southsideirish71

So is just hiring ex-players because the name works with the fans.

Ventura is one of my favorite players ever. I love Ventura the player, disliked Ventura the coach. Most teams do not just hire old legends that have name value. The meatheads who call the score can come up with their "Hey Big Hurt for hitting coach, Mark Buerhle for pitching coach, Paul Konerko for bench coach and Thome for manager" nonsense. None of these guys have experience running a team. This is not a rebuild. This is a team ready to compete. If you do that, burn it to the ground and start over. Because you are not serious about competing.

If they hire Ventura 2.0 then I am out until the owner moves on. Fuck that noise.

You act like the gm has real power here. In real organizations sure. No here.

Ah Steve Stone, the best water carrier for the organization. Spends his off-screen time fighting with randos on Twitter and standing up for the organization against "rumors" by guys who probably got this info from people above his paygrade.

Most pitchers generate their power from their legs. The plant leg is what takes the brunt of the force as you use it to stop forward momentum and then the rest of the arm almost acts like a slingshot. In some cases the front plant leg will brace and will almost lock out. That will sap velo if he cant do that.

I hurt my knee in college slipping on a wet field in southern Illinois on a weekend game. I still pitched after this because I wanted to be a warrior. I was super tough and did it because I didn't want to let my team down. I took shots and it seems slightly altered my mechanics to compensate for the pain of landing on my plant leg. I didn't do this on purpose I just didn't realize it. I wound up tearing my labrum a month later. The problem with compensating for an injury is that if it can mess with your mechanics other bad things can happen.

How about DLing him to get him some rest. Everyone knew that stretching a guy out was going to involve several walls during the season sans injury. This is why they should of had him in the minors last year working as a starter.

You would have better odds on formulating how to marry victoria secret supermodels than the white sox picking up Soto.

This. I was not in favor of extending him a long-term deal but one more ride with a QO which would allow us to bank a pick and money for the draft if he said no was a no-brainer.

18 fucking million dollars. We could have a draft pick or this guy in our rotation. This was a dumb cheap stupid decision. Thanks JR.

Latin Mike Trout sporting a near 700 OPS against righties. That is not going to work.

Management head to toe is a disaster. From nepotism with hiring relatives and family members of staff to allow members of the coaching staff to be permanent statues on the field that are inherited from one manager to another. No other organization operates like this. Do you think the Boston Red Sox or the Dodgers hire their old manager pitching coaches son as the analytics guy because he took a Udemy course on coding? Really. This team operates like its 1975. Look at the coaches, we have some of the oldest coaches in baseball operating here. It's like the old folk's farm and the last time I checked that's not the direction modern teams are going. They don't invest in anything correctly. The method that teams have operated to be consistent winners has been to build up a strong minor league development organization. To spend on scouting and the draft including the international draft. They augment that with a few superstars and spend on that. We go the direct opposite. We have a very shallow minor league organization. Players come here not knowing how to play the game it seems. They don't know how to run the bases, catch the ball or do the fundamental things that are required for consistent winning in the majors. We then decide that a bullpen is a key to victory, so we go all-in on a bullpen. How many teams spend as we did on the bullpen with a hole at 2b and a hole in RF. Why do we have 4 DHs or more on this roster and are trying to put 1st basemen in the OF? Who does this? We dabble with retreads and spend way too much on fringe players like Leury ( who we rewarded like he was a decent starter ). We could have had a decent 2b or OF, but once again we go to the whims of TLR and build the best and most expensive bullpen in baseball because that is what he wants. Bullpen arms are transitory at best. Neal Cotts in 2005 was one of the dominant arms in the pen. Then poof nothing. There are a few arms that go year to year but its fragile at best. We don't have unlimited resources and have squandered them in horrific fashion. On the players Cease has Boras as his agent. The closer he gets to FA the more likely he is to be moved. His stuff is pure dominant ace stuff. Boras can sell this to the highest bidder if he is healthy and teams will line up for it. Kopech, their plan last year to use him in the pen was kind of dumb. He would have been better off building up into a starter last year instead of getting his first licks of major workload after surgery. But once again, this is the sox. It worked with Buerhle and Sale so of course, it must work with everyone. Robert was anointed as Mike Trout. The problem is between some injuries and it seems work ethic he is nowhere near that player. His talent level is off the charts. The only thing that will hold him back is him. Giolito is getting closer to his FA date. They won't want to walk away empty-handed. They also won't extend him for anything less than pennies on the dollar deals. Tim Anderson, another guy that JR is hoping will want to give a discount to the team for the next and final contract. Why should he do this?

If they are under 10 and have any signs of showing some life, the front office will push all chips into the middle and go for it. That's Kenny's MO, and TLR is not here to push for next year Hahn is kind of in charge. It's a collective including TLR as the GM. JR will burn the farm to the ground before he gives up on revenue for the year and on his greatest regret firing Tony. Tony is too stubborn to walk away. He won't want this to be his last ride. He will want one more turn next year. I see next year as a major white flag sell-off if they compete like this year. I think they will chalk this up to injuries and needing one more piece and will ride this into the same wall again next year. It's too stupid of a franchise.

Another example of an old duffer who looks at other old duffers as young and vibrant and relevant. Look at this guy. He and Tony probably went to the same HS.

Goodbye Colson, Jerry wants to save the ticket receipts from this year and doesn't want to make his near 80-year-old buddy look bad. He will burn what's left of the farm down to salvage this season to give them a small percentage shot at the playoffs.

TLR might fire a duster in his pants if Leury can deliver

Somewhere Tray is looking at a TV confused.

Nah, you play 4 to 5 DHs in the game. Then you turn the game system to rookie mode. If you can do a create a player who is 7 foot tall and runs a 5.9 60 with 80 power.

Whoever decided to back up the brinks truck for the replacement player as if he was good for 3 years needs to find another job.

So lets go over the last 2 years of "contention". Year 1. We sneak into the playoffs as the last overall seed. This is based on playing your division pretty much only and beating up on bad teams. Anytime we played anyone over 500 it didn't go well. We decide that this is success and then go to the following year. Year 2. Our big move is trading Madrigal for Kimbrel because that fixed our 2b/RF problem. We feast on a bad division and Minny being out of it. We don't exactly do well against teams above 500. We get into the playoffs and get exploited pretty quickly. We have injuries to Eloy and keep trotting him out to LF. Robert is out for a good amount of the season. Year 3. We decide to load up on relievers. We trade away Kimbrel for an often broken outfielder. Minnesota is not bad this year like last year. Both Minny and Clevland work over the sox in the division negating their only advantage to get to a playoff spot. Good teams work the sox over just like before. Great rebuild strategy. Hope the AL Central sucks and then maybe magic happens in the playoffs.

Watching Gavin in right is what you would think it looks like. A hulking slow 1st baseman jogging to baseballs

Hanging breaking pitches over the heart of the plate is an interesting strategy.

Timmy's inconsistencies in defense are why I say develop Colson as a SS first until he proves he cant play there. Taller SSs have happened. Anderson and his defense can move to 2b in the long run for all I care.

Round is a shape.