Look at Ray Ray Run

Bingo. Harrison was worth less last year and hadn't been worth more than .3 fWAR since 2017 before last year. This teams makes no sense.

Yes, the starting rotation in 2021 was lights out good. The bullpen blew the 3rd most games in MLB.

Now a 35 year old second baseman who is literally not an upgrade over Leury Garcia. Gotta go to dinner. This front office just sucks. Even with a RF, they basically did not upgrade 2nd base at all.

He's talking about guys like Cliff Politte and Cotts being unhittable.

How many years in a row are Sox fans going to fall for this nonsense. Each of the last two years we had threads created about how unstoppable the White Sox bullpen was going to be. The best bullpen in baseball will not end up being who you thought it'll be. Signing RP's coming off career years is almost never a good strategy.

This isn't how organizations build good bullpens. Jose Ruiz is younger and has been as good as Joe Kelly the past two years because bullpen arms are pretty up and down.

Hahn: What's the most volatile and unreliable position in baseball? Relief Pitchers Hahn: Let's go all in on signing aging relievers. what could go wrong? Joe Kelly is the epitome of an up and down volatile guy too.

Just... exhausting. Hahn won't stop spending his assets on Relief pitchers. it's honestly amazing.

Sox really cornering the reliever market. This honestly feels like a sick joke. Hahn just won't stop spending his assets on RP's.

i'd be surprised but maybe. usually they get guys they feel are less than 12 months away and get ready for another push.

This makes no sense anyway; Oakland is never looking for a 3-4 year rebuild. Just not how they operate. They look to retool.

Everyone was so nice today i figured id stir the pot a bit. This is certainly a hot take.

Yeah... when hahn calls an agent about a player now they'll be like..., wohhhhhhh, I didn't see this coming. I thought Rick was out and happy with his team, I better lower the price for him because he's not interested.

This would be so damn embarrassing for the Braves.

They signed him for four million dollars. Don't think Simmons was signed as a starter here.

Still salty about that one, eh Baron? I didn't even bring Kimbrel up today, initially.

Happy to admit if I'm wrong here. Maybe Rick shoves this one. I've been critical of things that have worked out before and would be happy to be wrong again.

I'd be shocked if someone didn't surprise us in the Central this year. Baseball is funny. I don't expect the Sox to win the division by 10 games but I hope I'm wrong.

No, this was the excuse provided by people like you to justify the incompetence of a front office that has absolutely not earned the benefit of the doubt. And you keep citing hindsight, when plenty of people laid this out the minute the Sox didn't extend the QO based on OTHER cases of historical data that showed this was a poor decision. The problem with most of your takes is that you always defer to what you deem to be the "experts," but reality is, baseball isn't a STEM field... physics/medicine. While there is certainly proprietary data and information, and obviously outsiders aren't having conversations within league circles, people can evaluate sports as outsiders based on actuals which provide as much of an unbias viewpoint as you'll find. Signings and valuations are public information. Guys within the circles could be deceived by conversations that were meant to deceive them. You give credit to these GM's as if they are baseball savants, when history tells us that is not always the case, and plenty of organizations are behind the times and have not kept pace with the games changes and trajectory. I could have told you what Manny Machado was going to require to sign, yet the White Sox were blown away. Same goes for other signings the Sox were "caught off guard" about. Hell, the Sox thought FA wouldn't happen until after the CBA when plenty of outsiders expected a flurry of moves before the clock. Rick is a very smart man, but he's not some unquestioned baseball savant with a track record unworthy of critique.

I'm happy to admit if I'm wrong on this, but I don't see the Sox getting anything but some minor league organizational filler if they don't eat money. If they eat money, it would have just been better to spend that money elsewhere on a MLB caliber player than getting some lotto ticket by paying some salary.

I'm a huge Gausman stan, but I wish he signed somewhere else because the East may give him fits.

Listen, I'm with you on maximizing appearances. But this team has not built the depth at the minor league level to sustain this beyond their current core of players, and that core is aging faster than most understand. This it the peak time for this team. They need to shove shove shove imo.

Except plenty of people said this was a dumb decision the second they made it. That's not hindsight.

You're entrusting the same organization that didn't realize Carlos Rodon's value league wide to determine that Kimbrel was worth 16 million + Trade pieces. I said at the time picking up the Kimbrel option was bad management. It was hanging onto a bad decision instead of cutting ties with it. Kimbrel isn't netting the Sox anything of value. Picking up his option was more bad decision making on MLB talent value by the White Sox front office.