Balta1701

When there are only 30 of these jobs and potentially hundreds of qualified candidates, if you hire him directly without him serving in any other job first - you're seriously signaling that you think the cheating was a virtue and you want to jump on him because of that. If he doesn't want this to be the last story of AJ Hinch in baseball, then he should go manage in the minors or maybe serve as someone's bench coach for a couple years first. That'd be him signaling that he wants to move past this, and if you hired him then - that's reasonable. I'd take him as my AA manager in 2021.

There was an enormous amount of discussion at the time about whether or not Darvish was "Tipping pitches" when he was getting hammered mid-series. He's the one who gave up the early 5 spot in that game 7. Well, now with hindsight...his tipping might have been a CF camera. Want to hear video guy #1 talk about it after game 7?

Because in 2019 the White Sox didn't have a goal of winning games and so every dollar spent in 2019 was a dollar that could potentially be better saved for 2020. In 2020 the white sox have a goal of winning games so dollars in 2020 can potentially be far more valuable spending.

He has 55 days of big league service time. 172 days on an active roster constitutes a full year of service time, so he has 0 years towards FA so far but if he's up for just over 1/2 of this season it would count as his first full year.

The report also alludes to other things about "how employees are treated" and "Dealings with the press" that I'm not sure are fully captured by the list you gave. There's probably some other stuff we don't know about.

Frankly if I were Zach Collins, being a part time catcher where I earn $400k, get close to free agency, and learn from a couple veteran catchers would be a pretty good thing.

And now I will turn this right back at you. Hypothetically, imagine Dallas Keuchel was doctoring the ball during his entire time with the Astros and he stops now that he has departed. The White Sox just committed $55.5 million to him. He comes out with the White Sox and his performance suffers dramatically as he's no longer doctoring the ball. As you said, he did what was best for his career and his future and as a consequence he gets $55.5 million from the White Sox that in this hypothetical he would not be able to earn had he not been doing what you alleged. In the process he damages the White Sox's chances at the playoffs any year he is here. All your justifications just explained why you'd be ok with Keuchel screwing over any team that signed him to a big free agent contract. IMO, it's exactly how Melky Cabrera got his contract with the White Sox as well and fell apart the second he got here, so it's not like we haven't seen that before. If you want to cheer for your team, it's not just morality...you also care about guys who cheat to get ahead and screw over your team in the process.

So your argument is that Dallas Keuchel himself is a far worse cheater who was lucky enough not to be caught, and this is supposed to rehabilitate Keuchel's image how? If Keuchel was doctoring the ball and that contributed to the dropoff in his peripherals when he left Houston last year, then the White Sox are at a very substantial risk with that contract.

Then they go to Hinch and say "This needs to stop, there's a line and we don't want to cross it." Instead, they looked the other way. And in that, we learn their character.

FWIW, I agree with you that the manager's statement was BS, but it's also worth noting that per the MLB report, every single interviewed player said that if Hinch had told them to stop then it would have stopped.

The idea that he could have made no difference internally by being a voice for doing the right thing sounds equally funny to me. That said...the guy who I might hang that on the most is Verlander. Shows up midsesason right in the middle of that, is a near surefire hall of famer with no world series ring, shows up, and lets this continue? Congrats man, your ring needs an asterisk carved on it.

https://670thescore.radio.com/white-sox-praise-counting-on-dallas-keuchel-production-leadership Some mentor.

But I also have every right to judge the person based on whether or not they did the right thing in that situation.

I'm open to other suggestions. If you want to say that the White Sox should suspend him for a month I'm listening.

Well you replied to a whole list of ways that a true leader could act that wouldn't involve going public, but specifically take a look at what you just said. How the heck is "squealing" viewed as worse than cheating to win a world series? I was reading statements yesterday by a Dodgers fan about how that world series was one of the "last experiences they had with their dad before they died", and now that they know how the series really went down it tears them apart. Compare that to "squealing" and tell me that you think squealing on a bunch of cheaters is worse.

The only way you don't know what's going on is if you are deliberately looking the other way. We've seen the monitor position, they literally walk past it on the way to the bathroom, the monitor made an appearance in their 2017 world series video. It's right behind the dugout. Those stairs lead to the dugout. Every single Astro player or coach walked past it repeatedly during games.

For at least a portion of the season, it's going to be Gio Gonzalez. If something goes wrong in April, you can use "Mr. Rainout" or call up Kopech for a start during a double header. Later in the season, Rodon could fill that role. Other guys like Lambert and Dunning are lower but could be options at some point also.

Did MLB have any official rules on this topic before the Apple watch incident provoked the 2017 memo?

Look, not only does the MLB statement say the bolded is false, this completely strains credibility. You're in the dugout. There is a video monitor right behind the dugout that you walk past every time you go to the bathroom from the dugout. One of your teammates is standing there watching that video, which shows the catcher, and banging on a trashcan with a bat. You constantly hear banging out of the locker room when you're standing there. Other teams publicly accuse you of cheating. You think "Well this is a normal tuesday ritual"?

Turns out he's the one who did put an end to it.

So say it. Tell me that you're ok with Dallas Keuchel and have no problems with his behavior in this case.

Well it's a darn shame that there were no other leaders in that locker room who could oppose a cheating scheme. But anyway...

Apparently only a Mike Fiers quality human being does that, but for a veteran leader and cy young award winner on a billion dollar franchise, here's some possibles. 1. Complain to your manager. 2. Make a public statement in front of your teammates. 3. Organize several of your teammmates to support you as a leader on your roster and tell management that it stops. 4. Complain to your general manager once the manager does nothing. 5. Go over the general manager's head to ownership. Make it so that Crane's "I knew nothing" statement yesterday no longer holds up. 6. Complain to your union representatives. 7. Take matters into your own hands. If the wimp of a manager won't do actual damage to the screen do it yourself. They're the ones tainting you. Are you a leader or aren't you?

Promotional giveaway of a garbage can and a mallet to bang it with as a noisemaker during his first start. Get the crowd geared up for his wins!

I can't get a suspension but I can ask for public contrition.