southsideirish71

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.

https://www.nbcsports.com/chicago/white-sox/white-sox-bats-among-best-even-without-power-f-home-run

He was a decent 1B in college. He has been playing LF pretty much since he came up because we think how many DH/1B types can we play at once. The answer, all of them.

Maybe if he actually plays there more than once a month.

Tony is not leaving after this season unless health becomes an issue. He will want a reset next year with a full spring training and healthy players. His ego won't let him quit after a bad season. He thinks that this is all due to injuries and things out of his control.

The comatose manager hired a doggy doctor to be the analytics mind of the Diamondbacks. The current one for Chicago is a relation of his old pitching coach that boned up on the Udemy course because that's how you learn analytics. I am sure top minds are working on this with the whitesox, top....minds.... https://blogs.fangraphs.com/a-nerdy-conversation-with-white-sox-analytics-coordinator-shelly-duncan/

Beer league defense.

Has he played the OF during his rehab starts? This is a dumb team.

Tony is not getting fired. And he won't retire after this year. He is not going to go out on a sour note. He and the rest of the sox will chalk this season up to a weird situation with the lockout. Next year they will get a full spring training with a healthy team. The Twins did it, they can do it. All they need to do is to get some more gritty players and it's to be won. That of course is not reality. But remember they looked at the offseason as just needing a little tweak. They are delusional.

Now we are in the danger zone. Smart teams would evaluate our chances and base their moves on that analysis. We are not run like that. Jerry sees well how can we keep people coming to the park this year and this year only. We could flip Colson for a rental 2B/OF/Reliever lightning in a bottle. Just because if we get closer to 2nd it might stir ticket sales for this year.

The same HOF manager walked a guy with 2 strikes because of the Analytics from his old pitching coaches son. Thank you Udemy for teaching Duncan intro to analytics and R.

Well Country Kitchen is going to close soon. He needs to get there before the Tuesday special goes bad.

Well Burger is finally in the game. And Josh Harrison is pitching. Fun times. This is exactly what I hoped for when we went through the rebuild.

I liked the coach of the Tigers before we got all goofy. But that ship has sailed. They need an organizational colonic. For their analytic department. Go to MIT/Stanford and find real people who do the math. The type of people trading firms hire to build their algorithms. Not people related to buddies of the coaches old pitching coach. Spend money on that department like it's a bloodline of the company. Invest in technology across the spectrum. Then go and find the best fielding instructor on the market, throw money his way and have him derive a plan to teach players who go through our minors how to catch the ball. Spend money on the minors, spend money on the international draft. Hire people who work for the Rays, the Dodgers, etc. Spend money here. Build a white sox way so that players can be inserted into the majors and play. Know what to do, how to run, how the game works.

Its a Chicago thing. HEY WAT ABOUT MIKE SINGLETERRY AS A HC. HE WOULD RUN DA 46 and bring it back to DITKA STYLE.