Dick Allen

Would Lester have left Boston for the Cubs if Theo was somewhere else?

Since Engel is playing, do they have to go with 8?

All I know is Theo had his team in the NLCS after a 3 year rebuild where he didn't have Sale and Q and Eaton to trade. Our guy had that, and now the fanbase is willing to give him even longer than 3 years because of a pitcher requiring TJ surgery. He also got some cheaper parts to the Red Sox winning it, including signing Big Papi after he was a non tender. It wasn't all the 9 figure guys. And unlike several other places, one reason the White Sox don't have more funds to spend has been the poor performance from the GM chair for quite a long while.

Anyone who gets sent down will come back if warranted. There isn't anyone who is going to be really good someday UNLESS they get sent to Charlotte.

He had the Marlins in the WS. Look at the mess he had when he took over the Tigers and he made the WS by 2006. All of the 3 teams he GMd made the WS. Detroit twice. I If he's a dunce, what is Rick Hahn? And I will give him credit for signing JD Martinez. Picked him up as a free agent after Houston released him. And if you are not going to credit him for Martinez or Sale, will you give him credit for his minor deal when he acquired the WS MVP? He also beat the White Sox out for Miguel Cabrera, an AL Central game changer.

Put them over the top. We can only imagine the excuses you would make for Hahn if his former MVP was to miss a season and they didn't win. The facts are he signed JD Martinez, got Chris Sale, and had one of the better teams of all time.

He didn't get fired. He quit the Red Sox twice.

The dunce who made the moves to build a team that won 113 games and a WS.

Theo won 3 times.

Let Frare work on things in Charlotte, get some confidence and come back later. It's going to be a revolving door as usual, so going to Charlotte is no big deal. If he's good enough, he'll be back.

I agree. He won twice in Boston. Won with the Cubs. Now he has a team that won 95 games in 2018 and everyone thinks they were horrible. I wonder who really is better than him.

Almora seems like a decent pick. Happ seems like he might be OK. Schwarber isn't Babe Ruth but he contributes. Everyone here seems to like Dylan Cease. Theo drafted him.

He is good at the draft. Has made several good trades. Has missed on some free agents, but, if you are going to have sustained success, most of those teams do miss on free agents and are in a postion to handle it. If we are expecting sustained success from the White Sox, they better be prepared to outright miss big once in while or wind up paying guys past their primes, which right now, seems like they are not since they wouldn't with Machado. They are in a bad division that with Illich dead probably means they are in the only spot they can win for a while without spending tons, but they need new evaluators.

Theo also drafted a couple of MVPs. One in the second round in 2004. The White Sox 4 picks before Pedroia was taken..Josh Fields, Gio Gonzalez, Wes Whisler, and Donny Lucy. And their 5 picks before Theo picked Mookie Betts in round 5 Walker, Johnson, Soptic, McMillen, Snodgrass. It was always a built in excuse the White Sox with their mediocre record couldn't draft well because they didn't draft high enough. Even this rebuild is OK taking longer even though they had a top 3 pick in Rodon a couple of years before it started and Collins was a guy Hostetler said he would have taken had he had pick #1. Rick Hahn is a smart guy. But as a major league GM, he's lacking. The results are there for everyone to see.

Part of the bad watchability is the game is close to over in the first inning. The first inning was a problem last season as well. It would be nice not to be down a couple of runs before they came to bat.

Yet his teams win, and there is despair when they only win 95, and Hahn is still looking to Generally Manage a team that wins 80 games.

We all would have done the same thing if we were him. No question. So I certainly don't blame him for the sweetheart deal. That's something we all look for.

I think when you have a 12.00 ERA there has to be some concern. We will see if it's just a tough stretch or something to worry about over the next month or so.

The AL Central is the Sox saving grace. It probably is the only division in baseball where a team that doesn't spend huge money has at least a shot of sustained winning.

The ran into a hot team is a great excuse. However, they lost 2 out of 3 to KC, and KC was so hot they haven't won another game.

JR has a deal where if he doesn't sell a certain number of full priced tickets, his rent is cheaper. There was a big to do about this several years ago when they had half priced Mondays and bring a Pepsi can for half priced Tuesdays. I would think the Ballpark Pass would also be an issue, but right now, I think they don't sell many of those, and they are well under the threshold anyways.

It depends what game you are going to. If it's a White Sox game, go to stubhub, buy a $6 ticket in the upper deck, it will run you close to $10 with fees, and you'll be able to sit wherever you want.

So no one is to take what happens in the first 11 games of the season as meaningful unless it fits the narrative that the rebuild is going smoothly? Anderson made strides last year in the field without a doubt. His hitting, after a decent start, fell back to previous norms. We will see what happens. I do know he will not hit .500. Hopefully he will improve to the point where he really is a guy we want at SS for a good team.

They are decent, but can't stay healthy. Building an NBA team that makes the playoffs, ie being .500, isn't THAT difficult. The Bulls will get a decent draft pick, sign some second or third tier free agent, similar in effectiveness to a Jabari Parker, and talk playoffs. The free agent either will not fit in or get hurt. The draft pick will play decently but not outstanding, and everyone will continue to get injured, and they will miss the playoffs again and be in NBA hell. You can see it coming from 1000 miles away. The Athletic had a player poll. One out of 3 players polled said the coach they would not want to play for happens to be the Bulls coach who GarPax are very happy with. They are never wrong, like the Sox brass, everyone else is, results be damned. They both are similar, and they both shouldn't be employed by professional sports franchises.

The vast majority of this board thought the White Sox would be pretty decent by 2019, maybe even contention if you go back to when the big trades started happening. Michael Kopech being hurt shouldn't be the difference between being a halfway decent team or even a contending team, and one of the worst teams in baseball unless he is the most valuable pitcher of all time. Fangraphs had his ceiling as a #3 starter. There is something wrong. It needs to be fixed as soon as possible. Unfortunately, the White Sox have the people who can't see problems in charge of finding and correcting them. You shouldn't be this far along and be saying, but we have this guy in A ball..............