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QUOTE (SCCWS @ May 25, 2016 -> 02:46 PM) Mark: How important is the manager. I thought hiring Robin was dumb because he had zero experience. You say you want a ML manager w a proven track record. I submit 2 current names John Farrell--- was well respected pitching coach w Francona. Goes to Toronto and has 2 mediocre seasons of sub .500 baseball. Hired by Red Sox and wins World Series in first year. Next year w virtually the same team finished dead last. last year struggle again and then he is forced to leave for health problems. Interim manager comes in and Sox improve over last 2 months. Takes over this season and Red Sox at this point are playing very good baseball. My take---the team play determines his success since his career as a manager is a roller-coaster. Ned Yost---manager for Brewers for 5 years w sub .500 record and no post season appearances. He is fired and hired in 2010 by Royals. In 5+ years w Royals he has a sub-500 record but a 22-9 record in postseason and a WS win. Two guys who managed losing teams were rehired and have won a World Series and both are still sub 500 career managers. I think the team is much more important than the manager or his track record before he is hired. Yes, we've heard this before. Tony LaRussa, Jim Leyland in Colorado, Bobby Cox and Joe Torre all "looked" like bad managers before when they had crappy talent. Ozzie said this over and over and over again. Joe Girardi in Florida, etc. I still would argue that sabremetrics doesn't have a clue yet how to measure the intangible/s of what separate a good manager from a great one, anymore than it can measure clubhouse chemistry/cliques. Say what you want about the Twins from 2001-2010, the Tigers from 2011-2014 or the Royals really the last three seasons, they all share/d that trust/conviction/belief that they're the best team and will end up winning in the end...or simply apply constant pressure on other teams and make their opponents beat themselves, in the case of the Twins and Royals.

God. Just mentioning his name calls back memories of that 13-11 Texas disaster. Even though we're 4-2 against the Rangers on the year, overall. At any rate, they're producing consistently on the Latin American front. Boxers and baseball players. Andrus. Odor. Profar. Mazara. White Sox haven't done that in nearly 20 years now (Magglio/C-Lee). They don't even have a place for Profar and Gallo to play.

The Tigers must have had 5 or 6 disastrous defeats alone in the first 6 weeks and it didn't seem to affect them, even when their own hometown newspaper was calling for the team to be dismantled and Ausmus canned. They bounced back and are right in the thick of it now. Seem to remember the same thing happening in May of 2010 when the White Sox were foundering and about to sell off before Ozzie led them on a 26-5 run.

QUOTE (SCCWS @ May 25, 2016 -> 04:00 PM) Your rationale does not make sense. Hahn decided to sign Rollins not Ventura. So we should say goodbye to Hahn. Well, since we can't seem to "release" an owner that refused to give up a draft pick when we could have had Desmond and/or Fowler...guess that will work. Question is who falls on their sword first, the manager who relies on the GM for players or the GM who depends on the ownership for resources? Usually, it's the manager...just the way it works in baseball or the business world. ---t always trickles down the chain of command.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 25, 2016 -> 03:55 PM) He turns 23 on June 23. He had experience playing in college. Why isn't he "ready?" I'd bring him up on June 23. Huge difference between Mississippi JC ball and the SEC/ACC level of competition. You really think timing it with his bday matters? We might as well argue because it's Michael Jordan's number, and that's his favorite athlete, since basketball was his first love...

And even the putrid Twins have to get hot sometime, right? Too bad Sale/Eaton/Quintana/Abreu/Robertson can't pull a Joakim Noah...put a liitle more pressure on management/coaching staff. We've been saying for years the White Sox can't get buried in April or fans will give up. Better hope Tim Anderson is ready because they have to find a way to inject some spark back into this team. Too early for trades.

82 wins after this start and the only ones they can sell progress to will be Merkin's and Boyer's children... White Sox have had close to perfect health. Again. The Indians have been without Brantley and Carrasco. Royals w/o Gordon, Moustakas, Medlen and Young. Tigers without Maybin and Daniel Norris.

Eaton has to hit a bomb. No way Rollins touches Allen.

Minn 0-6 against Sox, 1-5 vs KC and 3-3 vs. Indians. If Sox lose, only 3 games over .500 in AL Central, Indians would be 7 games over.

That's like blaming the coaching staff for Javy and Swisher. Everyone knew those guys could be difficult, same with Shark. Too many other dumb moves like Bonifacio...Keppinger. LaRoche fiasco, etc. Odds that 4th run scoring there doesn't hurt the Sox? McAllister up and throwing.

That's like blaming the coaching staff for Javy and Swisher. Everyone knew those guys could be difficult, same with Shark. Too many other dumb moves like Bonifacio...Keppinger. Odds that 4th run scoring there doesn't hurt the Sox? McAllister up and throwing.

Lack of effort there simply can't be tolerated...so much for our veteran leadership. Unravelling quickly.

What the hell are Navarro and Cabrera doing? Inexcusable apathy defensively.

What Republican will come in 4 years from now with a positive message that people will buy? Ryan? Rubio? Kasich?

A- Letting Astrologists/Nancy Reagan make key decisions B- Grenada D Iran-Contra/Manuel Noriega/Oliver North But he single-handedly won the Cold War, tore down the Berlin Wall (well, actually happened under GHW Bush) and rallied/united the country against the dark forces of communism. And started the great push back against the social services field in terms of helping Vietnam Veterans/homeless, basically anyone suffering from hunger/poverty, etc. Didn't do a great job with the crack cocaine epidemic, either. WAR ON DRUGS...well, if you watched Michael Moore's latest documentary, you'd get some firsthand examples of countries that have done the exact opposite and fared much better in terms of their societal fabric not being torn apart.

Not sure it's worth it for a catcher averaging a 1.4ish war the last three seasons. His age is the main factor in his favor, but there should be little faith/hope/confidence in our coaching staff to "fix" him offensively any more than they can do so with Avila or Jackson.

Agreed...and expensive as hell to acquire if you can't develop your own. Look at how much McCann got from the Yankees, Wieters will (after a healthy year) this offseason (and he's been something of a disappointment compared to his advance hype), Russell Martin and Cervelli....the asking price for Lucroy (although they might have to include him and Braun together to not have to pay for 25-50% of the remainder of Braun's deal), etc. One of the biggest failures of our minor league system the past 20-30 years has been consistent failure in developing a catcher/leader. We kind of lucked into AJ at the right time and place...fortunately for the 2005 team. But you can't count on that to happen every decade.

Sure, if he's like Schwarber. But there's a HUGE advantage in today's game in getting offense from the catcher's position. How many catchers have an OPS above 800 right now in the majors? 4...Castillo, Perez, Lucroy and McCann (last three are barely over)...then you've got Molina and Posey. Having a catcher in the Top 20% at his position is a huge-difference maker, unless he just doesn't have the confidence of the pitching staff and he needs to DH, but IMO it's a lot better for a young player's development to be intimately involved in both sides of the game, at least in his first 3-4 years in the majors.

The Chicago White Sox are an American trailer trash professional baseball team based on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. The White Sox are members of the American League (AL) Central division in Major... wikipedia.org Just have to laugh. It obviously doesn't show up on the wikipedia main page.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/colum...roken/84858564/ Nightengale takes aim at the QO/free agent comp system...using Dexter Fowler as a prime example. Looks at a handful of solutions that might come up during the new negotiations this summer.

QUOTE (Deadpool @ May 24, 2016 -> 10:27 PM) If the White Sox blow this and Ventura isn't fired, I'm not sure Robin could do anything to get fired. He could be the mystery bomber in the t.v. series QUANTICO and still keep his job I think...

Well, thanks to the Twins, they're 9-5 in the division right now. Of course, the Royals and Tigers can also beat up on the Twins, too. Speaking of non-zombies, Trayce Thompson's 2/3 with another double and has his OPS up to 918.

Wonder if a line-up of Uribe, Thompson in CF and Napoli/Byrd/Trumbo/Desmond/Fowler would be doing much better? Hard to say. I looked up Trayce's stats tonight, and he has the exact same OPS this year as he had with the White Sox last season. We can't say it's all bad in terms of hitters we've brought it since 2006, because you still have Thome, you've got Carlos Quentin, Alexei Ramirez, Jose Abreu and hopefully Tim Anderson. Adam Eaton has become one of the best players in the entire AL, if not MLB. You look around these days and you see lots of players w/ White Sox roots. Eduardo Escobar and Paulo Orlando in the same game. Gimenez and Stewart were catchers who came out of our system, along with Josh Phegley. Chris Carter, Trayce Thompson and Marcus Semien are really holding their own this season. Chris Devenski had a good stretch of starts with the Astros. Daniel Hudson's rebounded from yet another injury to become a dominant set-up man. It's not ALL bleak, but when it comes to the big moves like Swisher, like Dunn, like LaRoche, we've had far more hits than misses. Gordon Beckham and Dayan Viciedo come to mind instantly as well. It's just a confluence of different factors, bad luck, scouting, development. Sometimes you wonder if Don Cooper having so much influence (and tenure) in the organization hasn't led to a self-fulfilling prophecy where more of our resources are being allocated to pitching (certainly the case in 2006) and not enough to balance it out with the offense. More money going into players like Sale, Rodon, Danks, Fulmer, etc., you expect to see some results.

We keep saying there's no such thing as "must wins" this early in the season, but it just feels like a huge difference between a 4-11 run of play and 5-10. It's going to mean up by 1/2 game or 2 1/2 games heading out onto the road, where both the Royals and Tigers have been fattening up on lesser opponents and rebuilding some of their lost confidence.