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The point is if McCaskey hires a president now, that president will be above poles, and will not have hire poles. Had he retired last year, the whole group would have been brought in together. George has always made these arranged marriages since taking over.

He’ll sell.

It really is astonishing

He had a velo increase and found better command. He always missed bats. Who cares what his ranking was

Was at the game last night. ‘‘Twas a fun one Couldnt believe how bad that lineup was. Romy needs to work on going to his right defensively, but still think he is showing signs of settling in. Just has to bring the power.

If I was bears I’d try to get someone from liberty media. What they’ve done with braves and F1 has to look good to mccaskeys pre sale.

I do agree it’s hard to add anyone to the org who isn’t a bean counter though now

I guess DSL is over huh

very smart

I guess the other side of the coin is how often did the nuggets/jazz look complacent as other western teams loaded up, but it requires the few young assets of the bulls actually improving. The story of the bulls since 2010 is never having what you needed for a star when you needed it. But holyhell that jimmy trade is building comiskey park before Camden Yards. Now the going rate is 3 picks and 2 swaps. Maybe that much worse team (without Zach) gets them up in the star laden 2018 draft. We are basically the orlando magic/milwaukee bucks pre-giannis now. Just always snake bitten in draft luck/timing.

Nice to see good defense

such a bummer. We saw how you can only stay patient for so many years but pulling the trigger on Vuc really put us in a wall real quick.

Elko homer

I thought Leatherwoods technique was supposed to be his strength out of college and he just was not that athletic. Who knows, hope he is competent. When a guy struggles that bad I don't have a lot of faith in the prior pedigree stuff but maybe the scheme fits him better here.

If they had any guts they'd have named Johnny Cueto manager.

Yeah and doesn't seem like there is too much pushing him out until the draft at least. Also that was fantastic pitching on the farm last night. Sean Burke seems to be figuring out AA a little better at least in terms of swing and miss.

I'm not sure he gets another year but Bailey has really beeen having a sustained hot stretch recently for really the first time since the DSL.

Jacob Burke really nice start so far

https://www.milb.com/scores/chicago-white-sox/2022-08-31 https://www.mlb.com/prospects/stats/affiliates?teamId=145&date=08/31/2022 meh

Yeah This isn’t a permanent thing that starts next year too. But even so baseball has to be the only sport where people talk about playing against better competition as hurting development. I have a hard time believing it.

Jerry probably heard manfreds call on the juiced ball being bad and voluntarily deadened the balls for his team to be an example for other owners.

Sprinkle 1-1

I also couldn’t even bother to check.

It's very likely at these prices an ownership group will be a hodgepodge of money investors from all over, but recently an owner rep will be brought in to lead group/fundraise (a la jeter). But since Seattle-> OKC in basketball, we have seen a lot of owner groups that initially were rumored to one franchise end up with another, and it has not led to movement. Frankly an org will move if the league wants it to move. It's unlikely the league would rather move 2 teams from chicago than deal with it's bigger problem franchises in Tampa/Oakland.

He's 116 wins away. Given this teams pull to .500 maybe we go 18-16 in september/oct giving him 100 needed. I don't think he sticks around anticipating that. Had they been a 90 game winner this year it would have been pretty straightforward and we'd all be happier. I will say I'd bet it was a lot of the thought behind his 3 year contract