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yes, though will always stress that the CBA changes in 2012 moved sharply in hahn's favor. OTOH Kenny oversaw someone who was siphoning money from his operation and was federally convicted and also wasn't delivering good players so weird how he kept the job so long.

impossible to tell, the sox and catchers have been so bizarre. Never would have guessed Seby would have the leash he has.

The good news with a KW taking over I seriously don’t think he wants to do the heavy lifting of that job anymore and would be likely to hire a replacement. The replacement has a high chance of being bad, but it will be someone else.

it really seems like their sole plan is always to obscure responsibility. Is the failure due to poor coaching or poor philosophy? On the white Sox, no one knows because when they bring in a single “ great man” up top to change things (Katz, ostensibly Stevenson and sparks) they keep the same coaches. Is it the coaches failing, the philosophy or the scouts not giving the right players? On the white Sox, no one can know. The coaches can fail the philosophy, but blame the philosophy and players. Scouts can blame the philosophy and players. Always Be Preparing a non-managerial level Scapegoat, the white Sox organizational philosophy. (ABPNS) or pronounced Abpenis

Dalen has zero route to minutes this year.

@Quin they did officially sign bitim https://www.threads.net/t/Cu9uqb-uRHZ/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

I think this is dumb. There are too many examples of the Sox failing to use their resources than to spend time in Diekman. You know who was bad before he got to the Sox? Jake Diekman. On the Red Sox! welcome to middle relievers. They are great and horrible. Especially in their 30s. That’s why you don’t take on future salary for zero reason on one. Again - what is reason for success on Touki and Santos and Middleton? We must be geniuses.

Still shows his good command despite throwing so much off speed. But he’s definitely shown more hits against this year. Hell need to show another leap soon, hopefully he has it in him because the org won’t find it for him.

It’s funny I think that’s his worst start so far. Not sure, repeating DSL not great.

I do wonder if you just didn’t swing the bat like that dodgers catcher in spring training how many walks you’d get in A ball

I'm not that perturbed at the whether they go over or not. The cost for HS talent may be increasing, not sure what the breakdown was this year. The depth of this class was college position players, and I don't think they chose Gonzalez from a budget perspective. There was a ton of top 100 high school talent that didn't sign, maybe they had their eye on one and it didn't work out. Nonetheless, we've seen that even going over can come with lots of budget cuts on individual picks. I like that this is a pretty well-rounded class.

Hackenbergs offense has survived Birmingham pleasantly.

Comas is up in Kanny now I hadn’t realized. No runs given up in 2.1 IP.

the biggest bummer to me in the ACL specifically has been Erick Hernandez continue to struggle.

And what we are saying is we care about baseball America putting the Sox 26th because they get live looks on players and get good information, and don’t care about bleacher report even if it ranked Sox #1 because it is written for people who google “updated farm system rankings”

I can see why you like to read bleacher report.

I think my favorite is sirota.

I think it depends if you are actually trying to understand whats going on with the farm or just enjoying some disaster porn. The sox farm will struggle with depth due to how they operate and their market restrictions, but there is also some high level players that are more interesting than are typically found in a sox farm.

just did some digging. UDFA last year after transferring to Lynn college from UCF. Looks like he was an older freshman at UCF, got screwed with COVID, then got injured the next year. Didn't have much power at UCF, but he went from being listed at 5'7 at UCF to 5'10 at Lynn, but did not have much power or show much ability to walk in college. https://lynnfightingknights.com/news/2022/7/26/7_26_2022_47.aspx https://ucfknights.com/sports/baseball/roster/season/2021/player/matt-archer

Really happy with the innings starters are putting up in the DSL this year. 17 year olds are throwing a handful, but the 18 year olds are getting a full 5. Glad to see it.

Oh is this like that Birmingham camp they had last year? Guess they rotate

Eloy at least has shown high end offensive production but sheets is a leury level platoon without avg defense.

I don’t know if I’m reading too much into this but I feel like this indicates Gavin might not be a good defensive outfielder. Has Rick seen this?

I think he needs to keep losing weight.

After not being thrilled with the top two picks, well-rounded is right for the rest of the class. Some big trait bets, some strong floor plays. Definitely seems like it's going to be harder to lure prep players away than it was before NIL.