WestEddy

Venable was a great hire. There's really no arguing that.

Weird. Neither of those guys would have helped the bullpen in the last two years. And if Mena has his current shoulder woes with the White Sox, you and Liptak would be dancing around and high fiving each other over how another White Sox player was injured.

You would have argued with it, anyway. Sure, Francona was more coveted than Venable.

Hyperbole personified. Pretending to laugh, golf clap or being a mini-me hasn't disproven a thing I've written.

Yes, paying a guy $3M who would have worked for scale proves that JR is cheap.

it's a weird take that some of the most competitive people on the planet walk into a job thinking, "Yeah, I can f*** up for years and still get paid to play Wordle at work". Something tells me you have no grasp of the motivation of the people who take sports front office jobs. and Jesus, how is it NOT impressive that the most coveted managerial candidate jumped at the Sox job? Just repeating the same thing multiple times across multiple threads daily doesn't make it true.

The most generous I can be is to imagine there was harm threatened to loved ones. You're not going to trick the casinos. d

You didn't say the Sox were cheap. You made a bunch of lazy assertions, most of which were wrong. Venable was the "it" girl of managerial candidates that winter. All the people I listed were not "jobless" when the Sox hired them. Gellinger is paid too well for another organization to easily hire him away. Sure, if the Marlins had to have Venable, the Sox probably had a ceiling of what they'd pay, and they'd have moved on to their secondary candidate.

Why would you say this? They pried Venable, Bannister, Walker McKinven and Joel McKeithan from jobs. Another team looked at Mike Gellinger as a hitting coach, and he was already too highly paid to increase his salary.

I haven't seen anything beyond this one set of listicles dropping a bunch of names: 10 potential candidates to become the next White Sox hitting coach | Sox On 35th 10 potential candidates to become the next White Sox pitching coach | Sox On 35th

Thinking Elko has any trade value is "head over heels". Hitting a HR off a mistake pitch doesn't make somebody MLB-ready. Elko looked seriously overmatched in his at-bats. After being sent back down to Charlotte and called up again, he still had no clue in his 3 pitch strike outs. He did get a decent chance here. He failed miserably. "A chance" doesn't mean 3 solid months of hitting .041 as a starter. Tim Elko is not a major league player, and he has no trade value.

Good accounting of the paperwork the White Sox have before them right now. Our own @ChiSoxFanMike gets name-checked. Offseason Outlook: Chicago White Sox - MLB Trade Rumors

It hit the yellow line after his mitt. Isn't that a HR?

19 HRs in AA or AAA in each of the last 3 seasons. He's an interesting lefty bat who hasn't clicked. There's always that catch.

For real. While the rest of the league plays checkers the Pirates are ... chewing frayed lamp cords?

Maybe for you. Mason Adams is coming back from TJS. Batista is going to pitch in winter ball.

I think Payton Pallette and maybe they're trying to get a longer look at Jarold Rosado? Other than that, they got more guys to protect on the starter side. Mason Adams, Tyler Schweitzer, Tanner McDougal, Conner McCullough, Shane Murphy, Aldrin Batista.

Derek Hill, Tim Elko, Ben Cowles and Bryan Hudson survive the purge.

He said he wanted to go out to take care of himself. Still had 2 years on his deal.

Well, the parameters were $160, and one player. I don't think there's one player who puts this team over the top, and I was thinking he's young enough to grow with this group. Maybe Murakami. Just listened to the FutureSox podcast. Neither of these two are gonna break the bank, most likely.

I always thought this was weird PR. Even while Konerko isn't an extrovert, he is a presence, and Vaughn seems a bit less deer in the headlights than I remember. But the end is still awkward.

Sure. Has he failed at sitting in the stands at a Cannonballers' game? That's all I've heard of him in the last year.

Sure, I'll give you that. But the big bump from a top 3 pick doesn't solve their problem, which is beginning the steady flow of Hispanic talent that won't really start until 2028/2029, and participating in the Asian market, which Getz has promised a stronger presence in starting now. Nobody's arguing that they don't need international prospects and free agents. They've started making the connections they needed to in order to interact with the best talent of each class.

LaRussa's not a GM, nor is he a POBO (Prez of Baseball Ops). He was a good manager and can probably give a good assessment of players in the minors, which is where he has mostly been seen this last summer. If he's in Reinsdorf's ear, maybe he's whispering "Stay away and let Getzie do his job". That works for me.

The flex is that even if he's old school, he's not stupid compared to the people criticizing him.