Dick Allen

Your saying Chris Getz should be commended for Rwmillard, and Leury, and even Nicky Delmonico, but should get no blame for anything that went wrong, as he clearly earned his promotion. I disagree. He’s the wrong guy. He was brought in because the owner was too egotistical and lazy to conduct a real search.

He was the director of player development, assistant GM farm director. He was somewhat responsible for putting people in place to develop players. They have done a poor job, hence 101 losses. Sox can’t develop hitters, no patience, and there was an Athletic article a couple of years go. Guess which organization ranked last for developing fastball velocity? Hint, your guy was in charge.

I’d rather they use their entire international bonus pool then waste money, however small, on this. His defense is going the wrong way.

Maybe Stassi told Getz he can’t play anymore. I really don’t understand this move.

He had no problem saying he was looking like a future cornerstone when he was injured, and walking everyone. You should save your post. Someday you will re read it wonder how the hell you can call the players you listed feathers in Getz cap. Maybe you’re his brother or something. The only team in baseball that would give him a GM job, gave it to him. All we have left is hoping JR is smarter than everyone else again. It never seems to work spencer Adams, Jared Kelly, Matt Thompson, CArson Fulmer, Zack Burdi, Zack Collins, do you need more? All first and 2nd round total busts.

Ha Those players didn’t provide value any more than any other team in baseball. Every team has replacement level players in the minors. The other teams develop several and make them better. Getz’ regime did not. In the same press conference JR stated KW and RH could turn the Sox around, he basically blamed them for Getz failure. I wonder if teams had been calling JR for years trying to get Getz because they were so impressed with the list of replacement level players you mentioned. Maybe, and I hope he will be a good GM. There was that one show where CEOs put on a costume and did lowere level jobs to see what was going on, and they didn’t do them very well. Maybe a guy who can’t develop players can be a good GM. It’s our only hope. There are plenty of indications that we’ve got ourselves a future starter in Norge Vera,” said Chris Getz, Chicago’s assistant general manager/director of player development. “We look forward to continuing his development.” Oops.

Leury signed a minor league deal after sitting out a season, and he pre dated Getz anyway. Crap gets signed all the time. The crap you mentioned doesn’t play a role on teams that win consistently.

Bob said he had his eyes on the Angels job, but that didn't open up. KW is a fossil in today's baseball world, and except for one brilliant season, talked a better game than he played. I can't see any team hiring him for a meaningful role. Maybe a special assistant or consultant, but I doubt his ego would let him sign up for anything where he wasn't the guy.

The Chiefs have been Nagy'd.

It's a late addition, but this has to be post of the year.

He was the Director of Player Development. What were his duties?

No. He knew him, said he didn't have to.

JR admitted he didn’t interview anyone at the press conference.

Do you think Chris Getz would have been a realistic candidate for any other GM position in Major League Baseball? I hope he’s great, but he hasn’t done anything a real candidate couldn’t have done while “wasting” a year. And he was director of player development. It would be nice to see a guy get called up and at least look like they weren’t introduced to baseball in the last couple of days. I will admit at least it’s not RH or KW is a positive, but it was time for JR to go out of his comfort zone. It wasn’t working.

He gave Kelly’s wife a Porsche for Kelly giving up 17.

What it means is they don’t have to be the best they can be and shoot lower. It’s why when they win a division but we’re still short and needed a RF and 2B you get Josh Harrison and a guy whi can’t play RF in AJ Pollock. And when they realize that, Gavin Sheets.

When he was doing his previous job with the White Sox very mediocrely , since the guys before him didn’t give him a job description, didn’t tell him his responsibilities or goals, and didn’t tell him how best to reach them, did he ask? The fortunately we are in the ALC line is what bothers me. It’s that mindset that has never led them to do all they can to dominate, which is what they should be doing.

He made 1 start and pitched 5 innings from June 14th to the deadline. With his buyout, he was equivalent to a $30 million a year pitcher at that point. That was the reason they couldn’t trade him.

Still needs to go.

Does anyone else think that if the Sox start out 8-20 or something similarly horrible and they finally see what everyone else can see, that Pedro Grifol is not a major league manager, LaRussa somehow comes back into the dugout?

As we are finding out, that was just an excuse because JR didn’t want to put the work into finding someone who would disagree with him, just opting for yes men willing to do things his way and kissing his ass every chance they get. All these guys do the exact same thing. Just look at their quotes over the years. Hahn, KW, LaRussa…. Praise him up and down talk about how all he wants to do is win, and mention how the losing is killing him. If it were killing him, he’d be long gone by now.

The next time Andrew Benintendi plays RF in a major league game , will be the first.

They won’t lose 101 with the better defense, but they will be boring, and suck, and lose over 90.

Too late.

If the Reds were out of any potential trade because they didn’t like the initial asking price, they would never make a trade. The good news is Getz apparently is asking for way too much. Better than the opposite.