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Yes, if it was me I would have fired everyone and completely started over with an entire new baseball operation. That's what you do when you have a total organizational failure. This sometimes, unfortunately, means that good people get let go. At the very least, you hire an outside guy to run the show and let them decide who they want to stick around. I just would never have promoted from within given how poorly every aspect of the organization was running. Now, lets say in an alternate universe the Sox were an 85+ win team consistently and just kept falling short of getting over the hump, I could at least understand if Hahn was let go or resigned and they promoted someone like Getz into the GM. Even though I understand your side of this, I find it hard to believe that Chris Getz was handcuffed in his previous role and not really in charge. This seems like an argument made from total assumption, and I don't think there is any proof to say its the case. I am sure there have been plenty of people in this organization that had a good, forward thinking idea that was shot down. This includes KW and Hahn, the problem is the man who cuts the checks. That man took the shortcut route of just making a convenient hire instead of doing his due diligence to back up what he says to his fanbase.

You're right, he wasn't. I have no choice but to hope he works out, doesn't mean I can't be critical of the decision making that led us here.

You need to take last years improvement with a grain of salt, they were coming off the worst season in baseball history. This season is where you will actually see what kind of improvement is happening.

Im not accusing anybody of wanting Getz to be the GM, I am just generally speaking that when you have a failed rebuild it is incredible rare that you hire from within to lead the next rebuild.

The point is, this organization had cratered and the proper thing to do at that point was clean house and do an actual search to bring in the right people to get the ship headed in the right direction. I really don't think that's unfair at all. It's unfair to the fanbase more than anything.

No, he should have been fired. When you’re responsible for player development and no one develops, you shouldn’t keep your job much less get promoted when they decide to clean house. We’re not talking about a good scout who the GM ignored here.

For being a part of the previous failed regime, obviously.

The Cease trade and not cashing out on Robert at the same time has really set this thing back quite a bit. Imagine what we would be looking at if he had botched the Crochet trade as well, yikes.

The Hays move to me is a complete waste. If you want a sub 1 war player in the OF we have plenty of options that could conceivably do that and it wouldnt cost $6 million dollars. Would have rather seen that money allocated to try and get a starting pitcher.

That's pretty much how I feel about this team. I completely get others optimism, there are a lot of things I am excited to watch this season, but this team still isn't any good on paper and most likely in practice as well. It's really just a snarky way of saying they're bad but at least they are moving in the right direction, which to me seems like a perfect description for the team currently.

That entire trade has been just brutal.

So you want to trade a 24 year old MLB player who showed potential in his rookie year because of a 23 year old who has 49 games in double a? What is this.

Would be incredibly dumb to move him IMO. On a bad team, he doesn't look like anything special but he's the type of player that will look way better when surrounded by better players.

Yeah RF seems like the lock to be rotated through with guys throughout the year. Baldwin and Acuna should be given every opportunity to stick.

Baldwin - Acuna - Kelenic is the OF I would like to see work out to start the season.

I hope he did sign here with the hopes of being traded to a contender, that's his purpose here. For where the White Sox are now, this is what they should be doing. If they rebuild this thing and are contending for playoffs every year, then yeah, I would be pretty disappointed if they were signing flip candidates. For todays roster, its what is for the best for the future.

Were you expecting a 100 loss team to sign a 31 year old reliever to a 2 year deal to be a fixture for future competitive teams?

For point #2, this team is not close to being a contending team. Not close at all. Signing a flip candidate like this, and having it actually get executed, is a major win. It will expedite the second half of your point there.

I most excited that its pretty much a team full of young players with something to prove and I don't have to watch a bunch of worthless veterans taking a lot of at bats.

I like the Murakami signing and am hopefully Seranthony Dominguez can do well enough to be flipped at the deadline but this tweet feels like the same crowd who was taking victory laps over how much better the team is when they lose 100 games instead of 120. Its still a bad baseball team... I also question how its the right direction when you consider if Murakami blows up, he's gone in 2 years and if Dominguez is really good, he's gone this year. Guys like Newcomb and Kay are the same veteran arms they have been signing the last few years anyways, not expecting a whole lot there and Luisangel Acuna is probably closer to being DFA than he is being a meaningful contributor to this team. Maybe it is in the right direction, but there is an extremely long way to go in that direction still.

I guess I should have explained it better, what I was trying to say is if they don't flip this guy I would have rather just kept Robert because our current roster of OFers is a complete disaster, and even though Roberts shipped sailed 2 years ago he is still far and away the best OFer we had on the roster. He will almost certainly be flipped though, so its not really worth debating.

If he isn't flipped, I would rather just kept Robert so there was at least something promising in our OF for this season. I would imagine he will be traded though.

I agree, but if he gets the closer role and has a really strong first half you're looking at a pretty nice asset to move who will have an additional year of control at only $10 million

2 years $20 millions, Robert was 1 year $22 million. Like I said, practically the same.

Hopefully he does well enough to get flipped at the deadline for something nice, otherwise, I would have rather just kept Robert for practically the same price.