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...Because the White Sox and Cubs both have an equal expectation to make a playoff run this year? You don't even try to make sense. No, Jankowski isn't Aaron Judge. He's AAAA depth, a 4th OF on a bad team. Are you somehow mistaking this year's White Sox team as one of the top teams in the game?

I answer this every time it's asked. Now. Everybody seems to forget Getz was left with a horrible roster, and pretty much zero pitching staff. Oh, and his budget was cut to nothing. A bunch of lesser trades of AAA bullpen arms for AAAA bullpen arms didn't work out. And he has to start having those work out. The Cease trade - the mob loves to acknowledge that JR probably forced that trade in ST to not pay Cease, then pretend that Getz forced JR to force him to make that trade. I don't even care about people criticizing moves. Just at least try to make sense.

All teams are "obsessed" with AAA depth.

So wait. Playing 37 games is beneath mention, but subbing in for about 5 games and starting 4 in a platoon is an indictment? LOL. That's ridiculous.

It's a special level of querulousness to look for minor league signings to be bothered about.

Dude, the house burned down. You're screaming because your shoes are getting dirty walking around in the ash. I'm unsure of what blame you want assigned to him. Blame for his budget getting cut? Blame for having zero starting pitchers to build a team with? Blame for inheriting 3 overpaid slugs who would be injured by game 11? Few of his moves worked out for the 2024 season. I acknowledge that every time you start this whole cycle of pretending the previous 20 conversations ever happened.

Nope, I got the point clearly. Getz was left a smoking crater, and had to rebuild from zero with no budget. Hahn was gifted a World Series winner, and couldn't keep the string going. I think KW was a micro-manager who messed up everything Hahn had lofty dreams of. KW traded Burger because he hated Hostetler. That's a crazy level of dysfunction. Getz has had one off-season and one draft, really.

Sure. Jankowski was on the team for 9 games. How much do you think he's set back the organization? Amaya's the best defensive SS in the upper levels. You're not complaining about things that are really a problem.

KW and Hahn were done. Y'all mock them for the fact that nobody has hired or even interviewed them since. Pick a lane. I've posted lists of the players Getz has developed that resulted in a 2-year run of playoff appearances. Go back and look them up before your dementia eviscerates your ability to navigate the internet.

Rude. Tell me about the glory days of Casper Wells and JB Shuck.

And they should have been undermined. If Getz got JR to move on from the chaos that was KW/Hahn, that's deserving of GM of the Year awards in perpetuity. 2024 was the direct result of KW/Hahn.

The White Sox still have to play their games. They would probably like to put a competitive team on the field. It's been mentioned multiple times that Maton is a LHH, and some RHPs just eat up the RHHs in our lineup. Maton has a little pop, and just as everyone wants to see "what they can do", maybe the Sox would like to see what Maton can do as a lefty bench/DH bat. Sosa had pronounced platoon splits last season. Sitting him against some tough righties is giving him every chance to excel.

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Birmingham proceeded to their league's playoffs on the back of their prospect-laden pitching rotation. That wasn't an accident. For now, we have a top 5 minor league system. I'm not sure what complaining about Sosa's playing time in the majors has to do with that. As we've discussed, there is a high rate of failure for minor league prospects. The key is to not rely on one player to save the major league team. The goal is to keep pumping SSs, CFs, catchers and prospect arms into the organization, so when one inevitably stumbles at a higher level (C. Montgomery), there are multiple options lined up behind him (Baldwin, Meidroth, Gonzalez, Bergolla, Jeral Perez, Caleb Bonemer). Sosa has started 6 of 9 games at 2B, Brooks Baldwin has started the other 3 games. I wouldn't call Baldwin a "veteran". Miguel Vargas has started every game at 3B, Sosa's other position. Again, Vargas isn't a veteran. 2 of the 3 games Sosa hasn't started, Robert and Benintendi were given a rest in the DH spot. Is that last paragraph supposed to make any sense?

Those who proclaim they see no signs of change completely ignore the farm system jumping to top 5, and two minor league teams playing in their league's championships last season.

Yeah, that just serves to make me angry, and I'm not even really angry about this. Everybody knows about Schultz and Smith.

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Most of this isn't even defending him. "If a #22 pick put up 14 bWAR during his time with the Sox, that would be great." Who does that defend? "Either Fletcher was a bad trade acquisition who sucks and is no more than OF depth, or he's a budding major league talent who needs a full season of starts. Pick one." What is that defending?

Great. We'll circle round and compare notes in 20 years.

Why are you including Ramos? Are you calling him a development failure? Colas and Cespedes are the result of an organizational Cuba-centric international focus. And on that, I would call KW, Hahn and Paddy responsible for them. That's not "convenient". That is the fact of the matter. It's actually convenient that you make up your own facts (Baldwin was an above average SS last season).

We're in a perpetual cycle of rebuild right now because international has been punted, Hostetler was regularly brow-beaten to draft "almost-ready" players in the 1st round. A trade shouldn't remake an organization. A trade should bring 3-4 more prospects to a group of prospects. Prospects fail at a high percentage. That is true for traded prospects, drafted prospects, and internationally scouted prospects.

Actually, Young guys who can play and are ready >> vets on rebuilding team. We had/have none of the former. Fletcher got a very long run last year outside of his AAA reboot and the injury. I think he was the starter for the last 6-8 weeks of the season. Colas doesn't have a position and doesn't hit. DeLoach could top out as a 4th OF. He didn't hit in a bandbox for a full season. The Tanner Banks trade looks like it brought back the equal of their 2023 1st rounder. Not saying a lot, but he's in the future SS convo for now. DeJong brought back an arm with big upside. The Vargas trade looks like ass if he doesn't hit and play borderline great defense at 3B. He's doing neither. The Thorpe TJS hurts.

They're in a rebuild, and I believe their TV deal (or lack thereof) has them in a money crunch. Whatever you've been harping on is meaningless if there was no chance of it happening. And being in a rebuild, it would be colossally dumb to punt two draft picks. I think your counter-argument has been "well, we've not done well in the draft, so who cares about that?" To which I would reply, "And all of the free agents we sign collapse and become albatross signings for their duration. So, if we signed Alonso, Kim and Santander, they would all hit like Jacob Amaya. Book it." And I would be right.

I don't want to keep complaining about bad luck, but they should have brought a dozen Brandon Drury's to ST. I would say they could expect reasonable production from 4 position players right now ( Benny / catching platoon / RF platoon / Baldwin ). I would immediately cut Amaya and Maton and promote Meidroth and Teel. That at least plugs semi-productive bats in at SS and DH, and you wait for the weather to warm up for Robert and Vaughn to start hitting. Vargas...maybe he needs the weather to change, too. It's still only 9 games.

That would be great if they got a Moncada clone out of the 2021 #22 pick. There's not been a lot of 30 bWAR players taken at that low a pick in the last 30 years, and only 6 players have eclipsed Moncada's 14.2 bWAR. I suppose Jackson Merrill will be the Mike Trout to Colson's Jared Mitchell. Trading positive assets for "nothing" would be trading Chase Meidroth for cash considerations. Trading an A-ball bullpen arm for a pro bullpen arm isn't "nothing". The young guys who were given up on for vets are even more worthless. ' Trading Crochet to the Red Sox was a great move. You'll probably see two starting offensive players from that trade on this year's team.