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I've thought about this a lot. Here is my analysis: - Paxson and Gar have to be held to a higher standard because they took over one of the best sports brands in the world, have a loyal and adoring fan base, and a big market which makes it a lot easier to compete for talent in FA. - Because of their inherent advantages, I rate them in the bottom half of front offices due to the: - Lack of creativity - are never in play for big acquisitions because they both fall in love with their assets and are too timid to send out what it takes - Refusal to spend/go for it, by the time they dipped into the luxury tax, it was the end of their core, and they used it for an end of career pau gasol. THey have one of the smallest front offices in the league, and consistently leave cap open but have same issue as hahn where they overpay on the end of the roster and restrict bigger moves. - Antagonistic relationships with players and coaches - between the medical mismanagement, throwing coaches under the bus, and physical altercations, they've gotten away with things nobody should HOWEVER - The absolute strength of garpax is good drafting, and if I had to choose between the two I'd take that strength over the lack of any strength on the KW/Hahn side. KENHAN: - For Kenny Williams first decade, he oversaw one of the better pro scouting departments in the game in my opinion. That ended as the age curve progressed and cheap veterans via trade and free agency became terrible investments. - Clearly the best way to succeed in baseball is draft/player dev/international scouting. They have been in the bottom 5 in baseball over last 20 years (generously). - They run their team as if they are setting up to be the illitch tigers, when they should be running it as the cleveland baseball team, rays, or modern twins. Meaning, they operate as if they believe their financial advantages define their team building, but are unrealistic about what it means (constant disadvantage to actual big market teams), while neglecting the ways that small market teams have succeeded. The last point is inexcusable. The thing to emphasize is they are both bad. But despite the "rebuild on the fly" failure of 2014-15-16 of hahn, he said when he took over sox were going to start building up farm. The CBA changed to the white sox favor there. The draft position was more favorable. International free agency became more favorable to white sox. Everything bent toward making it easier for him to operate under Reinsdorf constraints yet still only improved marginally. Nobody is reading at this point anyway. Hi! if you made it this far.

there's been plenty of circus here too.

Would you rather have a running back with 8 million of dead cap space and a 6 million dollar cap hit in 2018 and 2019 for 2 years and whose best year had a per carry average only .2 yards better than howard's worst year and whose worst year was injury-riddled and a 3.3 yards per carry... Or a running back with a 2 million dollar cap hit this year, whose best year averaged 5.2 yards per carry. Leonard Fournette is a slightly better Trent Richardson, with the same issue that you are paying him to be a super star running back but getting nothing better than you'd find in the 5th round. Bears have a fifth round pick this year, I guarantee they can find equal production.

fournette is way more expensive than howard and not very good.

LOL Mully and haugh, quite the tough interview there.

*at a cattle auction* Auctioneer: Okay we're gonna open up the bidding Oklahoma rancher: $100! Texas rancher: $150 Kansas rancher: $155 Texas rancher: $160 Auctioneer: SOLD to the texas rancher! Oklahoma rancher: I don't understand why these cows hate oklahoma so much. Ah well, some day people will enjoy dog meat.

Crazy, moncada can be awesome. The nice thing about a guy that talented is the margins matter. Does he have to become a 18% k rate guy to succeed? No. He hits the ball hard, if he gets the bat on the ball 2% more who knows what comes out of that. If he does that a few years and stabilizes at 25%, all those extra balls in play could mean knocking in more runs, being on base more, few more homers. Its frustrating watching players develop and not just be Acuna, but his talent is real.

I don’t know, didn’t work for the nets.

I think Sox are just arrogant and antiquated in their operations. One of the biggest things is how inefficient they are in money they do hand out while acting like they are the most efficient team just because they never spend market rate on talent worth spending on.

Lauri Markannen just finished February averaging 26 and 12 but sure you got it

Perhaps they should structure KWs contract as such. 45k a year, with the possibility of it going up to 5 million if he can win 90 games.

I’m sure Ricky will be made accountable. To be clear talking about Renteria

Man, yeah. This actually made my jaw drop. They are in such a bubble, and they think their fans are idiots.

It’s incredibly obnoxious. It’s condescending acting like fans don’t know all involved when #actually it’s simple: pay the man his money.

One of the reasons I love baseball so much is how fun the team building is.

yeah, hahn loved making fun of him for that at soxfest.

A competent front office with our budget could win the division every year.

I like Castellanos mostly as a 1b, hoping we don't need to add of bats.

There are players that I love in next years class but mostly think the best fit is castellanos and a pitcher.

you could also just not internalize all criticism as "negativity".

?this guys tired of pointing out that our budget surpasses that of the as and rays.

At least we don't have to read about whales on here for a while.

Robert is a tough call. If he doesn't work out it was a gigantic missed opportunity because the sox reallyd idn't have a gonzo class. That 2016 class was coming in at budget, so they didn't have any 30 people classes. If robert works out, great. If not, our 2017 was going to be brutal as we hadn't signed anyone so its not like we can say "we could have had wander franco"

so much this. The sox realistic payroll is 120 million. You can argue it should be higher, but lets say this is it. You mean to tell me if you hired a bunch of rays guys to take over they couldn't compete and win the division most years? As much as a 220 mill payroll would be fun, you don't need that to make the playoffs. Its helpful to win multiple world series, but the sox should at least be able to compete in this dreadful division year after year.

but colome has been inconsistent and he is paid well for it, and nova is moving to the AL and can't get lefty hitters out (they torched him). It will be an interesting and fun exercise.