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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.

I swear we saw last week that he was about to report to W-S soon but still nothin

man this is so bad lol

Dang good for JBJ who has straight up doubled his OPS+ this year. He went from 34 to 68 so far.

out 6-8 weeks

I AM CHICAGO WHITE SOX JUST IMAGINE I AM CHICAGO WHITE SOX

This was the note from BA in the latest update (may 2022) But yeah how proficient that is remains to be seen.

BLAH

I feel like they are going to force wednesday to happen, I don't think they'll want a double header before a travel day. I hope they PPD until September, I have tickets wed I can't get rid of since everyone sees the forecast.

I've been reading on my phone a lot, I should just get that. It looks like the murderbot diaries are on kindle unlimited. I know that name sounds very stupid, but it's a tongue-in-cheek name and a series that had me actually laugh out loud many times. Also very short reads. Not sure the whole series is on unlimited but the first few are and I highly recommend unless science fiction is completely not your bag.

During a white sox game the benches cleared after a yankees player called Tim Anderson 'Jackie' and white sox players and their manager took offense. Posters have been talking about it, many within the rules, while others start calling people pieces of garbage. So threads end up locked. If this was between the Reds and Pirates, it wouldn't be in PHT. But as always, feel free to send all moderator complaints to @Kyyyyle23. That's kyyyyle with 4 y's.

No.