The Hawk

Why in the world would they ever bring Adam Eaton into this team? There is so much positivity on the team right now. Eaton doesn't help the team in any way and he actually would hurt the team.

Hope not. Eaton isn't that good player first of all and he is an asshole.

Come-on. I'm very optimistic for a change.

That was interesting information. Thanks.

If anyone other than Vaughn is penciled in to be the DH, it had better be Mercedes.

You're right about Mercedes defense but he does mash the ball. His progression through the minor leagues in 2019 was amazing and he had better over-all numbers than Robert did.

I just have never seen any indication that the guy can hit. Even in the minor leagues his production has been negligible. As a receiver, he is bad blocking balls in the dirt and just looks stiff to me.

I think Collins is pretty much a bust as a player. I want Mercedes to be brought to the bigs and get some warranted at bats.

There is no way that they are going to trade Eloy. The guy will be the White Sox best over-all hitter for years to come and lead the league in Home runs and RBIs. People forget that he is a very young player also and athletic so his defense will and is getting better.

Yeah. That pretty well sums my thoughts up also.

Yep. Of all of the guys that the Sox would hire, Tony L. seems like the most strange to me as making sense going forward. To me, it would be a complete shot in the bow to Hahn and I think that Hahn would pretty much leave if Reinny put LaRussa in charge of the team and gave him complete control which I think LaRussa would demand. And for how long would Reinny think Tony would stay as the manager? This really doesn't make much sense to me. LaRussa has been away from on field baseball for awhile. They need to hire a younger guy that can motivate the young talent that they have.

Nope. I'd prefer my shitheads to be good baseball players:)

Did he get his sports car off the Dan Ryan yet?

I don't think that he has proven himself on anything other than he had a great arm before TJ surgery. Its frankly his ten cent head that I worry about. Frankly, this kid is facing a lot of scrutiny next year all around.

Another thing to consider. What would the impact be regarding the subject of minority hires in baseball? Think of this for a second. The Sox just fired a minority in Renteria from a team laden with black and Hispanic players. Now the rumors of potential hires are mostly concerning white guys and some old ones at that. I'm saying that if they do not seriously take a look at a guy like Sandy Alomar, they might get questioned on why not? Personally, I think Alomar would be a very solid major league manager.

The architect of the BASH BROTHERS shit in Oakland wouldn't go for bat flips? Hell, he had guys shooting up in the clubhouse back then:(

I wouldn't be against trading Kopech and/or Madrigal. Not Vaugh, though.

Absolutely true. Any GM has to operate within the financial parameters set by the chief executive. My guess is that Hahn convinced Reinny that to win within Reinny's financial parameters, he had to tear the White Sox to the bone and rely on finding young talent from around different sources of baseball. To do that he took basically every good player that the White Sox had at the time with the exception of Abreu and traded them for the prize young players of some contending organization. And he added to these mostly Latin players with high draft picks from the Major league player drafts. All of these moves resulted in what in 2020 is a very talent laden team with more on the way. All within the old skinflints financial parameters. It was a MASTERFUL JOB by Hahn.

Baseball is all about the law of averages when you think about it. The way defenses set up is and has always been about the law of averages and the offenses try and defeat their placement. Pitchers know what pitches can usually get a given hitter out and try and put them in a certain location. They also know which pitches a hitter can handle well and avoid throwing them there. Its all a game within a game. The notion, however, that managers and coaches in the past and some in the present did not take hitter tendencies and abilities in consideration when planning on how to get them out is way over-blown as far as I am concerned. All that has happened is that more information is now available to the managers and coaches in an easier to read format and more timely.

I remember that. Yeah, he did. That was really funny.

Then again, Tony just might be drunk once again?

I never thought of Robert going over to right field. That's an interesting idea. I do like left handed throwing right fielders though because of the ball hit down the line and the subsequent play to 2nd base being easier to execute.

No. I knew all about LaRussa's repeated drunkenness as well as the ex-police chief's. Basically Tony has been a drunk all of his life. Tony really has a lot of warts. Hell his two oldest daughters filed a multi-million dollar law suit against him for his refusal to recognize them publicly as his children. He's really a piece of work.

LaRussa ran baseball teams where the use of Roids was openly done in the clubhouse itself. He was blatant about it with the bash brothers and the Cardinals.

What are you arguing, anyway? No one knows what cards are in a blind nor in the down cards of another person's hand. Like it or not, poker is not in itself an odds game per se. Bluffing, betting strategy, trickery of sorts, etc. all play into the game don't they? Bad beats can bankrupt even the most astute odds better