WestEddy

Tnet came with a big reaction, so maybe it's the way I wrote it. I love and appreciate the work you guys do, and SoxMachine. Other blogs, like Soxon35th, SSS, aren't really my style, that's all. It is time-consuming just to research the simplest of concepts to write about.

Calm down, dude. I get to have an opinion. I have actually tried writing there. SBN wanted as much video as possible, so writing an article meant carving it up and making videos of it. Tons of work. p.s. I believe the word you want is aspersions. Dispersion means distributing over an area.

It went through the media, once, way back when, that Derek Jeter went to great lengths to keep women...not resentful and talking. Gift baskets, and all. That probably also included some form of birth control.

Everybody does the same things, now, too. Morning after minor league recaps, game threads, game recaps. They try to be too jokey, and it gets tiresome. James Fegan and Jim Margalus do a great job at SoxMachine. FutureSox is great too, when they actually write articles.

https://www.southsidesox.com/2024/7/2/24190537/some-changes-for-our-south-side-sox-writers-fans-first-sports-network-chicago-white-sox They certainly do a lot of work, there. I feel the analysis has become meh since Jim Margalus left SBN. The minor league prospect coverage is good, if they didn't roll out one write-up at a time, starting with the 100th highest prospect in the system. Third time's the charm. Was anybody a fan?

Chris Sale pitched 36.1 innings in 2008, 89.1 in 2009, and 103 in 2010, in addition to the 33.1 he threw in the pros his draft year. I really don't have a point. His college stats aren't in Baseball-Reference. https://fgcuathletics.com/sports/baseball/roster/chris-sale/997

Making the least controversial statement in my SoxTalk posting career, Tim Anderson is not as productive as Nicky Lopez.

They extended Sale and Quintana after Danks, courted Samardzija and Giolito, both of whom were intent to test out free agency. They also worked with Lynn on a short extension. Oh, and Bummer.

You need guys to run and get the ball when the other team hits it.

Dude, it never stops. That's the business of baseball. Even a team that isn't tanking or rebuilding that has a player headed for FA, and they are not in the playoff race will trade off the assets that are out the door. If we're contending, we add. If we're not going to make it, we dump off the jetsam.

I also think we're kind of miscomparing rebuilds, too. Giolito, Dunning, Lopez, Eloy, Yoan, Kopech and Cease are comparable to the guys we're going to get in the Robert, Fedde and Crochet trades. Take away the Giolito, Lynn, Burger, Middleton, Bummer and Graveman trades, we still have 6-10 interesting starting pitching prospects in our system.

I don't believe they had the pitching development in place they do now. This all was me responding to a "We'll trade Drew Thorpe in three years" comment. My reasoning in bringing up the group of starting pitching prospects was to illustrate that I believe we could have a full rotation, and a team moving towards competitiveness by that time, where they wouldn't be considering trading Thorpe.

My main focus was to point out the layers of failure people are suggesting. Yes, the 2016+ Hahn/KW rebuild was abysmal. I know what the goal is, but they made the playoffs twice. There was no previous focus on development of pitching or hitting, there was no focus on spreading out talent in the international arena, no plan for developing the high schoolers they punted on the early rounds to sign in late rounds. That's why the original rebuild "failed". There was nothing behind the main 10 or so guys.

Fangraphs has us down for 6 45+FV starting prospects in our top 10 prospects this spring. That doesn't even take into account the advancement of guys like Adams, Schweitzer and Grant Taylor. I don't think we're really that far away.

And I still believe that. Unless some tragedy occurs, Schultz and Taylor look real. That's about 16-17 guys who have dominated their leagues at points this season. A rotation is 5 guys.

The 2016+ rebuild was a disaster, yes. Teams do rebuild from close to nothing. I believe Getz > Hahn/KW. Shirley > Hostetler. We now seem to have a system that seems able to develop pitching. While the hitting prospects aren't spewing out, our ability to develop has been recognized at least a few years back. We can certainly get better. If you honestly believe that the White Sox can't draft and develop, at this point, that Getz will flub every single trade, JR will launch good players to stay low-cost, and that nobody currently in our minor league system are viable major leaguers, why do you even pay attention?

You don't think they can develop 5 reliable starters out of Schultz, Thorpe, Cannon, Bush, Adams, Schweitzer, Keener, Gordon, Taylor, Martin, Eder, Gowens, Carela, McDaniel, Batista, Peppers and Burke? In the next 3-6 years?

They already have their entire 2027-2030 rotation in the system that includes a couple TOR studs. If they can't assemble the offensive side of a competitor with the trades of Crochet, Robert and Fedde, along with 3 more drafts where they're picking top 10, that would be extraordinary. Even for the White Sox.

2026 is Crochet's walk year. 2030 is Thorpe's, if he stays in the majors. We may be a .500 team in 2026. We really should be "competitive" before 2030.

While he didn't install a error-proof defense, DeJong is a step up from TA, and Lopez is a step up from what they had last year at 2B. Moncada is better than anybody who could cover his innings in his absence. Vaughn is not good.

Lee's actually a good baserunner.

I have no idea who this guy's source is...

Since May 8th, he's OPSing .820 w/9 HRs.

You didn't like J.B. Shuck?