WestEddy

Every FO answer about C. Monty mentions working with his agency coaching team. I wonder how much that's causing a mix-up of messaging.

I don't know what point you're making. Sosa, Vargas, Baldwin and Meidroth are all 25 or younger. You've been saying that they should be giving at-bats to guys like this to develop at the pro level. They are. While Vargas' numbers are bad, his mechanics are coming around lately. I'd consider a complete collapse as all of them with OPS's below .500.

Can you tell us how they "ruined" him? And why working with him to get his swing right is bad?

Sosa, Meidroth, Baldwin and Vargas weren't sure things coming into the season. Rojas was veteran insurance in the case of a complete collapse like last year. If Vargas is indeed hitting, there isn't any real need for Rojas. If Ramos starts hitting, there really isn't any need for Rojas.

The same guy who screams that Getz isn't blazing new trails in organization building, then screams about any outside-of-the-box thinking.

Yes, the Diamondbacks did that with Geraldo Perdomo. https://soxmachine.com/2025/04/pregame-notes-colson-goes-west

Oh well. Got me. Go get your "commenter of the day" badge. LOL.

Nobody said that.

Chores turned into a drinky bonfire. Priorities.

Weird how that wasn't actually the case, at all.

Get him squared away, and then send him to Birmingham. They have 2+ years before they really have decisions to make. Drop him back a notch, and let him get comfortable with the changes.

Getz on Elko

That would be my thought.

Sure. I'm not saying you will have sell-outs, but it will create a bit of a buzz. The fact we've been talking about these red jerseys for weeks, now is attributable to online "influencers" actually giving a s%*# about it.

Every single White Sox Twitter account has been posting pix of little anime cartoon girls shedding a tear over Tim Elko not being on the White Sox for a month, now. Every podcast has been swooning over his AAA stats. Promoting Elko would get some fan coverage on social media and the podcasts, and cause as much excitement as could be fostered during a 110 loss season. Nobody is predicting an MVP season once he gets here. Back in the days before sports talk radio, Joe Wallis or Scot Thompson would generate excitement among the Cubs' fanbase, just from their minor league cache.

And I would think that if the Sox had any online awareness, they'd understand the jolt Elko would put into a vocal part of the fanbase. They should have announced Elko yesterday, and gave everybody a day to buy tickets to the next 3 games.

They might even have the one guy in the Sox' organization who remembers Meyers throw out the first pitch.

Perhaps, but the silly BS you trot out is easily parried with actual truth and logic.

Getz is being accused of playing service time games with Meidroth, Elko, Teel, and others, as they work on their game. Nobody here would argue that Madrigal and Vaughn weren't "rushed". The director of development doesn't decide who gets promoted to the bigs. Getz has also alluded to the dysfunctional siloing of scouting and development so that development would get players with no real idea of what the scouts were looking at. He has worked to open up communication between those areas.