chitownsportsfan

There's a lottery? WTF. Did not know that. Well f*** my plan then.

He'll go to LA and put up a 5 WAR season. Book it.

Pros: outside org hire: Cons: almost everything else. Willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. But we've hired patsy managers over and over since Guillen and the one time we went all against that with TLR it was also a disaster. We've shown no ability to hire a manager that is above replacement and that can work with the FO closely.

I think it's up there somewhere in the top left, that red shifted star.

Who?

Sure, except without Manfred ball rules fucking us. Getting 1,1 immediately injects like 10 projected WAR into our system, at min. That's exactly what we need. It's hard for even 'tard clubs to screw that up.

Sign nobody and tank for #1 would be my plan. If you tender vaughn it's simply as trade bait and to fill a roster spot with a 0-1 WAR type that will be a tank commander.

I think it's because Chris Getz was a bad deputy, was hired because apparently it was a "shortcut" to the next good Sox team and that his stated goal of a better pitching and defense led team led to a league worst defense, an absolutely awful staff outside Crochet, and oh yea 121 losses. If that guy was named billy bean or dombrowski he'd be getting questioned. But when you are Chris Getz, with his track record? Any real org would have never hired him in the first place!

Congrats on bringing the org into a 21st century chart. That means absolutely jack squat. That's like saying the pilot fixed the problem with the landing gear when the plane is about to crash at 500mph into the pacific ocean. Just to expand on this there are numerous necessary conditions to field a good team, they are, in no real order: 1) good scouting 2) good drafting 3) good FA signings 4) good coaching, MLB and MILB Now, analytics and inter org communication are probably necessary for those things, but they are certainly not sufficient. The single most important position is to install a GM who hires and runs a great org. There isn't a single data point we have in the last 10 years that JR is capable of doing that.

Can't get fooled again. Nothing will change until the owner does.

At least those teams had Calvin Johnson and Stafford. There weren't very good, but they were fairly entertaining and had a GOAT type doing GOAT things weekly. No disrespect to Crochet, but he's no Calvin Johnson type.

I get it, but if the team moves, what are we going to do? I'm not going to follow the Nashville Hot Chickens.

I'd be fine with that. Same franchise, same history, just a new owner. It would suck to not have a team for a minute but long term that would be the best thing for us fans imo. Just clear the entire JR stink out.

They can't continue as the Sox, f*** that.

Yea if they move I'm not following them. Would probably just become a Mets fan, a very half assed casual one.

Sounds like a s%*# ploy to try and get a new stadium subsidized one way or another.

Doesn't sound like they have the money he'd want.

It was just a poor use of resources given how things shook out. hindsight is 20/20 but if you're trading away cost controlled young pitching and not really going all out to win after that you're just half assing it. In isolation it was a fair trade, in context of the overall team building it was a mistake.

Yea pretty middle case scenario it was a fair trade all things considered the problem was failing to sustain the team including replacing Lynn and others. Of course when you're not spending big bucks in FA and you're trading away cost controlled youngsters for "proven" MLB vets it's hard to sustain. Just bad process.

Not at all surprising. And both guys can f*** off. Texas got 5.2 fwar out of dunnning so far. We got some cool yelling I guess.

He would say glizzy.

Jason is based enjoyed imo in small doses. I was no huge fan of him over 162 games but FFS man he's smooth and professional even if corny and learned baseball on the job. Schriffen is like the homeless man's version of Benetti, at best. It's like they thought they could pull another rabbit out of a hat but instead they just made another horrible hire.

Amazing they did that after we pulled all their best FO talent.

I'd be surprised if anybody other than Chicago offers him a starting gig.

Move on from both Sheets and Vaughn. Neither guy has any profile better than 2 WAR even with better hitting. I'd rather put Colas at 1st next year then see either guy on the roster.