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This season has confirmed that the nfl is pretty impossible to figure out.

I think they are probably right that they could get a first in the offseason after teams know what their draft position is. 2nd and a fourth will be there anytime for him.

Maybe I’m putting too much in one story but Eloy and Schwarbers careers feel very similar, and Long gets a lot of credit for Schwarbers breakout in WAS. And the Nationals had so many breakouts during his tenure. It is never that straight forward but I feel like it’s worth a shot with how limited we can improve the club otherwise.

So I’m 100% team Kevin long, didn’t realize he wanted a manager gig. I could be legit excited for Eloy actually achieving his ceiling with Long, which could go a long way to helping this team.

Do you not remember Wash as a manager?

Definitely. Would actually excite me.

That’s the thing though

I really hope they just put schofield at guard, but willing to see Reiff over Borom too.

I think I'd be a good GM. If they hired me, you guys would be so mad because I'm very unqualified, but I think I'd win you over and really get Jerry to side with me over the yes-men just sucking at his teet.

No I think it is all of that, but also with all the problems you listed what are the good plays to call? Teams are crashing the edges to prevent roll outs, so you can't move the pocket easily. But our center has the strength of like, me, and so our interior still collapses within seconds. Despite that, against a good front, I thought we moved the ball easily. It was a very weird game to fail that badly in the red zone, but also case in point of what gets easier when you have some talented big, physical receiver and an interior that isn't getting pushed back to score TDs.

oh my god I would be so absolutely fine if we operated like the guardians but keep in mind, we do not get extra first round picks and additional intl budget, so that's why you do need to look to the few teams who are not top lux spenders but not getting buoyed by the league. I'll continue to point out the Braves as one to emulate.

"how did our talent get so bad after years of a shortage of draft picks, especially high draft picks, and converting high salaries to signing bonuses on our declining, older veterans, and a year in which we had the third fewest players on contract after the year, and then no first round pick?" It's a mystery.

They should call the plays that work with this and get 400 yards of offense against a defense with a strong front 7. Get a grip guys. It's a rebuilding year. They've been borrowing from the future for years, the check has come. It's a shame they didn't get more out of that, but we'll be better off.

The play calling was good last night. The bears pretty much dominated and lost on some really bad player execution. I thought fields looked pretty good minus some missed throws. Offense is now running through him which is good. The talent level is really, really bad on offense. “Call the plays that work with no protection and where players that can’t win one on ones get open and then when they do are hit with the ball and don’t drop it!”

Wasn’t their big run in 2021 around the time of a few injuries and the team being carried by hot pitching, abreu, billy Hamilton s%*# and Goodwin/lamb/burger/sheets good months?

I kinda want them to bring in a good 3B and make moncada compete for 2B. I don’t know if hard coaching will be good for him but I’d rather we find out. This was part of the Gleybar thing. Bring him in and tell him he’s the 3b lol

You said he was unmovable. He was not. You didn't say "sure they can move him but they'll have to take on a starting outfielder!" You've now thrown out that a 2 for $39 deal makes Hendriks too hard to move and also that if the sox want to move anything they most move all of their bad money and colson montgomery. They can move, you may not clear 100% of their cost and get great prospects. Nobody said they have great value, that's your hang up. If the sox prioritize clearing the players salary over talent return, they can do that. If they prioritize talent return, they can swap contract liabilities or eat more money. But anyway, what does it matter, you'll just retrofit your argument to something else and claim that's what you meant.

This is why it's so annoying to keep Hahn to me. The most important thing they could do this offseason is try to improve their entire player development and acquisition operation. There's little they can do at the major league level anyway, for once, it really does look like it the best play is depth (because hahn spent all our money on depth). I don't dislike getz as an individual, and I do think he has tried, but for the white sox to work they really need one of the best integrated player development and scouting operations in the league and we don't appear to be that right now.

Wow great post. You are so good at understanding value, I'm sure your history is not full of easily remembered examples of you being obnoxiously wrong about what contracts are movable.

Why would we trade Nimmo one year in? You said mid 30s. I can think of a team trading a 2-year contract mid thirties outfielder last year for a one year deal of a top reliever. And if you have to eat money 4 years from now…that’s a 4 years from now problem. Maybe make a functional farm between now and then.

There are no “over the top” decisions to be made this year. But I’d bet those that believe in signing Nimmo see a player more likely to hold his value and provide more wins than the 34 year old reliever. And you can always trade nimmo. For example we are talking about trading Hendriks. But you also don’t have to make the same decisions you make in your “well if this happens then you must do this”.

Not if he had helped win a World Series and the fans loved him. I wanted Konerko to be player-coach in 2012.

Could also be a Getz rec

You are replacing him with Garrett Crochet and a healthy Aaron bummer and regression, and then supplementing the Middle relievers with additional arms and hope they sort out. The sox don't have easy choices but I think of hard choices, at least you could get value back and salary from hendricks, whereas you cannot from joe Kelly. Graveman vs. Crochet, Bummer, Kelly, Lopez, Diekman could be a strong backend. If it's a weak one, it was already going to be weak.

Don't pay for middle reliever production, pay for bounce backs. Miguel Castro is 6'7 and throws 98. He had a shoulder this year for the last half. We'll see how he looks in the playoffs. Could be perfect to throw a flyer on.