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This has been broken record stuff, but like, I just don't see why this is that big of a deal? I don't see talent going out being impactful, I don't see the salary coming back to be the full amt. I don't think Salvy will make this team a contender, but who cares. If he was that big of a help to a young pitching staff, well we see the limits of that in KC. Well, I guess I should backtrack. In deals the sox have telegraphed for a year plus, we have paid embarrassing sums. But otherwise I don't think this is the worst thing we'll do this offseason.

The Red Sox are going to yo yo constantly between this Cherington / Dombrowski yin Yang. Complain and tear each version down, meanwhile both versions are better than sox can throw out.

Yeah man. This is why the Sox and Rockies have been killing it while senseless nerds like the Astros, Rays and Orioles have been in the basement.

Some classic bannister media stuff: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/effectively-wild-episode-431/ https://youtu.be/33w1NYEDNz8?si=EVkxJh4LOG5964xw

Guys just cause Bannister played for the royals doesnt mean anything.

One of the first red flags of the rebuild for me. Thinking we’d had a highly rated or large class after 2 years in the penalty only to find they basically had no one signed and threw all the money at a guy whose stats were bad in Cuba. I will say he had more offense than o expected, which was none.

Pretty sure it’s Joshua strong.

Not led by players they drafted.

The interesting thing about poaching from the giants pitching vs other strong pitching orgs like MIL is how much production they found on vet FAs. Turning guys like Gausman/Rodon into cy young candidates but just getting solid / good production out of desclafani s and Alex Cobb. That would be a way to turn around at least 1 of our under producing units. Get us back to 74 wins

Bet $5 his first comment is on bannister skipping the vaccine

“Big Getz from the outside”

AZ has built a super young wild card team, has been a top farm for years now. They are led by one of the most complete players in baseball and he’s in year 2. It’s a great place to pick for player dev.

Bannister / Barfield had playing days that would have overlapped with Getz career. I’d imagine there’s some personal recruiting. And then the Royals connection with Watson.

This is pretty thorough getting outside help from three serious deficiencies. If he replaces Paddy with the former Nats intl scouting director DiPuglia and I’d be all ears. And no, I don’t think paddy was a bad scout but just think he was too narrow in his operation and checked out.

Katz also has a background with the giants though.

Watson I assume is to take over pro scouting. This is real outside talent. Kudos to Getz.

Oh f*** yes if we got a San Francisco guy to run our org pitching.

Would buy a 20 game pack of tickets if Getz just gave all of his info to any other source including Jim Bowden

Looks good.

he had some horrendous blocks, one play a CB damn near pushes him into the end zone on an end around (they were at midfield). He started in motion and prevented wright from getting out of his stance leading to a block. Just so many dumb plays.

A lot of stuff. 1st - COVID. Gave everyone an extra year of availability. It also led to only a 5 round draft in 2020 that pushed a lot of "draft eligible" players that may have entered MLB to go back an extra year, leading to a cascade effect of a lot of older prospects entering the system each year as the next borderline guy gets crowded out. 2nd - He tore his ACL in 2021, despite that, he didn't elect for surgery, going thru rehab and then coming back a month later. But that relegated him to first. He elected to come back another year, where they won the CWS. He always K'd a lot, had big power, was a corner infielder. But he's awesome. He may not be an awesome major leaguer, very likely not, but obviously put his name on the game of baseball as a whole more than most ball players ever will.

I do wonder how much better our oline would look if he got the ball out faster. But man, so many players are playing like idiots (claypool game 1, kmet game 2). I hope this is the low point, but hard to feel that when this is now 19 games in and they have regressed in so many facets. That said, there WAS a ton of turnover in the offseason. That may explain the rest. For Justin, I just can't shake that awful 2nd quarter play where he had like 8 seconds to throw and 5 open receivers and just crumbled into the guard.

yeah, especially with the impact getting proper 1b defense seemed to have on birmingham. Adding a real catcher in Quero and then 1B made that team a ton more competitive even with that pitching staff. BUT - I like BA's lists. Definitely comes from a love of watching the minor leagues rather than identifying hot prospects and I like that perspective too.

I do think, grand scheme of things, being in a good position with this QB class is gonna be one of those bursts of good luck in a bad situation. But the overall roster has got to improve. It is still very young/inexperienced. Ideally we feel better about our new RT/secondary later in the year.

I still just don't buy that white sox player development is particularly more aggressive in swing changes and pitching motion adjustments. I remember TA saying he was barely coached until AAA.