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Pitching prospects fail constantly. It's why you need to acquire as many as you can and make sure you've got the coaching and scouting in place to ID and then develop them as much as possible. Chicago has none of that infrastructure. The Sox also will lose solid pitchers like Giolito constantly because of their asinine contract policy. We're fucked on many fronts here.

Why does the lineup tweet look like some twee wedding invite?

This is arguably post of the year, if not decade.

My goodness, what a sickening puff piece.

One of the most frustrating things as a fan is watching a GM group in over their head compound errors in a last ditch effort to save face. It's like GarPax bringing in the "three amigos".

Eh, this org sucks and is stupid but this isn't an example of it. Thinking he was a starter when they drafted him and that he wasn't going to flay his UCL to a single thread within a few years started this entire chain of frustration. There were plenty of red flags around him, but the Sox of course thought they knew more than everybody else.

Frank on one leg in Toronto was better that most of these bums, that's for sure.

Honestly he might be one of the 15-20% or so that never really bounces back from TJS. You add in all his lower body injuries the last couple years, his questionable mental makeup (at least for performing on the baseball field) and it's yet another reminder of TINSSAAPP.

When Moncada is on he has one of the prettiest most powerful pull swings from the left hand side as anybody, so I went with him. That said, the last guy I really enjoyed watching hit on the Sox was prime Abreu. Other than chasing junk away he really didn't have a weakness and was capable of getting himself out of slumps with a good solid inside out approach while also retaining pull power.

Some HR/FB luck (28%) but his EV numbers indicate a true talent upgrade. Still striking out too much and could take more walks. I see him having an Avi like career where the tools tantalize but most years he's a slightly below average regular. Maybe puts up 12 career WAR.

They all suck but if we're just going to lose you might as well lose with Burger and Colas getting as many MLB PA as possible. I'd consider just DFA Sheets or trading him for some PTBNL.

He's another guy whose arrow is pointing straight down. As the last two posts in this thread note, he hasn't even posted a positive WAR season yet. Another complete bust right now. Just another guy.

You won't get anything more than a C prospect for him. He's not even close to the level of the guys Hahn pawned off in the ultimately worthless Rutherford trade. The sad thing is we do not have many trade assets. Every single one of our guys other than maybe Robert and Cease have middling value. We do not have a Sale this time of around to get back two top 20 guys. We don't even really have an Adam Eaton.

Hey man, this is one of the 50 you're gonna win.

Moncada is going to have a great year...for 80 games.

lol the most chicago accent possible too.

excitement in this thread is palpable. you can feel it through your monitor.

I mean, the Sox already got the branding...

You'll never get it, if you do, it will be 20 years from now when nobody involved really has a financial interest anymore. The league is so small and incestuous that nobody working in the FO (or players for that matter) is going to step out of line and make a stink. It's possible you could have a guy like Jim Margulus do some muckracking but once again I don't think he's going to bite the hand that feeds him that hard either. We're pretty much just fucked until JR dies, and even then who knows if Michael (if he keeps the team) will be any better.

He's not a cornerstone but he's not a guy you rush to trade either given his value league wide, even if you're (once again) rebuilding. If he can work on his launch angle he can turn into a good regular. Right now he's just another guy, talented, but just a guy and wouldn't return much prospect wise.

Hahn's execution of the initial trades was excellent. The organization as a whole since that move has been awful on every front: scouting, coaching, drafting, asset allocation, trades (and yes) -- fan relations. It was only the initial success of those trades that helped us do the little winning we did.

I think what will happen is that in the offseason they will fire Hahn, and KW will be able to hand pick the next GM as his last great "favor" to JR. Hahn will be fired in the gentlest way possible, sorta like GarPax, almost a mercy slaying at that point.