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What we saw this year was Getz retaining Grifol, failing to take steps that he may now be taking in terms of staff turnover, running with an expensive plan of overpaying for grindy veterans, getting his pants pulled down by one of his pitchers who he said he thought he had a good relationship with just prior to the trade deadline, and making frankly bizarre trades to boot. In June I saw one of Houston’s radio people on a Twitter thread saying that everyone involved in the Maldonado contract should have been fired because of how obviously washed up he was last year, the standard radio personalities in Houston understood million dollar decisions better than Chris Getz. Throw in multiple trades that appear to be major setbacks for the organization already, and yes Chris Getz has a horrible record of leadership top to bottom. And you’ll note how easy this was to write without mentioning the Clevinger signing which was still by far his worst move. None of this mentions how he was hired, he did a garbage job this year and this is the same sort of whitewashing we saw for a decade with Hahn. Oh I’m sure he will get it right this time, he learned his lessons from, I guess the Vargas trade? From what we heard from the insiders that was recommended by a guy fired a week later, and that doesn’t seem at all like a reasonable decision making process to me.

What I said originally was that it is too early to call this encouraging, and I stand by that to the letter. We have no idea how any of this will used by the organization, we don’t know who is being brought in, we don’t know how they will mesh with the coaching staff. We heard literally that when Shelley Duncan was removed, and it was garbage. What we do know is that already Chris Getz has a horrible record of decisions and leadership, and doesn’t deserve the benefit of the doubt that this time things have been done correctly until some results are actually positive. If you tell me “wait and see”, fine, but I get to point out that we heard that for a decade, and that Getz’s first set of moves wound up with 121 losses. This wasn’t “ok let’s see if it works” it was “good work Getz this is encouraging”.

I doubt people who automatically praise Chris Getz for all of his decisions, which is exactly what we're seeing here and which is exactly what we heard about Hahn.

But how you arrange this also matters. One of the reasons why the "analytics" side was walled off in the previous ones is that LaRussa and Grifol and Getz wanted more bunting and more veteran leadership and they made sure that was the message that was brought to them. If the "analytics" people are ones brought in like Getz who want more bunting and more battered women, then the more people they talk to, the worse things are.

The board insiders who told us about the great plan to make sure the baseball people were back in charge. Joy.

We have no reason to assume that this one will be a silo removal when the last 3 managed to not be. We have no reason to assume that this will be anything other than a crony hire when Getz has made a bunch of them so far.

You literally said Comparing any change to a "Crony Hire" was unfair. Chris Getz has been loading up on the crony hires, and he himself was a crony hire!!!

Chris Getz has zero history of hiring guys from the Royals, so obviously he deserves this benefit of the doubt.

We also heard from board insiders how one of the big changes that was going to make 2024 successful was that they were putting the "Baseball people back in charge". The first things we heard last year from Getz was about how they needed to bunt more, which is exactly what 80 year old "baseball people" have been doing with the White Sox for years. These moves led to 121 losses. Are they getting "baseball people" back in charge of the data analyses offices too? Because if so, I have no reason to expect that this will be any better than Shelley Duncan.

Why is it encouraging? We haven’t seen anyone who has replaced these folks, we don’t even know if some of them are being replaced, there could easily be downsizing happening in scouting departments that were already too small. This is the 4th analytics overhaul in the White Sox organization in 5 years. I’m sure this overhaul will get it right!

If Lavine can put up performances like last night he'll definitely get to play for some other playoff team this year.

By my count, this is the 4th time the analytics department has been overhauled since COVID. Whoever the 2019 people were. LaRussa brought in Dave Duncan's kid Dave Duncan's kid was replaced when Grifol was brought in Overhauled again this year.

Prediction: 6 years from now, there is no way the White Sox are in Chicago and still owned by the Reinsdorf group.

Is it a coincidence that this comes 1 week after the latest threat to sell the team and move it?

Rooneys_2005_World_Series_Call.mp3 The stupid Google Ad almost blocks my ability to insert this now.

Because even with this terrible team nearly 2 million people attended ballgames this year and that is a market that can be used to help develop a neighborhood in Chicago that has sat barren for 60+ years.

Mark Buehrle is 1/1 in World Series save attempts.

All right everyone, go to your list of ex-Royals, find someone who would seem comically old-school about their baseball opinions. Expect the worst and there's a good chance of accuracy.

Nerds who win a lot of playoff series.

How many of them got a $2 billion handout?

Then this page is useless for giving context on this project. If I look at your average bank balance I can’t tell anything about whether you can afford a new house.

The whole city has $2.6 billion and has added $1.3 billion over the 5 year period shown there, but $1.8 billion on a single project would be normal? That seems like 10x the city commitment of the other projects listed.

Guess what teams are #1 and #2 in MLB in terms of not swinging at balls out of the zone.

Ricky Renteria did a shitty job of teaching guys how to be professional. This was literally one of the things I was begging for out of the managerial hire in 2020, better professionalism, because I thought that was important. Then…we somehow found a guy who could make that worse.