Chicago White Sox

Attaching Benintendi to Crochet would be the single dumbest decision in baseball history and only this shitshow of an org would even consider something so idiotic. If it happens, it should be very clear that Harold is Getz.

I’d rather bring in some AAAA bats who never got a real shot in the majors than give another +600 plate appearances to Vaughn. There is zero reason to believe at this point that he will ever figure things out.

$6M for Vaughn or $5M for Lopez would be a travesty.

I admittedly haven’t watched a lot of Sox baseball since the deadline, but two things stand out to me regarding Vargas. First, he is a highly disciplined hitter who isn’t going to chase much and will draw lots of walks. And that is valuable given the makeup of the rest of the team. Unfortunately, he also looks like a low quality hitter when he does make contact. Making I’m missing something, but I haven’t seen him square up all that much and when he does it feels like his power is lacking for any sort of corner-type position. For a dude who was once heralded for having a 65 grade hit tool and 50 grade power, I certainly expected to see more out of him than I have so far.

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Maybe he’s the new Director of Analytics? 🤣🤣🤣

The highlight will likely be the buildup to a Crochet trade. Tons of speculation on all the young prospects we will get before Getz settles on a post hype guy with less than six years of control as the centerpiece.

100%.

You think everyone is suddenly a bad player.

And who had zero protection this year. Pitchers had zero reason to throw strikes to him and Robert tried to do too much because no one else could. It was a recipe for disaster and the results show that. If I were Getz, I’d try to get one decent veteran bat to slot behind Robert and see if that helps.

Where is Vaughn in this list?

My biggest two fears are they force Benintendi into a Crochet trade (given how much Harold has yearned for such an outcome) or they sell Robert for 25 cents on the dollar. Otherwise, I don’t expect much action. No doubt they will add a handful of cheap veterans similar to this past off-season, but it’s clear they are going with a legit youth movement in Y25 for better or worse.

Jerry & Getz should be embarrassed beyond belief for pretending they could maybe compete this year in what they deemed a crap AL Central after they set the all time loss record while three opponents made the playoffs.

Let me state a few things on this topic: Getz should have kept his message simple and just stated the org is vastly disappointed with this outcome and they acknowledge it’s unacceptable Citing a need to be patient is fair because it’s going to take a very long time to turn this disaster around but it wasn’t the right to time to say it The hostility at Chris Getz is totally warranted as he is another insular, unqualified hire who only got this job because of snitching & TLR Sox fans should never be viewed as being “weird” for being pissed off at this franchise and shouldn’t have to abandon their team because of a shitty owner

I’m not sure how we ever build a capable major league offense without trading Crochet. The only potential impact bats in the system are Montgomery & Wolkow and the former is starting to look more like an above average regular than a star and the latter has a ton of development ahead of him in an org that hasn’t been able to develop bats. If you wait for the draft to solve those needs, it could take four or five years. Unfortunately, you pretty much have to trade Crochet if you can land a couple of positional prospects with high ceilings.

I hope from this day until Jerry’s last breath, that he toss & turn in bed every night realizing that he is single handedly destroyed this franchise through his arrogance & stubbornness. He will die a rich man with endless money going to his heirs, but he has also cost them hundreds of millions of dollars by turning this once proud franchise to the worst in sports. Any hope of public funding for a new stadium went down the drain when he allowed us to hit rock bottom. His legacy will forever be stained by the travesty of the 2024 White Sox and the s%*# show of an org has left behind. I pray that he never gets to experience winning baseball again and leaves this world with no signs of hope for the franchise. This may all sound petty, but f*** Jerry Reinsdorf to hell & back.

Skipping work and heading down to the Rate. Can’t risk missing out on history.

Hahn and Haber clearly had nothing to do with that story. Plenty of other sources could have corroborated what was mentioned in there.

Jerry is 88 years old and could potentially live another 12 years. There is no hope for this org until the reaper decides enough is enough. Truly sad what has become of this franchise since 2005.

Yeah, f*** those god damn grifters at Related Devleopment. I definitely don’t want a brand new park in the perfect location that will draw a fuckton more casual fans and allow us to be more competitive if it requires me to take public transportation with the scum of the world. Ingress/egress all day everyday baby!!

Getz only got this opportunity by snitching out the incompetence of his direct managers while at the same time not acknowledging his own shortcomings as the head of our player development function. He partially deserves blame for taking advantage of stubborn, gullible old man.

I’ll keep saying it, but I was told in the offseason by a guy who knew Getz back during his college days that he was not known for being a bright dude. And someone else recently messaged me and shared similar feedback. To me, any time I hear Getz babbling in one of these interviews and not really providing any substance I can tell he’s a complete fraud. Like there are many things wrongs with the company I work for, but I don’t pretend to have all the answers and think I could be CEO. And that’s the problem with Getz. Yes, he may understand where some of the cracks are in the organization, but does he have any idea how to fix them? Seems like his only real idea was Bannister and now he’s all tapped out.

So we still have the same bad pro scouts then?

To be fair, it’s perhaps the least talented lineup I can recall in my lifetime that wasn’t associated with an expansion club.

Chris Getz should be banished from baseball and forced to live his remaining days on a desert island with his former partner in crime Rick Hahn. This 2024 squad is the biggest embarrassment in the history of professional sports and dude should not be given a second chance under any circumstance.