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Dude has a career line of .229/.290/.400/.690. His .400 career SLG is not lineup worthy considering he can’t hit in general and plays the outfield with his glove on his head. His supposed power doesn’t make up for how bad he is at literally everything else.

There really still is next to zero reason Sheets should ever play RF with guys like Fletcher, Pillar, Colas, and DeLoach around.

This is simply guesswork by you. Grifol makes the lineup. He’s the manager. He put Sheets in RF, as far as we know. You have zero proof that anyone else told Grifol to start Sheets in RF today. And even if what you say is true, then the situation is far worse. We have a terrible stats department that still thinks Sheets can play RF, along with a bad manager that listens to their idiotic decisions.

But all the little things add up. Maybe you can even get a Fletcher type prospect back at the deadline if you sign the better flip candidate like Rosario, rather than overpaying for Nicky Lopez.

I agree with all of this except for the Fletcher bullet. I still don’t think Mena was much to give up for a potential starter or even borderline starter/fourth outfielder type. Eaton was very similar in build and he did okay. But yeah, the rest was absolute dumpster diving. And it always seems there are better dumpster diving options available than whom the Sox choose. Amed Rosario was signed for $1.5 million. Randal Grichuk was signed for $2 million. These would have been much better acquisitions than Nicky Lopez and Pillar who cost $4.3 million and $3 million (if added to the roster) respectively. Getz could have signed two better players for $3.5 million. Instead, he chose two worse players at the same position for $7.3 million. He paid over double for worse assets.

I disagree with the bolded statement. GriFAIL can be a terrible manager in his own right, regardless of any other factors, such as being given bad players by Getz, players not performing, etc. He continues to kick himself in his own ass with his own poor decisions, such as Sheets playing the outfield.

He’s starting Sheets in RF again. Unacceptable. Even in a ST game, he’s showing he’s an absolute dipshit. We already know Sheets can’t play RF. It has been proven to everyone but GriFAIL. Regarding your last statement, so just because your team sucks you should continue to employ a horseshit manager?

Just pray he doesn’t make the team so GriFAIL can’t continue this idiocy.

He’s terrible. The only reason he’s still around is because the Sox gave him a 3-year deal and didn’t want to eat 2 years of it.

JR doesn’t care to keep anyone with talent. But if you are terrible at your job, you can keep it as long as your worship at the Reinsdorf temple. Guy is a narcissistic clown of an owner.

@Lip Man 1 and I were both expecting this to happen with our previous posts. Santos had mysterious shoulder issues at the end of last season and the Sox pounced to trade him away. I called it the Sirotka Part 2 trade, but with a good return (not an obese, drunk David Wells). Getz definitely sold high on known damaged goods. I have zero doubts now. This is definitely Getz’s best trade to date and will be difficult to top, even with his eventual Cease trade. https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/mariners/mariners-reliever-matt-brash-has-been-shut-down-from-throwing-and-is-a-little-banged-up/

Maybe he competes with Pillar for the fourth outfielder spot and saves Getz $3 million.

This is so White Sox.

This team has more than enough crappy over-the-hill vets that should be out of baseball entirely.

How does a GM so skillfully build a roster with such absolute suck? Getz should write a book.

Stoney must not have looked at the back of their baseball cards for 5 years.

F*** the White Sox JR

The 16 year age difference between starters is hilarious.

You don’t think the talk of a new ballpark is also a distraction caused by JR to keep fans excited in the team even though the Sox are coming off of an epic failure of a long rebuild and look like they are going to be a terrible team for the next few years? This all benefits our terrible owner as well.

Beat me to it!

Transparent is the nice way to phrase it I guess. If you listen to him, between the Getz promotion announcement and these quotes, “tone deaf” is much more fitting. Transparent isn’t pivoting from $1 to $2 billion.

It was 1,669,628 last year, and that was with much higher expectations that the team would be good. It will be even lower this year with everyone already knowing the team sucks and that they have a lame duck manager.

Looks like more of the same but at least there aren’t any high expectations prior to this season.

The Score was already joking about Reinsdorf’s quotes. It sounds like he partly blamed Sox fans once again for the current ballpark’s attendance woes, rather than his lack of desire to hire a good front office, scouting, and development, and build a winning team. Even though it is 2024, JR mentioned that the Sox have never had 3 million in attendance, even after the 2005 World Series. The Sox drew 2,957,414 in 2006. Someone should have asked JR about all the lack of competitive seasons since 2005. The more I hear JR open his trap, the more I hope he has to eat 100 percent of the costs of the new ballpark. Apparently, JR thinks he’s a great public speaker and advocate for himself. He should hire some better PR people and actually listen to them. He comes across as a completely tone deaf jagoff.

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