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Good post. Makes sense to me. Especially the bolded part. Pretty easy to comprehend. It’s almost like common sense. But then again, maybe Fuller was just looking for a bigger challenge and chose to leave being in charge of the Orioles lineup of good hitters and top prospects so he could coach up the White Sox lineup of pig slop. 🤣

I think Montgomery can turn it around but I sure can understand people having doubts when it comes to Sox first round position player draft picks. They have been pretty putrid on the whole over the past 25 years. The best players are Anderson and a guy they traded away in Burger. Vaughn is mediocre and many people want to see him non-tendered. What a sad list… 2000 - Joe Borchard 2003 - Brian Anderson 2004 - Josh Fields 2008 - Gordon Beckham 2009 - Jared Mitchell 2010 - Josh Phegley (supp.) 2011 - Keenyn Walker (supp.) 2012 - Courtney Hawkins 2013 - Tim Anderson 2016 - Zack Collins 2017 - Jake Burger 2018 - Nick Madrigal 2019 - Andrew Vaughn 2021 - Colson Montgomery 2023 - Jacob Gonzalez

I asked earlier but was it just a fluky down season or was there something wrong with Montgomery physically last year? His high number of strikeouts (164) really sticks out as out of the norm for him before last year.

Once again, make your own judgment. It seems pretty obvious to me what happened, but you do you. @Kyyle23 was right — not worth engaging. https://www.masnsports.com/blog/fuller

Do you believe everything you read? When a VP of a Fortune 500 company “retires after years of service” and has another job a month or two later, do you really believe they weren’t told to get lost? I have seen it more times than I can count in the 8 years at my current company. It’s called reading between the lines. The Orioles are just doing a solid to the coaches that they got rid of so there is no negative connotation, but being “let go” means fired. Afterall, if the Orioles front office thought those guys did such a great job, why would they let them go? You literally agreed with @Tnetennba above that heads had to roll after another Orioles postseason flop — you replied, “more or less true”. But now you are disagreeing with me over semantics? Yes, they were fired… in the nicest way possible — “let go.” I provided you with the article. Sorry, I can’t clear up gullibility.

Definitely. It’s a bunch of awful players and then a trio of very bad players taking up roster spots.

Fuller was dumped, along with bench coach Fredi González, Major League coach José Hernández, and co-hitting coach Matt Borgschulte. They were probably the fall guys for the Orioles offense crapping the bed in the postseason. https://www.mlb.com/news/orioles-making-coaching-staff-changes-for-2025

This is what I think, and it’s mostly due to not wanting to give up on a 1st round pick (#3 overall). Keep in mind that Getz was the Sox director of player development when Vaughn was drafted. Although he may not have been involved directly in drafting Vaughn, his lack of development over the years and having to cut him won’t reflect very well on Getz.

If he can get back to his 2022 - 2023 numbers this year, that would be great. Any idea what happened with his strikeouts last year? They were way higher than his norm. I just read that he got much more aggressive in the strike zone.

Will be at 39 once Slater officially signs.

Agreed. Getz should be trying to acquire as many one time good prospects in their mid-20’s as possible, not 32-year old Austin Slater’s.

I actually wouldn’t be too surprised if this happened. Jerry loves Abreu and cheap contracts. Getz just signed 32-year old Slater already. Seems pretty obvious that dumpster diving for vets is still #1 on Getz’s offseason plan, just like last year.

Hopefully not, but I’ll believe it when I see it.

I thought he meant 1 year at $4 million. This guy probably isn’t worth $2 million. Wrapping up $10+ million on Vaughn, Sheets, and Slater doesn’t seem like the greatest investment, but it is the White Sox way. Spread out millions amongst several bad players. One contract alone isn’t really that bad, but added all up and it’s like burning millions in a 🔥 on a known quantity of bad players.

Probably not, but he deserves about half that amount of money.

They need to limit the opposing team to one run to have a chance with their lineup. Hopefully this guy is that damn good.

He hasn’t been officially signed yet. He probably needs to take a physical.

The case study questions attached to the data analytics job posting were hilarious. It was like Getz snuck in questions he wanted answers on.

No way I believe this. I really think he’s gone no matter what he does. Poles has to save his own job at this point.

Trying to find the Tweet from a valid source.

The scariest thing about all of this is that he started an assistant to player development with the Royals in 2014, then had three roles with the Sox as director of player development, assistant GM, and now the GM but he doesn’t seem to be very good at assessing talent, specifically position players. Like you said, he’s always relying on the recommendations of others on which players to acquire, even coaches he ends up firing a week later as in the Vargas trade.

Just wait until you see what a Sheets/Slater platoon can do!

Greg, boxing matches have been fixed throughout history. Have you noticed that Jake Paul has boxed retired NBA players, former MMA fighters, and a YouTuber? Mike Tyson basically got a $20 million dollar payday to “put over” Paul. Jake Paul’s boxing career is about as real as his brother’s wrestling. Why hasn’t he faced an active boxer in his prime? Because it’s all artificially created hype and apparently some people are buying into it.

Getz decided to overpay Maldonado on January 5th so I doubt many people would have complained if he held off on some of his dumpster diving signings until February. 🤣

But on the flip side, if the Sox lose out on signing Austin Slater, does it really matter at all? The only moves that truly matter for this team are the trades of Crochet and Robert and their young players producing. 32-year old Slater will have little to no impact to the Sox next season.