South Side Hit Men

Joe Kelly is White Sox Tru-coat. I love many other scenes, including the Marge’s lunch scene with the lonely Japanese guy, and “we go to pancake house”.

Mobile site works great for me, doubt I have special privileges. ?

It’s bad enough he sucks in 2022. The more they play him, the higher the likelihood he returns to suck in 2023.

I say this with all due sincerity. Jim Boylan would be a managerial upgrade over Tony La Russa. Terry Bevington would be a managerial upgrade over Tony La Russa. Matt Nagy would be a managerial upgrade over Tony La Russa.

While Tony was something Hahn wouldn’t have done, he is responsible for the eight years previous seasons. Jerry gave him $200M. Hahn extended Ricky sixty games before Jerry hired Tony. Hahn had eight years to improve on league worst scouting, analytics and player development in MLB. Hahn wasted four years of top draft picks during tanking. Hahn brought in Menechino, not Tony.

It’s going to take 4-5 years to develop the next core. Replace GM and entire scouting (except Marco Paddy, player development, trainer and medical staff. Parlay Paddy’s expertise to stock up on solid young players. Have solid minor league development staff build catchers, infielders, outfielders and pitchers who can perform at the ML level. Have a solid 15-18 players on the ML 0-3 minimum salary level, and complement as needed. This should have been been done 2017-2022. None of this was done well. This is how smart teams win at any payroll level (Top, Middle or Bottom Ten).

You can still get the Dodgers to eat a bad contract or two if you also give them something they want. Just don’t trust Hahn making a smart move since he’s created the bad contracts and roster in the first place.

Inactivity is the norm for 86 and 77 year olds. Changing oatmeal brands is considered a major life decision at this stage of life.

I believe Daryl Boston is Jerry Reinsdorf’s snitch, and this guy is Rick Hahn’s. Don Cooper was Kenny’s snitch.

It’s a shame this coincided with Tim Anderson’s injury.

That’s terrible, it’s very in expensive to host fan on field events during off days, or invite fans to watch Sox BP. I really enjoyed those when I had full season tickets. Also enjoyed attending a sponsor event where we hit BP. Hopefully I can return in the future once a new owner implements fan friendly policies and there is a manager in the dugout I can support paying a sliver of their salary with season ticket money. Until then, my boycott continues.

Statistically, La Russia’s teams did better when Tony’s veterinarian friend was at the helm. His reign also coincided with Tony working in solid organizations (Oakland and Saint Louis), and before the onset of his cognitive decline. TWTW, for all intents and purposes, remains the extent of White Sox “strategery”. Hahn is responsible for the past ten years to develop a plan to install competent qualified people to develop an analytics program and convince Jerry of the benefits. He has failed at this task. Hahn’s primary claim to fame was exploiting young immigrant labor with “team friendly contracts”, threatening to let them rot in the minor leagues if they didn’t sign, and pawning off what he inherited from Kenny after 2016. He will finish his tenure as the worst GM in club history. The sooner this happens, the sooner the White Sox can possibly improve to the point they can actually be legitimate contenders. Likely won’t happen until Jerry is gone as well.

Well, his similarity scores are: Age 24 & 26 Jose Berrios ($15.7 - $24.7M over the next six years). Age 25 Trevor Bauer ($35M AAV) Doesn’t look like “5th starter / DFA material”. Recall hearing dump Abreu and Cease a few years ago, Grandal and Keuchel are in the “elite / Cy Young” category. Can’t tell a player’s future by a short stretch. Hopeful he can recover from the issues he’s had this season and he’s only 27. I’m sure nobody is more disappointed than Lucas, but he will be paid by and large on his health and performance next year. Hope and expect he does well for himself and the team.

I certainly wouldn’t waste a good paying job, or a kidney, on him.

Tony despises Haseley. Tony rather start an everyday outfield of Jake Lamb RF, Leury Garcia CF and Nick Williams LF.

Pretty sure they felt that way internally at the deadline, just decided to not run fans faces in it like Jerry did 25 years ago. Explains why they did nothing beyond a minor backup catcher for LH reliever trade at low salaries.

He’s been a split catcher his entire tenure here. 29 GMs saw that in 2019. Just too hard for catchers to excel in their 30s. One can always point out a few outliers, but 99% of MLB catchers are backups or out of the game into their 30s. His high workload prior to the Sox only wore him down more. 150 starts at catcher, 300 White Sox games heading into today.

Lucas Giolito schadenfreude and clown posts. Not a single GM would non tender Lucas.

Shit, I’ve been out of town since Saturday and they haven’t lost. Not scheduled to return until next Wednesday, hope the good times keep rolling!

Hangin' in and jivin' Your 2022 Chicago White Sox

Sounds like a Shane Riordan podcast.

Don't forget the video feed.

I just want a guy who can catch the baseball in the outfield, and with Robert out, they are down to Engel who Tony won't play.

Miguel Cabrera has a higher OPS (.648) than half of the White Sox.