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All of his financial problems the first 40 years of his life led to a ton of bitterness (and the whole steroids era overtaking him), but he's seemingly in a much better place now from a mental health standpoint.

Moncada got too muscle bound in the upper half and didn't spend nearly enough time on fast twitch muscles/legs/bottom half. I mean his sprint speeds this year were lower than Jake Burger after two Achilles' blow outs. How's that even possible?

Ivan Calderon and Mike Huff are not exactly interchangeable names. He was pretty much the best player on a number of those mid to late 80s teams.

Next up, Dayton Moore as GM. There’s just no way Chris Getz is a legit candidate.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Mike_Gellinger

I have a feeling it would be the latter with the Sox. Unless you went to Notre Dame, lol. We keep connecting Getz and Hahn together because of Michigan, well Fabian is the one in Chicago who lets you into the inner sanctum or not. In that sense, better to work in Charlotte or Birmingham and attach yourself as indispensable to a prospect moving up like a Colas or Montgomery. I also think Mike Gellinger is the career path you need to follow if you want to become the next Getz…unfortunately, Chris seems to have jumped Gellinger simply due to his “big league bonafides” and name recognition. Jirschele might be running into the same issues as a managerial candidate…his name will not trigger any season ticket sales from a frustrated fanbase, Mike Gellinger stayed with the White Sox organization after 1988 in a variety of roles. He began his coaching career as a player/coach for the Tampa White Sox in 1988. In 1989 Gellinger started the year as the third base coach for the Utica Blue Sox before taking over as manager on July 4th from Ron Vaughn. The primary purpose of the move was to allow Vaughn to concentrate on working with the hitters. In 1990 Gellinger managed the GCL White Sox, but there are also baseball cards showing him as a coach for the Birmingham Barons. It may be that he began the year with the full season Barons before taking up managerial responsibilities with the short season GCL team. Gellinger returned to Utica as manager in 1991. He was the White Sox' minor league defensive coordinator in 1992-1993 before returning to managing in 1994-1995. He spent 1996 as the minor league infield coordinator. In 1997 Gellinger was named the White Sox' major league computer scouting analyst, a role he retained through the 2012 season. During these years he also worked informally with the hitters in support of hitting coach Greg Walker. This secondary role became more pronounced over the years so that by 2012 news reports referred to him as the assistant hitting coach even though he never formally held that title. He replaced Joey Cora as bench coach for Chicago for the final two games of the 2011 season after the White Sox fired both Cora and manager Ozzie Guillen. He was then manager of the Bristol White Sox in 2013 and served as the hitting coach for the Glendale Desert Dogs of the Arizona Fall League later that year. Gellinger managed the AZL White Sox from 2014-2015. He was scheduled to return in 2016, but was replaced by Ever Magallanes. Gellinger took over as minor league hitting coordinator for the 2017-2019 seasons. He was scheduled to manage the Great Falls Voyagers in 2020 before COVID-19 forced the cancellation of the minor league season. Gellinger was the manager for the ACL White Sox in 2021 and bench coach of the same club in 2022. As a scout, he signed Eddy Alvarez. Pretty sure in the middle of that he had some significant health problems.

Try 70-80 hours when the team is at home. Not clear, but highly likely they would also travel with the team on the road. So it's a full/solid five months of busting your ass for peanuts with a perhaps 1/3 or 1/4 shot at a real paying job. And even that paying job after one year is going to be a lot less than the majority are expecting based on the skills required. Far better to build an independent reputation in the industry and get hired from FG, BP, etc. Seems more like lip service to transforming things analytically. Follow the money/investment, or lack thereof.

Better SPs, primarly at the tail end of the rotation. I would venture to say Chris Bassitt if he is available would be best but that would be embarrassing for Hahn again. I highly doubt the Sox will go after deGrom, or Verlander or even Kershaw. Noah Syndergaard would be another name that could be added to the rotation, while nowhere near as good as he used to be with the Mets. It seems like an abundance of teams are interested in Carlos Rodon, so forget that. The only other pitcher that might be good would be Jameson Taillon from the Yanks if he can produce good numbers though his salary might be a bit too high for the Sox again. Former Dodger, Rich Hill might be a name to be added, though he is 43 years old, he does have a ton of experience and his salary isn't in the $35 million range like others but in the $4.2 million range. That's the main place where Hahn is comfortable in terms of risk these days. But he'd likely end up another version of Keuchel. Japanese and Korean markets, that's outside the comfort zone, too.

https://www.gaslampball.com/2022/10/24/23419931/a-thank-you-note-to-a-j-preller-and-peter-seidler Will Hahn ever get a fawning article like this for the rest of his remaining career (hopefully short) with the Sox?

A Bryce Harper hiring would have been ten times more effective.

Why do other franchises...even historically bad ones, have zero problems putting together entertaining offseason events?

Yu Darvish has had a long, productive career. Tanaka was fine for the majority of his Yankees' tenure, albeit not a superstar by any stretch of the imagination. Then you have the Ohtani situation. TJS surgery almost seems unavoidable for any high velo starter these days.

Scooby? Scrappy? Wrong cartoon?

Except the A's this season and maybe the Reds. Rockies? DBacks? Marlins? Definitely bottom 5 after this season. Can't even say the actual fan treatment by the team is better than Detroit or KC. Would argue on the side of worse.

"While he was reportedly beloved by his players, some things happened that led to John Mozeliak, Cardinals president of baseball operations, firing him after a tumultuous season rife with injuries and concerns but ultimately getting to the NL Wild Card game. While the reasons given by Mozeliak were noted as “philosophical differences,” the real reasoning is pure speculation and likely why teams were hesitant to hire Shildt as a new manager." https://redbirdrants.com/2021/12/14/new-job-mike-shildt-cardinals-baseball/ Plus, he was with the hated Padres this past season. That won't work around here.

Why does Getz working with the Royals after everything fell apart at the seams with that organization make him uniquely qualified for anything beyond Wal Mart greeter? Are we attempting to recreate another Dayton Moore type regime? Why would that make even the least amount of sense with his lack of experience as a manager at any level. Kenny Williams would make just as much if not more sense, it's so improbable. Why not add Marco Paddy and Hector Mendoza into the mix too, lol? Does anyone really believe a Getz or Beckham have the swag/cultural cache to get anything more out of Moncada, Grandal and Robert, for example? Why/how? By some of the arguments, we would be better off sneaking the Cuban National/WHBC manager into the US and installing him as manager. It makes about as much sense.

That's the best solution the marketing and sales department currently have for not being 24th through 30th in MLB attendance next season.

What next, Kenny Williams taking the reigns? And what the heck happened to Justin Jirschele? He was a huge favorite around here the last 2-3 seasons and big-time internal candidate, much moreso than Getz.

This is not a second guess Please don’t think it is But I have been against preller from the get go for his tactics He mortgaged the future for a spin on the roulette wheel The most egregious move was the Soto trade I was hoping the pads would not make playoffs so he would get fired already But now he will be around for a few years so he can make more desperate moves to hurt the long term future more than he did already reply In reply to chipperstein Yup, I have called Preller a degenerate gambler on here and been properly slapped down for it. The degenerate part isn't a statement about his character, but a description of a compulsive type GM style. With those type people the action is more important than getting long term results. They just have to get those dopamine highs on a regular basis. His idea on how to build a team has changed about 4 times in 8 years with a giant juggling of players with each move. An organization has to have some healthy mix of young controllable talent mixed in with a few quality veterans to lead the way. Preller keeps prepping good young players all the way to MLB ready before shipping them off in huge numbers, often with a whole group of talented top prospects going for only one veteran player on a short contract. gaslampball.com game thread comments

Didn't he go to Maine or some other non baseball sounding D1 program?

Hader has experienced lots of issues trying to go more than 4 outs. Look at his usage after struggling mightily after the trade. Melvin was managing more for Games 6/7 thinking he couldn’t get three consecutive wins without Hader for G6 knowing Snell at best was going to get him 5-6 innings based on his track record. And Suarez hadn’t give up a run over a long long stretch until Hoskins in G2. This one obviously will be debated, especially with Hader likely to make around $18 million in arb in his final season before FA. Harper was just out of this world in these playoffs. It will be interesting to see how Houston pitchers handle him.

At least there's no chance of adding that contract unless it's for Pollock. And AJ would probably finish Top Ten NL MVP race next year in Philly the way things are trending.

Really thought the Brewers were going to overtake them with two weeks to go and ending season against Houston. Guess it's pretty appropriate they match up so quickly again. Hard to hang your heads too much in SD. They went for it, luck ran out running into a buzzsaw and lacking a fourth starter. Thomson has just had the magic touch since being hired...just had to persevere through one really tough stretch there late in September not unlike the 2005 White Sox.

Well, that was interesting. Grisham totally lost his confidence. When you have his power you can't leave it up to Nola. Thomson out managed Melvin and Harper/Hoskins were just too much. Should have started Martinez over Clevinger. Hopefully a better WS than these championship series... although the NL one was very competitive for the most part.

I had assumed Alvarado was still going to be out there... oops. At least smart enough not to use Hand here. Going to Suarez against Grisham who doesn't have a hit the entire series. DP ball to end it?