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Risk versus reward. “There’s a lot of drama and intrigue, but this is always about managing risk vs reward,” the person said. “I know that’s not very exciting, but it’s how these decisions get made at the highest level,” the executive added. “A weighing of the negatives - and risks to the business - versus the positives or benefits.” At this point, what if any benefits are there (in terms of the future success and value of the organization) to continue to retain the services of Rick Hahn as GM? The Sox brand is being destroyed and the good will of the fanbase is being diminished on a daily basis. Yet there's still no action to restore the faith of season ticket holders and sponsors who were certainly...at the very least implicitly...promised a competitive product in 2023.

There goes the season’s budget on that Sox/Wintrust media backdrop…

See Pollock last year... terrible body language the entire year. When Lowe on the Rays make a key out or doesn't advance runners... you can hear how exactly how upset he is from the field mikes every time.

If Anderson wants to be traded this deadline... he's going to have to show something or he will be held off the market.

ChatGPT4? Merkin? Boyer? Benetti? According to Dick Allen, winning a division or WC after being 9 games under.500 at this exact juncture of the season has only happened twice in MLB history.

https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-teams-stealing-the-most-early-in-2023-season Cleveland leading the majors in steals...Twins in last with just one.

I guess in another (alternative) universe at least $50 million of Benintendi's money went to Abreu instead...but we'd still have the same net result pretty much.

TA's theoretically coming back soon...but have you noted how bad Sosa and Romy have looked? They're pretty much forced to keep Andrus just to keep the entire infield from falling apart defensively. More pressure on the roster spots of those two as well as Colas right now, IMO. Rookies or near rookies always the first to be sacrificed by a "win now" manager in his first year on the job.

If on SpaceX, rocket might not even make it that far before exploding...but same end result.

McCann one of the few that actually improved... Narvaez as well. If only they could have been merged into one complete player!

Mark Johnson and Royce Clayton would be better at the bottom of the order than this...

Benintendi on pace for a crisp 0.8 fWAR.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/attendance White Sox have surged to 21st in attendance simply by not playing at home. Four AL Central teams lined up within 500 fans per night at #21-24 and then the hapless Royals at #27. Yikes.

Which is why they are best positioned to win 85-88 games and take the divisuon ultimately...that statistic will almost always return to mean.

If you go all the way back to Roberto Hernandez and Thigpen, the Sox have always excelled when they developed their own closers or found them on the cheap outside the organization. Koch Robertson and Hendriks are the three counter examples here. Arguably, the 2020 team was better off with the relatively cheap Colome... but the opportunity cost was Narvaez and that eventually led to overpaying for another aging veteran in Grandal. (Ofc, Zack Collins never developing as a #1 catcher was an equally egregious blunder.)

Not sure this year's team was ever highly rated... but your overall point remains perfectly valid.

Thought things in Cincy Oakland and KC were bad, but this is something else for a once-proud charter franchise of the American League.

uh oh

A's will be just two games behind the Sox after tonight. Royals already doing their best out in the desert to fall to 5-18...

Tigers are improving though... after a really rough start.

Celtics did the same thing back in 80s... more for novelty's sake.

Yoshida 3/3 with a walk. Up to .265 now.

He easily could have spread the Benintendi money around like the Cubs wisely did.

Might as well give Colas another 4-6 weeks because he won't learn a thing in Charlotte.

Best Hahn trade ever?