Look at Ray Ray Run

There are a lot more pitchers over 6'8 (who played in the minors at least) in the past 30 years than I think we really assume; I don't have the full list in front of me, but the rate of success is incredibly low. Law said only 3 have thrown over 500 innings in the games history. If we're talking in the first round the sample size is smaller, but I think that dwindles down the list too much to be viable. Tall pitchers in general have always taken longer to develop. I think Alec Hansen is a lazy but great example of how difficult it is for big guys like that to maintain their delivery and their durability.

The reason I don't love the pick is that the bust rate is massive. Sure, if they hit they get a superstar talent, but guys his size just don't last as starters in the big leagues in general, and high school arms also are a very risky pick. The Sox love love love these huge ceiling arms, but with the exception of Sale none of them have really worked out and Sale was much more polished.

Vanderbilt abuses their arms too; don't want to miss that point. Sox are saving him from that abuse. That said, the NBA doesn't "artificially" cap earnings. The NBA players get a bigger share of the pie than MLB players so very difficult to be critical of the NBA structure.

Hes 6'9 too. Would be shocking if he debuted before 23-24

Never a big fan of high school sp's given their bust rate and with this kids size and thr general additional time huge pitchers take to develop, huge risk. At least elite upside I guess

Because I'm bias and wanna see it for first time in our program history, let's draft cermak!

This kid is a reliever in the making. Hes nothing like sale. He throws 91 mph lol

He has no where near Bryant's power or bat to ball skills.

Hes got a very kris bryant esquepath, and I hated it for bryant. He excelled with it but kris had more power and its been exploitable. Holes in the swing and prone to getting on top of the baseball.

Hate susacs bat path.

"i just love that the players are entitled and soft for wanting reasonable pay and living conditions, but said poster can't even read posts on the internet that he deems mean without getting his feelings hurt leaving the thread and blocking people." - Ray Ray

this place is a riot sometimes; call players entitled and ridicule them for wanting reasonable living conditions and pay - in line with federal labor laws; allowed and reasonable position in the eyes of the poster and moderator. tell a poster his brain is broken for ridiculing employees for asking for reasonable conditions - comment deleted and poster needs to block because his feelings are hurt. soxtalk 2022.

Jon Heyman sucks. If Ozzie knocked him out in a ring I'd give him a lifetime job as manager.

How Ozzie quit was laughable, no doubt, but guy is only manager who has brought us a title so I'm not gonna pretend like I'd rather have la russa. Ozzie is drama with fun. Right now we have drama with no fun.

Nice, just enough time for him to bury the Sox in the standings. That would be a very White Sox move. Sox move to like 10-12 back, and then they fire the manager with the season already, essentially, over lol.

He's honestly been worse than I ever even thought was possible for a manager. The guys are never prepared, they don't give good efforts, they play dumb baseball and never correct it... there's zero accountability. The team, that once got along great now has huge rifts. He never puts guys in positions to succeed, his strategic decisions are based on guys he personally likes more - instead of who is actually better. It honestly feels like he's sabotaging the team on purpose. I heard him say the other day that he never talks to players in his office because it's too confrontational and he doesn't like to call guys out individually. He calls things out in group settings, or talks to guys on the field in their comfort zone. It's honestly fucking hilarious. It's too mean to talk to guys one on one in his office so he doesn't do it.

I don't disagree with your general premise, but you're giving a lot of credit to a mouthpiece. Pretending that Nightengale "validated" this leak before rolling with it is laughable.

YeH, if you can't overcome a couple bad managerial decisions against the Tigers you just stink.

To bring in joe kelly?

People mad they didn't take lucas out so joe could come in sooner lol

Sure. I'm just not pinning this loss on Tony. These losses are on the players.

Joe kelly lol

He's been his normal self, but the offense is 100% at blame here.

The White Sox have 2 runs. Last night they had one. I hate la russa. Neither of these losses have anything to do with him.

Ironically enough, Ricky did a nice job developing younger players and not allowing them to rest on their talent alone. He had issues - will never forget him having a panic attack in the dugout of a playoff game - but the development of these players has stopped which honestly leads me to believe that the effort to develop them has stopped with La Russa in charge. They now just do what they want and have no guidance on further growth and problem areas. This has been the most disappointing and frustrating team of my lifetime and it's not close, and Rick Hahn watches this every night and has decided that nothing is going to be done about it.