southsider2k5

There are a lot of exciting under the radar players on the list.

Nothing about Quintana's numbers got better after he went to the Cubs.

Holy crap!

Nothing is only on him. He is the mouthpiece of the owners. If this happened, it is because most owners wanted it to happen.

Yes it is. Yoan Moncada didn't just forget how to hit, especially when it is painfully obvious what his issue is.

This is always going to be a high standard deviation line up. A lot of streaky guys who boom or bust.

come on man. Really? This is exactly the Overreacting that comes back around.

Feel free to wallow all you like. I resent the idea that being positive about the team is a bad thing and will absolutely say something to that.

you say "fan club" like its a bad thing. It is pretty telling to be honest.

Like James McCann.

I guess I should have expected you to answer that you only were worried.

Yet here we are in a golden position for the foreseeable future, so who was wrong?

If you look at the whole package of where we are today, and what we still have in the minors, plus the guys who are ready to sign when the international stuff is ready, I can't see giving this anything but an A. If the pandemic hadn't happened, we'd also be sitting in an incredible financial situation on top of all of the assets.

Like I said if you had made these arguments 4 years ago, sure. These guys had done nothing to deserve their jobs to partake in a rebuild and the evidence then made it look like this group was being asked to do exaclty what they were worst at doing. But now we have all of this new information to tell us different. The #1 farm system had turned into a playoff birth. That is EXACTLY what you wanted to see out of this. And they are still on the upswing here.

Wow the Angels have to be one of the biggest messes out there. They have a TON of long term money, so he can't spend his way out of this. It has to be drafting and development, but that isn't what he does well.

He was peaking out in the high 80's when he got to college.

The situation has 100% changed. The people who are still bitter about the old days are holding on to outdated grudges.

Again, if you leave out all of the good parts, the story is bad. The fact that the Rick Hahn got all of these extensions done, and they were friendly contracts to great players IS a reason we were able to do this rebuild. Guys like Quintana and Sale would not have had the same values if they were years closer to free agency. Hahn did that. It wasn't just a miracle of circumstance or something. it is a key to the rebuild. Finally again, Pittsburgh is a great example of a team that has had some incredible players over their time, but can't seem to do anything to get a rebuild done. Why it is different for the White Sox?

There it is. That is the other piece being completed ignored by original posterm

So what you are saying is if you can reframe the argument to disqualify every thing good and hold in everything bad, the team looks bad. How profound. The question is simple, if it is so easy, why doesn't everyone do it?

Kris Bryant is another one that is a dumpster fire right now.