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If it's one thing I don't see with a lot of Sox pitchers it's the changeup. I Keep wondering why ? If masters it's a great pitch in a pitcher's arsenal.

He is only human but part of being in good mental health is not stressing about the things that are out of your control. If he wants to be an All-Star it is within him to be better. But this version of him isn't bad. I'll take a 4+ WAR SS every year.

Pete was always a family favorite.

My goodness if Hicks can ever throw strikes consistently what a weapon he would be.

Yes they are different situations but the fact remains that Mead didn't perform when given the chance and you have limited opportunities to do so with a team that is cycling through players so fast. I think getting him was Getz doing what he should be doing. Sox had a glance at Gonzo but only the good Gonzo for a few months and decided to cash in after feeding the slot machine for a while and it finally paid off.

Not sure you are serious but there's a lot more to getting what you're looking for than on field performance. You invest in the player and they like to know you have their best interest at heart. They want a good atmosphere. If you listen to the Roch quotes you see how important it is..

Full story and key Roch quotes in the short in the next post.

What is pure value? All of a sudden you value or over value Gonzo ? Love the kid , love his attitude and how he never gave up but there are very few starting pitchers of consequence out there who Gonzalez would move the needle very much. He did however move the needle on a very real chance to re-stock the farm system when so many had graduated to the MLB team. Sure many here have realized that Getz knows a little something about building a player development system. Just because the Sox are hovering around .500 in a weak year for the AL does not mean you start going hog wild and abandon what got you this far. In a year in which they one of the best draft positions since 1977 Getz chose to take advantage of that and add more talent that his staff can develop. Unless you were under a rock today you probably heard how impressed Cholowsky was when he came here and witnessed just how special the atmosphere around the team was and told his agent to make it happen to get him on the Sox.

It was like 5 seconds ago that in the past couple of years that you likely didn't say one nice thing about Jacob Gonzalez but plenty of terrible things about the Sox. I realize there was merit in a lot of that and you weren't alone. But here you are again sticking to the Sox suck narrative. If you had balanced that narrative out at all with some semblance of hope once it became apparent that things have been turning around but your point rings hollow and as just another dig at the Sox. I'm watching Herb Lawrence return to the CHGO White Sox podcast. He too didn't want to give Getz a chance and he is giddy at the turn of events and readily admits he was wrong, wrong wrong because as a Sox fan he rather admit his failure than see the Sox fail. Rock bottom has become Roch Hard , maybe try relaxing your sphincter just a little bit. Did I like seeing Gonzalez go ? No, but then again I like guys like him because it's just further proof that the Sox have a dynamic team of coaches who can get the most out of a decent amount of guys . You were too busy crying over 2024 that you forgot to have an open mind when all signs were pointing to Getz hiring the right people and building something based on a solid foundation of player development. You had seen it all before, no chance they actually made a real turn around.

I think developing pitchers is so much harder. You can have great stuff but if you can never find control and command it's useless. Stuff is what gets you drafted but becoming a pitcher is what gives you a career.

Expecting failure is the easier prediction with draft choices. Supporting them is much harder especially when they experience failure which happens in just about every draft pick's resume. Must be fun to be critical of the process of picking local talent and good players who happen to have the genes from a Hall of Fame player.

OK Now I can say it with accuracy ! Oh thank heaven for winning on 7/11 !!!

Several but the best was how far he ranged to the RF side of 2nd base to throw a guy out at 1st.

Went from 1 All-Star ??? to 3 All-Stars !!! in a hurry . Couldn't have happened to nicer guys !

Contreras ?

How ironic

LFG BOYS !! Fedde can't keep throwing up zeros forever ! Thataboy Chase making me look good ! Thought I hit SUBMIT REPLY on the first 2 lines and came in again to post the 3rd line .

Love it !!

That Acuna play was spectacular !

I've said it in the past but I'd rather take my chances on a very good defensive and speedy player developing as a hitter than take my chances on a lumbering basher becoming a valuable 2 way player.

And just to be clear, you're pointing out Taylor was a 2nd round pick at #51 which I should have done, so thank you for that. Plus he crapped on the guys who said we've had better success in the draft with Shirley and more picks after the 1st round being developed. I didn't mention Taylor before but he is one of them and it's because he had injury history and the Sox have rightfully babied his arm.

This was bound to happen eventually. Success leads to an over abundance at times. Gonzalez is 24 and 25/26 is the age where you become like Tristan Peters and Peters had defensive value and speed. What happens with Gonzalez with the Pirates is more crucial to how he turns out than his time with the Sox. He doesn't exactly have a permanent position with the Pirates either. Every day he sits on an MLB bench or goes back to the minors his clock is running on hitting and fielding at a level necessary at his position to stay on the field. Hahn had his Tatis blunder. Let's hope Getz doesn't have one that equals that when deciding who to keep and who to trade. Bu teams with a lot of talent eventually trade away talent at which they only got a fleeting glance . Mead and Gonzalez fit that description . How they perform vs how the ones the Sox decide to keep is crucial to the sustainability of the prospect pipeline and success on the field.

How exactly did they butcher Taylor's development ? He's a successful high leverage RP at a young age. Unless you assume a whole lot of success as a starting pitcher, which is a grand assumption, he's doing just fine. The Sox know they need starting pitching. Pretty sure they don't make those decisions lightly. He's had arm injuries and the Sox were trying to protect his arm and that side of it has worked work well as well as the success on the field this year. At this point it's difficult to imagine him regaining a starting role but at least he's healthy and productive.