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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.

Omar has self-yeeted himself from the White Sox and declared free agency instead of going back to the minors.

It turns out we have more than this year to go off, like last year for example.

Yeah, he's got room for improvement for sure, and the walks are it. But I don't think he has much more to go after that.

He was never a high ceiling guy. High floor, low ceiling with a top of mid to back rotation guy.

The Orioles failing to use their surplus talent to acquire talent where they were in deficit is a great example of a GM failing at his job. In fact, with as much time as you spent crowing about how young hitting talent isn't getting traded, it is probably even worse because the pitching returns for that young talent should have been higher than historical norms because of said imbalance. But that still doesn't excuse the Sox for having a massive deficit of hitting talent. It is just an attempt at a handwave to make additional excuses for Getz by dragging someone else's differing failure into the conversation.

Not to mention their actions didn't actually match that thought. If they were really rebuilding, and knew it would be long term because literally everything about this franchise is decades behind, not trading Luis Robert after his breakout 2023 was negligence.

That was letter high, wow.

White Sox average runs in 1st inning 0.71 7th in MLB White Sox Runs runs per game 3.24, tied for 27th.

Obviously we are still in the SSS portion where a kid can quickly get figured out, but I would always rather see good lucky than bad lucky anyway. Lord knows how much we need up the middle talent.

That is nice to see out of a HS getting an A ball assignment right out of ST. It would be so incredible to get a true SS candidate into the system.

I would really be curious why they don't seem to value Elko at all?

I do. And Vaughn was STILL 36th of 43 1Bs with at least 300 PA, as the White Sox primary 1B. Granted they managed to also have #41 in Gavin Sheets, but it looks like maybe two teams had a primary 1B worse than Vaughn. One of them didn't resign their primary 1B. The other got more fWAR out of a 1B in less than 300 PAs than the Sox got out of Vaughn in 619 PAs.

Sure, but much like the Bummer trade last year, Getz doesn't seem to want to take chances on that. I was just thinking of the connection in the context of health, maybe that's why Vaughn?

I wonder if a guy like Vaughn got brought back not because of his talent or potential, but because unlike the rest of this roster, he just doesn't get hurt. What are we doing health-wise as an organization?

The Orioles absolutely failed by not taking advantage of a small window as a smaller market team in a division with 2 of the biggest spending teams in baseball by not getting a lot more pitching into the system to match their offensive window. It is a weird flex to make an excuse for this failure.

Especially in this organization.

So predictable too.

We are very used to trailing.