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It’s one of those things where it’s fine if it meant we got premium upgrades in pitching.

It’s been 5 days. Get a grip.

Edwin Encarnacion?

I don’t think it’s good but his metrics go up and down each year so hard to tell

I see no indication that any of this is true. The likelihood is multiple of their targets cannot be interviewed currently.

All the outfielders I didn’t want last year because I wanted them to swing for a long term elite player look good this year because I just want all focus on pitching. (well except for Mazara, did not want him).

I wonder about the braves and intentions with a player like Duvall. Pache has arrived, and Waters isn’t far behind. Duvall isn’t expensive if our pitching acquisitions are. OTOH, he is pretty all or nothing but the power is crazy. More of a backup acquisition if we do well with FA pitching.

This is just so dependent on who they hire and the relationships they have. I imagine with sox going after more experienced guys, and letting go of cooper, they didn't do so to then tell them who their pitching coach will be.

That was nice of him to say, but he completely revamped his entire motion over the course of an offseason that was not overseen by Cooper. I'm sure cooper taught him stuff about pitching but I'd put more of his success to Farquhar teaching him about pitching his fastball high in the zone and the team that re-designed his motion than coop keeping him prepared or whatever.

Yeah, so I stand by what I said that you are using the results of a silly best of 3 series to justify a bunch of meatbally takes on "championship blood" and "momentum". At the end of 60 games, a bunch of teams were closely grouped together. Some won the next few games. Therefore, the white sox and central divisions are terrible, they didn't have to play amazing teams like the angels, rangers, mets or diamondbacks and it inflated their records. Had the sox and As been in a play-in game and sox won, then according to you they'd clearly be the better team and justification that the years of playoff ineptitude shows the As just need to learn how to win. Had the Rays/Astros been in a best of 5, they'd have swept the Astros and you'd not be hyping them up now as championship blood that (lol) proved it wasn't because of cheating and faced a favorable schedule to get to the ALCS. Sox just need to learn how to win. Their third starter situation was no match for the As situation of Mike Fiers and Sean Manaea. That winning 2 games out of 3 against the white sox clearly shows how big of a gulf there was between the two franchises.

If the cubs and marlins played 100 3-game series, I'd expect the Cubs to win >50% of them If the Reds and Braves played 100 3-game series, I'd expect the braves to win >50% of them If the Twins and Astros played 100 3-game series, I'd expect the twins to win >50% of them If the As and White Sox played 100 3-game series, I'd expect the White Sox to win >50% of them If the Yankees and Indians played 100 3-game series, I'm 50-50. But I don't think Bieber would get rocked more than 1-2x out of 10. I don't find the cards/brewers to be very good, but I didn't think the Padres were very good either. But in a 60 game sample, the padres were better. 60 games even limited is > 2 games no matter if it's the playoffs.

Develop in AAA. None of the pitchers you mentioned are good enough to demand a starting spot on a playoff team. I remember just 6 months ago when people argued the 2020 white Sox were deep at starting rotation

I mean, read the last sentence of what you quoted. The reason they are fine is because they are not an obstacle to any of what you said.

On the other hand, sox really seem to be in a groove with ground ball pitchers. OTOH, will we have to deal with a pitcher in stroman that might not be able to complete the season due to no pitches thrown this year? I think I'd be okay with Gausman, I don't like how poor his fastball does even though it should be better but I always love splitfinger pitchers since Jose Contreras. Some combo of gausman, Stroman, Odorizzi is entirely acceptable to me. Especially because they are so easy to spin off if a better pitcher becomes available.

The good news is because the white sox won a playoff game that proves they were better than all the other Central teams regardless of the regular season so they are fine.

This is skip bayless quality stuff.

This is non-sense, the winner of the world series this year should be able to hang its flag high as anyone, but the turnout of a bunch of 3-game series is random as hell.

I love these projectable bodies sox have gone after for pitchers last few years.

https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/chicago-white-sox-2020-21-international-signing-preview/ Videos of some of the prospects expected to sign on 1/15.

The goal is to add elite players onto our elite core, not "balance it out" more effectively.

I kinda agree with Chisoxfn on a couple points but also still do not want La Russa because of the odds the following will not happen. I think some of the talk around "analytics" is embarrassing. People talk about it as if its a gene pool you are either a part of or not. To me there are problems with La Russa's age, but the bigger issue of La Russa era managers isn't use of analytics by them, it's control. If LaRussa comes in expecting to be the full manager of all on-field decisions, that's the problem. If Tony LaRussa wants to join as a manager that is just a cog in the wheel of the decisionmaking and player development that happens with our players, that could be fine. He could hold players accountable and coaches accountable for following through on the direction set forth by management, PD and La Russa himself and that would be fine. Coaches more capable with technology can be in charge with implementing it and being responsible for teaching the players. La Russa wasn't going to be doing infield practice with the guys anyway. An older manager could certainly do the above if they wanted to and he could very well be successful. I think he would manage the bullpen well. But the likelihood is TLR would get in the way of inputs from management and bring a staff that is less likely to use modern PD tools. But he's old school and can't use analytics I think is ageism, honestly. THe issue is control. If he accepts that the use of technology as a teaching mechanism is important to the org adn the way it needs to go and is in charge of having people work on that, and that the front office, pd staff is a part of on field decisions, then he could be great. But if he thinks he'll be the superstar manager of past, that owns the field and can tell the FO to get out of his way, that's not a good idea. If he was hired and we heard the above of what I pointed out above I'd be fine with the hire. He clearly has the ability to get a lot out of his players and can use his experience to prepare them mentally for the grind and expectations. But if he wants all of it, no thanks. Obviously, that's where a Hinch or Quatraro, who are used to those expectations and know what to look for in coaches teaching players with technology, are ideal. You know what you are getting.

Cool, well she learned her lesson. is this Bauer’s fault for something someone else wrote? No, but it is completely predictable on what would happen to anyone who has used Twitter for longer than a day. So yes he deserves criticism for doing something that ends up encouraging a bunch of insane followers to get their misogynist rocks off. I would like if Bauer signs. I’ve followed him a long time. I think he’s legit a genius. But he’s also legitimately abusive especially often punching down. But he’s not a domestic abuser, he’s not a drunk. But he is that and I don’t think people should let him off the hook when he again forgets to think through the power of his actions.

He could have replied, he quote tweeted. Im not tar and feathering Bauer, I guess it’s only fair he criticize. But the comments here on “what Twitter is” are probably the worst people on Twitter that ruin the whole thing.

This is good advice for Bauer.

I kinda worry that Bell would be a distraction. Not as a locker room distraction, but to Nagy who already has a bunch of players he needs to figure out how to correctly use them. Now he'd have a shiny new backup runningback he'll make a bunch of designed plays for and will force them into the flow of the offense.