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Two more names: - Fredi Gonzalez - I know he was replaced by Snitker after a low point, but I attribute it to "baseball managers man" and also like that he was targeted by the Orioles. Maybe he can get a certain Cuban born player motivated. - Eddie Perez - Bilingual, relatively young at 53, bobby cox disciple. Good org.

I think if I'm Hahn (I wouldn't be in this situation, however) I think what Id be attracted to most is to continue to try to build the Giants pitching factory. I say Giants because I'm not sure our scouting/PD is aligned enough to recreate Brewers/Guardians. We have Katz, but Giants have done well identifying mid-level starting FA pitchers and really getting a lot of value from it. That should be attractive to Hahn, it aligns to his philosophy of never building a talent pipeline out of his farm and instead building teams out of bargain bin FAs. BUT, yeah I think i'd target those who have been around the pitching work of SF/MIL, but obviously not against Alomar. Houston has been tremendous, and would absolutely be good with Beltran. If Tony wants to put in a good word, I wouldn't mind if he recruited Yadi to take over.

I hate being the guy who is tailoring my plans just to what this org might do. But I really think I'd try to target Gleybar Torres for 2b. I already mentioned it, I know. But to me Colas in RF needs to be done. I think Yankees will want to go after Turner for 2b. Torres being 1 year from FA shouldn't be crazy expensive. He is not perfect, hence he is acquirable. He's RH for one, but so is Sosa, Romy. But he does not hit ground balls and has more power than our team. Maybe you get a good contract year and can give him a QO.

It's really hard where Bears are with timing. Look at how well Howie Roseman nails timing. Dumps Wentz after an atrocious year. Loads up on picks that year, then was able to use on AJ Brown. A 2nd may still allow us, with a high pick, to trade back, take advantage of deep lineman first round, and have our WR addition.

I don't think Schildt is any different than any body you put in that very successful organization to lead it. He's almost certainly the most white soxy of a white sox pick. Someone who you can't tell is the cause of success or failure who also will be obstinate to direction from other parts of hahns operation, thus upholding the ultimate goal of JR - to obscure who is responsible for JRs organization underachieving.

The sox pine for a lot of players but don't extend beyond their definition of their value, it takes the player aging into it. When he's 34, with a .080 iso and terrible defense, Hahn will sign him to a 1 year, $8 million deal with a 2nd year $10 million option and $3 million buyout.

I’m not sure a 2nd gets DJ Moore but I’d do it. Wouldn’t give a first this year.

I thought he could be decent but yeah way too much power, right away, but the QB talent was poor. Does seem like it's better to stake your claim with a QB and hope for the best. Even Ballard starting to get eat into a bit with the available vets. I wouldn't mind a late round pick for Robbie Anderson. I always liked him.

lol this is the way we talk in October. By december we'll be pining for Benintendi because we will be targeting like Adam Duvall because Hahn wants to prioritize power and gets a RHH off a down year.

I was not familiar with this but yes I would hope they did not hire him for the latter. For the drug usage, as long as there have been no issues since his coaching career I don't see that holding back a hire.

Very possible he would walk guys randomly, but I agree he's unlikely to do the rest.

I get it, but Ron was a manager before the analytics really took hold across the league, and since then he has been employed by some top organizations, working under Melvin and Snitker. I don't think it's fair to assume he couldn't have learned. Also Dusty has been pretty damn good in the Astros org, and I wouldn't have guessed that would be such a great match. I'm open to Washington, especially in this org. The manager just isn't going to bring in the analytics system. That's hahns job. It led him to sign Adam Eaton and Josh Harrison.

Is Lou piniella alive still? I’d imagine he’ll interview if so.

The best managers are extending the work of the entire organization onto the field. PD, scouting, fitness, analytics, training. Since the Sox are terrible on that it makes sense they need to just go after old school star managers.

Amazing I am old as hell and still a baby during sports games. I’ll take games like this every week please.

Kinda hard to see the bears winning another game this season. Not the worst thing in the world, but definitely on the bad tail end of my expectations. The talent is so bad it’s easy to get mad at coaching, but still hard to believe we hired Poles only coaching hire unless the talent never improves.

Yep.

The cool thing about it Jason leaves is all the people who complained about hawk ad nauseum and the Jason ad nauseum will definitely not be complaining about the announcers not just monotonely commenting on the action packed ball game.

The “it’s not baseball people” is meaningless to me. Look around the league, that ship left the barn with Theo Epstein. It’s run by finance and consulting backgrounds, and in the case of Friedman, ideally they played baseball. The problem is just a silver spoon boy that is just cosplaying as the progressive business-minded intruder into the org. He learned fro Jr the best thing to do isn’t hire the best people, but the ones that will play the game of not rocking the boat and will batten down the hatches against outside criticism.

Hey we won two playoff games.

I've brought it up ad nauseum but if there is an underused guy I'd love, but high likelihood he's just ryan cordell, is James Outman from dodgers. He's a lefty. He's big, he plays a good outfield. He got some run this year, but I'm sure the dodgers will load up.

I'm not against it, I think Quatraro etc absolutely deserve a shot. I'm just saying I don't like how Hahn appears to think he is retrofitting a progressive organization over the top by hiring one of the least important cogs of one. But a manager is still a cog, and important. But a manager from tampa is likely to be a good manager, it just doesn't mean we are the rays because we hired the manager from tampa. The hilarious part about the white sox manager searches is I think broadly there are a lot of ways to get a good manager and boy have we figured out ways to get the rare cases I'll hate. (Didn't have a problem with Ricky outside the lack of search).

for those that are perplexed by baseball but very into the fashion industry hopefully my comment helps.

honestly to me the idea of getting a manager from a super successful org is like a struggling fashion designer hiring a model from Chanel and saying "wow, this model will totally make us as successful as Chanel" instead of being realistic about "wow this model is a great fit for the look of our clothes".

that's just from that reddit post. It's just rick hahn's personal fanfic.