz’s offseason grade are two different things. Once you consider the ownerships budget constraints I think it has been better than a C. Dominguez is a solid choice for a leverage reliever. Not all relievers want to go to a non-contending team. There’s always a chance you’ll have to move at the deadline which is a downside so you pretty much have to outbid everyone else. Domínguez is an interesting pitcher. A wild stat is that he tied for first in the MLB in wild pitches despite throwing 79+ less innings than the guys he tied with. He has pitched well in two World Series though and it’s hard to touch him let alone square up on him. If you’re going to take a chance on a guy why not a guy with serious upside. Murakami was just an A+ move any way you look at it. He has a TON of swing and miss in his game but even the projections that have him with a disgusting 37% K rate (Adam Dunn maxed out at 35.7%) still have him as an above average hitter (117 OPS+). The power is very real so it’s a hell of a lottery ticket if the swing and miss is just regular bad. The contract was solid. If things go well this year you have an opportunity to try and extend him. If he’s set on free agency, he’d be a great trade chip. Zero risk move and one of my favorite of any team this offseason. Hayes is a fine pickup. Nothing special, but this class didn’t have much to offer. Bader doesn’t move the needle for me Conforto would’ve been disgusting. Hayes is a solid weak side platoon player without a ton of upside for more, but it was a short and cheap deal so why not. The Robert deal was not my favorite, but not really for reasons under Getz’s control. I would’ve preferred eating money for an addition prospect or a higher tier one, but maybe that wasn’t even on the table. I also think there wasn’t much downside to seeing if Robert could pick up where he left off last year and put together a good start before you traded him. Ultimately it depends on how you feel about Acuna. If Getz loves Acuna then you don’t pass up the opportunity. Acuna has a realistic path to being a multi-win player. He’s fast, he’s got a glove, and he can swing hard. If the arm plays in center then he’ll be a plus out there. I don’t know if the power will ever develop but if he can ways to get on base (bunting against bad matchups could help) his offensive value will be fine. The Hicks trade I’m also fine with. I think the clear A offseason would’ve involved going above and beyond for Imai but it takes two to tango and who knows if that was possible. Hicks was another guy near the top of the wild pitch leaderboard. He has solid stuff and had good not great results in his first year starting. Last year was a disaster but that’s why you’re playing him 2 yrs/16M. Thats pretty much the going rate for a 5th starter/swingman at this point and Hicks has more upside than that. You also came out on seemingly the right end of the prospect swap as Sandlin seems to have some juice. The Anthony Kay move is fun. Kay has been starting in Japan the past two years and has already gotten the innings under his belt to give the Sox a full workload this year. He had a 1.74ERA which is great even by NPB standards where no one scores runs. The contract was cheap and even came with a club option for a third year which I love. I’m not sure he has star potential but his command is better and getting 150 solid innings from him doesn’t seem out of the question. Wade, Kelenic, and the other moves couldn’t interest me less. But I’d rather the young guys get the at bats anyway. We’ll see if Paez is able to stick with the team. Rule V has already been solid for the Sox so give it another shot I guess. Given the budget Getz had that’s not a C offseason. Kay and Hicks are cheap inning eaters with some upside. The Club option on Kay is very Hahn like and really gives that deal some major upside for helping the team once the core is ready. Murakami was an A+ move. I’m not in love with Acuna but I see the vision. Domínguez is a good upside pickup. If he gets his control to just sort of bad instead of 1st percentile you have a solid closer/trade piece. Im at about an A-/B+ for Getz and a B-/C+ for the Sox. My main critique of Getz is on the Robert deal but there is so much I don’t know that it’s hard to really ding him. Imai would’ve been a fun upside play if that was on the table and would have been worth missing out on Domínguez or Hayes. Seeing Getz with a budget would be fun because I think he’s a solid GM. The Sox as a whole get dinged because of Reinsdorf is cheap and doesn’t care about winning or the fans.

Y2Jimmy0 had this dialed in by the way if anybody on here doubts him. 100% credit to him he had all the players.

For the first time in a few years I'm optimistic with this WS team in 2026. Hopefully they will be competitive throughout much of the season. Time will tell but at least there is some hope.

An absolute fucking force.

At a conference and a presentation on pitching analytics. What teams are doing with in the last couple years is crazy. A couple of significant takeaways. 1. The data collected from start to start is really expanding. An example used was looking at the weather during a previous start and weight loss down to the ounce after showed issues. So the pitch count for the next game was decreased due to that extra stress and nutrition from the recovery. Pitch count is more than just gameday. 2. An issue with data and analytics is still that technology can't accurately measure pitching. The arm moves at 7000 degrees per second. Cameras and wearable just cant measure it accurately. 3. Best way to keep a pitcher deathly is to really train the body physically. This takes up to eight months. Only way to do this is they aren't pitching which pitchers cant do. Unless they are out due to an injury. Cited the way the White Sox rehabbed Crochet as the new way all organizations are approaching the pitcher body during rehab. 4. During predraft camp, 95% showed rotator cuff pathology, 85% showed abnormalities in the UCL. Especially , pitchers from SEC and old PAC 10. Pitchers come to the MLB preinjured.

This will make the conversation better.

Yes. One of the best purchases I've ever made.

They’ll save plenty of money on Roch to overslot the next few rounds

"I'm not paying for this! You said you were going to fix my car! All you did was make it work like it did previously!"

Nope just the way the medicine works. Been in it long enough and been part of enough depositions and lawsuits you see the patterns. The stuff people will sue for is nuts.

The dude in this thread immediately going after teachers is a guy that is anti-clean ass, so do we want him showing his?

If teacher’s unions have this much power, I should make way more money.

Getz addresses the media today. Pitchers and catchers report tomorrow. Baseball season is upon us. Have at it.

Funny how he says this for an article but has the absolute thinnest skin when on Twitter and craps on any White Sox fan that disagrees with him or challenges him.

Then the world is probably ending.

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

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.

Probably like a 70s porn star with that mustache.

AKME gonna try to turn in their 100 2nd round picks for a top 3 overall pick like they're at the prize counter at Dave and Busters.

It's not your fault. Just the usual suspects plus a mod that have their ears perk up like a german sheppard if something positive is uttered and here we go down memory lane.

How the hell did this thread turn into this bullshit again?

I'd worry more about Jacob Gonzalez being a wasted pick, over Hagen. At least Hagen has a big arm, even post surgery, that can play in the bigs. JG's skill set has so little upside for the big leagues.

You’re spending more time today writing about the Twins than their own fans are. That organization is screwed, I’m not concerned about them going forward.

Nope, kid is fucking cooked. If you ain’t fixed before your first full minor league season as a prep pick then it’s officially game over man.

He does seem like a fun guy ☺️ Some notes from (various translations of) his media session: He's getting along well and having fun with teammates and staff despite being nervous at first. He says everyone has been really nice. Answered "every day" when asked what has been the most fun so far Says the added attention doesn't bother him since he experienced it in Japan too. He wants to keep improving his English, and has to improvise with gestures at times. Has taught teammates some Japanese phrases. He talks with Imanaga, Suzuki, Yoshida, and Ohtani regularly. Ohtani has been encouraging. They haven't decided yet exactly how many ST games/innings he'll play before leaving for the WBC. Looking forward to facing Skenes and Skubal in the WBC since they are reigning Cy winners. Still working on getting more comfortable at 1B, is committed to improving as a defender. The swing change has been in progress since November, and is aimed at adjusting to higher velo in MLB. His goal is to be a big home run hitter here as well. Yes, he got asked about bidets (from both US and Japanese media) and he wasn't shy at all in answering. Has told teammates about the many benefits, including being better for the environment by using less TP Likes to go before a game, and likes to feel clean when he plays At one point he was talking so positively about bidets that a press member joked it sounded like promotion. Mune suggested a bidet sponsorship and when he got laughter in response clarified that he'd be seriously open to it.

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.

The Roch and Sox connection.

Just once Id like to be a fan of a team that spends money recklessly.

It shows some should have paid more attention to their teachers

JFC this really turned into a “teachers have it easy” thread?

Issue: Bears could choose Indiana over Illinois for their new stadium. Response: ThE TeAcHeRs UnIoNs ArE to BlAmE!!!!!! ThEy CoNtRoL IL ElEcTiOns!!!!!!!

This is the trade that makes me the angriest of them all. Oakland got like 40+ WAR out of Bassitt and Semien. Just complete malpractice in identifying the true value of your players.

Lol. Some of yall telling on yourself.

Law said the system isn't as good as you would think it would be based on how good the top of the system is. He said Getz appears to be doing everything right, hiring the right people, investing in the right processes. However, he said before he fully buys in on the "new" White Sox organization he wants to see the team have more cases of the organization turning non-prospects into prospects. I watched it and did not see it as much of a criticism but rather Law trying to be evenhanded about how he really likes the big names in the system but also that he seems to think those guys are more examples of good scouting than good development. He thinks the Sox have something to prove for the latter, which I think is fair to say even if you're a Chris Getz enthusiast. Those things tend to take time to really pay off. FWIW, I really opposed the hiring of Getz for all the obvious reasons most of you did. It wasn't at all clear that he distinguished himself in his previous job and even if he had, the process that led to his hiring was indefensible. That said, this is the team I root for and I'll try to just take things as they are. It's easier to see now how Getz got the job...he frankly seems less of a baseball man and more of an executive. I suspect he played the organization's internal politics really well. And he had a message Jerry liked to hear: the Sox won't win because you hired a singular baseball expert in the form of Kenny Williams or whoever else, but rather the Sox will win because you build the organization like you build any billion dollar business. Yes smart leadership but also good, durable infrastructure and excellent middle management. And from my perspective, the fact he convinced Jerry to invest in the organization itself is a good sign. It seems to me that Hahn-world did and does grumble that Jerry didn't give him the resources to succeed because of his disinterest in investing in long-term things like player development. Well, Getz convinced him to do it. It came at a hell of a cost and with unknown results. But he did it. And Getz has also managed to avoid almost all nepotism hiring that infected the previous administrations. So the worry I and many had that Getz represented a continuation of the old regime seems misplaced. It feels almost like Getz had an outsider view all along and was trying to do his job while fully aware that the Sox were not run like the good teams were. Again, he seems like a true executive — I am not the mastermind, I am going to surround myself with as much talent as possible and try to put it to good use. We have some instances where it seems like people with genuine alternatives chose the Sox over equal or better ones. So again Getz is good at some combination of politics and organizational leadership because he has these outsiders buying in. Maybe it all comes crumbling down later and it turns out to just be that Getz is good at talking a big game. We shall see. To the extent we can evaluate his baseball decisions so far, there's been a mixture of good and bad even if the jury is technically out on everything. I am cautiously optimistic, at least about whether the team will find its way out of last place in the nearish future and have some players worth rooting for.

Brooks boyer should be out on his ass right now .. wow

There is one easy way to do that. Cut him.

This is a good thing, despite the belief of some.

Winning the draft lottery is probably the best thing that has happened for the team since 2005. Maybe drafting Sale was just as good, but they did nothing with it. When Roche is in his prime, JR won't be around to f*** it op.

When they take the money out of your check for it, it isn't a favor

I pay into it bi-weekly. Hopefully Illinois politicians don't spend it all before I retire.

Credit to both of you

He was the Austin Slater trade return

Who’s excited to overdraft to every bad game Roch has this year? I know I am.

I’m not sure why there isn’t room to keep Sosa if we want to keep him. As I have mentioned before, we have lots of guys with positional versatility. In the infield alone, Colson can play some 3B if Vargas needs a day off and Meidroth can shift over to SS if Colson needs a day off. On top of that, you have Acuna that fill in at SS & 2B as needed and Baldwin who can play anywhere in the infield. The point I’m making here is that you don’t need a traditional reserve infielder who can handle SS since other guys can. I also don’t know who is ahead of Sosa in the pecking order for a bench spot. For now, let’s assume our starting OF most days is Baldwin, Acuna, & Hayes, that we only go with two catchers, and that Benitendi splits time between DH & LF. That leaves three more bench to fill and our only definite need is legit 4th OF (which I assume will be Pereira). IMO, there is certainly room for a guy who can beat up LHP to fill one of those two spots. Unless we can get something of real value for him, I’d hold onto Sosa and make him my primary DH against LHP with some fill it time at 2B. It may not be a huge role, but one that would expand if / when injuries take place.