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2 - if he actually "believed the hype", he wasn't wrong. They're within 2 games of 1st place on May 1. A 6-WAR CF sure would help this team. Too bad Robert didn't hold up his end, plummeted his own value, and Getz had to get what he could. Getz got rotten lemons, and he crafted a lemonade-cider invention that is going to redefine the industry. It's actually quite the accomplishment, turning JR into a sooth-sayer, and getting what he could for a failed Robert. Certainly worthy of the FIFA Peace Prize.

Since we know the Director of Development makes all the decisions for the organization, he would have shown mad skills to have traded Robert before COVID hit in 2019. 2023 is reactionary.

You called this a 63 win team last week.

Baseball players generally don't "hit" the ball while they're playing in the field. Facts. Look it up.

Getz was right to move on from Robert. There were some here who didn't really see how the White Sox could field a team without Robert anchoring CF. They've had a better April record than the last 5 years Robert has been a part of this club. Sox players on the IL are traveling with the team, doing their part to keep spirits up by acting like magicians, or cheering everyone on. When Robert was here, the entire dugout had to make sure Robert was happy while he nursed an owie. Probably took the focus away from the field.

Colorado has the same record as the White Sox.

Even though he was only GM for two of them.

Listening to this today. RIP to a real one.

It's the gloomers taking a victory lap over an injury.

Yeah, they're not trading him this season.

Looks like the Mets didn't find a magic path forward on injuries. I wish the dude luck.

It happens to every team quite a bit. The Sox have actually had some pretty good luck, so far, this year.

Get your own joke!!

He's my main man!!

He watched the TikTok video, just didn't subscribe to the substack.

Step one of a thousand-mile journey is saying you're sorry. Step two is being asked why you're sorry. Good luck.

"Deflection"

Looking forward to WS Twitter all claiming we should take a flier on this guy.

Okay, then you're saying no team should ever trade a player. If they do, they're money-grubbing skinflints. Got it.

Okay, well, I answered about three of your questions from that post, but you only consider one of them as "the" question. I expect the Sox to make a good faith effort at extending Murakami. They're one game away from clocking in with their first .500 month in years, so I would expect them to be sporadically competitive this season, considering their division, and more competitive next season. I don't know what Murakami's goals are, either setting salary records, or being in a comfortable environment. If he cranks 50 HRs and wants to stay, I've seen no statements from the White Sox saying they absolutely will not sign a contract over $100M. I believe the likely outcome is the Sox will be competitive next year, they'll keep Murakami all season, and he will get an insane offer the Sox won't match.

If somebody is tired of rooting for a player and then seeing them traded because the team failed to build around them, that's quite a different thing than, "JR will never pay a player because he's cheap". I guess what's hilarious about changing the argument to "who made the team non-competitive?" is that it's a pure deflection and runs away from the point being made. Nobody is arguing that the Sox didn't participate in their own multiple demises. If you want to make the argument that JR/KW/Hahn very deliberately declined to invest in prospect development with the goal of extending the few players who emerged from the minors, not adding to them, then trading them to not have to pay them, I challenge you to make that argument. But you don't. You just throw up that non-sequitur to derail a comment.

A narrative has taken hold of "I'm so pissed that I can imagine the White Sox trading Murakami next week, then trading Colson, and when we draft Roch, promote him, then trade him too!!!" This is nonsense. The Sox are building for a competitive window. It's silly to pretend that's not happening. "But they never extend or keep their players because JR is so cheap!!!" I've given examples of windows where they've extended key players or resigned them to keep a winning team together. "But the White Sox once made a trade, so you're wrong!!" The stars that the Sox have traded came at a time where they were looking into the void of a rebuild. Because the Sox had no international presence, sucked at drafting and could only develop the most advanced talent, they had periods of amassing 5-9 prospects, then riding a wave of talent for a few years. They thought they could do this around 2015, and again around 2020. They didn't maintain a minor league system that could supplement those teams when injury and premature aging gutted the big league club. Watching this team, we all understand what the front office had attempted at different times. It's insincere to pretend that JR is rubbing his hands together, waiting for the next prospect to break out so he can trade him and save money. Nobody's accusing JR of playing 3 dimensional chess with the moves his front office has made over the last 3 decades. They've been very short-sighted. But it's insulting to make up comic book villain reasons, and demand that everybody buy into that. I do understand that Getz has referred to the models employed by Tampa and Milwaukee. Again, I'll worry about the Sox trading Colson and Roch Cholowsky when they do it.

Do they subtract 9 years off his stated age as a penalty, now?

LOL. No, it doesn't count in the minds of people who understand the premise. Sale would have pitched on 3 bad teams, then would have missed their entire "window" with injuries. But I suppose you're just going to ignore the fact they kept the WS team together as long as possible and loaded up with players who they extended for a competitive run at the beginning of this decade. I'll worry about the Sox trading stars at the beginning of a competitive window when it actually starts happening.