JoeC

Clearly a progressive manager, pioneering the concept of managing by Zoom.

I think i am

To be fair.... the same question should be asked of Vaughn and Sheets.

Thank you. I wish all IT personnel would communicate like this.

If the team gets a legitimate lefthanded hitting RFer who can play defense, I'm OK with keeping Vaughn and Abreu as 1B / DH. Robert in CF with a legit RFer can help make up for Eloy's defensive deficiencies in LF. Oh yeah - and Sheets is a LH bench bat or trade piece.

I hope he's OK enough to live a healthy life, but I also hope he's done as manager.

…does it really count when 3 of the 5 listed have significant overlap? Either way, point made

It's uncomfortably funny

...or 15?

What - humidor is making the balls too heavy to lift in the air?

If i had to choose? TLR. At least give the GM autonomy to succeed or screw it up with full accountability.

Yeah no shit. TLR is collecting a paycheck from this shit. Be angry all you want, but you're getting paid. We're the ones paying to put up with this shit.

Let's look on the bright side. The Sox are making the national spotlight!!

I was thinking more of the events of 25 years ago this summer

These first few lyrics sum up this thread.

...but the most painful thing of all is that there is no wrong answer.

Essentially started with my personal bias and backed it up with fWAR (hitting). Grandal has been a disappointment versus expectations, but if you're looking at absolute level of sucktitude, it's Leury for me.

Yaz is more disappointing. Doesn't make Leury more valuable. ...though I didn't look at bWAR (just fWAR)

Disagree. Yes, Tony's got a Leury problem... but that has contributed to Leury's being the least valuable player. Leury's got a -1.0 WAR. That's twice as bad as Yaz (-0.5 WAR) in essentially the same number of PA's.

Leury by a mile. It's not just the fact that he's barely hitting better than 2021 White Sox pitchers (.458 OPS for 2021 pitchers vs. 505 OPS for 2022 Leury). It's the fact that he's somehow forced his way into the everyday lineup and/or clutch hitting situations this year time and time again.

Yeah, basically PRing Robert for Eloy last night just set back Robert another 3 days in terms of ILable time.

"Anyone who thinks we can catch Cleveland is crazy"

Where's he blaming injuries? I see him acknowledging injuries, and then dismissing them with a "so what? That's baseball" attitude.

you really don't see flawed logic in the following? -Utilizing your best pinch hitter when 1B is open (a situation where Tony himself has repeatedly intentionally walked people... with 2 strikes) -Pinch hitting Leury (he of the .504 OPS) in place of Seby (he of the .754 OPS). For reference, White Sox pitchers in 2021 had a combined .458 OPS. ...and this is just one inning of one game.

In the Blackhawks' case it was more a matter of Bill Wirtz dying. Old Man Wirtz died, and the people who had stayed away started to return