Balta1701

Ok, Fangraphs projections has the White Sox at 47.2 WAR, 0.2 ahead of the Mets and good for 5th in baseball. That’s obviously the goal, to be top 6 right? No one can complain as long as they reach that level.

On the other hand, if you had a poor manager who kept making you lose games by not communicating with you about whether you thought you had anything left for a 7th inning, that would be a reason to leave? Fair enough.

Like I said, you won’t apply the same standard to Jerry, and then you didn’t.

A standard that would never be applied to Jerry Reinsdorf. He deserves every single penny.

Welp, this just guaranteed a 5 inning no hitter.

A lot better to work on that now than in the playoffs.

If you are a professional manager you handle that internally. You do not take those matters public and you certainly don’t defend the other team for throwing at your player. There is no second side to this and to try to excuse that behavior is also completely rotten. I’m out.

I'm not sure that amount of stretching is healthy.

Because it's literally his job and there's a very different way to handle such things other than "Telling the other team to throw at him"? Seriously, this one is excessive.

He proposed a hypothetical extension for Giolito. While that extension would be a generally fair market value number for him, the way the ages would work out makes it troublesome for him. If he took a $90 million extension, he basically doesn't hit FA again until he's 32, starting his year 33 season. Very few guys score long-term deals at that point - teams are much more likely to pay big time contracts out for a guy who is 29 going on 30. So the calculus for a Giolito would be - I guarantee myself $65 million, it could go as high as $90 million, but my career earnings aren't likely to go much beyond that unless I'm still really good and healthy 5 years from now. Or alternatively, I pitch 2 more seasons like I am right now and I sign a $130 million+ deal - and if I'm any better than last year, I still have a ceiling where I could push the deal even higher. With the 2 arb years, that leaves my career earnings at $155 million+, compared to $90 million plus whatever I can get for my age 33 season. This sure seems like a place where there's a big reward for "Betting on yourself".

That whole series was a managerial nightmare. The loss of that series had a ton to do with managerial decisions. Starting Lynn on the road, using Crochet in back to back games, defensive positioning, leaving Giolito in too long, leaving Rodon in too long, pitching Kopech 2 days apart after a nearly 50 pitch outing. There were more in my list back in November when it was fresh in my mind - there was enough damage there that I think competent managing quite readily swings that series. At the very least it goes 5 games. Oh and just to note - LaRussa didn't actually make the biggest managerial mistake of that series. He just made all of #s 2-20 or whatever they were.

Yes. But a "Normal amount of injuries" would have a few guys with significant injuries and more minor injuries than the White Sox saw last year. People just aren't calibrated for what a "normal amount of injuries" looks like. The White Sox were a generally healthy team last year, compared to teams that were really banged up like the Mets or Padres.

Just to walk through this: he turns 28 this year. So by ages: 28: $8 29: $12 30: $22 31: $25 32: $25 He turns 33 in the year he would be a free agent. I don't see how you're getting to the final part where he "gets a run at FA early".

The White Sox had the 6th fewest IL days in baseball last year, so in some ways they were quite healthy last year.

I see no evidence of anything related to Andrew Vaughn’s hip injury on Google before today.

All the projection algorithms put him at like 2.7 next year, So I’m not sure that’s unfair.

That’s the “guy you should be able to pick up off waivers at any point” in the definition I learned. If you had a team full of 2 War players, you have 18 war from your lineup, 10 from your rotation, and a couple from backups and bullpen to give you just over 30 war, which is pretty much an average team on paper.

Isn’t a league-average starter supposed To be a 2 WAR player?

With Robert’s tear didn’t we know almost that day that he had torn something? Just trying to take as much information from the ridiculously vague organizational statement from yesterday. Wondering if a “dislocation” could be the type of thing where it’s messed up while twisting, not ungodly painful, but needs some extra time to be able to figure out the severity.

The other thing that shows up in the stats a lot last year is that he has a weak throwing arm. A full year in RF might make that really important.

He didn’t get that it was a disability joke at first. Once he got it, well.

Chris Rock made a joke about his wife being bald (said she’d be in GI Jane 2). She has no hair because she has alopecia, so he was literally making fun of her disability.

I'm surprised he hasn't been moved yet. That said, we went over some of this a couple days ago - he could decide to become a free agent if he is optioned, or he could choose to go through waivers and stay here. With this team's OF weakness, it would seem like this is about as good of a spot as he could find to get a chance to break into the big leagues if no one claims him onto their big league roster.

That seems confusingly vague.

Is the position more or less demanding physically? I’m generally good with a catcher or 3b moving to 1b, a SS moving to 3b or 2b, a CF moving to RF or LF. The position they’d be moving to is easier. Commonly not a great idea to do those moves in reverse.