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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.

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.