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I think this is the right main point but I would stress that it’s Giolito that deserves most of the credit. Katz went all in on helping him but it was Giolito who knew what changes to make

Reminds me of when the board was obsessed with Pedro severino

Aside from that, good trade.

His issue is being dumb as hell about what types of risk are acceptable. As well as handicapping his org constantly in order to be in better bargaining positions for CBA.

Don’t worry, he’s also coming off a front office run that became the laughingstock of the league.

Really enjoying this Reinsdorf fanfic that after years of patience and cultivating a young and exciting team the man to get us over the top is...Jerry Reinsdorf.

This is rich.

Dude

Springer is smart because you deal with the offseason you have, not force the one you want to have.

Let’s be real. Portillos could be Rick Hahn telling us Springer is their number one target. Even then the odds it actually ends up in him signing would be <50%

It will be a force. But depends what Dodgers throw out.

https://theathletic.com/2194535/2020/11/12/white-sox-to-hire-lucas-giolitos-mentor-ethan-katz-as-their-pitching-coach/ excellent stuff in here: He just has that really good natural eye for seeing where a pitcher is athletically, seeing where their mechanics are,” Giolito told me in March. “He’s not there for a paycheck, he’s not there for a job. He’s there because he genuinely wants to see his players get better. You can tell because he worked us so hard and he gave us very, very specific (training). I wasn’t doing the same drills that Max Fried was doing. I wasn’t doing the same drills that he had (Jack) Flaherty doing or other guys on the pitching staff. It was all tailored to, ‘What does this guy need to work on?’ He was very diligent in his work. He charted everything, which I think he still does that. Everything was written down. Everything had a purpose. Everything had a goal.”

No different than a coach going to Mexican league/DOminican league in offseason to me.

It was before he was a major league asst coach but he was coaching in the minors before that.

He would have been a minor league pitching coach at that point. So yes.

I like the burgers there, good char on them. Not the star, but good.

I’m very pro springer. Happy Sox are interested.

One trade acquisition Is be interested in is Kikuchi. One of the few teams of sellers, and he looked extremely unlucky this year. All his pitches looked better than 2019, and he added a successful cutter to mix.

Why did you write this here?

Reed would be a dream.

When it was new in March/April, it was scary and numbers hard to grasp, but was fortunate it wasn't visible anywhere around me. Coworkers, friends, neighbors, schools, offices, all safe from it at first. That's not the case right now, these are huge numbers but it also feels as huge as it seems. Neighbors coming down with it, family, friends, coworkers.

He’s not that inexperienced, he’s been a minor league pitching coach for years now, and teams have been going after coaches out of majors for a few years. Especially college where they have led mlb in player development

Do we see any other shakeups here in org pitching or pretty much Insert Katz for Cooper?

What he did was already illegal? And gonna spitball this, maybe people feel there is a difference between "I want Tony Larussa to go to jail for a long time" and "I don't think the white sox should employ someone who has broken an important law more than once to one of the most sought after, public, and replaceable positions in their organization"