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This is the way to objectively look at things. Whining about Getz or the poor hitting is like whining that the Pope is Catholic. It's supposed to be that way . Good defense plus good hitting equals All Star players. Just good fielding and bad hitting = guys like DeJong Lopez, Stassi and Maldonado .In Maldonado case it's hard to imagine he got the money he did.You have to wonder if anyone looked at hours of video of him last year or scouted him. He can barely catch thrown pitches any more. Getz made the decision given the budget , to try and get as many reclamation type pitchers he could for as cheap as he could get them and make them look as good as possible with a good defense behind them.None of them are signed long term so you trade them if they perform well and keep building the farm. For every success he was going to have 2 or 3 failures. It wasn't meant to reap a bushel full of talent in return or create a winning team. All it was meant to do was get younger and more talent in the minors.It wasn't a great plan but great plans do not come from the money he had to work with. So far there have been some pitchers looking good. We'll see if it lasts till harvest time and it's sold off for some magic beans.

It's not the acquired vets that are getting hurt. It's the same old guys who always get hurt . Please try harder to put 2 plus 2 to get the right answer next time. Also Colas and Sosa are not at the points in their careers that they can be labeled as being rushed. Maybe Colas wasn't ready last year but it's not like he was too young. He just didn't have a lot of upper level experience. Maybe they both can do better with this chance.

Today was a good recipe for a win. I'm glad Sosa is in the lineup and will be pleased when Colas is too. They deserve their chances. It's just been odd to me that they went from pretty well regarded guys to bums in a lot of fans eyes just because of failure in the brief times up in Sosa's case and a bit longer trial for Colas. Too bad they couldn't figure out a way to get Kelenic. It's a shame the old core who are actually still pretty young get injured so often and underperformed. They got so many fans hopes up that they'd scorn anyone who dared to criticize them or look at them through non rose colored glasses. The same thing is going on right now with Montgomery .But because of the state of the franchise and the fans total disenchantment with all things White Sox it's not as bad now as it was when you dared question Vaughn ability. Jack Parkman took a lot of grief for questioning the Sox taking a RH slow 1st baseman so high in the draft. Then when you get beat up after being right all along it's bad form to call the smug mfers out because now you're fragile ( to use our favorite mods favorite word) or a braggart. Being a fan on a forum is some fucked up fan boy s%*# where the sheep frat boy mentality rules. Now it's fashionable to beat on everything White Sox non stop only it's the players, the manager, the FO still taking the daily beatings when it's the one guy in charge who created the mess because he's a capitalist baseball fan when those things don't mix very well. I guessed he proved to himself that frugality and a bit of luck could win a championship once every 50 fifty years but it's a bad way to run a sports franchise .

Never a doubt.

This is probably the inning the Guardians take the lead for good.

Ozzie would take the Sox manager job if offered in a heartbeat but I'd also think he'd want more than JR might offer him.

I think we need another thread trying to predict the future. I don't mind if you're asking to predict how a rookie season might go like long ago about Jose Abreu , but asking predicting the trade value of multiple pitchers trying to return to former glories and glories that have never been achieved in 3 months is an exercise in futility. We'll see what happens when or if they get there.

Remember all that talk about him being untradeable because he was worth so damn much . ? And fans think the Sox front office is stupid.

Ha damn I was going to put that in my prognosis right before I hit send instead of ankle when I was trying to recall his major injury. Thought it was hip related

Can't be me. I never give an opinion on Cubs players.

ILuis joins ILoy.

I'm doubting the Achilles unless it was fairly mild. Achilles he'd go down . I think the calf , hammy, ankle likely.

Lol I only brought it up because I read about 10 different opinions on the call. Most angles showed nothing , the ones looking at it from the first base view behind the runner, because you couldn't see his foot. After the tag on the foot the glove came up very quick and missed everything else by a wide margin ,which is what you see from perhaps a LF camera in front of the runner. Royals announcers were saying the knee . I was like wtf are they looking at. I saw top of the upper half on his foot. That's the only angle I saw that showed a tag.

Finally someone sees it correctly. Got him on the shoe and nowhere else.

It changed nothing. It was just a more public display of who was in charge. Jerry Reinsdorf.

The rebuild was doomed to fail from the start. Hahn, Williams and JR especially we're still running things. Organizational failures go right to JR . Sure he let his GM get old nearly washed up veterans for Tatis Jr. and Marcus Semien. Chris Bassett is still pitching effectively. Where's one International guy from the DR who became anything with the Sox ? It's laughable to hear Getz talk about the DR academy. DR was too corrupt for St. Jerry to conduct business but that's just an excuse to not invest in youth which has always been his calling card along with not paying for tech and people to develop it. These tired old arguments trying to pinpoint one major mistake and wrap it all up with a bow are just lame. It's one person Jerry Reinsdorf .

Hated that trade. I thought all the bros here on Soxtalk who loved it had their minds made up about Burger being a low OBP low batting avg , poor fielder. I thought he was very close to being a good hitter. His hard hit rate was near top of the AL and he just had a month where he walked 11 times. Hard to know if the Marlins made any immediate suggestions to increase contact but he immediately produces for them. Either just really bad timing by the Sox or a development failure. However Burger had always been focused on using the technology available to him . Ozzie Guillen always poked fun at it in the post game shows but it's easier for dinosaurs to poke fun than it is to say anything that helps is a good thing. I'm not here to crow, maybe Eder can become something but trading away much needed power and hard hit rate from a major leaguer with plenty of control for a pitcher who was coming off major arm surgery with very few innings under his belt seemed like longshot at the time. Time will tell on the trade just as it will on Fletcher /Mena. Debates will rage on but nothing is etched in stone now .

These ump really suck. 2 called strikes to Lopez off the plate and 1 to Fletcher

I guess Nastrini got roughed up. He started that game didn't he ?

Hard to guage the market. My guesstimate was meant to be conservative. Snell and other good pitchers weren't close to getting the HUGE contracts. Lorenzen got peanuts. Cleavingers comes in somewhere between Lorenzen and Flaherty if he didn't have the baggage.

Early game today. Free game of the day on MLB. TV. LFG !

I think we too often get ahead of ourselves like name the starting lineup in 2026. I just never understand the point. I know there is big picture thinking involved but Crochet has started 2 games and has an extensive injury history. We're a long way from an exercise in roster building.

Why are we thinking extensions right now exactly ?

You gotta be bleepin' me !!