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Except they consistently underestimate the long-term costs of short-term oriented profitability. The brand is eroding by the year now with the rebuild failing. Putting profits over what's best for the clubhouse is how we ended up with so many chemistry issues in the first place over the last couple of decades of Sox baseball.

The Tyreek Hill move to Miami is a perfect example of how spreading out the talent with young/athletic players across multiple positions is a better method of retooling than investing 80-85% of your payroll in just a handful of stars. (The other problem is the White Sox don't even have any true stars...Abreu and TA7 being the two closest. And the big league roster was supposed to be finished by now...refer to Cubs' recent competitive run for more details.)

Jazz Chisholm Jr. "Yet another player who comes to mind with the concept of dynamic. Chisholm has been 94th percentile in sprint speed in each of the last two seasons. In just 60 games played last year due to injury, he racked up 25 barrels, just four shy of tying his career high of 29 from 2021 – accomplished in 124 games. Chisholm is one of nine players projected to have at least 25 stolen bases." https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-players-who-could-hit-40-homers-steal-40-bases?partnerId=zh-20230130-814539-mlb-1-A&qid=1026&utm_id=zh-20230130-814539-mlb-1-A&bt_ee=hUuk0kBtR4Zvy3tbvd%2FLrKTlznXRhfr%2Fi5DrGI9JERdjOXqSyUMAZW3hFIz27U8X&bt_ts=1675090163879 Being one of the Top 5-10 candidates in baseball for 40/40 sure seems like a star to me...especially with Tim Anderson likely on his way out and the current dearth of black players in MLB (Bahamas originally). (There's just no way we can afford to sacrifice the prospect haul unless we are willing to part with guys like Robert and/or Crochet instead. Which makes even less sense.)

2008 grand slam and final week of rookie season memories...one of those was against Detroit in those last 2-3 games or clincher before Griffey/Thome/Anderson show in the Blackout?

Former Royals' closer Escobar was signed 3-4 years too late...or pretty much a strong majority of ex Royals/Buddy Bell Specials, like Mark Teahen. Joakim Soria was "okay" but best days also behind him, of course.

The Royals' stadium is nicer aesthetically inside the park with the fountains...basically the same exact stadiums, especially the race or slant of upper deck seats. Crazy have been to both old Texas/Arlington stadiums but not the newest...yet another sign of getting old.

Benintendi has also averaged only 1 fWAR the prior three seasons (to last year). With Hahn's track record, that seems more likely than than 2.8 of 2022. If we extrapolated 2020 out, closer to -1.5 and it would have been just 2 total fWAR over the course of three seasons for Benintendi. (See Pollock's 2021 3 fWAR, coming out of a similar offense to 2022 NYY.) Feels eerily reminiscent of classic Sox buy high and sell low strategy...like the time we almost signed Alex Gordon at peak value and got bailed out by Royals' sentimentality for a fan favorite and Dayton Moore favorite as well.

https://fox8.com/sports/cleveland-guardians-announce-2023-guards-fest-roster/ 28/40 members of active roster, coaching staff and former players... The all-day festival offers stage appearances; autograph and photo opportunities with Guardians players and alumni (with an add-on purchase); a “Field of Dreams” baseball diamond, batting cages, and speed pitch; appearances from Slider & The Dogs, with photo opportunities; and more. Second baseman Andrés Giménez plans to make his first Guards Fest appearance this year for a custom cleats design contest. Fans can submit their own designs. The winner will have their design replicated by Hrusovsky Custom Kicks for Giménez to use during spring training, and get their own pair as well.

SoxTalk/Psych 101...lovely offseason where more off the field issues have dominated again. Unfortunately, Rick Hahn studied law and business, but has never learned the soft skills necessary for doing anything but dealing with softball media questions and diverting blame.

Dick Allen would know. A 40 game package was $1732 so you're talking $3000-4000 per seat (depending on location) for the full season and not even sure if parking's included with that.

That at least makes the team more competitive...if they're already going down with the HMS Clevinger, why not double down as the most villainous/hated team in baseball like the Raiders used to be in football? At least then it would feel like they were actively trying to win. This is going to be an administrative death of one thousands cuts rather than a principled stand by the organization anyway.

Well, the one added benefit of almost sheer anonymity in the Chicago market means no tough questions for Hahn and the majority of women won't be following the story unless they are really die-hard Sox fans. Back again to the days when Joe Maddon jerseys were outselling Abreu in the Quad Cities 4 to 1 back in the mid 2010's.

They could add Herrera to the back of the pen for that bargain price. Or get both Bonifacio and Holland.

Brooks Boyer line? Unfortunately we can't just shove it under the rug like LA with Bauer because they actually have the money to cover for such mistakes and a full decade’s worth of making the playoffs in consecutive seasons.

https://dominican.news/sports/elijah-tatis-suffers-a-motorcycle-accident/ Giving Puig family a run for their money. Unbelievable after what his brother went through. Think we can safely count out signing the youngest brother Daniel Fernando/catcher.

Don't think this will work out as well as Pollock. Imagine if he re-upped as everyone logically expected? How much tighter the budget would be...they've now had to carve out Abreu, and weren't able to deal Hendriks/now Graveman or Grandal. (It's going to be no shocker at all when fan favorites/co-leaders Giolito and Anderson are shown the door next as I have written about 100+ times in past comments about this upcoming phase of Sox baseball.) Of course, the major problem is the timing for the so-called next wave is off and is currently limited to Montgomery, Colas and potentially Vera. Just too thin in impact talent if Kopech and Vaughn aren't as projected or even just one key player gets Injured. 11 names.

"My goal would never be to be vindictive or put somebody in the penalty box. I don't believe in that," Francona said. "I do believe in being accountable to your teammates. And I know that they've got some trust to earn back and they're (Clevinger and Pleasac) going to have to earn that back. And I don't know how easy that will be. If I did, I'd tell you. If I had the exact solution, I'd snap my fingers and we'd do it. "There's been a lot of conversations. There will continue to be conversations and we will try to do what we think is best for our entire team." Not only were they not smart enough to hold onto Francona in the mid 90's, they apparently were unable to access this article as well. https://www.wkyc.com/article/sports/mlb/indians/cleveland-indians-plesac-clevinger-francona-trust/95-349aa756-847f-4787-acfc-e3956067e3ae Well, I guess they helped to turn Carl Everett around so they can "fix" anyone...

Thanks. It's not THAT dramatic, but it's amazing how life priorities change when you get married and especially have kids. And now having lost both parents, it's a reminder of how short life can be. I remember once having a dream of retiring and buying White Sox season tickets every year. Now, I actually feel like an Advanced A minor league team or maybe AA like San Antonio in the past would be the dream...where the players are close (but not not TOO close to the majors) but everything's more affordable like parking or concessions and ticket holders largely come from same social class more or less.

The White Sox have massive problem on their hands. Apathy bordering on disgust for the ownership and management team. There's just no way attendance isn't going to be down another 20-30% based on this offseason, the losses of Abreu and Hendriks, and now another PR nightmare with Clevinger. They're basically just sitting on their hands hoping a new manager and better health fixes things...see 2012 White Sox under rookie manager Ventura, for a recent example. It feels like it has been all downhill since Luis Robert bombed that rocket into CF in Game 3 at the Coliseum after Crochet was injured/pulled. This coming from a fan who used to wake up every day to hand calculate statistics for the 1984-1989 teams from the afternoon newspaper box scores, some of the truly worst MLB offenses in recent memory. While it's totally impossible to change your #1 allegiance in any sport, it's so frustrating to read the news and see the Padres are already planning to go after Ohtani and a long-term extension for Soto with Machado likely opting out after 2023. How can a team with all the media market advantages in the known universe in the AL Central be getting curb-stomped by a team that's anywhere from 27th to 30th for MLB broadcasting dollars? It's totally infuriating. It's not like they haven't spent money, either. They just don't know how to spend it wisely, how to properly allocate limited resources. Hopefully I'm still alive when the next great Sox team comes around...as it's so unlikely to happen in the next 5-7 years.

https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2021/aug/27/sdqt-former-member-padres-pad-squad-may-have-deep/ "Which makes it all the more mysterious how Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer, recipient of maybe the richest single-season contract in history, wound up in bed with a woman who’d been booted from the Padres' Pad Squad for her fling with Padres star Fernando Tatis, Jr., and who later hooked up with Padres pitcher Mike Clevinger." Seems a lot of the so-called groupies were 18 and 19 years old (not illegal but undoubtedly ill-advised for a married man around 30)...fwiw, the Dodgers have their own group called Las Angels. Once again, all this information was out there publicly with a simple Google search the Sox analytics team could have run if Hahn proved incapable. The whole acquisition was predicated on the "bargain" contract rate for someone with that track record and the theoretical bounce back the second year coming back from TJ surgery.

At least Rick Hahn could write a pretty comprehensive book about how to completely waste amounts of between $4-12 million and never lose his job... Otoh, guys like Rodon, Cueto, McCann, Andrus have (occasionally) worked from the bargain bin.

Then they would have been subject to a lawsuit (at best) and fine as well as successful and expensive civil lawsuit at worst. I guess there's a saying that all publicity is good...but White Sox have been challenging that axiom since the TLR managerial announcement. Finally, due diligence is the responsibility of any organization in the world that hires employees, especially hires over $10+ million per year (along with costly insurance on the contract.)

At the very least, he/Hahn could have looked into the cost of acquiring Adalberto Mondesi. Royals just traded him for a Boston pitcher with back issues.

Or the Guardians? LaRussa could (still, in his new capacity as a team representative) have found out anything he wanted to know with just one phone call to Francona.

Or Mike Sirotka. That will hurt a well-known Sox critic until his last day on earth. (That said, using the same doctor for both evaluations wasn't exactly the epitome of brilliance, either. Both teams are not better off for the next 4-5 seasons, especially SF.)