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Its a market that even divided into 4 pieces is still way bigger than most single team markets. It would also serve to bring the Yankees and Mets revenue streams down towards the level of the other markets.

My guess? I don't think minor leaguers get paid for spring training so he wasn't "working".

It's crazy, but put another team or two in NYC. Divide up that market so that it hurts the Yankees and Mets.

Visa problems are not unusual even during good times, let alone during the pandemic. We had a decent amount of players also get caught up in this with spring training as well.

He was reported to be having visa issues a little while back. He is supposed to go to Bham when he gets those cleared up.

I think that depends on how long it takes for Eloy and Robert to come back, along with how well Cespedes hits in AA.

Leury is fine when he is left to the supersub role. Pushing him into the starting line up every day is the problem. The problem is that we don't really have anyone better to start on a daily basis in CF right now.

There is no doubt that Tony isn't the only bad in game manager around, but he is the only one recently who has been caught actively not understanding the rules of the game that he is supposed to be ultimate on-field authority for.

Since you want to yell... THIS IS LITERALLY NOT THE POINT, AND IT 100% DOES NOT MATTER. No one on this board is qualified to manage a major league baseball team. which has absolutely zero to the fact that neither is Tony LaRussa. Even if he was qualified, it still has nothing to do with anything, and is a worthless point. The only demeaning going on is people trying to associate laymen with actual baseball dugout staff. Also, if you were smart enough to realize it, you are admitting in your own post, by your own standards, that you aren't smart enough to comment about how good of a job that TLR is doing either, but has that stopped you from doing it? Nope.

How close is the park to Mall of America?

There is zero chance this actually happened.

The team following the starting pitching down the stretch last year.

But he hasn't, which is the point. He has shown capable of what he has been asked to do, so there shouldn't be a problem with asking him to hit in a leverage situation in late innings. Hell they are asking WAY more of him to be defending in LF, which he had never done before this year, than to be a hitter, which he has done everywhere he has ever been.

Part 1 isn't really setting him up for success, it is keeping him from experiencing high leverage early so that he can learn it and see if he swims or not. Part 2, we don't really know. We know there are whispers about player malcontent, we just don't know who they are. Just because they aren't public, doesn't mean it is, or isn't Jose or TA.

The Sox have actually done a pretty decent job in this space. Evan Marshall was a MiLB free agent signing. Jose Ruiz was a waiver claim. Yermin was a MiLB rule 5 pick. That is 3 of the 25 man roster who came in as under the radar signings. Expand it out to the 40 man roster... Jimmy Cordero was a waiver claim That is without talking about how many #1 White Sox draft picks are on this roster, how many low draft picks are in key spaces on this team, or how many of the minor leaguers we traded for have turned into major parts of this team.

Except Tony himself is batting inferior players in place of superior hitters, such as Billy Hamilton for Andrew Vaughn, so he really isn't even using "good players"

I feel like I remember reading something about Chris Getz telling Danny Mendick if he wanted to maximize his chances at being on an MLB roster, he would learn to play the OF. Obviously you can credit Tony for playing him there, but I want to say his being able to play the OF was due to one of the Sox developmental staff pushing him to learn it to give him more options to play at the MLB level.

Nothing about how he has conducted this season has shown he is operating on any level that is close to his Hall of Famer person reputation. This team is still making many of the same dumb mistakes it has been making for years. We have also yet to see any of those brilliant strategery moves that Tony is famous for. I can excuse player performance's from the manager as it is hard to tag Tony for Grandal hitting .120, as much as it is hard to tag him for Rodon having a 0.50 era. When I look at the line up preparation, the substitution patterns, bullpen usage, and in game strategy I am struggling to think of instances where I was blown away by how sharp something that is directly attributable to Tony really was.

Two of those four OFs are out for months (a sizable majority of the season, maybe even all of it), again meaning our margin for Managerial Error is much smaller than usual. The 3rd of those guys who is D2D is a guy who regularly suffers injuries. The 4th is a completely unproven guy who should be providing defense and depth and not being a #1 OF. There are plenty of other unsustainable starts from other players on the upside as well. Leaving games behind early only opens the door for teams like Cleveland and maybe even Minnesota if we can't bury them early. It is harder to do so when your manager has no clue what is going on.

We are leading baseball in run differential and yet we are only 4th in overall winning percentage. We are 2 games behind our pythagorean number. We could have been putting away teams with this hot streak, yet we are only a half a game ahead of a team that has $100,000,000 less in payroll than us. While you point to downside flukes, you didn't mention that guys like Yermin, Rodon, and Cease aren't likely to keep up their fluke seasons either. These things will balance out. If we have a manager giving away games with his ignorance of the game in 2021, the team needs to be all of the more better to make up those extra games. Look the whole idea behind Tony is that he would come in here and be a motivator, and he wouldn't make stupid mistakes. Even if you don't believe Soxtalk on this topic, when you have NATIONAL writers mocking Tony's abilities AND reporting that the players themselves are wondering WTF their manager is doing, you SHOULD be able to open up your eyes and see that this team is winning in spite of their manager, and they could be doing even better with a capable MLB manager.

I love takes like this. When is the last time you saw a real OF dealt in the 2nd week of May? It just doesn't happen.

Are you paid by the post? Blink twice if you are being held against your will.

So you are saying they are just making this stuff up?