Chicago White Sox

Especially when they stated they wanted an experienced manager from a winning organization before hiring Grifol.

Rick Hahn has proven time & time again he doesn’t know how to build a quality baseball organization. For the bulk of his tenure, minor leaguers either had to learn on their own and/or had different voices at different levels teaching them different things. There was no common philosophy from top to bottom. So it should not be surprising that guys come up underdeveloped and do not reflect the characteristics of some sort of central vision of how win at baseball. Jerry is a complete joke when it comes to signing premium free agents and maintaining a culture of accountability, but Hahn is an incompetent baseball executive who has shown that the rest of modern baseball is well ahead of him strategically.

Sell anything and everything with less than two years of control. It truly sucks that Hahn is the guy who will have to do the trading, but it’s better than praying we somehow make the playoffs and magically get hot come October. This team is simply too flawed offensively and lacks any real pitching depth for that to happen IMO. And that really sucks because this s%*# division is trying to gift us a playoff spot.

Zero chance the Sox move out of Chicago. The only question that matters at this time is when will the Reign of Rick Hahn end. Dude may have the worst resume of any major league sports GM with 10+ years of experience. I 100% get that Jerry is the root of the problem, but if they hired a qualified candidate from outside the organization (think Mike Chernoff), there would at least be some reason for hope.

Were any other MLB beat writers laid off or are we so much of a joke that we can’t be afforded one despite being in the third largest market?

I cancelled. This season has been tough to stomach, but I barely follow anything but Fegan’s coverage. Dude is the best in the business and if the Athletic doesn’t want to keep him then I don’t see a reason to keep paying them despite quality Bears coverage.

What was your favorite part of the Alberto era? Mine had to be that monster May we just had. Too bad he won’t be a part of our upcoming jumbo June though ?

Sell him if you can get 90 cents on the dollar. Otherwise hold and pray he rebuilds some value. Truly sad that most of the few interesting pieces we have are playing below expectations.

We currently have the third worst record in the MLB. I’d have to imagine our farm system is also bottom five. Imagine the incompetence required to have built such a s%*#-show of an organization from top to bottom. Fire this clown before the 4th of July, sell your rentals before the deadline, and then hire Mike Chernoff in the off-season to fix this mess. It really isn’t that hard even if it will take some time to self correct.

Losing out on Zack Wheeler and then pivoting to Dallas Keuchel to be our big pitching addition was a massive blow to the rebuild. Being afraid to sign impact talent and instead spreading the wealth across multiple B & C tier free agents (mainly relievers) was a waste of resources. Taking safe college corner bats and a 5’ 6” 2B at the top of the draft during the rebuild years resulted in a low ceiling farm. Failing to address 2B & RF year after year despite being obvious holes. Not being creative or aggressive enough and finding a way to add interesting depth to AAA, in particular, of the pitching kind.

Thankfully Rick has amassed substantial pitching depth in AAA.

For the record, I originally hated the hiring of Pedro Grifol as I thought a guy a bottom tier organization passed over for their own job told me all I needed to know. Then at his press conference he said all the right things and hired a semi interesting staff. I convinced myself that maybe he was going to be a good fit. It’s as clear as day now, though despite a horribly flawed roster, Grifol is not the man fit for the job. This team has quit and there doesn’t seem to be anything he can do to right the ship. I guess that’s what you get when go cheap and end up with an inexperienced guy despite being in the “middle” of your competitive window.

He’s basically the LF version of Nick Madrigal for 25x the annual cost

Update on Andrew Benintendi, the player Rick Hahn gave the largest contract to in franchise history to be the finishing touch on a “championship caliber” team: fWAR = -0.1 wRC+ = 69 OPS = .621 OBP = .309 ISO = .057 HRs = 0 xwOBA = 8th %tile OAA = 18th %tile I thoroughly look forward to the next 4 1/2 years of our slap hitting LF.

I really wonder how Rick Hahn sleeps at night. Like even the most incompetent assholes would step down if they were the architect of this failure. But Rick just keeps on chugging by blaming everyone else but himself. Dude must have a massive ego to be so blind to his own shortcomings. I can’t believe we’ve been stuck with this clown for 10 years.

If we finish bottom three after spending $180M in payroll, Reinsdorf may have no choice to fire Hahn. That takes a special type of bad and I don’t think even Jerry would tolerate despite his endless loyalty.

Bump

It’s very disappointing to me. He’s simply got to hit for more power. He’s sitting at 0 WAR right now as his 124 wRC+ is completely offset by the 1B positional adjustment and his below average defense.

Wow…the Rays just pulled a Sox

The Phillies

Still not sure which way I want this one to go…lol

I’m sure he’s googled the number 3rd, 4th, & 5th place finishes during his tenure and said “oh my”. Unfortunately, results don’t really matter in this org.

If our bullpen could just suffice a 9.00 ERA today we’d have just won the game.

Amazing each veteran reliever comes in and has to give up at least one run. Hahn really getting his money worth out of that $44M bullpen.

Eloy put up a 144 wRC+ / .365 xwOBA last year. He’s down to a 64 wRC+ / .281 xwOBA this season. No idea what this coaching staff is doing with him.