WestEddy

I don't even see the quotes from the article as players "ripping" on the Sox. The most damning one is the last. I can't imagine that Getz and Grifol are buddies. Getz' recent, luke-warm statement that they'd reevaluate the manager's position after the season seems to put the crosshairs right on Grifol. I don't know if Grifol does that bibbledy-babble thing in private, too, but if rookies and bullpen guys are getting mixed messages, or have ever-changing rolls, that's frustrating, and can make it a grind even coming to work. And most of those quotes seem like they can include past seasons. I would think that Getz, Bannister, Barfield, Janish, Shirley - they're all on the same page. Grifol doesn't seem to be in the information chain, or he has a horrible way of not giving out private information.

Jesus Christ!!! Just put in Soroka at this point.

"Mr. Sheets will let you know when you've thrown a strike."

He costs about as much as the rookie minimum.

You know the Sox are paying right around the minimum for Stassi's services this year, right?

Jim Margalus wrote about this at SoxMachine in 2022: https://soxmachine.com/2022/03/lucas-giolito-shows-limitations-of-white-soxs-approach-to-extensions/ And he draws from James Fegan's Athletic article: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/3206034/2022/03/23/disconnect-on-a-contract-extension-between-lucas-giolito-white-sox-predates-arbitration-impasse/ Maybe I'm mixing up the "player rep resolute on Free Agency" story with Samardzija. Giolito's regular talking point was that he wanted to sign an extension. But the model didn't really work for players when his turn came up.

Giolito was a player rep, and committed to trying out the market, as I recall. Cease took on Boras, and had no interest in being "cost-controlled". Besides Lopez and Kopech, they haven't had anybody to extend since. (They did give an extension to Lynn.)

Of course Lee should have come in. I'm just going off of Grifol saying he wanted to give Lee a full day off.

Pretty early during the Wannstedt era, I got tired of being angry all year. Sports radio didn't help, stupid, repeatable canards to just whine 24/7 about anything. I stopped following the Bears. My life is richer for it.

A little off-topic, but an interesting article from Fangraphs about pitchers who had high percentages of their team's wins, and where Crochet and Fedde fall in, historically. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/garrett-crochet-and-erick-fedde-are-finding-wins-in-unlikely-places/

Julks is a pretty good base stealing threat, in his own right. And while Julks isn't that great, defensively, I don't think he needs a late innings' replacement. Grifol should have pinch hit for Maldonado in the 8th. Let Mendick catch the 9th. Use the guys you have to win the game you're playing.

Because it helps make Kopech more marketable. Got yer back.

Oh well. I thought they were higher on him.

They seem to need 2 starters, now. Thorpe starts Tuesday, Cannon throws Wednesday, and then Crochet on Thursday. They just rostered a lefty in Peralta, so maybe Hill gets his walking papers Tuesday morning.

And I have no problem with that, either. Bobby Hull is a scumbag, and probably a part of why I drifted away from hockey. But he was the main guy on the Hawks. And as a child, I was also let down when he left. Both can be true.

I deleted my post after realizing I was walking into an ongoing argument from quin's post, not your insipid BS. You really are a child.

nevermind

We always had the better John Handcock Building.

Hookah

None of that stuff was reported then. I don't know how old you are, tray, but I'm 60, and even if it was alluded to, 9 year old me didn't quite pick up on it. Weird dunk how Xers, Zers and whatevers think everybody should have hated everybody else in their own time based on what we know now. Maybe they should STFU until after they show real shame over not rejecting today's celebrities over allegations that will come out in the next 10 years.

That he can play a competent SS and still hits makes him "one of a group of shortstops" in our system, as opposed to organizational filler. So, yeah, he's a prospect until he can't hit.