Balta1701

Aw come on man…I knew what you were saying, but literally, Vaughn has not been an OF for a year and it’s still an excuse for him!! Will we ever stop making excuses for the guy?

I would just like to point out that Andrew Vaughn was moved out of the outfield for a full season, actually got worse, and his performance as an outfielder still is being cited to excuse him.

So like they overprojected by 20, and the projection for this year is an improvement of 20. correct?

What was the steamer projection for White Sox position players last year?

I’ll take the over. The White Sox’s expected W-L last year based on runs scored/runs against was 48 wins. Although not historic by any means, their finish 7 wins behind that pace was the largest underperformance in baseball last year. While I don’t believe that was luck, some of the factors that drove it - the toxicity of Grifol, the insistence on “the baseball people are back in charge” and bringing in veteran leadership as the only solution - those haven’t happened so far this year, at least not to the same extent.

Could you just use a web browser on a laptop?

Have they actually used their allotment this year or nearly so, or is there a large amount remaining again?

Well considering that just a couple weeks ago they had something like $750k to spend in international funds and apparently did nothing with that available space, just let it vanish, I think there's enough criticism to go around.

I would admit there's no guarantees in either case. Beckham honestly I thought was handled well, minor league pitching could not get him out. Eloy was kept down longer than he should have been and that didn't help him. With too many of the White Sox's hitters, we can see the results of poor coaching in the minors combined with rushing them. Moncada wasn't ready. Robert never learned to be coachable. Anderson was rushed. Vaughn was rushed. Madrigal was rushed. In multiple cases, the bad habits stayed with them, or at the best there was a year+ of them struggling when they could have been working in the minors. Some of them needed better techniques, some of them needed to mature, some both. A month in the minors might not matter to Colson if he's ready to come up. BUT IF HE ISN'T READY, if last year's problems linger, then bringing him up and having things go terrible for him could break him. That's the thing I want to avoid.

That’s great. Show me you can do it at Charlotte for 6 weeks. Just like the competition is inconsistent in the AFL, it’s inconsistent in the spring and we all know this. Dead arm periods mid March for pitchers, guys working on specific techniques, guys who will be at home on the couch in June pitching the 8th inning. Go out, play everyday, and show me that you’re back to a solid player at Charlotte when everyone is trying to win or at least look good to get called Up themselves. None of this should be unreasonable, we’ve just gotten used to our GM being an idiot so “of course we have to call a guy up immediately” doesn’t sound as crazy as it is.

Scheduled times because he’s a prospect? Perfect for Hahn, literally the opposite of what I said.

See I’m supposed to not confuse the Montgomeries when people just randomly switch in threads. Anyway, simple rule - guys should even callups. Could we see Braden this year? High draft pick but didn’t see any time last year because of injury. If he got to BHam early in the season and torched it with a .975 OPS or something like that for 10-12 weeks, then why not? If you score a Juan Soto what’s the point of burying him in the minors for longer? It’s probably not likely coming back from injury but with zero evidence of what he’s got, anything’s possible. Remarkably, the same rule works for Colson. Earn his call up and he can come up. It’s a simple concept, but it would let everyone understand where they are and what they need to do to move up.

Isn't that the guy they signed from the Brewers?

What it sounds like on paper doesn't make much sense though does it? Why this guy as a special assistant in player development? I hate prejudging hires like this because I don't know how its going to work out, but yeah this totally feels like one of those things that gets thrown into the tell all story about why things broke down in 2 years. "They didn't know how to use the analytical data because Phil Nevin kept saying they didn't want to use that and he locked the GM out of a bunch of group chats" or something equally ridiculous. And if that seems unfair, it's literally what we just went through.

Rays look pretty good in the OF although you could always have backups there, but they spent the latter 2 months of the season in 2024 with Brandon Lowe and Yandy Diaz rotating through their DH spot. Both of those guys are under contract, which means the Rays could certainly consider parting with either of them.

Just remember how long Rick Hahn played that game. For 20 years we heard about how the guy we gave away wouldn’t turn into anything of value and they were almost always right…until all of a sudden it was wrong.

Hell I will take 800+ for now.

No just play him at Charlotte? Hes not being called up for defense.

I wouldn’t send him down either, but I also wouldn’t repeat the mistake by putting him in the big leagues in April.

I have zero problems with him playing SS for a couple years until we reach a point where he’s unplayable there. I’m fine with that for now. I have much bigger problems rushing him up to the big leagues if he doesn’t demolish AAA pitching. If he can’t hit, he won’t be a big leaguer. If he hits enough, there will be a spot for him. The guy we saw last year was not a big leaguer, so all I ask is that he shows me he’s ready in AAA before he gets called up.

People daring to criticize Chris Getz sure seems to affect your life.

Then he can easily answer those concerns by showing that he’s better than AAA pitching.

Yeah, you guys making excuses after a 121 loss season need to work harder. We had one guy who made at least one, maybe multiple fake Twitter insider personalities just to say what a great job Hahn was doing. Thats effort!

10 years of hearing excuses for Rick Hahn man. We have a lot of experience with inexplicable sycophancy.