Chicago White Sox

You clearly haven’t been following the minors this season bro.

Yup, a couple Eloy bombs and the rebuild is back on track...lol.

Dude, give it a rest. Giolito has been arguablely the worst starting pitcher in baseball the past 13 months. That falls squarely on Lucas and you come off as some delusional lover when you make these comments.

2019 Rodon has a sub 2 FIP. While that’s a mirage, at worst he’s a back end starter.

You’re nuts bro.

Definitely should have.

Good fucking god...three fucking walks without a single out in the second. Fire Cooper ASAP and see if someone else can get through to these young arms.

This god damn nibbling.

Did I just see Giolito listed amongst guys like Johnson & Maddux?

I’d wager our pitching staff is top 3 in walked allowed and that our offense is bottom 3 for walks drawn.

So only three good GMs in all of baseball and even one of them has an asterisk?

That’s it? Everyone else is average or bad?

This is crazy, who would you actually consider good then?

Who is to say he’d employ the same strategy if running a small or mid market club? His strategy is tied to the financial resources availbe to him.

100% agree. Way to let our young guys actually work through their growing pains. Even more frustrating with the upcoming rule changes that will greatly reduce the value of LOOGY’s. Really need to know if Frare can be more than a left-handed specialist and now is the time to find out.

Yup, the Dodgers are a great example of that and with their financial might should be taking far more risks.

Great post and better summarize what I was trying to say. Theo takes risks in free agency to push his teams over the top. He knows competitive windows can be short-lived and once you have a strong core in place adding a few incremental wins becomes far more valuable than efficient spending. You have to be aggressive in those moments and that will sometimes bite you in the ass, but hoarding money doesn’t help you win a championship. Hahn on the other hand passed on adding a future HoF (to a very fair contact) during what should be our competitive window because of potential repercussions nine & 10 years down the road. Instead, he’ll be forced to sign second rate free agents which has been a huge area of weakness for the organization and are unlikely to provide the impact we’ll actually need to build a competitive roster. Give me the guy who is willing to go big and take advantage of his window any day of the week over the guy who is afraid on taking on any real risk.

I don’t necessarily disagree, but if the kid is K’ing 25% against bad pitching he’s going to fall on his face in AA. Those bad pitches he’s crushing right now will be there far less frequently. That may force him to adjust, but there’s zero reason he can’t make some efforts now to improve the K issue. I’d just like to see some moderate gains before I send him to an environment that will no doubt be very challenging.

He may not draw a ton of walks, but he’s striking out 25% of the time right now. There is zero reason that can’t approve in High A.

I don’t disagree, just saying Theo was using free agency to supplement already competitive rosters while Hahn used free agency as a core building block. It was no doubt a flawed strategy but if that’s the path he wanted to go he really couldn’t afford to miss much.

Theo has a generally poor free agent record if you include his time in Boston, but ultimately he has proven himself to be an elite talent evaluator. Hahn on the otherhand has failed in pretty much all aspects of being a GM. Regardless, you got this payroll thing backwards. To Theo’s credit, he’s had larger payrolls to work with and competitive teams already in place and as such was able to take on more risk in free agency. When you’re Rick Hahn and B & C free agents are an essential part of building a competitive roster you really can’t afford to have major misses. But alas, as Bmags pointed out Hahn has completely failed in that regard outside of Abreu.

Robert has been awesome power-wise, but I’m not promoting him until I see a little better plate discipline. He’s our last hope of developing a star internally and we really need to make sure we get things right with him.

I haven’t seen him this year so I really can’t comment on his swing, but we have zero track record of successfully making these types of adjustments so I can’t say I’m entirely surprised.

Bush with the golden sombrero tonight. Hopefully Lisle radically changed everyone’s swings and that’s the reason for the slow starts...

I’m much concerned about the AA guys striking out 40% to 60% of the time than Madrigal not showing power yet.