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Jesus christ, the guy is 26 and still has no guarantee of making an mlb roster. That does not scream "decent chance to be part of the sox bullpen for the next half decade" unless it is meant as an insult to how terrible this team is. Is anyone a wee bit interested to see how Thompson, who was able to pitch 130 innings as a starter last year, could have seen his stuff play up in a reliever role (which Horn already had to transition to because he was a garbage starter in college?), where his fastball could be thrown harder and his two pitch arsenal was less of a vulnerability? Could that have made the guy "extremely likely to never make it) (which again we are discussing for a guy who was 22/23 in AA last year, vs a guy was a bad reliever in AAA as a 25 year old and was unlikely to make the team so was traded? I don't know. Makes you think!

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Every GM in baseball : "Chris what if I told you that we may make available our 26 year old starting pitcher in AAA" Getz: "Don't f*** with me, are you serious?!?"

Fathom talked about how Robert succeeding in this system means he must have been the greatest natural baseball player of all time, i've talked about how we run our prospects like mr. glass in unbreakable (a widely watched film we all know and love), just blowing up class after calss of them trying to find the super human that can succeed... Our pitching was so garbage last year top down. Mena succeeded getting guys out should have been a sign he was super human. He's basically Nolan Ryan now in a real org. Thompson is not close to Mena, but he is athletic and actually pitched and didn't just get injured all year. Not great, but a starter in AA. He's probably not a hall of famer but at this point my assumption is solid 10x all star.

Peter King was awesome. He wasn't necessarily insightful, but he put out THE gossip column for the nfl. It was great, Breer does ok, but I think the old guard was extremely tight with King and there's still a lot of old guard.

hmmm. this is a dogshit trade.

Good god. i had high hopes Getz new org charts would solve this.

Probably the biggest reason to follow ACL this year

avier Mogollon, 2B, White Sox Mogollon was arguably the biggest pop-up prospect in the White Sox’s system in 2023. The Venezuelan infielder was a low-dollar signing in the 2023 international class and put forth an outstanding debut season in the DSL that included a .999 OPS and 10 home runs. Mogollon is a twitchy athlete with the potential for 50s and 55s all across his scouting card and a plus arm that could handle stints at shortstop. He’s also already shown the knack for pulling balls hard and in the air. Badler https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/22-dsl-prospects-who-could-make-noise-stateside-in-2024/

Oooh, also have a designated gate as "the Hate Gate" and it's just a bunch of statues of La Russa like hanging up "La Russa's lounge sign" over the original Loretta's lounge. And like, strewn with covers of Cigar Magazine interviews with Jerry.

This guy reads so talk doesn’t he

Yeah they are like a suit you rented for a wedding, but then the wedding got canceled and you never got to use it, so now you just have to wear it every day to get your moneys worth anyway even if it is not, like, the BEST thing to do. It's just what has to be done.

New sheriffs in town.

Eh no can’t get behind that. An org running well on pitching coaching, trainers and scouts is doable and has been a huge advantage to places like San Fran/MN and most notably MIL. Doesn’t mean it will work with kopech but he’s got the biggest range of outcomes.

I read this 3 times and visually I have no idea what I’m supposed to picture. How close is the hula hoop to the pitchers front? Is this like that da Vinci sketch with those arms and legs everywhere? https://soxmachine.com/2024/02/brian-bannister-white-sox-michael-kopech/ But main thought reading this is glad to see the progression of focus here on command. I thought Katz focus on stuff over all and not worrying about walks as much made sense when the pitchers played in front of a defense so bad any contact would be a hit. Bannister seems to be gently layering in some changes to harnessing this now with our worlds best / cheapest defense. Good luck to ye.

It wouldn’t really be high end real estate as you’d have to either make weird shapes to get people access to windows, or create lots of windowless condos. OR - you could go into a public private partnership to start pulling more residential right next to the loop to at least help support its retail and restaurants as the solutions are figured out.

That is…not why they haven’t built anything.

One of my favorite books of all time. Her other novel Piranesi was just as good.

I normally give a lot of leeway for this stuff because it can just be taste but yeah these are just absolute trash. They absolutely look like tball uniforms.

I don't really understand the point of it all but when we are discussing who are the young players that are supposed to be influenced by this veteran group - it's the pitchers. We are going to have a fresh bullpen and a lot of tryouts. They may not be that young, but in terms of experience, clearly they see changing the culture to a bunch of motivated, bad veterans who can play defense is better than a bunch of unmotivated, bat veterans who were once good and also can't play defense. Both are bad though, really need to emphasize that there is a lot of bad on this roster. Worse than 17 imo.

Well, hello Chicago. Thought it would have been a cool place and I like tailgating for football games, but, hey, let's just make the lake work. And there is no group I hate more (this is an exaggeration) than friends of the park so I will be forced to be absolutely, obnoxiously on the Bears side thru all of this.

Hopefully the Yankees smell blood.

going head first to home is by far the best use case for it. They should just enforce the rule to not block the base.

It really is amazingly old. Like Luis Robert is 26 and the same age as a lot of our "young new talent"