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I know as a facility it has issues but it would bum me out seeing the Bears move out of the water front. To me that is just an iconic view with the park, museums, stadium and skyline. It's one of my favorite views of any city in the world and I know I'm not alone in that.

Sox passed the Pirates in position player fWAR so they now rank 28th. Moved into a tie for 26th in wRC+ at 90. The Sox are a staggering 51 runs below average defensively. Walk rate is nice, but the holistic view is a bit grimmer.

need to go 8-10 to avoid 100 losses. Hardly a lock but looks doable.

Overall agree but in order to develop talent you gotta first ID it. Can't turn chicken s%*# into chicken salad and all that. So I'll give Getz a job well done for IDing guys that have a good batting eye. I never wanted to believe it but Moncada didn't have a good eye he just took a shitload of pitches and when he got to MLB that wasn't going to work anymore.

It's still hard to believe Wilson was part of that trade. Getz earns a A for that Crochet trade so far and an F for this one. Overall a straight C imo.

Yea power can come from DH and the corner spots. I'd like to see Beni as the odd man out more next year and give all of his 30 or so DH starts to Teel and Quero and Sosa. Park Vargas at 3B, Colson and SS and then work in Chase at 2B with Sosa while making sure Sosa starts 5 times a week at some rotation of 1B, 2B, DH.

The greatest trick Getz ever played was anchoring expectations of 120 losses in year one. I'm not kidding. As I said I'll give him a solid C+ for this season but dude since he took over we're like 90 and 200.

Are those run values (or at least some approximation?) That's fucking insane. That's a 4 win difference between worst umped and best umped. Holy s%*#.

I like Ron but he's really old now and his heart didn't seem to be in it this year with his leave of absence. What's the angle here just a young hitter whisperer?

No reason not to allow him to try and prepare as a SP next year. The worst thing that happens is he's JAG we have another throw away season next year to find out. Hopefully it will be the last for awhile and we are ready to start competing again, but one step at a time.

You can scream about taking walks until you're blue in the face but you gotta have the right mix of guys. Getz got pretty lucky that Colson is hitting his 99th percentile projection (and even if he regresses he's still a solid starter next year) as otherwise the lineup doesn't have much pop -- but he did a nice job bringing in guys with a good approach. I tend to think you need a "critical mass" of good swing decisions in a lineup otherwise guys start to press. It's easier to hit when the pitcher is constantly going deep in counts.

I'm just piling on but you'd think that ball scraped over the fence from that dufus' call. It's hitting the fucking ivy 20 feet beyond the fence and he's like "it's gone". Just conveyed zero of the 451 feet.

You are my spirit animal. I was literally lining up to condense that down into the exact same thing. Just win baby, and the fans will come.

So I went back and checked for receipts and the closest thing I made to a prediction was saying Vegas' line (which I believe moved to 55.5 right before opening day) would be pretty accurate. Well Vegas for once, probably will miss by more than 5 games and the "optimists" (if you can call a club winning 60 games that) will have proved more accurate than the 50-55 win crowd. The difference? Pretty much the young kids really. You got like 10-12 WAR from Chase, Colson, Sosa, Vargas, Smith, Teel and Quero. That pushed us up from 52ish to 62ish. We'll do a grade thread for Getz and the Sox when the season is over but right now I think it's a solid C+, maybe even a B-, but it was a failing grade last year so we're going to need to continue to show competence.

Hitters improving but pitching regressing. Whatever. Baby steps.

Skubal's been a bit more gettable in the 2nd half. Take some good ABs and see what happens if he gets frustrated.

Amazingly if he had the qualified PA he'd be ranked 89th in fWAR, ahead of guys like Ozzie Albies, Seiya Suzuki, Josh Naylor, Altuve and so on. 2 fWAR in 51 games is quite the start to his career.

good lord chase.

I kinda think 220/280/520 is just who he is. Pair that with solid work at SS defensively and while not quite a super star, certainly in today's game a star and valuable player. If he can improve to something like 250/320/550 he's a super star. The metrics think he's been a bit unlucky on BABIP, we'll see how it trends over his career.

first ever 4 game sweep there.

Colson is the swaggiest guy we've had in a long time.

i can only get so erect.

Chris Getz to me:

what a joke.

f*** he's safe