WestEddy

Yes, the Diamondbacks did that with Geraldo Perdomo. https://soxmachine.com/2025/04/pregame-notes-colson-goes-west

Oh well. Got me. Go get your "commenter of the day" badge. LOL.

Nobody said that.

Chores turned into a drinky bonfire. Priorities.

Weird how that wasn't actually the case, at all.

Get him squared away, and then send him to Birmingham. They have 2+ years before they really have decisions to make. Drop him back a notch, and let him get comfortable with the changes.

Getz on Elko

That would be my thought.

Sure. I'm not saying you will have sell-outs, but it will create a bit of a buzz. The fact we've been talking about these red jerseys for weeks, now is attributable to online "influencers" actually giving a s%*# about it.

Every single White Sox Twitter account has been posting pix of little anime cartoon girls shedding a tear over Tim Elko not being on the White Sox for a month, now. Every podcast has been swooning over his AAA stats. Promoting Elko would get some fan coverage on social media and the podcasts, and cause as much excitement as could be fostered during a 110 loss season. Nobody is predicting an MVP season once he gets here. Back in the days before sports talk radio, Joe Wallis or Scot Thompson would generate excitement among the Cubs' fanbase, just from their minor league cache.

And I would think that if the Sox had any online awareness, they'd understand the jolt Elko would put into a vocal part of the fanbase. They should have announced Elko yesterday, and gave everybody a day to buy tickets to the next 3 games.

They might even have the one guy in the Sox' organization who remembers Meyers throw out the first pitch.

Perhaps, but the silly BS you trot out is easily parried with actual truth and logic.

Getz is being accused of playing service time games with Meidroth, Elko, Teel, and others, as they work on their game. Nobody here would argue that Madrigal and Vaughn weren't "rushed". The director of development doesn't decide who gets promoted to the bigs. Getz has also alluded to the dysfunctional siloing of scouting and development so that development would get players with no real idea of what the scouts were looking at. He has worked to open up communication between those areas.

I would guess that in 2019, there was an EasternEdward here who was advocating for keeping Madrigal in the minors to "work on his game", while he was roundly mocked for buying into the company line so they could gain another year of control. Perhaps I could trick Caulfield into making your own point so that you immediately need to disavow it.

Tim Elko and the City Connect jerseys seem to have relegated him to "Shane Who"?

Counterpoint: No he wasn't.

When does player development participate in draft selections?

So, it seems the problem is that you believed a head coach's hype, fell in love with a player, put all of your hopes and dreams on a rookie, then blamed it all on his faith when it didn't work out? KW/Haber/Hahn were calling the shots in those drafts. Hostetler also wasn't a great scouting director. Shirley seems to have recovered from FO panic picks, and still fleshed out good 2-20 drafts.