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The sox have a catcher in charlotte whose bat has been so good the last two years he is their DH when not catching. Anyway this was the stretch I was worried about. The hitting hasn't become great, and at some point the pitching wouldn't be excellent and we'd lose a lot of games and the "well at least we are .500" would be "we are 10 games under .500 on july 1". Just a really bad year so far.

It really kills me. The white sox and their broader media shills largely want fans only to focus on the white sox. The fact is, white sox player development has improved, especially over the last 6 years. International scouting and its production has improved. Drafting by and large has improved. I But the white sox aren't competing against the 2014 white sox. Zoom out and within their own division it is hard to identify who they beat head to head. They are at best 3rd. In general, the white sox have improved at getting more out of their farm, but have gotten way, way worse at getting returns from mlb free agents. Hahn took over in 2013. At the time, I would actually say the white sox had one part of their operation that may have been best in the league. Cooper and Schneider's philosophies were compatible and had a clear pitching type that Kenny was able to provide. Their health was best in baseball. Hitters got better at velo, cutters went out of vogue, and the sox had to move on. What part of the organization can Hahn claim is the best in baseball? Is our scouting? Is our drafting? Is our hitting development? Pitching development? Strength and conditioning? Advanced scouting? What hahn would do is point out examples of teams that do x and are worse than the sox. But Hahn cannot point to anything he does that is better than the rays or dodgers or giants or astros. It is striking how similar hahn has made this org to the paxson era bulls. He has led a much more successful rebuild, but the white sox are so quick to point out how the excesses of a certain philosophy can lead to failures. You want us to spend spend spend but spending didn't help the Rangers this year (eesh, they have a better record than us, eesh)! You want analytics analytics analytics well look at how kevin cash pulled blake snell! But they can never look around and see how their moderation has failed to give them an advantage over the best teams in baseball, teams they are ostensibly competing with for championships. The white sox can only operate by hiring people they like and letting them do their jobs. No overarching philosophies and team building structures. The other teams are wrong, and given a long enough timeline, we will be proven right at least once and it will validate everything.

Jordan Mikel, forgot to check in on him.

Yes

I’ve said it before and we’ll say it again. Soxtalk hivemind is a mid level GM in the game with 1/10th the info these guys have.

Oh hit damn Ramos

Mena heating up as the game goes on

Four for each level that are worth AAA Yolbert Sanchez SS/2b Carlos Perez C Davis Martin AA Sean Burke RHP Lenyn Sosa 2b Jose Rodriguez SS Yoelkis Cespedes OF There are relievers in Broadway, Denlinger who were drafted last year as old draftees, but seeing as they are already in AA may be worth monitoring) A+ Oscar Colas OF Bryan Ramos 3b Luis Mieses OF Andrew Dalquist/Thompson There are guys that are older/late round picks playing well in Adam Hackenberg, Terrell Tatum, and Duke Ellis that are fun this year A Christian Mena SP Kohl Simas SP Colson Montgomery SS Wes Kath 3b lots of young position players in bailey, Misael Gonzales, Beard, Wilfred Veras, etc.

They are totally the equivalent to playing OOTP. Especially now with a month before the draft, ACL is going to be a random name generator with stats assigned to them daily. Completely exciting.

We are getting real close to DSL/ACL starting too. That provides some nice morning entertainment and late night entertainment.

Can’t believe it’s Mendick they brought up, what a joke

Josh HarrisOn had a .580 OPS.

Hostetler took an overwhelming number of older college players leaving a very old system. At the same time the white Sox were in the penalty box for the Robert signing for intl, and signed very small classes. Then pandemic hit and only five rounds could be drafted. The number of players graduating. Shirley began drafting younger classes and Paddy has gone after bigger fish and not added huge classes since. That has left a huge chasm between the next wave of prospects which you can see in the Charlotte and bham starting rotations which are filled with milb free agents. But after that there is a decently better wave. So those are some of the reasons but not excuses. Hostetler was a disaster which is inexcusable when we needed big hits from the bigger budgets from having a rebuilding bad team. The Sox being categorized as big market team gives them less resources in the draft and intl. because in theory we can have larger payrolls. But because Hostetler and Hahn are now heading our MLB scouting, we are soending tens of millions on older bad players, which we could easily fill with players like Yolbert and Lenyn.

The original enemy was anonymous too ( yes they were flying MiGs but it was never called out if it was Soviet Union)

Top gun was rad

The idea that people were not concerned about how this team ended up at this size of a payroll is the most revisionist example I can think of.

His swing reminds me of Willie Harris, and to some degree I worry how long it is. But this is some kinda stretch. The only reason I'm not too concerned is I think Birmingham is as good of seasoning as Charlotte, especially with how the pandemic backed up age.

Ramos doubled earlier.

win game every day. win game every day.

oh that escalated.

the extra 2% you say

Absolutely despise when main board posting makes its way in here.

The white sox ownership and front office believe they are the centrists in baseball, whose continuity and common sense prevent them from getting thrown overboard chasing every new trend in baseball, and keeping a foot on traditionalist and modern team building practices. Except the traditionalists lost. So all they are doing is half-assing modernizing their team. For a small market team, not using resources to gain every advantage in player development and scouting is committing yourself to permanent mediocrity. But the white sox have more resources than the Guardians and Twins, yet cede them the advantage here. THey could crush them with the biggest and most advanced organization and payroll, but instead perform their friends and family org chart with 200 special asst to the GM for any ole pal that wants to hang.

Oh not a good Burke start. No bueno for all games except Tatum and Ellis in W-S

I need this game not to happen tonight.