WestEddy

It looks like Gilbert, Eder, Taylor and Carella did well today.

That's a respectable 1-6 for Gilbert to run through.

I don't know. Reinsdorf strikes me as "a man of his word". He's a tough negotiator, but I put him in a different category from the guy who is currently in a pissing match with Greenland. And they put on paper that control shifts in 5 years, or on Reinsdorf's demise.

Not to be morbid, but there's a reason old people are considered feeble. A person could be in good health, catches the flu, and 5 days later, the whole world's changed.

Thanks for the write up. I don't like the signing, I hope Clevenger injures himself quickly. I'd imagine this is a sop to the limited partner who parties with Clevenger. It has no effect on Getz's work on the organization. I'm out of town, and really don't want to argue with people who think it's funny to pretend that an abused woman is a liar, just because.

You're kind of correct. I wouldn't care if they signed Bozo to play SS. It would probably be on a minor league deal. Clevenger's a POS, and I hate the signing. I won't post everyday that I hate Getz for signing him, but I don't like it. I also get tired of the a-holes who think it's funny to pretend Clevenger was "completely exonerated". He wasn't. I hope he tears his rotator cuff on his first throw, and that's the last we see of him.

Canario's a LF. I don't think he's knocking Taylor off the roster. I think he'd take Fletcher's or Colas' place in the "next man up" queue.

Then why do we want to trade this great 3 WAR ceiling player for Yoshida?

Canario looks like a better package than anything the Sox have in AAAA outfielders. I wonder if Chris Getz is on the phone. Alexander Canario Minor & Winter Leagues Statistics | Baseball-Reference.com

I believe Benintendi is saying now that in July, he had settled on some mechanical changes, and it all started to click.

Baseball teams aren't crunching web browsing data from entire populations. Maybe don't get caught up in the semantics of a pun by the article author? Teams crunch data on EVs and barrels based on pitch types and zones, etc. All teams do have their own proprietary models for what they're looking for, and yes, sometimes, they can be wrong. There seemed to be some dramatic disagreement last year between Pedro Grifol and the stats department on defensive positioning, for example. That was probably more on Grifol being a dimwit.

I'm not the best person to explain any of this. I would think that any player interested in becoming a better player has more than a passing acquaintance with pitching labs and heat maps. Nobody has to worry about Chris Getz carrying the 3. Data's run, and it's in a readable format. Just like any job. If you're going to advance beyond carrying things and stacking them somewhere, you have to know how to create and use spread sheets, presentation programs, converting a picture to a PDF, etc.

James Fegan comments in today's article: No paywall. Camp notes. The White Sox could be set up to fill the needs of others

Paul Janish Ponders the Promise of a Rejuvenated White Sox Prospect Pipeline | FanGraphs Baseball

If the Mets are only one spot ahead of the White Sox, and the Phillies only 2 spots, I have no idea what they're measuring.

And bumble bees can't fly.

I wouldn't even call it lazy. Jordan and Kobe were insane with the way they prepped and worked on their games. They'd see something be exposed, then kill it in the off-season. With these guys getting injured, somebody here wrote or posted something about how there's advanced research on the pairings of muscles, and how some people's left side snaps back slower than their right, or something. That can be studied, and both sides can be worked differently to pair with each other, and reduce injury risk. That's the kind of thing that you'd think these guys would hire their own guys to discover and fix. The team only has so much control over these guys. And if there was so much dysfunction before Getz, Eloy, Yoan and Robert should have taken it into their own hands and ran with it.

Bregman would have moved to 2B. And isn't Nico Hoerner returning from injury? Good problems to have.

And here's a link to the article being referenced. There's a paywall, but you can sign up for like, $2 a month and get access. It's definitely worth it. White Sox seek a more perfect union

I think Getz had a lot to do with those guys' development. Moncada and Robert are/were great players. Eloy came to the majors with great promise and fulfilled some of it. He's a clown who gets himself injured. We seem to be pretending that there's some developmental strategy that mind-washes guys into becoming motivational robots. The dysfunction across levels and departments has recently been well documented.

And if Bregman's good, he's gone after the year. I guess I'm saying they should have gone all in on Bregman for that deal (if that's how Boras was guiding them) and then lean into more rookies for 2026.

James Fegan gets more under the hood about his reporting and Brian Bannister's recent interview discussing extending pitchers.

Podcast: White Sox Big Data Problem

I agree with and understand all of this. Brian Bannister just gave an interview where he talks about this on the pitching side (and SoxMachine addresses in their podcast, today). Strikeouts cost money. So, if it's going to be problematic to keep and extend the K monsters, they have to establish and maintain a steady stream of a few guys a year on the pitching side, pitching away from contact, etc. On the hitting side, sure, you might get a guy like Colson Montgomery who get comfortable in a winning situation, and will give a hometown discount, or a hometown right of first refusal.