WhiteSox2023

Imagine fluffing your own awful signing of a 37 year old catcher with a .347 OPS for $4.5 million who should’ve retired before last season.

A good way to protect his resume. ?

Great post. I didn’t even use that angle!

Is it a surprise he is doing better with the Cubs, who have better minor league instructors than the Sox? Getz essentially turned Christian Mena and Matthew Thompson into Dominic Fletcher and cash. Where is Fletcher right now? Oh yeah, he was so bad he had to be sent to the minors. Getz is a bad GM.

After trading a 23 year old 2nd round starting pitcher for him, who is now having success with the Cubs.

No, he was not. So basically Getz made trades of prospects for older players, which also caused him to lose 40-man roster flexibility, which ultimately forced him to DFA or trade younger players for cash to make room for more veterans. I don’t see how anyone could defend how Getz has managed the 40-man roster at this point. It’s been a clusterfuck of stupid decisions.

You can’t make that stuff up. Impressive.

Jerry doesn’t want you creeping in his pocket.

Getz signs bunch of veterans in the offseason. The rationale is so he can give the younger players time to marinate in the minors. The Sox have a record poor start to the season. Getz freaks out and calls up young prospects that struggle. He also signs more veterans and cuts several young players from the 40-man roster to make room for these veterans. Getz is a terrible GM.

Unlike the discussions on whether to trade Cease during the offseason or the trade deadline, do we all agree that there is probably zero reason to not trade Fedde by this year’s trade deadline?

The calculations and metrics were apparently based on the pitcher and his location rather than the shortstop. That was the error.

Yep, not sure why anyone wants to see Reinsdorf escape the embarrassment of a historic losing record after sabotaging the initial rebuild with TLR and refusing to go all in on free agency (Machado/Harper) and then giving Getz the nepotism hire, saying they are a few moves away from being competitive, and then having Getz cut payroll by around $55 million. Let him wear it. He’s earned it.

It’s almost like Reinsdorf is telling Grifol and Schriffen what to say to deflect and detract against this awful season.

Wow.

Greg must be a millionaire with the number of houses he has lost by now.

That 3-game outburst was nice while it lasted.

South Side Stay Seated.

Wild pitch offense to tie it?

Do something, Gross Man.

Pham just gave everyone a premature tease.

Playing a proven bad 32 year old vet over a 26 year old that is running out of time to prove himself in the majors. Meanwhile, he has called up numerous young pitchers whom one could argue weren’t ready. Getz is really terrible at this roster management stuff. Is there any rhyme or reason to his madness or is he just throwing darts at pictures of these players taped to the wall of his office?

He is. He might like his dogs more than people.

He’s pretty bad. Doesn’t walk (3), strikes out a bunch (29), and occasionally hits a random home run but not enough of them (3). It’s pretty amazing he continues to be employed.