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Just based on getting the guy into the 100 pitch per game, 130-150 innings per season, we should be talking about September of 2026, or maybe even mid 2027. Hagen Smith at least has high level college experience working deep into games. Looking at his college experience he was going six innings most every start. He got over 100 pitches three times, and over 90 ten of his sixteen starts. I worry less about his conditioning.

This is the first time in his professional career he's been asked to carry his stuff into real starters pitch counts. He has gone 75/84/82 pitches in his three starts. Before this season his career high was 67 pitches in one outing. The 241 pitches he has thrown over three outings are 50 pitches more than his previous total over three starts of 191 pitches. Keep in mind he was also schedule to throw every 7 days last year. This is exactly why I was so skeptical about his being ready for the majors this year. He still needs some major conditioning even to be a 5 inning starter on a every 5 day basis in MLB.

The one dude we got who MIGHT have had some trade value as a flip candidate...

Getting Robert to a respectable trading value is such an important piece of the puzzle going forward. The Sox literally have no one else with star value potential. They already seemingly passed up a decent deal this spring because they didn't want to put cash in with the Reds. If his return is closer to Eloy than it is to Crochet, it does nothing to potentially plug a future hole. They have got to figure out a way to get Robert comfortable again.

The problem is, this will not be short term. This is going to be the third straight year of 100+ losses, with a chance at two straight year of being the worst to ever do it. Next year already lacks the position player prospects to get much better, and with their TV revenue problems, I severely doubt they are going to go out and spend over that. Next year is probably going to be their 4th straight year of 100+ losses, with potentially a 5th on the way for 27 if their hitting prospects don't start to produce.

I would hope our baseball people aren't out negotiating TV deals.

All so Jerry can make a few more bucks off of us.

Sure, but also the ratings had already collapsed last year.

Again, take your own advice. If you want to post long lectures on how to act, you should probably be doing it yourself. Be better.

I think you need some advice from someone who had deep thoughts on one upsmanships and personal digs.

Looking him up, it looks like he has way over pitched his stats because of a .118 BABIP. Looks like regression is probable, but it is nice to see someone overachieving. xERA 3.01 FIP 4.82 xFIP 3.53

The Blackhawks have seen their viewers on their home network down almost 80%!!! https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6297335/2025/04/21/blackhawks-chsn-viewership/

Nice confession.

You keep saying this, but we are owned by a guy who literally had a stadium built for him in Tampa just in case he didn't get bribed with a free new stadium in Chicago... and is seemingly doing is again.

I mean it is obvious the point lately is to try to point out that other GM's have failures and to try to contextualize that in perspective with what Getz has "achieved" to this point. All it does for me is show that the gap between Chris Getz and these other teams shouldn't be somewhere around 30/40/50/60 games depending on who we are talking about because they make mistakes as well, which in theory, SHOULD allow the White Sox to close those gaps. Yet, here we are setting all time loss records, while the attempted smear of the LA Dodgers shows them 60 plus games ahead of the White Sox in each teams respective last full season, or 50 games in the case of the Baltimore Orioles, despite how stupid these GMs apparently are. The concluding question is how bad at his job does that make Chris Getz if he is 50-60 games behind these guys making obvious mistakes?

It's like Everyone Poops, except the GM version Everyone Fails! As if that makes it all better. Bottom line, every time Getz fails at another one of these, the timeline for the Sox falls further back.

So Chris Getz traded for a failure? That's better?

Or ask why with all of this industry consensus talent, he is absolutely failing here?

Here's the thing. We keep getting told about how all of these new guys need time to start showing their changes, and that we should start to be seeing their changes. Now all of the sudden during this new leadership, we have a huge spike in major surgeries, six so far, maybe 7 depending on what happens with Perez. It is fair to ask if it is something new that is being done, or taught, that is leading to this mess. Historically the Sox were on the bottom of these numbers under Don Cooper, and with the change to Katz, we moved to the middle. Now with Bannister being added to the mix having a year in the system, the guys he has been teaching are getting THE injury and surgery. Why is that?

6* Tommy John surgery's in the span of a couple of months is crazy.

Thanks Obama.

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It's always great when your biggest problems turn into your best excuses. Instead of asking why we are running laps around the baseball in number of major injuries, Getz get to use it to insulate himself from accountability. Instead of asking ourselves why we are running into icebergs, we are just blaming the sinking for the deaths on board.

I think Cannon is more of a 3 ER in 6 IP kind of pitcher, but everything is magnified when you do everything badly.

Man would it be nice to get literally anything for him.