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I think the velo drop has made the elevated fastball/changeup that was so deadly a lot less deadly. Easier to rise up to 92 than 94-95.

I wonder if Sanders is the start of what already began in college basketball where these very dynamic, popular former players are going to be getting recruited into coaching since they will be able to probably bring some of their own connections into bringing NIL money into the program. In basketball, you had it start in former players running AAU programs, then bringing penny hardaway to memphis. After that we see Juwan Howard, Stackhouse, ...we'll skip over Ewing. Now with the energy Sanders is bringing to the game, I wonder if more mid-level/fcs programs will recruit players directly to head coach positions. That may be more attractive to those players than having to run through the typical gauntlet a head coach needs to go through. Would finally be a positive development for the player-to-coach pipeline.

In any other org this wouldn't be a blunder. We'd probably be annoyed and shrug it off, but in other areas of sports that would be the kiss of death to get a public endorsement like that during a clearly awful season. But with the sox that may as well be a binding contract. Hell...they probably signed him to an extension last night with tears in their eyes, thanking him.

Danny Farquhar, today, is better than 95% of the bullpen pitchers we have in AAA.

The thing is this fastball velo is regressing to where he started with in 2017. His pitching motion change found more consistent velocity, but there was a concern it demanded so much of the legs it was unsustainable. He was able to sustain pretty well through 2019, 2021 (full seasons). I wonder if it just became harder in late 20s vs mid 20s, and he may have tried to find ways to compensate that have messed with the success.

man at some point of the season you just kinda check out with "this team is bad" but every once in a while it hits you that somehow this team is worse than the worst they trotted out during the rebuilds. All garcia, alan hanson dudes performing better than this group. Absolutely wild.

Those banners ain’t cheap. Kudos to those fans. Gonna guess this will cause more of a security review than the gun.

Problem to me is Moore isn’t a different flavor from different orgs. One of the more similarly run groups to the Sox. And the braves way ran into its own end within the braves. Except they value winning over a system so they evolved quite a bit in the mid 00s. It would be like running a Walsh west coast system instead of shanahan in football terms.

I knew when he was drafted he was gonna be the best thing that ever happened to me

Much better job.

Popeye is a gem. Alas, like Sosa, do not expect walks.

That’s kinda wild to me just because it seems like the one place they feel comfy placing blame is that it’s the players that failed. and they did. But … they also will stay the same?

Can you point me to his swing change? Looking at his single from last night on twitter, it doesn't really look different to me. His set-up is a little different in that he seems to start up a bit more upright and dips but that just seems like a new timing mechanism. But the swing and how he bails out on his legs all seems the same to me

? from where

I'm sure he did, and I know when I've been frustrated a lot of times its entertaining/therapeutic to see the media arguments from talk radio/print people I like. But this time I'm kinda like "where were you". Congrats on taking it to them know when its obvious, but sox fans who have been pointing out the failures for a while were not interesting enough to engage with, and now everyones so smart and knew what was happening.

I didn't think Getz was destined to fail until the press conference. Being adament that he was hired to win now, but that they'll spend but not on the high end of the market... I don't see anyway that works and worry we trade out the prospect depth that we may get lucky on for some bad vet plays.

liked old future sox, liked soxmachine futuresox, will like new futuresox.

Especially when that added payroll just goes into buying bench players, old DHs and middle relievers.

normally i'm no conservative about getting new coaches in there. I think there is too much handwringing about it. But Katz definitely developed our pitching better than whatever the hell happened in KC with their 400 college pitchers they drafted.

is it? They are keeping grifol because it wasn't his fault. They are promoting getz because it wasn't his fault. They can't hire anyone from outside because they won't understand it's not our fault. It's all the same story.

Good call, that's definitely happening.

I think based on everything we heard, that they 100% think they have addition via subtraction opportunities, and that leadership is what will propel them. I mean, since this is all going so insane. Trade for Perez seems guaranteed. Sign Whit Merrifield for 2B? ? God does Whit Merrifield seem like a white sox player. No power, chase everything but decent enough contact to hit weak grounders. Good half a decade ago. Bad defensively. The perfect white sox 2b. Get rid of Moncada and maybe another org goes after Chapman or Candelario. They seem expensive. But Mike Moustakas? That's a white sox babay. Sadly, I actually think this is one of the deeper FA pitching classes and I coudl see some stability there. They can definitely cobble together a 74-76 win team. Which is the white sox comfort zone. That can keep you a mlb job for a decade. Go get em getzy

I feel like shoulder was what we heard. Not good.

Having seen him at Sox fest I actually thought he’d appear better in front of cameras, but when you know you don’t deserve to be there it’s hard to appear authentic without being a psychopath.

definitely feels like the reason they all think they failed is they weren't nice enough to each other in the board room.