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  1. Jimmy Rollins is trash, played like trash here. 41 Games, .624 OPS, -0.4 bWAR Same as the trash Tony brought in in 2021-2022. Same as the veteran trash Getz brought into camp as NRIs. Veteran trash signings each and every offseason - The White Sox Way since 1981.
  2. That was to pitch for the Yankees, and maybe he just doesn’t want to go there which is perfectly understandable. He will need $118M over five years, or a very possible if healthy $88M over four years in the future (one or more contracts) to lock in the same guaranteed money over time. Has possible upside with the Mets, Phillies, Padres, Dodgers, Yankees, Baltimore (if Angelos dies and hedge fund guy fully assumes ownership), or a few other teams, hell even the White Sox, if new ownership groups are involved in bidding over the next 1-5 years. The MLBPA really needs to fight to strip the QO / Draft Penalty from FA, and also the voidable Arbitration Settled Contract and out of the next CBA.
  3. Go back two more years to a day which will forever live in White Sox infamy. There are great individual performances over every season. But in terms of great moments for the entire team, 2020 Game One vs. Oakland was the high point for White Sox baseball since the 2008 Blackout Game. 2021 Field of Dreams under Manager Miguel Cairo was the one great team moment since, with honorable mentions for two off field occurrences; White Sox Cane Guy and Liam beating cancer.
  4. The test results are in. Jim Thorpe is not your Great Great Grandfather.
  5. Chris, The several levels of bosses you report through, Jerry, Tony, Brooks, Thome, others, made it so teams that reach the third or fourth thresholds of the “Competitive Balance Tax” (named similar to the “Affordable Health Care Act”) lose draft pick slots and bonus pool money. Jerry likes it that way. Stops the handful of MLB owners who want to field winning teams each season from signing all the best players. Jerry loves fielding bad teams and knocking payroll under the checks he receives from NYC just for fielding guys wearing MLB laundry. Doesn’t matter if they are quality players. Never has since 1981. Looking forward to the master class in winning you have planned for 2024 and beyond. Moustakas, Chavez, Maldonado, Fletcher. I can smell the crisp cool World Series November air just thinking all the winning you’ll enjoy with Jerry over the next seven months. PS - Eat this. Sincerely, Jason Benetti Proud employee of a competent MLB organization for the very first time.
  6. Chris, I would like you to introduce you to John Middleton, the closest thing to Bill Veeck in the 21st Century. https://www.philadelphiabaseballreview.com/2022/12/theres-no-doubt-now-middleton-putting.html?m=1 https://www.allsides.com/news/2023-10-19-1922/sports-phillies-owner-john-middleton-acrobatically-gave-baseballs-philly-fans https://www.essentiallysports.com/mlb-baseball-news-john-middleton-mlb-will-fine-him-phillies-owners-awesome-act-stands-out-from-the-likes-of-unpopular-john-fisher-and-hal-steinbrenner-winning-fans-hearts/
  7. Will update the tracker and AAV once the Snell deal becomes official. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/03/giants-to-sign-blake-snell.html Snell will receive $32M for this season, $15M in 2024 and a $17M signing bonus payable January 2026. Snell also has a $30M player option for 2025. So he locks in $62M if he gets injured and needs surgery this season. Setting that aside, the AAV is $31M for CBT purposes, compared to the initially estimated $28.6M over obviously a much longer period ($200M over 7 years vs. $62M over 2 years). Blake Snell will be 32 if he opts out before 2025, or 33 for his next free agent period barring an extension.
  8. Well that and annual collusion and widespread tanking since 1918.
  9. Mr. Getz, You should avoid spending most of your time on the job responding to internet criticism, which is what your predecessor obsessed about. Also, players should be prepared and you know like actually played the position they are being asked to do for the first time before being thrown into the s%*# on Opening Day. Primarily because your bosses, Jerry and Brooks Boyer, are throwing a hissy fit because there are several thousand, perhaps over ten thousand, unsold tickets on opening day. Smells like Vaughn in Left Field, rushing injured Liam to sell Memorial Day tickets, Dane Dunning / Garrett Crochet 2020 Game 3 all over again. If Tony is calling the shots, blink twice. Otherwise, do better, before you are looked back upon as Rick Hahn 2.0. Signed, White Sox Fans
  10. Chicago native Don Cornelius, born seven months and a day after Jerry.
  11. I’d like to keep him in Charlotte to get several pressure free starts, in warmer weather, to see how he holds up doing what he hasn’t done since the 2010s with limited inning starts at Tennessee. Feels like 2020 Game 3, or rushing Liam after 5 poor IP post cancer spring training/Charlotte rehab innings. They spent six months tearing down the team and assuring 0 games will matter in 2024. Yet between the guys they brought in, their likely opening day roster, and this decision, they continue to operate as they did throughout 2023 as though any of these games matter beyond player evaluation and player development. Getz built a 60ish win team. Operate accordingly. Crochet’s 12 1/3 Innings as a 2020s Starter: 3 1/3 vs. Wright State 3/7/20 1 2/3 at Los Angeles N. L. 2/27/24 2 at Los Angeles A. L. 3/2/24 2 1/3 at San Diego 3/9/24 3 vs. Los Angeles A. L. 3/14/24
  12. I believe his MLB service time clock would remain frozen if he breaks down in Charlotte. Whereas if he does the same on opening day or a subsequent April start, doubling his start total this decade and surpassing 3 1/3 innings for the first time since the 2010s, it will continue accruing. I mean he has 12 1/3 innings as a starter under his belt this decade plus one more start later this week. What could possibly go wrong? 13 “Starts” - Tennessee 2018-2020 https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=croche000gar 4 “Starts” - Spring Training 2024 https://www.mlb.com/player/garrett-crochet-676979?stats=gamelogs-s-pitching-mlb&year=2024 12 1/3 Innings as a 2020s Starter: 3 1/3 vs. Wright State 3/7/20 1 2/3 at Los Angeles N. L. 2/27/24 2 at Los Angeles A. L. 3/2/24 2 1/3 at San Diego 3/9/24 3 vs. Los Angeles A. L. 3/14/24 Yes, let’s put added pressure on him to start on Opening Day since it will be our only crowd until after the trade deadline when the Cubs and Yankees visit in mid August.
  13. Same as it ever was, same as it ever was Same as it ever was and look where my hand was….
  14. I take these more as Getz declarations than uninformed "predictions", but do with them as you wish. https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/news/white-sox-2024-opening-day-roster Starting Lineup: C Maldonado; 1B Vaughn; 2B Lopez L; SS DeJong; 3B Moncada S; LF Benintendi L; CF Robert Jr.; RF Fletcher L; DH Jimenez Reserves: C Stassi; OF Pillar; 2B-SS Shewmake; 1B-3B Moustakas Rotation: 1 Fedde; 2 Soroka; 3 Flexen; 4 Crochet L; 5 Nastrini Bullpen: CL/SU Kopech; Leasure; Wilson MR Banks L; Chavez; Hill L; Leone Swing/Long Garcia
  15. Claimed the 5th spot in the rotation to start the season. https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/news/braves-reynaldo-lopez-wins-fifth-starter-spot/
  16. You Will Know Them by Their Fruits - Matthew 7:15-20 KJV
  17. https://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2024/03/18/detroit-tigers-2024-opening-day-home-opener-tickets-start-times/72987926007/ Detroit Opening Day article lists Standing Room Only tickets are still available for $99, but fans can find much better deals for the White Sox home opener where tickets start $26 with seats available in nearly every section of the park. LMAO We must give Jerry billions today, so we can pay gauged ticket prices on Opening Day 2029 to watch guys like Fletcher, Maldonado, Nicky Lopez and Opening Day Starter through Closer TBD.
  18. The Women's Draw was a complete debacle. https://thespun.com/college-hoops/ncaa-selection-committee-accused-of-screwing-over-iowa Iowa was screwed in their bracket, with eight Top 24 teams loaded on their side, whereas the other brackets have five (South Carolina and Southern California) or six (Stanford). Potential Hardest 1 Seed Roads to the Final Four: (1) South Carolina (Two Top 11 Teams): Beat the 10th and 11th best teams. (2) Iowa (Three Top 15 teams): Beat the 12th (Princeton in second round), 15th (K State Sweet 16) and 5th best (UCLA) teams. (3) Southern California (One Top 3 Team): 3rd ranked UCONN, also screwed with a 3 seed. (4) Texas (Two Top 13 Teams): Underseeded 4th ranked 2 seed Stanford and possibly 13th ranked Gonzaga, Women's RPI though Sunday: http://realtimerpi.com/college_Women_basketball_rpi.html Top 24 RPI Ranked Teams by Bracket Caitlin Clark Bracket: 1 Iowa (2); 2 UCLA (5); 9 Princeton (12); 7 Creighton (14); 4 Kansas State (15); 3 L. S. U (18); 5 Colorado (19); 10 UNLV (24) Californication Bracket: 3 UCONN (3); 1 Southern California (6); 2 thee Ohio State University (9); 10 Richmond (17); 7 Duke (22) South Carolina Top Overall Seed: 1 South Carolina (1); 4 IU (10); 3 Oregon State (11); 2 Fucking Notre Dame (16); 5 Oklahoma (21) Stanford Bracket: 2 Stanford (4); 1 Texas (7); 3 North Carolina State (8); 4 Gonzaga (13); 6 Tennessee (20); 7 Iowa State (23) I'll watch the Women's if I can find it until Caitlin is out. Could give a rats ass about the Men's tournaments (NCAA, NIT, CBI, College Insider, et al). I hope the Women's Tournament has higher ratings than the World Series for another year as it did last year. Caitlin Clark's Hawkeyes vs. LSU drew 9.9M viewers last year. Manfred's piece of metal series drew 9.082M viewers last year. This World Series was the least-watched World Series in television history.
  19. It is toxic because of Jerry, who is still here, Tony, who is still here, Pedro who is still here. No free agent wants to go to a 60 win team run by idiots and fossils unless they have no other interested teams. Guys from Korea or marginal MLB players like DeJong grabbed something early so they wouldn't be the couple dozen guys sitting around in March waiting for something/anything. Collusion has been really bad post COVID, even at the high end of the market as Montgomery and Snell are learning and Bellinger learned. AJ Pollock got similar cash (within $1M) between the buyout and his new deal than if he stayed. Wish he would have stayed even though he was below average so they wouldn't have signed Benintendi for 5 years last offseason.
  20. To me, and I believe a lot of folks here, all this defense and team chemistry is primarily Chuck Garfien fluff. The White Sox need to fix runs scored (29th) and runs allowed (26th). Don't see much evidence they will improve their standing on either front this season. And that's OK, this should be a 2-4 year rebuild process. We will have more to judge Getz on by August 1st. How the roster is managed, how Pedro is managed, did he get sign of on firing Pedro, how the draft went, what he did at the deadline, how he manages injuries. Looking for improvements on this front. We'll have to agree to disagree on Fletcher. Not sure if you'll take the L on that front unless his OPS is under .600 or he is limited to a few dozen games in his White Sox career. As a Sox fan, I hope I take the L and Fletcher can play the next four or five years with 100 + starts a year, a .730 + OPS and solid defense including adequate / slightly substandard covering games in CF. Just highly skeptical he can deliver on any of these metrics.
  21. Either would have been fine as a waiver claim. I guess picking Fletcher's defensive edge over McCarthy's offensive edge made sense to Getz. Still think he will have trouble covering CF, which is the important piece the Sox need with Engel gone / injured since 2021, and no Billy Hamilton to serve as a quality defensive replacement. To me, there isn't much difference between DeLoach, Fletcher or McCarthy. Wouldn't give up anything for them. Don't think any of them can adequately cover CF beyond a couple dozen dicey starts a year. They are all cromulent 4th/5th final reserve OFers, good enough to muddle through until Colas can figure things out in Charlotte or they try to acquire a legitimate starting RF sometime in the future.
  22. I'm all for a 10-30 start if that is what it takes to flush the veteran nonsense and Pedro down the toliet, Late May Target: Manager: Montoyo (Conduct a legitimate search for permanent manager including Montoyo after season end) Position Players: (2) Catchers: Korey Lee and either Chuckie Robinson or Carlos Perez (5) Infield: Vaughn, Sosa, Lopez, DeJong, Moncada (3) Outfield: Benintendi, Colas (1B backup), Robert Jr. (1) DH: Eloy (2) Reserves: INF Popeye if ready and play him, otherwise Mendick or Remillard; OF Fletcher or DeLoach
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