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Tim Kanter are you here ? Someone see if he has a twitter or Instagram and invite him to join.

1959 White Sox Manager that won the pennant that year but lost to the Dodgers in the World Series. 19 year MLB career as a catcher 1928-1947 . 2 time All Star . Got some MVP votes in 7 different seasons though never finished higher than 10th.

Greg he is only going to be 25 next year. He must have tried new things this year that didn't work. He went from striking out 10 per 9 innings in 2019 to 6.8 this year. That's a steep drop off. It doesn't appear his stuff got any worse. I'm sure someone will correct me if I am wrong. Like many young pitchers he just doesn't have the command yet to take the next step . Whatever he did this year failed pretty badly but he still has only 131 innings in MLB . That's not even a full season . He could become Walker Buehler or Reynaldo Lopez . Even though most have given up on Lopez he still has plenty of potential. There's always some missing piece. Giolito found his pieces he needed. So can Cease.

While I am in agreement that pitching is priority 1 that option is more likely to be pursued via the FA market. Cease becomes more expendable if and only if the Sox can upgrade pitching that way. They will still have Dunning. Kopech will be coming back.Crochet will need to be tried as a starter . There's still Stiever, Dahlquist and Thompson, Lambert. There is some hope that a new pitching coach may change the fortunes of Cease and Lopez. So yes I'd like to get the pitching settled before making a play for a RF. Yaz becoming a good ML OF was about as likely as Luis Gonzalez becoming one. He only has slightly less than 600 ML AB's and just turned 30. I suppose I am still a bit perplexed about while we were in a rebuild the Giants found a gem while the Sox didn't. The Sox tried to find a LHH gem but they all seemed to be lumbering 1st base types like Palka, Skole, AJ Reed, Alonzo or OF's like Charlie Tilson, Delmonico, John Jay or righties Cordell, Trayce Thompson, Willy Garcia, Rymer Liriano, Jacob May, Ryan LaMarre . Even though we didn't get Machado, the Alonso and Jay moves could've hurt the Sox pursuit of more young players and was a waste of cash. That's a whole lot of failure when you look at 3 years of rebuilding. Then again if the Sox had got Yas maybe their coaches don't bring out of him what the Giant coaches did. Anyway so yeah we'd be buying high but its not like Yas has a long track record and while he does have lots of years of control left they are more than likely going to be on the downside of his career. Cease has a lot of upside but we still have people here thinking he's the same as Lopez. Maybe the Sox hang onto Rodon. Some people here think he could easily get an MLB contract next year worth as much as $5M a year if non-tendered. I don't . But perhaps Cease and Rodon would entice the Giants. Or just Cease alone. I'm not locked in on Yas I'd certainly be willing to explore Anthony Santander. That kid may be on the cusp of becoming a star but it's hard to know that. Baltimore probably wants youth more than the Giants do.

You know if Yaz had done this for the Sox everyone would be saying he's a fluke and not worth anything. Much like McCann until McCann proved he wasn't a fluke but you still had people here saying playing McCann more would've likely exposed him to showing what he truly is. Of course that kind of thinking probably was part of the reason why RR was fired. In the shortened season McCann had almost 100 less AB's than Yas. I know the guy put up really good WAR numbers but you have to see what SF is asking . They need pitching. They will probably lose Gausman and maybe a QO makes Gausman think about staying. Maybe a guy like Cease would be appealing to them. They are trying to compete. I'm sure they will be looking for MLB talent mostly.

Making trades is different from being sellers. Trades are supposed to be equal. Teams sometimes sell high on an unexpectedly good asset.

Yaz and Santander the guys I brought up weeks ago. Of course Baltimore in a rebuild not likely to give up Santander either but I'm sure FO will make inquiries on both.

I'm ecstatic over 1 playoff appearance in 12 years . Maybe his peers can give him one every 12 years.

Make that 3 of 6 since Jose Abreu was an off season acquisition plus didn't he give out a couple of extensions this off season ?

Hey It was a very nice award but Jose himself would tell you that he'd trade it in to have won that series. I'm far from an Abreu basher even when most of the board was bashing him and his resigning as a free agent. People often say Keuchel and Grandal were good signings and EE , Gonzales and Cishek weren't., but they forget we signed Jose as a free agent and despite the griping about the length and money he got you'd have to put it in the win column for now.

Are you saying that ? I'm not saying that. Does choosing a lesser of 2 evils make the Sox look good or make them look stupid for considering not just 1 but 2 controversial choices ?

How does that make the Sox look good if they were seriously considering hiring Tony LaRussa ?

Exactly. You'd have to be crazy to think LaRussa would become the manager. Why in heavens name would anyone think the Sox PR department came up with this ? If they hire Hinch there is going to be some blow back regardless. Talking about LaRussa ahead of the hiring will do nothing to dissaude that. Is the PR department really in the business of trying to manipulate public opinion or deflect/distract attention away from the hiring of a controversial choice as manager ? What if Hinch isn't hired and its someone from the Rays ? You can throw that theory out the window then.

Very nice but I would have rather had a few more hits against the A's as I am sure he would prefer too.

There are steps to giving him a grade. Goals Hahn himself often talks about. Until he reaches those goals that he set forth as to the reasons why they did the rebuild how can he be graded ? Sure you can grade him on early stages of the rebuild but his grade is incomplete until he reaches some of the goals he made and talks about constantly otherwise the rebuild was a failure. Anything but sustained success, making the playoffs in multiple consecutive years or 75%+ of the next 5 seasons and at least 1 Championship and he deserves an F . Reinsdorf also would deserve an F because he controls the purse strings. It's hard to talk about Hahn if his hands are tightly bound.

Incomplete. He continues to talk about sustained success and multiple championships. He's got a long way to go to accomplish what he set as goals . Step 2 is make the playoffs 2 years in a row and advance to the ALCS or beyond.

Why the F would the Sox bother putting out something about Tony LaRussa ? Misdirection ? Hey BB wanna tell me who or what a misdirection is aimed at and why ? Can we all move on ? Who is the next thread going to be on . Al Lopez ? Hey he spoke Spanish didn't he ? Dig him up !

Those 3 options don't cover everything so I didn't vote. I prefer he not be hired but I don't care enough for it to affect my rooting interest. I'd take a look at people from Tampa Bay very closely. The same old names get thrown around so how about Matt Quataro bench coach of the Rays. Maybe he can bring along Dewey Robinson the minor league pitching coordinator of the Rays or Kyle Snyder the pitching coach.

Very well written and heartfelt. You know if they do hire HInch, the cheating scandal will be back in the news and part of that hiring will bring talk of the 1919 White Sox. Yes it will die down but is that a look we want associated with the Sox as they embark to create a new image ?

Why does no one blame the pitchers in game 3 who gave up 9 walks ? You bring your best guys in to do a job and they fail and it's on the coach ? I think it was time for Coop to go too. It's just past his time but in the end the players failed with all the walks and poor hitting with RISP and Crochet and Eloy got hurt.

Light em up up up . Light em up up up !!!

https://www.sportspromedia.com/news/mlb-baseball-2020-losses-playoffs-fans-coronavirus-rob-manfred He's 31 and Mannfred says MLB lost $3B that's $100M per team. Even if those numbers were used to try convince the MLBPA to cower in fear there is no denying that you probably shouldn't be throwing around $125M 5 yr. contract under current conditions because the financial losses are significant nonetheless.

He'll be lucky to get half of that.

Don't forget Stone also said we are way too right handed in the lineup. I also got the feeling he would trade Eloy.

Not only hated the production but kept taking jabs at RR saying he played too much and hitting 4th and 5th most of time. Critical that McCann didn't play as often as he should have using missing both games against Berrios despite past good stats against him. Also critical that EE and NM played so much and got chance after chance to keep playing. Just like last year when the Sox had the perfect opportunity to give Yermin a shot they refused. Last year they gave Welington Castillo and AJ Reed AB's over him and this year they kept letting EE flail and fail. That's my opinion not Stone's.