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Move Mena up to AAA along with Ramos

Yeah I'm trying to fund hope in that aspect of it.

Yeah I don't know what he has. I wish the best for him in his personal health situation but as far as professionally he needs to realize he's done. Just enjoy your retirement and focus on your health. I hope he beats whatever condition he may have.

If they hire an internal loser like Getz who failed as Farm Director or a washed up clown like TLR or Haber it will be even worse. Make a real legit external hire that's respected in baseball and invest in R&D and analytics. I'm glad he fired them but he has to eesist the temptation of the insular bullshit.

2B more likely for Gonzalez. Ramos at 3B.

Nah. So long as JR refuses to make massive investment as in R&D, analytics and farm development, it doesn't matter who is in charge. We've got other teams with literally 4-5 times the employees dedicated to these areas. You can't win with a skeleton crew in critical infrastructure. And JR micromanaging things compounds the problem. A new GM is just rearranging the chairs on the deck of the Titanic.

Ok good that sounds better.

This will be a problem. TA7 is gonna be in his contract year and he's not exactly going to be welcoming to the young buck coming up to take his job. And no one will take Moncadas salary off our hands either.

At least he is improving. Need to see Eder look good tomorrow

Nice! Does it look like his swing has changed at all?

Carela should be joining the Birmingham crew pretty soon too i bet...so someone is gonna have to move up to AAA....maybe Nastrini?

At least Gonzalez is getting some hits now. Would like some ISO too. Harris has been impressive to me at the plate, not sure how he's been behind the plate tho. I really liked that Wolkow got 2 walks tonight. If he can lower the Ks and add some walks to his power profile that would be great.

I dont think Wolkow the young savage is going to need 2 years in ACL.

Future Sox DH?

Glad to see he looks good. Now need Eder to look like he did with the Marlins.

Nice.....power from left side.

Lulz @ the White Sox developing anyone.

There's no way in hell Hahn is making 5m a year. I bet it's a whole lot closer to 1m flat. After all, that's the tradeoff....you get to be a GM (at least in name, but youre still subject to JRs orders) and endless job security in exchange for a relatively low salary compared to your peers and the owner still calls the shots. No different than a player who takes a low AAV in exchange for a longer term. Even 1m a year or 1.5m a year for 10+ years is a great gig for a WH press secretary so Hahn is still coming out ahead.

They are stuck with Moncada in 2024 regardless because no one will take 29m off their hands unless you are attaching Montgomery or Schultz which is a non starter. That being said, that doesn't necessarily mean Moncada will be playing much. Bryan Ramos is coming hard and fast for his job and Moncada is living on borrowed time regardless. Ramos might not have Moncada's defensive ability, but he's absolutely better than Burger at 3B and Ramos will be a much more powerful offensive force than the post covid Moncada.

Hopefully they can hire a minor league pitching coordinator from LAD, TB or BAL.

Yeah his college teammate Calvin Harris is more productive so far, at least at the plate, which is concerning. Maybe once he is more comfortable with swing changes he will improve. I remember Law said he could move quickly and be in AA relatively soon but I'm not seeing it so far.

Gonzalez won't remain above Ramos for long, IMO.

If he were LH it wouldn't even be fair. Either way, he'll have Moncada's job pretty darn soon I bet.

He's been raking lately. Move him up to AAA soon.

Wasn't there a NYT article about him awhile back? People seemed to like him.