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Oh did the 30 year old reliever have a nice line in AAA

I don’t think anyone has a chance over Lamar again.

If you’d have told me that this crop a year later would have all had average to strong production I think I’d have pointed to it making sense because of the huge amount of reps that group came in with. Daniels, Penix Nix and Caleb all had thrown a ton of PA in college. Very often the last decade this hasn’t been the case, esp during Covid era

I have many layers to my disdain for Jerry (one here is he could have used his power in ownership to create more favorable competitive rules for his club, not just align against labor)… but it is true that the only real model for success Sox could emulate is the braves. And they may operate as a big market club soon, but they are similar in stretching up budgets with competitive teams, but not often players for big FAs. We can’t say Sox should be the guardians or brewers because they don’t get the additional goodies. They need to actually be better in drafting and player development while using the additional payroll they have extremely wisely (I.e. re-signing stars unlike Cleveland, but not just signing addl bullpen help). Thats actually an extremely tight rope to walk, and why I don’t really have tolerance for the Sox so often settling for being average at some aspect of team building when they need to be exceptional at 2-3 to survive

I unno I think the dodgers are smarter than me but if I could pick a misstep it would be signing a 32 year old outfielder for 3 years. They will survive but not the signing that sends shivers down my spine.

Bears emulate colts Sox emulate royals Bulls emulate iowa state

i feel like it must have been hoge and jahns podcast but boy is it hard to search the athletic. So I can't prove that, but this was from the latest. Re-open, don't know, but over and over again we hear that it was poles choice. " To be clear, Eberflus was never forced on Poles — at least not by anyone employed at Halas Hall. The two share representation in agent Trace Armstrong and, per Poles’ account, had become friendly after meeting years back through mutual acquaintances. Eberflus also came highly recommended in 2022 by Colts GM Chris Ballard, who spent 12 seasons in the Bears organization (2001-12) and also worked with Poles for four years with the Kansas City Chiefs (2013-16). Also don’t forget that the Bears’ 2022 coaching search was spearheaded by an outside consultant: Bill Polian, whose 14 seasons in the Colts organization left him, for better or worse, with deeper connections inside that franchise."

It's hard to believe, yet there has been tons of reporting that they offered him to open up the search, start over, interview whomever he wanted, yet he really liked flus. And he fired flus and it would have been a great time for him to save face and plant the "I never wanted him" but...he hasn't done that. Everything has been " he hired and really wanted flus"

I just feel like we've really wanted to believe he was railroaded into Flus but just zero evidence of it. Unless the railroading was by Trace Armstrong. The lucas patrick/ryan bates experience is just so frustrating. It's sorta good to be patient, but you also have to realize you don't have unlimited time to build.

I think there was an obvious aspect to our defense falling off a cliff and it was our interior. It was very thin, and predictably injuries happened and it's very easy to run on us and then it's easy as hell to manipulate that and just open it all up. However, it's amazing how ineffective this defense is without flus. It's like it only KINDA works with him as the playcaller. So again, why on earth is he your hire to bring as your key strategy. I'm sure it isn't a hot take now but when flus was fired I thought it was perfectly reasonable to keep poles. But the mistakes of his are the kinds that you should just really see the impacts of. I would say first choice is absolutely give ben johnson the keys, let him bring his gm, and give him a shanahan structure of team. I don't really have a second choice.

You definitely don’t take things personally, no sir.

Is him growing taller even a good thing? When he was drafted the big commentary was how few pitchers that tall had seen success. the better news would be if he’d shrunk down to the fatter parts of the distribution. Getting taller is cool though. Annoys me that colson is now only measured as 6’4 when I thought we had a 6’6” shortstop.

Need that gif of that time boozer punched that ref in the nuts please

Good point

It seems like it's not necessarily making us way worse...and now bottom 10 seems really tough to accomplish. And then it's just "you swapped lavine for MPJ (whom I hate)." I unno, I'd rather have traded him to detroit for garbage than this. But I may be missing something.

Since I’m definitely less in on bulls than I used to be, what is the bull case for that trade? I know Lavine makes more than MPJ, but I don’t really get how this sets us up much better

“Baty's minor-league results have begun to wane somewhat, meaning that he may very well need a change of scenery away from the Big Apple.” Oh is that what that means

When people said “GRF” they knew what they meant but now that’d be RF which …is confusing

I haven’t watched a game…but what a wonderful thing that Lonzo is playing basketball

"I'm coming to the US now because I can't wait to compete against the best players in the world. But also I've decided to join the white sox because I want to do it in a place no one is watching" Makes perfect sense to me let's gooooooo

great deal. So much of the mlb is more fun, hope sox join the party.

I'm not being a hater on it, I think there is genuinely some more optimism on what he provides rather than being scared about his k-rate/hit tool because another 'better' org already validated his tools by selecting him. Had WE selected him instead of Smith, I think there would have been a lot more "this is a terrible fit for our org"

The good news is the red sox can survive getting fleeced. The white sox, well, you can't kill us we're already dead.

The weiderer piece was good this morning. There was a line on the Eberflus hire about like, "who else was going to hire Eberflus if you didn't?" and alluded to the idea that colts were gonna fire him. I kept thinking how if I was George McCaskey, sincere in wanting to do the right thing but a complete moron, what a great way to operate to try to break out of the skid. Rather than just trying to be woo'd by consultants and your own interviews (remember, you are a moron), consistently hold the fire to these guys with a "why aren't we doing the thing that everyone else seems to want?". It ain't foolproof, in many ways that was just the uber dan snyder in the 2000s. And with Eberflus year, you'd argue that you'd end up with Daboll. But - you wouldn't end up with eberflus! For the sox, I'd say getz is at least, in hiring his manager, entertaining "I should try to get the guys that it seems other people like, because we are incapable of knowing who is good ourselves". It just might work.

well, we got an insane Sale year so it wouldn't really bump too much in any direction. I don't know that an all white sox team makes more playoffs than the one we had. That said, if you do the fantasy version of 2021 you'd have Tatis - 6.8 fWAR Semien - 6 fWAR Anderson - 4.3 fWAR Robert - 3.5 fWAR Abreu - 2.8 fWAR Narvaez - 2.8 fWAR Eduardo Escobar - 2.5 fWAR 28.9 with some negatives contrasting it. But pitchers would be led by Rodon (5fWAR). No dunning to support it.