southsider2k5

Smith recovered very nicely after he got out of that big inning. Will be interesting to see how long his stuff lasts this year, as he is another who doesn't have much of an innings history underneath him. He's already over halfway to a career high for IP in a season.

When it comes to line up construction and playing time one of two things happened. Either they found a Pedro clone, or Getz was highly involved with both managers in these aspects, because nothing has changed.

I will be honest, seeing as literally nothing has changed with line up management and roster usage, it tells me that a lot of these things are happening above the field manager. When it comes to Venable, I would look to better defense and smarter base running as ways to measure what he is actually responsible for.

He got years to figure it out, because he isn't getting fired anytime soon.

I am also going to say this zone is TINY for Smith. He isn't even getting the black right now.

Let me be fully aggressive there. While Rick Hahn and Kenny Williams own their fair share of responsibility here, the fact that the guy who ran one of the worst productive farm systems in baseball got a promotion, instead of his pink slip, is laughable. That's without even getting started on Jerry blocking Rick on hiring a real manager, and blocking them on bringing in actual high end MLB players to compliment the rebuild.

5 outs in an inning will do that.

Or if Vaughn could throw. Or if the Sox play DP depth.

Smith could have been out of that inning with literally zero.

It is zero faith in the offense.

This defense.

Yeah, the idea that this was just Rick Hahn and/or Kenny is laughable in the need to use simplicity to not indict those who are still here. It's an insult to anyone with common sense.

Caleb isn't alone.

The more things change...

That would be my guess.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/05/white-sox-dfa-jacob-amaya.html?utm_source=twitter Amaya DFA, Shuster to AAA.

From the current pool I assume?

Sure. but why rush him? Let him learn on an intelligent time line.

We know that at least two teams are taking out loans to cover daily operations, and they have TV revenue coming in.

Honestly based on seeing teams adding debt for operations costs, and knowing the Sox revenue streams have just been destroyed in recent years, I would be shocked if the Sox weren't legitimately in the red.

Which makes it weirder that they keep avoiding guys with big tools and flaws for guys with no tools and still have flaws