WhiteSox2023

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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He was productive for 4 straight seasons prior to last year. That is exactly the type of guy a crappy team should be trying to acquire on the cheap to serve as a bounceback / flip candidate. What is the downside? That they might stink because of Anderson? They will stink with even worse options in DeJong and Lopez, and neither of these two bums will be wanted by any team at the deadline.

In an upcoming season and likely season(s) in which the Sox are going to be a bad team, we should want players that have a chance at rebounding and being worth something by the trade deadline. That is not guys like DeJong and Lopez. It was guys like Rosario and Anderson. Getz signed a bunch of veterans to one year deals that will be worth nill at the deadline. This defense and leadership strategy by Getz is all hype, considering most of the players that are providing it in 2024 are going to be free agents once the season ends — free agents that no GM will likely want to sign, except for maybe Getz.

I don’t believe that cost won’t be a factor for Moncada’s 2025 club option. Even in the rare occurrence that Moncada stays healthy and performs well this season, he could easily perform terribly in 2025 even if he stays healthy, as his up and down career has already proven. JR isn’t taking on the risk of paying Moncada $25 million to stay healthy but suck in 2025. Insurance won’t cover that scenario. If Moncada doesn’t stay healthy and perform well enough to be traded at the deadline, that $5 million dollar buyout will be pounced on after this season

Especially since Nicky only cost $700K less than Anderson. In hindsight, Anderson starting at 2B with Lopez anywhere else and Mendick/Sosa backing up would have definitely been much more ideal for having an additional piece of trade bait at the deadline.