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The 3 Hs. Hahn is out Hopefully Hostetler seeks other opportunities. They can let Haber work in the analytics department or something. Or seeks other opportunities. When is the last time they brought 3 outsiders (or even 1) into the inner sanctum of the front office? Maybe I'm grading on a curve, but this seems good.

Leadership is organic. It cannot be created, contrived or traded for. Maybe a leader will blossom. Until then, I'm good with my leader in the pen - isn't that where all the sleeping was going on anyway?

Hendriks is the leader the Sox need, not Perez

Yes, perhaps in a fairytale.

I agree; I think they'll make some trades, too (Likely at dimes on the dollar of peak value). One thing the Sox did pretty well this year was get a good return for a bunch of mediocre pitchers and good pitchers having bad years. They did better this year than they did from 2015-2019 on those types, at least on paper.

Getz is going to have to channel his inner Roland Hemond to get this fixed. That 1970 team had few good players, a terrible farm (a White Sox Standard) but he was somehow able to coax a starting pitcher and a starting position player from the Angels in return for a great defensive CF who couldn't hit plus a really bad infielder (Syd O'Brien). A couple more trades of modest talent struck gold (or at least silver) And then of course, Chuck Tanner said "hey, we should start Wilbur Wood." I don't think a rebuild like we did in 2016 has a chance in hell of succeeding. He's got to make some moves.

Discrimination added to the list. Just wonderful. Anything else, White Sox?

Well, I would think that the Sox are the third worst, or worse, in most areas.

Well, tonight wasn’t a bullpen problem. It is pretty cool to give up 8 runs in the first inning and not take the loss.

Just looking at the records of those AA and AAA teams. My word!Remarkably similar to the major league team.

Yes, I know. And Perez and his leadership and Moxie will turn a staff, whose top pitcher is a #5 (after they trade Cease), into division contenders (because the division is not the best, don't you know?)

Of course they should have. That they haven't is telling.

They DFAd one: Seby. Kept Grandal. Love those veterans.

When is he going to clear out some of the riffraff from the FO? I figured he'd follow JR's credo of doing it early to give them a better chance to find a position with another org.

I'm sure he does want to move some position players off of this roster. But who the heck will want any of them, besides Robert?

Sox win a game. Right on!

I guess Getz is like most GMs these days and wants a field manager that he can control. But surely he can find one of those types who aren't completely inept.

FFS, can't hold a lead against the Royals. Pedro pushes the wrong buttons again.

All I can figure in cutting Zeby instead of Grandal is that a)Pedro wanted Grandal and/or didn't want Zeby back; and b) thought cutting a FA signee prior to contract expiration might send a bad message to future FA targets (not that they haven't done that before). Re Salvy, I'm hoping that was a Hahn thing and that Getz has more sense than that.

Re the Keith Law interview, I absolutely remember Hostetler saying, when discussing the 2018 draft, that they drafted Steele Walker because "X" (I don't remember the name; one of his scouts) insisted on it.

Chris, please consider reconsidering your position on retaining Pedro.

Yes Jerry talked about adding scouts that had been fired by other organizations as those orgs move to analytics "But that's Chris' call." Can Getz at least dispatch Hahn footmen like Hostetler and "Moneyball" Haber?

They're not big on Sosa either. How about dumping Grandal, if they're serious about non-performers. Or Clevinger just to send a message that they disagree with their predecessors and won't accommodate the foul.

I'm glad Gar and McGuff aren't the GM. Mercy!