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Coming into the season, 26th/24th in FWAR felt about right. But if the guy is untouchable, shouldn't they have multiple guys exceeding expectations? Like they had any awful pitching staff, so I didn't expect top 5, but outside of Crochet, no one else had a wow season.

I am starting to wonder the same thing. Crochet was a big win, but pretty much no one on the staff exceeded expectations.

Sox fans are happy they didn't shoot themselves in the foot. Again. Confidence is the wrong word, this stage is more of a fearful relief.

But par for the course.

For the first time since before Tony, the White Sox made a personnel move that I didn't immediately hate because it was very obviously stupid. Baby steps.

Well, they didn't take the easy way out, so that's good.

Yet they could probably hit for more power.

I haven't seen any quotes, but he was WAY over league average for sac bunting and giving IBBs

With the pay story, this makes sense.

Wouldn't Venable hit the definition of "passed over" by his own team?

Others who have jobs in baseball can comment, but entry level jobs in baseball are TONS of work, horrible hours and somewhere between low and no pay.

Much as his history has been, Tony ruins everything. https://www.audacy.com/wbbm780/news/local/tony-larussa-speaks-on-recent-report-of-white-sox-for-sale

Yes. Yes he will.

It would take a 40 game improvement for the Sox to be mediocre.

And is a league leader in bunting and IBBs

Can you stop dragging your hurt feelings into every single thread? I know you think you are on some crusade, but it literally ruins every thread you drag this into.

Aw.

How the f*** do you not know this?

The same Barfield that said to take Fletcher over McCarthy.

Sure. Most of us are at the "why believe anything they say, because they have fed us lines of s%*# for decades now. Fool me one decade, shame on you. Fool me two decades, shame on my, fool me 4+ decades..."

Auto-correct has it's own sense of humor sometimes.

Well the Sox have been hiring poop, so it would fit.

If only we had the worst season in baseball history to baseball the anger on, and not some made up fantasy world where we could all pretend not to notice anything bad

You are 100% wrong here. If Jerry had brought in a real GM with a reputation and history worth believing in and let them do their damned jobs, they would have YEARS of good will just for the simple fact that something was actually changing. But when step one of this rebuild is nepo-baby Chris Getz, there is no reason to believe the octogenarian inmates are not still running the asylum.