Chicago White Sox

This is actually a really good trade for us.

Not my proposal at least

His power is lacking this year, but got to love those plate discipline rates for a 20 year old catcher in AA.

We got a top 100 prospect for Giolito. Isn’t that what most of the optimists were expecting?

Write-up on Bush:

Write-up on Quero:

2nd and 4th overall prospects for the Angels in the recently updated Baseball America rankings. Quero is the 84th overall prospect per BA.

Exclude Robert & Cease and those other guys combine 1.8 fWAR. You’d have to be absolutely insane to believe they make up a strong enough.

Winning percentage now below .400. Just an absolute disaster of a season and there is only one man to blame. The guy who doesn’t value power, plate discipline, athleticism, speed, or defense but loved himself an expensive reliever.

Which I believe, but how the hell do they think they can compete then?

20 games under .500 when we were supposed to be talking about parades…free us from this lawyer speaking asshole

Hopefully he’s in timeout until he quietly resigns in October to “take a break from baseball” or some other bullshit they come up with to pretend he wasn’t fired.

The only hope for success is to trade our short-term pieces for long-term assets. That means trading Dylan Cease right now and acquiring multiple pieces that have already been partially developed. The Orioles have numerous top 100 prospects and other interesting pieces. The matchup just makes so much damn sense it should happen. Pretending we can win next year is simply digging ourselves a bigger grave.

That 8/1 game is at 7pm, so basically Lynn has one more start with us.

He’d get to be the head baseball decision maker with a much bigger salary with a much bigger budget to work with. Perhaps he’s content in Cleveland, but I see our job being attractive if Jerry will the new President of Baseball Ops to build the org how he sees fit and doesn’t force near-term winning of him.

Let KW handle the deadline. Formally let Hahn go in October. Immediately hire Mike Chernoff to be our President of Baseball Ops. Let him rebuild the front office as he see fits, but hopefully that means Haber, Getz, & KW JR amongst many others go. Fire the entire coaching staff even if it costs money. Accept that 2024 & 2025 could be very ugly, but do the right things to build sustained success. This is the way and it all starts with Rick being relieved of his duties.

That’s all it takes. Rick had a $185M budget to work with and blew it. That takes a special kind of incompetence.

Both need to go because both have failed to build a quality top-to-bottom baseball org in the modern game. However, KW can actually scout and had built a great pro scouting function when he was running things. I feel much better with KW leading our selling trades than Rick, especially if that’s all we have him focused on right now.

Should be the most attractive job in the world. You basically get 10 years until you’ll be held to any level of accountability and compete against the biggest group of loser franchises in all of sports. Sure, Jerry sucks and creates certain constraints, but any competent baseball person would look at this job as a goldmine if they are the head baseball decision maker (i.e. KW gone as well).

The baseball gods are finally showing us mercy!

And after the Royals passed on the guy despite their own opening.

???

Grandal’s trade value skyrocketing with that gold glove at 1B! Hahn is going to have a menu of offers to choose from now.

Honestly, of all our core relievers, I’m happiest with Graveman blowing games right now. I think it’s very unlikely a team will take on his salary for 2024, so we’re probably stuck with him anyways. Glad Lopez & Kelly pitched well.