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Honestly - I don’t have any problem with that approach.

He still has stuff to work through - I'm fine letting him hit where he is right now.

Warning track - off the bat I thought he got it.

Alright time to have a late offensive surge today - let’s go Sox!!!

That was a fun one!!!

Awesome game!!!

Im in the - not counting anything until I see real sustained in season success. With that said - man my first impression of Ben Johnson is legit. I’ll also say I’m hoping Caleb responds to the challenge he’s getting - can tell Caleb didn’t have same expectations set on him last year or in college. Ben expects a lot more and it will be interesting to see if Caleb is willing to do what it takes or if he is content as he already has made a lot of money.

Reminds me a bit defensively of Rafael Furcal - maybe it’s the arm or something.

Seems like a no brainer to bring back to south side.

Thought the same thing. Hopefully nothing serious.

Spot on.

You guys know that there is a no hitter going on?

Why do I see a one year lock out followed by the cap and it will be right when Sox finally have an owner who would have been willing to spend like crazy….

Very well summed up.

After getting screwed with ten cause of stupid competitive balance rules that screw the Sox - I really hope something works in our favor vs ending up with the worse two year record in franchise history and getting a #10 and #7 pick or whatever it is. Terrible rules - penalize teams in that regard because they are over payroll thresholds or something else - as a Sox fan we get none of the luxuries of a big market team and none of the benefits of a small market team. Hope Ishibia changes that.

Echo that. Site is worse off without him.

Just imagine Getz - other gm - what’s wrong? Oh let me tell you what we do for these players…other gm shakes head, well, I guess we should up our offer - Sox having been telling him to choke up as part of their advanced analytics program….

I don’t care what anyone says - I very much enjoy this and the newish format is great.

Can they be a PTBNL type of a thing at this year's deadline?

I think giving him a bit of a breather here with all star break coming up will be a good thing - but there is also benefit on a bad team in terms of how you can develop through this as well.

I do agree with you on the core and I think fundamentally for things to change - far larger investments needs to happen - both in terms of spending money on on field talent, but just as importantly (and I would agree and echo everything everyone here has said) in the front office, development, scouting, medicine, and anlaytics paths. The club has to do both - I actually think Getz has done some in these department and he's been smart here - he's trying to buy goodwill to JR in how he's doing it and I think his current pitch (when JR was the sole owner and technically he still has full control) had to be very limited in how you did it because JR doesn't buy this stuff - so Getz has to take bite sized paths forward to show the benefits and let JR see them. I expect we will see more of that play out - but hopefully with the infusion of funding - we can see that path start to accelerate in the off-season (and maybe reality is none of this changes until ownership fully changes hands) and start to see a larger infusion in these areas. Again - money talks and if the tone from the top is changing and people see it - you can absolutely hire stronger talent. I actually would start by hiring a president above Getz - purely to oversee the bigger philosophical movements and I'd go get someone from a far more advanced org to do it and right him a check and than let him work with Getz to continue to build out that evolution (and they can also assess whether Getz is that right person or not).

If Shohei were a White Sox - he would still be the single greatest player in baseball.

Money talks. They will have no problem signing people if they change in what they spend and operate and with new owner. This thing can change pretty fast if done right.

I wouldn't go long term on any starting pitcher - so I agree with you completely. I do think the Sox either go short term with some investments next year to be able to turn them into assets at next year's deadline while you wait for the new CBA...or you do a little bit of both - and potentially go after one or two younger impact guys in free agency to start to build a better core - and quite frankly - you got to find ways to start to turn things around and instill the right presence in terms of where the franchise is going. Tucker & Bichette would be two pieces that should be around and high level for a while and fill major needs. Bichette is a bit up and down so would be curious where the market ultimately was with him - but a good piece nonetheless.

This was my point - and this would just get us to a middle of the road payroll. From there over another year or two - maybe get into top 10 in payroll. Shoot - I wanted them to trade for Bellinger at a discount - would have worked out nice right now flipping him! Now I agree - I would spend some of the money building a better front office and development staff - but it would have to be under Getz watch and I would splurge on some shorter term deals for guys to flip - but if they could swing big for a young star - you do it too.