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Schofield has looked really bad though. I'm also kinda bummed that Borom won just because he has not looked very impressive to me and it's kinda sad that he's better than Reiff. But we'll see soon enough. Really hope they were right on Patrick, because the interior could be much improved if Jenkins turns into a good guard.

I think their M.O. is they like to be very arrogant about how they don't go too hard in one trend where the art of what they are moving from may be "lost". But to me they end up getting the worst of both worlds. Don't get first mover advantage, move far enough to new things to not get the benefit of a hedge. But I've also written this before, what you saw in 2015-19 to me was just complete capitulation that old school orgs lost. Massive overhauling in virtually every org to catch up. Hahn gets credit for not deciding to be a completely backwards org, but every org "modernized" in the last 5-8 years. He doesn't get extra credit.

This is all correct to me, with big issue being we will always let other clubs set the standards we need to catch up to.

Because people hate him there and he may be fired.

Baltimore is a competitive balance team.

2/3 teams get extra team building resources than the Sox do, and then congrats you named a team the Sox have been more successful than as a team to emulate.

I think Chaim Bloom will be available! Personally I'd go after a Braves FO. I think most of this board was a fan of Anthropolous in TOR, but then he learns in LA and takes over in ATL has pushed all the right buttons. Granted, he didn't build ATL up from scratch. But ATL is the one other org you can look at and see a successful version of what the sox can be. The Rays can't be recreated exactly with the sox, as they get additional top 40 draft picks and an extra million in INTL money every year. The dodgers have a front office probably 3x the white sox, and an easy $300 mil. But the sox can look at the braves and be like "why the hell are they so much better than us so often" and should be embarrassed. We have similar revenue (or did before battery park), similar competitive rules, and have been way less competitive for the last 40 years.

I would rather Jenkins at RG than Leatherwood at RG where we know he sucks. Jenkins looked better coming out of college anyway. Leatherwood rated worse at RG than Mustipher did at center. Almost unbelievable.

it doesn't? I thought it stuck around with the intl draft fallout?

Burke

KC did this with its 14/15 core.

man i didn't realize even Renfroe signed an extension as well. You essentially have to hope one of the 2024 class WRs throws a fit and can actually get traded. There really is no hope for the 2023 WR class except if DJ Chark becomes a star this year. Otherwise it's pray Dallas has to make some hard choices and looks to deal out gallup or ceedee lamb. Ugh, really wish the bears could have gotten Cooper. His this year salary made a bunch of stuff harder to do, but now that we are sitting with roughly 20 mill open it's a huge bummer. Boy would Mooney/Cooper/Pringle/ESB/VJJ look so much better.

If we are stuck in the Reinsdorf Cinematic Universe than I'd be happy with Ozney Guillen.

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I think 100% Jerry sells. This is a man staring at his power diminishing. What is this info we are going off of? 1983, 2008, ptthp. He's 86 now. 2005 was the height of his powers. He brought a team to the world series with his preferred way of team building. Not overpaying for stars, not giving a bunch of money to young players that weren't yet productive. His team gettin ga world series while the 200 million yankees didn't. He ebbed to his white sox team building for the bulls, bringing back a former player to focus on getting college stars and no more high school guys, and voila, suddenly in the playoffs. By 2012, he had essentially won all CBA things he has fought for. So much of team building largely has fixed costs, INTL: Draft, there is a real luxury cap ceiling. Jerry was no longer a power broker in the latest CBA. He couldn't fight to keep steve cohen out. His basketball team withered to mediocrity with his team building style, finally accepting a resignation from Paxson and ceding all power to his son. Now with the sox, he accepts a rebuild. The team is a winner, what's his last wish? To see TLR lead his team to a World Series. The best manager he's ever seen. TLR is absolute garbage, widely ridiculed and panned, team underachieving. Another L for Reinsdorf. Selling the team would give one last area where Reinsdorf can feel powerful and in control. He has uber leverage, he can wheel and deal to get a maximal return. It will be his last stand. I don't think he gives up that last bit of fun to an estate lawyer. Especially with the chance to look at some other new-money finance billionaire in the eye and tell him to kick sand.

Researching your next roadtrip I see

Curt Bloom loving life.

Hell of a showing by every level honestly. Sprinkle heating up.

that is my guess.

I don't totally buy this. Astros were the team leading push for consolidation, and I do think it's the thought that its easier to give consistent coaching/voices to smaller more condensed groups than across 6 levels. Sox hired scouts when other teams shed. I think they in some ways prefer the "reps are all that matters" approach.

they will just need to wait for details.

I feel like this is bad news because it jumps the line but it's probably good news because it helps groups get their funding and story together in case a team opens up.

our coaching is bad and it's an area where a small expense can make a big difference. Sure would like to see kevin Long with Eloy, wouldn't you? Boy, I'd love to see Ron Washington with TA. Oh well. Dbo, frank and joe it is. They've proven to be invaluable.

Nice game for Frankeli Arias, another one of those 18-19 y.o. pitchers in DSL. Cesar D'olio (17) also having a decent year with a .780 ops largely driven by OBP. More BB than Ks. Never know what to make of that in DSL.

Feels like in 2021 sox were able to bring up some older prospects who were amply ready for bigs and contributed outsized efforts compared to their expectations in Burger, Sheets (even Gonzalez). We see that in Davis Martin too this year. That depth was mature, but position-limited. This led to sox overvaluing them, keeping them as depth. This year we've had to bring up younger, more promising prospects who were less able to contribute right away. This scares me, because it reminds me of 2014/15. Sosa's rise this year reminds many of when Semien popped up. When Semien came up in 2014 he had pop, but inconsistent offensively and defensively. The sox, knowing that they are unable to develop players, shipped him out to prioritize TA, as they did with micah johnson. The sox clearly feel very uncomfortable anytime a younger prospect is adjusting when in ostensibly competitive windows. But feel extremely comfortable anytime a player who had shown any small period of success in the MLB is "slumping". Point being, the way you make a 180 million payroll pointless is filling it up with depth signings like throwing $6 mill to try and get 1 WAR here and there. You have to have a system that can get one of Sosa, Romy or Jose Rodriguez next year to 1-2 WAR. That requires actually developing defense at some point, to buoy the transition. Because the chance is also there, that one of these guys becomes much better than that. But what may very likely happen is Hahn "trades from depth", where he tells people what he's willing to give up and then gets the best piece he can find. I would bet we treat Colson like TA, and rightfully so imo. But...I'm worried we are going to trade sosa/jrod/etc for an older, average RF/SP that is making close to market value, and we'll have given up a future starter +. just like always.