Dick Allen

I would think if it was totally false, an investigation, which has been going on since the summer, would have probably been closed by now. There's even more layers to this. It seems the more you hear, the bigger asshole this guy is. My buddy once told me the one nice thing about Albert Belle was he made no effort to try to come off as anything other than he was, a total asshole. It's the guys who are so phony that are really bothersome.

The only major league team that would have Rick Hahn as their GM is the White Sox.

The Texas basketball coarch was recently fired for abuse. His girlfriend or fiance did recant, said it was all her fault. She provoked the poor guy, but it was too little late. Probably was going to be paid off for dropping the charges. But it didn't work.

Most of the Royals couldn't hit. I like Pedro. I think he was a good hire. But if they think he and his coaching staff alone are going to make these guys so much better, Pedro is going to have an impossible job. I guess if you don't want to spend and no team will give you a bargain in a trade, its all thats left.

Yet it appeared the Padres had very little interest in a return.

While your thought is logical, I would imagine some of that depth would be headed the other way if there was a trade.

I know supposedly the investigation can't be revealed, but I find it hard to believe they couldn't find out there was an ongoing investigation into this guy even if they didn't tell them what it was about.

I get all that but the problem is, of all the free agent pitchers, he picked this guy. There were red flags with him about other things. Hahns instincts are horrendous.

He's actually hit with more power at home than on the road for his career.

Talk to me after the parade.

Weren't his numbers poor at 2B though last season? I read one of the sites had him below average. I won't buy that, he's obviously got a nice glove, but still a .600 OPS at best is going to require a lot of glove. If he was a bench guy, fine, but he is being driven out of the KC line up, and they are a really bad team.

Hes a utility guy. He's basically Yolmer Sanchez, althouh he can probably steal a lttile more, even though he isn't all that fast, and hit fewer homers.

What should have happened is Clevinger or his agent could have alerted the Sox at some point.

The other good news is Hahns best decisions are the ones where he has no choice. Cueto because Lynn was injured, and Andrus gets waived right when TA goes down. Any fantasy league person could have done that.

Apparently they don’t have to disclose it, but unless they too knew nothing about it, which seems hard to believe, it seems slimy Clevinger and/or his agents didn’t give the White Sox some sort of heads up.

He doesn’t hit. I get the plus glove is really nice to have and if TA can cut down on the lack of concentration errors, the Sox could actually have a fairly elite infield defense, but he has to hit a little bit.

Unless they determine the accuser made everything up, he’s going to be suspended, and probably for a long time. He’s an idiot, and if he pitches for the White Sox, I hope they lose every game he starts and no one shows up at his home starts. Marcel Osuna played for the Braves after beating his wife in front of the cops.

I think Soxfest was usually held the last weekend in January. At least they knew what they were doing not holding it this year.

He had a big year bur weren’t his peripherals pretty weak?

The good news is the Sox probably have to do something to try to take this off the front burner. The bad news is the guys that always create messes like this will be doing the something.

3 of 4 seasons 58 or lower OPS +. 2021 an outlier. Doesn’t have a .600 OPS the other 3 seasons.

He’s not as good as Leury.

Even if the Sox didn’t know before they agreed to sign him, they had to know before today. They probably had to know before the Clevinger fluff piece last week. If they did, that is sick.

Yeah, but that usually falls apart pretty fast. She's been at it since summer. If it hasn't been debunked yet, I think there is a huge problem.

She can be crazy, a pain in the ass, anything, but that doesn't make what he did OK.