WestEddy

"Concentrating on catching" doesn't mean "...And nothing else!!" For those without Twitter

I wonder if with a guy like Blake Larson, they saw the damage and drafted him knowing they could lose the time up front, then train him up, properly.

Nightengale article on strategies for the ABS system. MLB ABS system, 'robot umpires' and new rules are a whole new ballgame

I think most of Getz's early trades were unremarkable. Whether that was because of poor scouting information, or whatever, I feel that the difference between the Bummer and Cease trades, then the Vargas and Crochet trades, targeting Shane Smith and Vasil - he found a weakness, and got better at it. If this is some sort of issue (which I don't believe is), I trust the guy to identify and correct a serious flaw. If he actually thought for two(?) years that he was targeting and pursuing a switch-hitter, I think they'll fix that. Again, I think it's ridiculous to think that for two years (or however long they had been after Acuña) NOBODY thought it important to find out which way he batted - is a level of stupid I find insulting and feel no responsibility to take on and be outraged over. My take on this is that scouting and R&D worked together to put together a list of targets that were probably either post- or beneath hype they could work with. They got the guys they wanted and Getz either mixed him up, or as he said, got overly excited and said a wrong thing. It's already been a thing he misuses words (Overstate vs. Understate). I fully encourage everyone to be concerned and see this as a red flag. I'm not, and I don't. And - I don't mean that like I think you're insulting me. There's a level of outrage here that just grows to the point where I'm expected to take on somebody's outrage because "this time, it's really concerning", when they turn every single gaffe or slump into evidence of tragic incompetence.

I think it's a nothing burger and will be a "remember that time..." once games start. People did a mini-flip out a day earlier over Getz saying that Quero and Teel are going to concentrate on catching. "OMG, are they going to let them DH?!?" I'll wait until he's regularly making mistakes like this before I become "concerned".

I've said it makes him look dumb, and it's a distraction. This makes me believe that he delegates more than I thought. That doesn't change my opinion of him, and how he's building this team.

He made a verbal slip. Four times. He didn't trade away a future Hall-of-Famer. He didn't get a schlub back in trade when he expected a dude. I would really be surprised if anybody without an agenda is talking about this in a week.

Robert would have been, too. While I like and am enthused by the return, if Acuña gets to within 20% of league average, offensively, it will be a victory. And he was the headliner. Words have set meanings.

While I did not like the move to promote Getz, I believe it's inaccurate to say he had a general lack of qualifications, and I don't agree with your 85-90% of other teams' GMs remark. Let's not gossip about other board members, okay?

Counterpoint: Moving Luis Robert was not a key trade. We got back a utility player out of options, and a 12th round arm. I am very optimistic about both, but it's not exactly like he was calling Kyle Teel a pitcher for a week.

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.

Hover your cursor over Liberace's face, and in the bottom right corner of the box that pops, click "Ignore". That ought to solve all your problems.

And Quintana's kind of a known entity. He can give you 25-30 starts, tops out under 3 bWAR, now, the HRs are creeping up while the strikeouts creep down. Fedde's 5 years younger, and only a year removed from a 5 bWAR season.

With the close attention RubRub pays to me and my posting, it's not that much of a reach to know there's only two women who post here regularly.

SoxMachine interview with Keith Law. My main takeaways are Law's opinion that while White Sox fans think Sox prospect development is horrible, they've actually been developing prospects, he gives Colson and Bonemer as examples. He also kind of puts the lack of innovation on the in-fighting between Hahn, who wanted to update the system, and KW, who was way too involved in the day-to-day stuff, and resisted the call to modernize. Podcast: Keith Law talks 2026 White Sox prospects, Roch Cholowsky - Sox Machine

Jim Margalus assembles his day three notes: White Sox spring notes: Chris Getz confirms Luisangel Acuña's right-handedness after introducing doubt himself - Sox Machine Chris Getz knows Acuña bats righty Thorpe, delayed Spring broadcast schedule

Misgendering Autumn. That's a new one. Do you not know the difference between a man and a woman?

Do you really believe that he doesn't know Acuña's skillset? This is the kind of thing that has me branded as a Getz-lover. No, I'm not going to pretend that Getz is a supremely stupid person who wanders the office, making trades for people he doesn't even know the abilities of. It's insulting to expect people to play along with that. The guy had an extended brain fart, or he actually didn't know. If it's the latter, then no, it obviously doesn't have any bearing. He knew Acuña's name, that leads me to believe that he literally did know the player he traded for.

I have been to a batting cage that had a video of a pitcher winding up and throwing, then the ball sailed out at you. That has to be 25 years ago, so maybe it was a pre-cursor?

I would guess that's all farmed out to the stats department from scouting, and they come up with a ranked list of targets. I don't know what a GM does on a day-to-day basis, but like any high-level middle manager, they delegate. Sure, he probably opens up his own spread sheets at times. It's a dumb mistake. It makes Getz look dumb. Just because. It doesn't change my opinion of him, and I imagine it hasn't changed yours, either.

If this mistake gets beyond the reporting of Getz's joke, that would be insane. I would like my sports reporters to report on the actual sport, not a blown up story that has no bearing on anything.

Right-handed hitting is one of the two ways that switch hitters hit. So if he saw Acuña hit once, he could assume he was hitting one of the two main ways switch-hitters hit. The people invested in criticizing every single move find this latest chapter "very concerning". Those who don't care understand that people have brain farts, sometimes over the course of a week. If he kept calling him Ronald, then was surprised to find it wasn't Ronald Acuña, yes, that would be concerning. If an old woman named Luisa Angel Acuña showed up to Sox camp ready for the batting cage, that would also be concerning. Neither of those troubling mistakes happened, however.

Now the White Sox can sign him for 3/$110M, and everybody can be happy about that milestone.

Tito Fuentes played in the 60's and 70's, as did Paul Blair and Bill Russell. You've probably even seen Eddie Murray play. He made it into the late 90's. You're welcome for the knowledge. Reading my posts made you smarter. I suppose you'll have to read my lifetime internet oeuvre to get above thinking Oliver Dunn and Vinny Capra are better at baseball than Shane Smith. And seriously, if Chris Getz drafted or traded for the wrong guy, that would be a problem. He didn't.

This will be Murakami's walk up music