southsider2k5

Is this you not name calling?

Sure do better than whatever he has been doing.

It's crazy that a gimmick baseball team is going to draw in two days what the Sox draw in a decent homestand.

For like the 18th time, just stop.

There are actually a group of teams in their "league" that the rotate through playing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Ball#:~:text=The league has four teams,Firefighters%2C and the Texas Tailgaters.

One more time, take your own advice.

The difference being PCA is cheap with six years of control, and Tucker is about to cost like half a billion dollars.

Nah, I know PCA turns off a lot of people with his show, but we'd be jerking him off if he was a White Sox.

Bro, I couldn't even get picked to get into the lottery!

The top take away should clearly be that you can never have enough prospect strength. Teams that are almost always near the top of the ranks go aggressively EVERYWHERE. US, Latin America, Asia, etc. Leave no stone unturned. There is no so such thing as "too much" when it comes to the minor leagues.

That would be a helluva get.

This. It wasn't Jang or the players we got in trades, it was players or nothing since the Sox don't work in Asia.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6549951/2025/08/15/savannah-bananas-chicago-white-sox-bananaball-how-to-watch/?source=dailyemail&campaign=601983&userId=6062851&source=dailyemail I can't wait. Love what the Bananas are doing for baseball.

We'll see what happens, but he wouldn't be the 1st rookie to supernova.

The Sox should be in the business of trading 30something relievers for 18 year olds, and not the flip side.

The Sox not putting in work with their kids in the off season would explain a lot

So we are just turning kids loose in the off season? That doesn't make it better.

If we have reached the point where the debate has become about how to define obvious terms, the debate is effectively over.

So it was probably more floor over ceiling type of work.

I love when people say things like this, not realizing that it would require them to do the same thing. Honestly in a year where there were whispers about both Smith and Schultz hitting the majors this year, I don't see how you can qualify their injury laden, low performance seasons as anything but a failure. It doesn't mean their done forever, but it sure as hell isn't a good thing.

It's always struck me as odd that we talked so much about how much player dev sucked, and how bad the previous regime was at it, but how few people involved in the daily contact with our minor league kids were actually changed. We changed some at the top, but the day to day guys were largely the same. The idea that Ryan Fuller alone was going to fix everything seemed very PR stunt-ish. If things were THAT bad, why wasn't there whole sale changes? My guess is because most of the MiLB hires were Getz guys already (going based on Getz himself talking about how much freedom he had to do things) and he wasn't going to change them out. So far my observation is that "improvements" have mostly come from players from the outside coming into the system new, and not with improvements in existing players. If that is really the case, it really isn't infrastructure and hires, but just acquiring guys with talent. The actual quality of the hires and infrastructure seems to be ending in the same types of results for the same players.

I think this is the important thing. While they have top 100 weight, it doesn't start until #33. When the Sox were previously top rated, they also had the top rated talent in their system weighted up front, and not in the back of the 100. At various points you had Robert and Moncada near the top, along with guys like Eloy and Kopech ahead of where Braden is now.

15 guys having major problems this SHOULD be a red flag, more than any ranking should be.

On Smith, I was definitely one of the vocal ones about the Sox doing what they do best, but I do feel it is telling that Getz was seemingly still afraid to go away from pitching, and allegedly overruled his staff to do so. As to Sirota, would he have hit in under the draft caps? That's always the hard part.