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When you have to compete against one of the most successful organizations in baseball history, bold steps are required to get your fanbase to buy in again after missing the playoffs for well over a decade.

He was in Arizona and literally playing against our Arizona extended spring team a week or two after the trade.

https://247sports.com/college/south-carolina/Article/South-Carolina-Gamecocks-baseball-Analytics-launch-angle--131079208/ This article basically argues they were getting too obsessed with analytics (homers/launch angle) and forgot how to play “old school baseball,” Hawk’s infamous TWTW tagline.

How many of those 13 players were available this offseason? It was basically Manny and Donaldson. You have to have a stud there to compete in today’s game...the White Sox have Moncada and he simply blends in with that Top 15, yet he’s far and away the most valuable position player in the organization (although Robert today might have more trade/surplus value.) Besides, it’s nothing compared to the Harper problem in Philly...and the Padres didn’t sign him for 2019, they signed him for next year and beyond. They also signed him as a mentor for Tatis, Jr., and that’s already starting to pay dividends. If he was at 6 fWAR again this year, they’d simply be drafting 2-3 places lower in the first round. In the end, this move will be judged on the Padres making it back to the playoffs. They’re already ahead of the Rockies, and will pass SFG when Bumgarner departs. They were never going to compete this year with the Dodgers, but the 11-5 start fooled some. Just too much inexperience on the pitching side.

That mantra will carry us through the offseason quite well...seems to be forecasting or presaging a return next season.

The shadows/sun will be the excuse from Renteria. Tough conditions for a catcher in the dog days of the season, etc. just have to get through the DH, somehow. Might want to think about having three catchers on the roster.

Sounds like a lightly attended Astros’ home game on the radio...

For those without subscriptions, who pushed this move forward? Getz? Hahn? Fabian? Haber? Hostetler?

https://www.mlb.com/news/jose-abreu-continues-to-be-valuable-piece-for-white-sox Also, no timetable for Moncada return announced yet as he “continues to progress.”

Farmer: Jay with the checked swing there. DJ: Uhhhm, no, that was his full swing.

Shia La Beouf...even the Decepticons would do a better job catching, somehow.

Why do we still have him on the roster? Even DJ and Farmer can see he’s flinching on high pitches, leading directly to two runs scoring.

I was just trying to find an email contact...for someone asking earlier in the thread. Certainly everything in the tech area goes through Fabian, one way or the other.

Astros with 848 k’s (#1) this year vs. 1195 for opponents (second to Red Sox) White Sox with 1115 hitters (8th worst) striking out vs. only 922 for pitchers (27)

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/instagraphs/job-posting-white-sox-baseball-operations/ Proposed Start Date: December 1, 2018 To Apply: Please send a resume and cover letter to ApplyAnalytics@chisox.com. CC to Fabian, Haber and Hahn as well

Haha...he’s advertised his availability consistently, but not for analytics. Parkman was more interested, if ai remember correctly. Now the Sox getting screwed on strike calls with Cease against Marisnick...what new?

Well yeah, it’s easier to be a Senator/Rep than to get that job. The White Sox are the definition of comfort and stability. You have to really love the game, like Zaidi growing up in the Philippines or some of the stories around the “nerd team” with Luhnow as he left the Cards for the Astros, or this guy...who grew up in a cricket household: Sig Mejdal (born December 31, 1965) is an American sabermetrics analyst for the Houston Astros and a former NASA engineer. He previously helped the St. Louis Cardinals make draft picks. Mejdal turned his personal interest in baseball into a career after being inspired by Moneyball in 2003.

They had that posting for an intern, lol. We’re only about two decades post Moneyball.

Yeah, they never harass the people in the Scout Seats...just like the airlines, you now even have budget or low budget airports to make you feel cheap/poor like Singapore.

You should get a reward for attendance as an actual White Sox and not Astros’ fan.

Nobody cares about the White Sox...when we have a competitive team again, more calls will go their way. At least Cease didn’t get charged an earned run, there’s that.

http://www.chicagonow.com/future-sox/2014/03/sox-blogger-call-with-dan-fabian/ The other problem is Fabian has been with the organization for 25+ years. You need these young kids from NASA, quants/finance, Cal Tech, MIT, etc.

Alvarez can move quite well for someone of his size...a little Avi Garcia to his game (obviously a better hitter so far.)

But his average fastball was 84.3 in 2008. The second half of his career, he obviously wasn’t that 92 mph guy...or at least the time period that most board members can vaguely recall.

I’m just saying from watching Greinke in KC that he could throw 95-97 when he needed to earlier in his career...especially later in the game. It’s what Verlander was doing in the middle of his Tigers’ career, conserving his stuff. This article was arguing comparing Kyle Hendricks to Maddux wasn’t a valid one... In some ways that statement is correct. Maddux never threw 95, and spent the last 6 or 7 years of his career with his fastball velocity slowly creeping from the high 80s to the mid 80s (only Moyer had a slower average.). But prior to his decline, Maddux threw a 92 mile per hour fastball. A 92 mile per hour fastball with fantastic movement and pinpoint control and command. The four elements of a fastball are velocity, movement, control and command. On the 20-80 scouting scale, Maddux’s velocity through his prime was a 55-60, solidly above average, and the movement, command and control were all 70s to 80s. So, first of all, comparing guys who throw 89-90 to in prime Maddux is inaccurate. There’s a big difference between 89 and 92. Second, comparing a guy who has above average to good control in the minors to the pitcher with the greatest combination of pitch movement and control in the history of baseball is a disservice to the young pitcher.